Anastasia Cartoon circa 1995

[Alexa_Chiusano]

I love!! that movie! i thought it was a little unrealistic and sometimes off topic, but hey, its a kids cartoon! to his day i collect the stuff from that movie, and i finally got that authentic Nichlas & Alexandra music box. it plays a beautiful melody. does anyone else have one?
i know where u can get one if u liked it !!
 

I agree. When I was younger I saw the movie, and I have a copy on VHS at home. I used to think it was real but now of course I realize that it was totally fictional, but it was a great movie and I was really touched by it.

[Dandywell]

to his day i collect the stuff from that movie, and i finally got that authentic Nichlas & Alexandra music box. it plays a beautiful melody. does anyone else have one?

I have one! I got it for Christmas, and it plays "Once Upon a December". My parents said there were some others that played a different song, and I thought that was kind of weird.

[Colleen]

I enjoyed the animated movie "Anastasia", and by the time I saw it, I already knew the real story of Anastasia and her family.  I agree that it has nothing to do with the truth, but it is still a good movie.  In fact, it reawakened my interest in the Romanovs.  I'm sorry for the trouble this movie has caused for Lisa and Bob.  My younger sisters loved this movie, but I have tried to educate them about the IF, so they will know the truth from fiction.  And yes, the song, "Once Upon A December" is fantastic!!!!  But it is very haunting and sad.

[moonlight_tsarina]

Of course I know you all have seen the ever so popular movie "Anastasia" and how it's all historically wrong, but I was wondering about the song, "Once Upon A December" in the movie............

Did any of you all find it haunting?? I always catch myself singing it to myself all the time, and it makes me CRY! I listen to it all the time, and never get tired of it, it's just so beautiful! I was just wondering what your opinions on that song were.
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Alot of times that aong gives me shivers...especially tthe one sang by Deana Carter on the Soundtrack...espceially the line :"Horses prance through a silver storm, figures dancing gracefully, across my memory..."

[moonlight_tsarina]

I was born in December also. I love the song, and I really loved in the movie when the royal ghost step out of the paintings and waltz. That was the best part of the movie. I remember saying  when I came out of the movie theater, that the "Once Upon A December" scene was great, and the rest was just stupid.

I totally agree to this too! This was quite possiblt the best and maybe most accurate scene in the whole movie. I maybe think some of us Like it the most because it isnt overly stupid and like a movie based just on the Romanovs, not a lame overdone cartoon about some myth.  
But, I don't say that with a heavy heart because i do love the movie too! After all, it's sorta about the Romanovs!  

[Littletaz]

lucky you, i wish i had one, and i loved that movie that got me to go out and research the romanov's! I thinkk i watched it like more then 16 times.

[Ultra_Royalist]

of course the movie is going to be hitsorically wrong. if anastasia was taken away you wouldnt have a movie.

[VJ_DMCA]

Any Fantasia Fan should check out Fantasia In Dub, a really cool re mix of disneys fantasia with a album called wah wah by a band called james. read more about it here <a href="http://reduxfilms.com/fantasia_in_dub.html">Fantasia In Dub</a>

[grandduchess_sofia]

When i first watched this film i fell in love with it, i'm sad to say because of John Cusack's voice.I thought he was lovely. I was only nine!! But last year when i first found out about what truly happened to NAOTMA and others  i made myself watch it again and was crying buckets!!

I suppose it does what it says on the tin, a children's cartoon, but it does it, in my opinion very well.
sops
P.S that song really is haunting, it sends shivers up my spine! Especialy when they all come out the paintings!

[Holly]

 The part that really gets me crying is when I see the Romanovs coming out of the portrait and walking down the stairs... I guess it just kind of reminds me of how their lives were cut so suddenly and tragically that it seemed that they were stuck in time, but because we remember them, they become alive again and it seems like they are still with us.....Im already getting teary just writing this!

[dracona]

Well . . . . now that we've gotten very far off topic
          what about those from the 1997 Anastasia generation that acutally were first interested by the 1956 version of the film, do you think they have more of a grasp or just as little on the true termoil (spelling's probably wrong) of the situation?

[Vive_HIH_Aleksey]

I don't think it's quite fair to compare 97 to 56. 56 was based on a play by Marcel Maurrette, as I stated before, which had nothing to do about the real Anastasia OR Anna Anderson. Meanwhile, 97 was a fairy tale inspired by the play, I suppose you could say.

I'm off now! See you all Monday!
angie

[GD Alexandra]

Yes is not fair but,they seem very similar to me, the movies have the same plot: the guys who casts "anastasias" to then try to charge the reward the Dowager Empress has set, and later they discover that the last girl is the real Anastasia, at the end in both movies, Anastasia runs away with her love and leaves a big party behind....I think both movies are beautifull, of course the 56 is more dramatic...

[GD Alexandra]

By the way, talking about the family portrait in the 97 animated movie, has anyone got a close up of it, I've always wanted to see it more closer... the biggest I managed to get was this one, but you know it's not the same...

[aya-anya]

Hi, Alexanastasia,

I have seen the pic of the portrait in a book called "My Anastasia  Memory Book" (Probably also in other books) and scanned it. I am new here btw ...can you see the picture I'm posting anyway?

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By the way, talking about the family portrait in the 97 animated movie, has anyone got a close up of it, I've always wanted to see it more closer... the biggest I managed to get was this one, but you know it's not the same...