Sunday, May 3, 2009

Movie - Anastasia

I was shocked beyond belief when I heard that my dear cousins had never seen this movie! It is one of my absolute favorite movies in the whole world. It's in the top 5 movies I've grown up on and I will never get tired of it.
It's based VERY VERY loosely off a true story. The beginning for sure is...
It's starts with a ball held by the royal family of Russia that turns into tragedy as Rasputin, a selfish and power-obsessed man sets a curse on the Royal family (didn't really happen) then with help lets a mob of revolutionaries that within that one night over throw the royal family and kill them all (really DID happen).  With the help of a servant boy, the youngest princess, Anastasia, and her grandmother are able to escape that night. However while rushing to leave Russia Anastasia looses her grandmother and hits her head. 
10 years later, you meet Anastasia again. She goes by Anya now and has no memory of what happened and who she is. She only knows, from a necklace she's had from before she lost her memory, that she has family in Paris(her grandmother - she doesn't know that, though) 
Anya hears of two men who have plans to go to Paris and decides to see if they can help her. They say the girl the last ticket is for is Anastasia, who they plan to reunite with her Grandmother.  They convince Anya that she could quite possibly be the princess, and with that she comes with them. 
Along the way you find out Rasputin is after the princess after learning that his curse was unfinished.  And also that Dimitri, one of the two men helping Anya, was in fact the servant boy who saved her life. 

fun stuff. By the way... it's got music too!
Here she's at the palace 10 years after the Russian Revolution and starts to have memories of her past. She's kind of crazy here. like seeing things and stuff. But it's fun to watch.  

The 3 girls around her are her sisters, and the guy she dances with at then end is her dad.

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