It always felt strange to me that she ran off with Dimitri. She always wanted to find her family, but now that she finds them, she just runs away with this guy she met days ago.
Well to be fair I don't think she ever imagined that her lost family would be royal. It can be kind of scary to go from a poor orphan to then becoming a rich and influential person.
When Grandmama told Anya that Dimitri didn't take the money and Anya told her she wouldn't be able to reunite with Dimitri because just found her; Grandmama said that they would always have each other but not to miss her chance to reunite with Dimitri. I believe that Anya and the Dowager Empress would still see each other but I don't get the impression that either would publicly announce that Anya's the Duchess Anastasia after realizing that she loves Dimitri. It's conveyed to the audience that Dimitri and Anya wouldn't have been allowed to marry if she were a duchess since royal families marry into other royal lines. "Duchesses don't marry kitchen boys" Dimitri knew that he'd have to let Anya go after she's royalty. Anya herself was nervous throughout the movie about adjusting to royal life only seemed to steel her resolve at becoming royalty when she believed Dimitri was a crook who was taking advantage of the Empress's broken heart. When Anya realized that Dimitri was a good person who wanted happiness for both Anya and the Empress even if it meant he'd be alone and Anya would believe the worst about him, she realized that he meant more to her than royal life. Personally, I don't think they'd be destitute or living in poverty, I think that the Empress would help Anya and Dimitri build the life that would allow them the most joy and fulfillment for them. Anya really wanted a real forever home and deep down so did Dimitri so I think they'd be want a modest life. In the Broadway musical I believe the same thing, because they even have a song about how Vlad and Lily (since they changed Sophie's name to Lily for some reason) were in a relationship that kept them apart due to their different social classes and the reality of the situation would be very clear to Dimitri and Anya. The Broadway musical was trying extra hard to maintain historical accuracy so they really went hard on Russian history and accuracy.
This is what I thought. Maybe one day she is acknowledged publicly as a royal in this reality, but for a while, I think she’d just be with Dimitri in a nice house while having weekly or something visits to her grandma. I wish we would’ve seen a little, Idk montage though? It would’ve been nice to at least see pictures of what happened after that boat ride in the credits
But.... The ending was vague. The voice-over of Anya even said "...We will be together in Paris soon, wish me luck" Sophie: ....It's a perfect ending... Marie: No it's a perfect beginning.
I see it as Sophie is looking at it as Anya’s story is over: she found her family and got true love. Story over. The dowager empress is looking at it in a different light, she has finally been reunited with her granddaughter, her Granddaughter is getting married, the two found each other it’s a new beginning for everyone and it couldn’t begin in a more perfect way.
"I've lost you for 10 years, I love you so much! Now, off you go - you're getting awfully old to not be a wedded woman who lives alone!" Like, wtf Granny?!
“There’s nothing in French or Russian culture that says when you marry you can’t contact your family” Marie Antoinette and catherince the great are shooketh
@@TheFangirlWatches yeah I think it was something like having close friends and family would get in the way of spending time with there husband and uhum doing the dirty also often most people not just monarchs were married for alliance so there was decent chance that you’d be married to someone from a completely different country community the such so having contact with your old friends and family would stop them from assimilating closer to the family and area there marrying into really shows you something about how they treated woman
I always felt so bad for grandmama, it felt like she went through so much just to essentially lose her granddaughter again. I feel like the ending was too empty, and it already played with reality having Rasputin come back so why not give a more satisfying ending. Love your videos and your voice is amazing 😍
Grandmama said that they'd always be together and in Anya's letter to Grandmama she said they'd see each other soon. She and Dimitri were eloping (getting married without any fanfare or big fancy party) but even in the letter she said that she'd continue to see Grandmama. I do agree with you about Rasputin showing ip at the end since it is VERY strange how the Villain interacts with Anya in person at that part and other times in a nightmare and bad circumstances she has no idea were caused by him. It's kinda rare for a hero and villain to be that one-sided till the very ending. (Though I guess I suppose Hercules was like that too)
Tbh I like the movie specifically because of the ending. The way I understood it was, that the duchess wanted Anja to be Anastasia but that she also realised that Anastasia had grown up to be Anja and that Anja wants to lead a different life. I'd rather have it this way I think.
Same. The only "princesses" animated movie that I trully adore is Anastasia, specifically because of the unique ending. Different from other Princesses, she chose to let go of her titled. Because for her, the important thing is she know who she was and already found her family (her grandma). The same for Dowager Empress, it doesn't matter if Anastasia accept her title or not, they will always be family no matter what. It's not all happy ending, it rather more realistic
i always thought the ending meant they'd travel the world together and have adventure. i didnt think past that lol this was interesting to think. they could have just been given a guest house somewhere safe to live in, and no one would ever know.
The ending had to show that Anastasia was giving up her nebulous connection to the past to embrace her future with Dimitri (and all that being exiled royalty that that entails). She had to be choosing to live like a regular person, not rich and connected, which is what the leaving the note and leaving before she even became a part of her grandmother's life symbolizes. Also, the "prince/love interest" of the movie can't be seen as having less ability to take care of his One True Love ™️ then her family can. The "real" story, or point, of the movie was the journey of falling in love and choosing that over your previous life ambition. Or I could be talking out of my rear-end. But yeah, a more satisfying end would have been her rejecting the "royalty in exile" lifestyle with her grandmother for a more informal yet warmer low-key "family in everything but name" relationship where everyone got a Happy Ending ™️.
This is how I felt as well, she wanted to live with a new beginning. As corny as it sounds the song for the movie At the Beginning sums it up for me. She finally can let go of her heavy past and move on to a new beginning. She knows who she is and who she will always be but now her life can truly begin. Besides she will be in touch and grandma saying it's a new beginning made me know she was happy for her to let go.
This was an interesting video but here’s my essay. Anastasia only wants a family, she found that in Dimitri. Through the journey Vlad and Dimitri became her family. Anya wanted to stay with the family she made and her grandma just wanted Anya to be happy. They’re eloping to begin their life together. Anya is closing the chapter on the quest to find her family because she found it in her Grandma and Dimitri. She’s beginning her life with the man she loves to move forward with her life instead of always looking back at the past. Additionally it makes sense for them to elope because Anastasias class was always getting between them. From when Dimitri was a child with a crush all the way to the end where Pooka, holding her crown, interrupts there almost kiss. Class has always been a preventing factor in there relationship so they leave her title behind. Despite all that there is one line in the movie that counteracts your point. Anya in her goodbye letter says “We’ll be in Paris together soon”
Huh. We watched the ending of Anastasia very differently. I always assumed that they ran off to get married and did a little honeymoon and came back. I always assumed that they. came. back. I'm sad now.
Meghan, this ending works REALLY well in accordance with the history, not just because the real Anastasia never resurfaced, but because the real Anastasia was a strong willed tomboy who hated the so-called “glitz and glitter” of court. So her running off with a man she fell in love with and away from the glamour of court sounds really in character for her.
I have always imagine Anastasija’s life with Dmitrij being much like her aunt Olga’s life in Canada with her husband Mr Kulikovskij. Her Imperial Highness The Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, sister of Emperor Nikolaj II, married, just like Anja, a commoner (with the approval of her brother off corse) making her lose her imperial titles compeletely. Throughout her life she lived as Miss Olga Kulikovskaja, but this never prevent her from having a good relationship with the rest of her family. And in the letter that Anja leaves for her amama, Marija Fjodorovna, it says; ”𝓌𝑒’𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑔𝑒𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃!”, so I guess they would still be seeing each other. Marija also says (when hugging Anja) ”whatever you chose, we will always have each other”. So maybe Anastasija lived her life as Anja the commoner, with a secret and very close relationship/friendship with the former Empress of Russia. Imagine her explaining that weird conection to her kids. My question is though, how does the Dowager Empress explain the newspaper article being shown (and wripped apart) during the clocktower-scene where Rasputin tells Bartok he’s planning on killing Anja. In the article there’s a picture of young Anastasija with the headline: ”Royal party planned. Romanov princess found”. And then, like: ”Oooops, sorry ya’ll! I guess I was wrong...?” LOL
Wow that explain alot to why it very heavily implied that "princesses don't marry kitchen boys" because they do not... I mean even if the monarch in Russia already fallen, royals in Europe are all basically kinda related. So yeah, she will still become royals again and very high ranking one too. I doubt she can be with Dimitri if she accept the title....
@@dre_ocean oh yeah, that's right! Since all the princely houses and royal lineages are related to one another, Anastasija could not possibly have remained a Grand Duchess and at the same time choose a kitchen boy for a husband. Especially considering that the imperial Romanov dynasty was so close to both the British, the German and the Danish crown - the three most prominent royal houses in Europe. If Anastasija had decided to be reunited with her grandmother as an Imperial Highness, the white russian government would have a direct heir to the house of Romanov. I believe she would become the perfect figurehead to the russian government and that her role would be similar to that of Grand Duchess Marija Vladimirovna, who off corse married an Prussian prince. Even if both Russia and Prussia are dethroned, their royal descendants still lives under the same laws of morganatic marriages. So in order to choose Dmitrij, I think Anastasija had to give up her grandmother. She couldn’t have both - not even in a Don Bluth fairytale 😢
@@Martinilero Oh yeah I just realize how closely related Anastasia to royals in England, Denmark, and Germany... She won't ever marry Dimitri if she take that title 🥲 But honestly that also what I like in Anastasia. She chose love and family, not the life of royalty. Her happiness is not being royal, but having home, love, and family
@@dre_ocean YES!!!! Oh yes, that’s the whole beauty of it! Anja went out on a journey, believing she would find herself by finding out about her past. And during this journey, she thinks; ”if only the dowager empress recognize me as the Grand Duchess, then I will finally find out who I am. But what she didn’t realize was; she already knew who she was. She had known that all along. For 10 years she had lived as Anja the orphaned, and it’s that strong-willed, brave, sassy, warm and committed young woman that she truly is. She was no longer the Grand Duchess Anastasija Nikolajevna, she was Anja. The answers about her true identity were hidden within her all the time. So for me, the end of the movie isn’t really about Anja chooses love before the throne or Dmitrij before the title (he is just a bonus). For me, as I see it, Anja finally realizes who she really is. She was born an Imperial Grand Duchess of Russia - but that’s not who she is. Not anymore. So she chooses herself. She chooses Anja before Anastasija (the expected image of her) and that’s what makes it all soooo beautiful! 🙏🥹♥️
The Empress could've reintroduced Anastasia saying she was already married to Dimitri when they found her. I feel like they should've shown more of Anastasia's and Dimitri's relationship. I feel like they spent most of the movie fighting with each other, and then they dance once, and all of a sudden they have feelings for each other.
so when i was a kid my understanding of the ending was this: anya didn't know she was anastasia when she was growing up, and all she ever wanted was a family she could call her own. however, when she did find out who her family was, there is a sort of guilt and pressure with that - not only in social status but just knowing that the whole of russia wanted you and your family dead at one point can really hurt a person's mental health. anya is not "anastasia" anymore ( even though she is biologically ), her character is just a simple orphan girl who wanted love. she thought that love had to come from a family, but it really didn't need to. she found that love in dimitri, she found that love in the world beyond the orphanage ( refer to journey to the past as she's singing about the opportunities the world had to give despite it being terrifying, "home, love, family" ), and love in finding herself. anya found who she was, but if she were to stay with the duchess, she would have to deal with the pressures of society, the press, the glamour, the do's and don't's of the posh life. bottomline: anya wouldn't be anya anymore, she would just be in this foreign name "anastasia." she would never live a normal life again, and she could probably never be truly happy with dimitri as dimitri is a carefree person who doesn't want to be tied down to one place. he wants to do something great, whether it be finding riches or going on this great journey. so it made sense to little me that she would run away to live a happier life with dimitri because she finally realized that what she was looking for wasn't necessarily a biological family, it was her found family. her found family was dimitri ( and vlad as well, but i'm pretty sure he went to stay with sofie by the end of the movie. so in short: anya didn't want to live under the pressure and stress the name "anastasia" had to offer. after she found out who she actually was and met her real family, she probably felt complete with herself and decided to live her life for her, not just someone who is constantly trying to find who she is as she's already done it. anya is finally just anya, living life's journey with someone she loves, content with what she found out about herself, and finding who she truly was at the end of the movie.
I think it has less to do with her being a royal and dipping and more with the real idea about what I means to be an orphan. You have a lot of questions about who you are. And when you find out it doesn't negate who you were before that. You have a lot of questions answered but you do have decide if that's what you really want. I had a lot of questions growing up. I was never an orphan but my bio mom died after I was adopted. I was 4 so I didn't have lots of answers. I don't know if I could completely change my life to become a royal. Family is important but you do give up a lot of freedom. Anastasia did not hate her life. She just longed for answers. I recently found my family. And while it was amazing to see people who looked like me and could give me answers, they were still strangers. They have a completely different upbringing than I did and I'm not sure I would trade for theirs. Its been 2 years and I haven't really spoken to them. Its still a little clumsy but it does make sense. Even if she will have to struggle without the money. I struggle without my bio families money. But she never had that to begin with. And it wasn't like Dimitri is a street begger he had a job that while not entirely legal, he could make money no matter where he was.
Well Anastasia is kind of a fantasy what-if based on real life. The real Anastasia was killed with the rest of her family, the rumor that she had escaped was perpetuated for some time since her grave was kept a secret until 1991. I don't know for sure, but I think the ending is Don returning the what-if back to the real timeline where her Grandmother was alone- painting a pretty picture that she would at least have a surviving relative. Although I think the real story would be worth adapting to film, she was a very brave- spirited girl even during captivity which you can read in her wiki: "She and other members of the household performed plays for the enjoyment of their parents and others in the spring of 1918. Anastasia's performance made everyone howl with laughter, according to her tutor Sydney Gibbes." "In the summer, the privations of the captivity, including their closer confinement at the Ipatiev House negatively affected the family. According to some accounts, at one point Anastasia became so upset about the locked, painted windows that she opened one to look outside and get fresh air. A sentry reportedly saw her and fired, narrowly missing her. She did not try again." "Anastasia stuck her tongue out at Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the detachment, when he momentarily turned his back and left the room." She was ultimately executed, her family jewels hidden in her corset saving her life momentarily.
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The grand duchess could’ve used the situation to end the search for Anastasia. Even if she didn’t accept anja, then at the very least she would be done with all of the fakes.
Made it to the end! I never thought about it like that. I always assumed that they were going to go live happily after traveling some or something. You make a good point, though I don’t think it’s going to effect how I watch Anastasia and instead is going to be one of those “huh, well that’s a bit weird” thoughts in the back of my head while watching. This is one of my favorite movies, I can quote the entire movie word for word and can do the choreography for the songs. I did it in college for a talent show, well it was more I sang and did the choreography for Once Upon a December which was a lot harder to do when you’ve got a microphone in your hand and were told to basically stay in one spot on the stage.
I never thought of it this way...I always thought that they'd run away to get married because "princesses don't marry kitchen boys", and if they do it now before she's officially titled as princess then there's no way it can be undone. Then, they can come back to Empress Marie. After all, Anastasia did say in her letter that they'll be together in Paris soon and Marie seemed pleased and didn't try to stop her. So I was under the impression they'll be back very soon after marrying.
Yeah that's what I thought because as soon as she's revealed as the princess her life wont be her own anymore and the people will have a lot to say about how she lives, I mean that's why the Revolution started in the first place the one that killed her family, because the people weren't happy with what the royals were doing(I know that wasn't exactly in the movie but I think it's still explains something of context)... So The grand duchess wanted her to be happy and alive And she would be more happy with Dimitri in her life as well as her and Sophie, than if she had to give him up because he was a commoner... I think all she wanted at this point in her life was for her granddaughter to be happy...
Because the film ended with an open possibility, I always assumed Anastasia returns back with Dimitri after being satisfied with some of their European travelling, and then decides to marry and settle down with her (or near) her grandmother. It'll be like a big reunion with Sophie and Fladd. Then either her grandmother passes away and Anastasia takes over the throne, or Anastasia taking the throne during her grandmother's final years of life Princess Diaries 2 style.
I feel it wasnt that weird, the grandma even states it's not an ending it's a new beginning. She will always be in touch cuz she will always have her. Her whole lifes after the incident was finding who she was and who loved her. She finds out who she is and is at peace knowing she will never lose that connection to grandma again but what after? Her life just began a new and she wants to start that new life with making a new family with Dimitri. You cant forget how she grew up, she was a duchess for a short period of her life but who she became is a tough street kid and that's a life she wouldnt feel was hard to adapt too. I'm sure grandma would keep their private life to them so she can be happy. To think she just ditched grandma is weird, she loved her but she also has her own life and grandma could see that.
I always thought she left because the whole high sosciety thing made her uncomfortable and the grand duchess would not have been free to marry as she pleased. Expecially not to a former servent.
Also remember Dmitri and Anastasia almost died so that's probably the logic of running off to elope. Anastasia also had no one growing up and yes her grandmama is her family but she doesn't know her, she's spent more time with Dmitri than anyone else.
I thought the ending implied she would come back as she says something in her note like, "We will be together again soon." which to me foreshadowed she was going to still be in her grandma's life but not part of the whole royalty thing.
Gotta say I don't see a problem with the ending at all. Just saw it as her and Dmitri going on a new adventure together before eventually returning to the grandmother. Pretty sure it's all implied in how the grandma says the this is a perfect beginning. But what do I know? XD
I love Anastasia but I agree. The way Anya and Dimitri run off seems rushed and weird. I wish there was just one more scene at the end, like the next day, different clothes, different atmosphere, everyone happy. Instead, the movie ends with Anya wearing the same torn-up dress from her battle with Rasputin, and it seems like she and Dimitri made this rushed decision to leave. I wish the movie had ended in daylight, happiness, wholesomeness (perhaps, Anya hugging her grandmother at the doorstep to leave for a honeymoon with Dimitri and promising to see her again as soon as possible, then leaving with Dimitri hand-in-hand into the beautiful spring day, contrasting the cold winter from the beginning of the movie. Anya could also be wearing some normal lady clothes, neither royal nor poor, but something in between, showing how she has grown into herself, instead of trying to conform into this princess role). The ending truly feels rushed and cut too early.
I guess I was just too young to understand the ending, so I always took it as, Anastasia left to marry Dimitri and go on their honeymoon, then came back after the events of the movie concluded.
When I was a kid my uncle would send falsified tapes he made for us (vhs were a little expensive where I lived) and some would come with knock offs of famous movies instead of the originals or damaged. I just assumed I got a Anastacia vhs with the ending missing
This is how I took it she didn't want to live in the spot light but we don't know what happend after the movie.... to me I would rather marry for love than live a rich lonely life
I'm sorry to tear a hole in all this, but you say around 4:36 that the dowager empress never announces that Anastasia has been found... but! Right when Rasputin is in the tower and deciding to "take matters into his own hands", he tears up a newspaper that announces that Anastasia has been found, hence the party they were throwing for her.
I definitely felt unfulfilled with the ending but omg I've always absolutely adored this movie, and the song you sang is my absolute favorite! 😍 Like so beautiful but haunting and lonely...? (once upon a December)
Anastasia beautiful movie but I hundred percent believe that they should’ve made it under a different name and under different circumstances I think the ending always lacking some thing please they could’ve just passed forward to the future like every other one and show them having one kid yeah I’m not historically accurate but at least that Duchess could be active to see it. And that would be so much more satisfying even showing the second love interest having children within would been nice. I believe in taking it out of the store for contact I would’ve been so nice. If they wanted to have Russia and Paris need to make a generic fantasy land that’s like Russia and Paris. It not necessarily it to stay with it
lol, well I've tried a few times on different collab groups, but no one was ever interested. 😂 I don't know if I'm just a bad singer or if no one ever wants to collab with me because I'm old.
Correct, it was part of Don Bluth's contract with Fox, and then his next movie, Titan A.E., performed so badly that Fox shut down their animation division.
I can’t remember if the movie explains it, but the dog’s name is Pooka, and that means “guiding spirit.” My 90s trivia might be off, but I think Anastasia the movie never says that, but there’s a Pokémon episode that does, lol.
To be fair she left a note telling her grandma about it lol and her grandma told her that she should follow her heart, because she knew Dimitri loved her and Anastasia loved him, her grandma just wanted them to be happy. Knowing her granddaughter was alive and well was enough for her. Same thing for Anastasia she wanted to find her family and she did, and not only that she was also about to start her own with Dimitri ;u; I do agree that it was sort of weird she never got to present herself to the public and that they don’t mention if she just went away with dimitri temporarily as in a sort of honeymoon or if it was forever 🤷🏻♀️
Damn. You know what I think she should have just went "I'm alive and this man is my husband to be! And my grandma is okay with it. If you disagree with it then move." And boom! No awkward ending. Hell I just made a new ending that would have made it better!
To be honest, I like to think Anya and Dmitri went off to New Orleans and befriended Tiana and Naveen. Maybe even working at Tiana's Palace. Considering that both films were set in the 1920's and that the couples have similar dynamics (from hating to each other to falling in love thanks to some slow dancing with the ending being the blue-bloods settling down in working class with the paupers), I don't see why Disney can't make a decent crossover with the two franchises. Especially since FOX is now own by the Mouse.
I never really considered the ending in this much detail before! I guess I always assumed that it meant Anastasia was choosing to have a life with Dmitri instead of taking on her old royal title, but I always figured that her note saying "We'll be in together in Paris again soon" implied that she would come back to visit. But now I don't knooooooooow, lol! I was lucky enough to see the play on Broadway four years ago or so--I loved the changes they made in the play! I figured that the grandmother's thing about saying "I probably won't see that imposter again" and donating the reward money was basically her protecting Anastasia's choice to remain hidden. Like she was saying it to the press or something, not that it was necessarily the end of their relationship. But it was really vague, so honestly, it could have meant anything.
What I want to know is when Anya left that letter for her Grandma. Because at the end, when they're dancing away on the boat, they're wearing the same clothes as they had during the final fight with Rasputin. Did they really sneak back in to leave the letter and tiara and like... not change into some not torn clothes???
The time when the movie came out was right about the time when we were learning all about it in school, so I never really questioned the ending. Looking back on it, it was a little weird that they chose to end the movie like that though. Still a great movie though! PS: I see my girl Venus in the background there!
I’ve watched this movie too many times growing up. The movie and ending make perfect sense. When Anastasia spoke with her grandmother after being reuniting with her at the ball. She asked Anastasia if the lifestyle of a Romonov was what she really wanted. Anastasia played it off but growing up in foster care she couldn’t relate to those people she simply wanted to know where she came from and she found her grandmother. Her grandmother then went on to say you’ll always have me. She knew by then Anastasia had fallen in love with Dimitri. Over time during the movie the two had developed feelings so she chose to be with him in the end. It makes perfect sense
As someone who studied the surviving Romanov family - including the current heir to the throne, Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich of Russia (born 1981) - one of the reasons not touched upon the the film as to why Anastasia ran away with Dmitri is because, if revealed as the missing Grand Duchess, she would not only be at-risk of being assassinated by Bolshevik anti-royalists, but also likely expected to marry someone else out of duty, not love. (This is also the plot of "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement", albeit with Chris Pine's character also being a royal descendant.) The current Romanov heir to the Russian royal throne was born from a political marriage between his mother and father, the Grand Duchess of Russia and a Prince of Prussia, respectively. This was done because every other male Romanov heir to the throne prior had either had morganatic marriages, or did not marry and/or produce children who qualified for the Russian throne. Thus, his mother had no choice but to marry for duty in order to continue the Romanov royal bloodline. Thus, Anastasia marrying Dmitri would be considered a morganatic marriage, as Dmitri is a commoner, and their children would be ineligible to receive any titles, aside from the surname "Romanovskii-Dmitriyevich" [insert Dmitri's last name here], or just "Dmitriyevich" ("child of Dmitri"). "Romanovskii" was reserved for the children of royal-commoner marriages, similarly to "FitzRoy" meaning "[illegitimate] son of the king" in English royal history. (There was a Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich who was a member of the Romanov family through Alexander II, being his grandfather, and Nicholas II being his first cousin. Dimitri spent a great deal of his youth in the company of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family at the Alexander Palace, as they viewed him almost like a foster son. He can be seen in film footage escorting his cousin, Anastasia, during the dynasty's tercentennial celebrations in 1913. He was also one of the conspirators in the killing of Grigori Rasputin around 1916. He was 25 in 1916, so he was a bit old to be a child when the Romanovs were put to death. However, there is no evidence in the movie to suggest that Dmitri is, in fact, Grand Duke Dmitri. The Grand Duke was exiled to Paris in 1920. In 1926, Grand Duke Dmitri married Audrey Emery, an American heiress, after falling in love with her, in a morganatic marriage. The couple had one son, Paul Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, in 1928, before divorcing in 1937. Paul was raised as an American citizen, as his mother was American. Grand Duke Dmitri and Audrey now have 4 grandchildren through their son, Paul.) More info on Grand Duke Dmitri: www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/Dmitri.php There is also the matter that, at the time, Anastasia had many male still-living Romanov cousins who would be eligible for the throne before she was, under the laws of Russian succession. Thus, even if her identity had been announced to the public, Anastasia would never inherit the Russian throne, or even be seen as the next heir. Exposing her true identity would also open her up to assassination attempts, as seen with her other surviving relatives. "In Russia, succession passed through the female line only after the extinction of all male branches of the dynasty. [...] Given the fact that they were all living in exile, the majority of the members of the Imperial House [of Romanov] did not consider themselves to be obligated to follow strictly the requirements of the Fundamental Laws [of marriage and succession]. This is exemplified by the many morganatic (unequal) marriages that occurred after 1917-that is, marriages with persons who do not belong to royal or ruling houses. Grand Dukes and Princes-of-the-Imperial-Blood who had entered into morganatic marriages did not themselves lose their rights to the throne or their membership in the Dynasty, but their descendants, by virtue of Articles 36 and 188 of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire, possessed no dynastic rights whatsoever (neither the right to the throne, nor titles, nor even the dynastic surname “Romanoff”). [...] Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, a male-line grandson of Tsar Alexander II, claimed the headship of the deposed Imperial House of Russia, and assumed, as pretender, the title "Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias" in 1924 when the evidence appeared conclusive that all Romanovs higher in the line of succession had been killed. [...] Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, son of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, was the sole male dynast of the Imperial House to enter into an equal marriage after 1917. On August 13, 1948, he married Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna, the daughter of the Head of the Georgian Royal House, H.R.H. Prince George Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhrani. From this marriage was born on December 23, 1953, Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna. Inasmuch as all other living male dynasts of the Imperial family had entered into morganatic marriages, and because their advanced age made it unlikely that any of them would enter into new and equal marriages and, even less likely, have children-the Grand Duchess became the presumptive future Heiress to the throne by virtue of the inviolable Article 30 of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire. [...] In 1976, [with other male lines having died out], Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna [of the House of Romanov] entered into an equal marriage with Prince Franz-Wilhelm of Prussia, who, after being received into the Orthodox Church, took the name Mikhail Pavlovich, and was granted the title Grand Duke by his father-in-law, Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich. On March 13, 1981, a son was born of this marriage: Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich. By an agreement made between Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich and Prince Louis Ferdinand, the respective Heads of the Russian and German Imperial Houses, Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich’s father became a member of the Russian Imperial House, and therefore the newborn child belonged from the time of his birth to the Romanoff Dynasty and bore a Russian title." www.imperialhouse.ru/en/imperialhouse-en/succession/385.html Furthermore, Anastasia's two paternal aunts, the Grand Duchesses Xenia and Olga - the sisters of Czar Nicholas II, Anastasia's father - also survived, and both have living descendants today. However, Xenia married her father's first cousin once-removed, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (i.e. intra-familial royal incest), and Olga married her gay also-cousin, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (i.e. more intra-familial incest). Eventually, Olga demanded an annulment, as her husband turned out to be gay, and it was granted in 1916. The following month, Olga remarried cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years before. The two had two sons, Tikhon [Romanovskii-]Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (b. 1917) and Guri [Romanovskii-]Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (b. 1919), who were also Anastasia's first cousins. Olga escaped revolutionary Russia with her second husband and their two sons in February 1920. They joined her mother, the Dowager Empress, in Denmark. The Romanovs encouraged heirs to marry their cousins in order to keep the family in power, as only male Romanovs could inherit titles. The Grand Duchess - Anastasia's "grandmama" - even did not approve of her daughter Olga's marriage for love, and refused to see her husband, Nikolai, due to this. More info on the Kulikovsky descendants: www.russianlegitimist.org/who-are-the-kulikovskys I don't know about you, but I think Anastasia would rather marry Dmitri than be forced into a marriage with one of her own Romanov cousins. However, if Dmitri was, in fact, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, then the Grand Duchess would approve of Anastasia and Dmitri's marriage.
I didn't really think about it, but you're right. That ending is kind of strange. I wonder if Anastasia and Dimitri were originally supposed to die? Thank you for the theory, and I hope you have a Merry Christmas! :)
Oh I hope not! I don't think Don Bluth is that dark, but could you imagine the ending if the two main characters died?! 😱 And Merry Christmas to you too!
I watched this video last night and 2:21 where the Russian guard says that there really was no Anastasia was really jarring. It was when the Empress decided to give the reward money to charity. Therefore, it implies that the empress knows young Anastasia well enough to know that she wouldn't run off with some guy and leave her family out of the wedding. That implication kept me awake last night, because it implies that Anya has always been an imposter.
SO GLAD YOU MENTION "MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS" IT CAN! LOL That quote is so dumb! People today fail to understand the real meaning behind it What it really means is.."don't Love your money, don't be a scrooge..use it..live life.."
Yes! It's so often used in association with who to marry - as in, choose the poor guy over the rich guy, because he'll obviously love you more deeply since he doesn't have a job or anything weighing down his time, lol. NO! Even if that was the intent, love fades, choose to live in a nice house with food in your children's stomaches! But, that kind of romanticism is why parents used to arrange marriages for their children, so they didn't end up starving and "in love" over taken care of in the long term. 😂
What about the newspaper that Rasputin tore up, the headline was: Royal Party Planned Romanov Princess Found. The picture was of Anastasia of a child though. So I guess Anya's identity was still private yet the public was informed.
I haven't seen the film in so long but when I was a kid, I took the ending as more of Anastasia and demetri took off to explore the world and live their life and grandmama was still going to be apart of their lives, just privately. Particularly her hugging the note and smiling, I figured she was accepting her grand daughter's wishes and was happy for her. But now that you mention all the little details... did they have any money to run off on an adventure? Is grandma paying for them? Or did they just go and forget the fact that this whole ordeal was for money?
Small thing: They actually DID announce that they'd found Anastasia to the public in the movie (Rasputin and his henchman were reading a newspaper announcement that was front page news) and I believe that the ball in question was actually in celebration of that. Weirdly enough though, in the newspaper, they used the portrait of Anastasia form when she was a little girl instead of a photograph, which implies that no one has actually seen her yet and the press is merely taking the Dowager Empresses' word. Apparently that's how Rasputin found out that Anastasia had been reconnected when there were so many easier ways to communicate the villain knew that? Something I think the musical did well was expanding the "family" Anastasia found in including the exiled aristocracy in Paris, who mourn over their lost fortunes and good times, all stuck in the past. It really shows to the audience that to an orphan who doesn't remember "the good old days" doesn't fit into that group and that neither can ever really understand one another. Just because they were all cut from the same cloth doesn't mean that they'll view each other as family or even friends. Anastasia in the musical went through genuine hardship that Sophie and the other aristocrats who fled never understood or cared about, and she doesn't really have a connection to that world or even her grandmother beyond bloodline and fond memories. She's more comfortable with Dmitri because he understands both sides of her, and can relate to her experiences as the person she came to be, not as the missing grand duchess everyone else expects her to be.
I mean to be fair she never said she won't ever come back to see her grandmama again, she just go for a while to marry the man she loves and after their honeymoon she will come back to her grandmama to live together as a whole family and maybe have a baby with him and show him to her grandmama. that the ending I see in the movie since it is open to interception
I thought one of the writers said it was purgatory or death or something like that. I've actually never watched the show but I remember hearing so much buzz about it back when it was new.
The Fangirl yeah I’m confused on the ending could you do a discussion on the ending on what it meant you could do a video Essay on it like you did with this episode
I only ever seen bits and parts of it, but it sounds like they were going for a "Go for your heart" thing, so they just go off to get married, the heck to being rich. But with you sound with being poor, it reminded me of the Everclear song, "I will Buy You a New Life". It brings up how being poor really stinks even now a days.
I married poor and I'll tell you what, I would never do it again! Love is like a flower - it blooms for a hot minute, and then dies, and then your contractually obligated to that other person you married forever (back then, at least, now you can get divorced easily). I'd rather learn to love someone who I didn't have immediate chemistry with than go the hot-and-heavy route, which almost always fizzles out. But, uhhh, I don't think any of that was the intended ending for this movie! lol
Made it to the end. I saw this in the 4th grade when the special needs class went on a field trip to a movie theater. I saw it as a chance to not do any schoolwork for the day so I wanted to go. On the bus ride back to school, the bus assistant explained that Anastasia and Rasputin were real people and talked a little bit about them so I kinda got a history lesson anyway. I'd LOVE a Titan A,E, theory or just a Titan A,E, related video in general (That's my all time favorite movie and even what inspired my interest in lizards...even though my bearded dragon was a million times nicer than the lizard in the movie). I I used to be obsessed with Titan A,E, and maybe could help you a little bit.
She leaves a note literally saying they "will be together in Paris again soon" so that implies they are just possibly traveling and she will visit. The play is left ambiguous because the government would have never left her alone otherwise, as shown with the character Gleb who was following her throughout the play. Once it came out she was the real duchess, she would have been killed or at least captured. Gleb literally begs her to say she isn't Anastasia because he would have to kill her according to the law.
I kinda thought the ended was a way to acknowledge the princess was never found and also the whole "princesses don't marry kitchen boys" line. Ana had the choice to pick royal life with a grandmother she hardly remembers(which in that time was likely to lead to being overthrown especially if a random woman came out of nowhere to claim they should rule) or see the world and maybe get married to this guy that had put his life on the line for her multiple times and proved he cares about her more than money.
Another question concerning Anya and Dmitri; if they have a son, would he be able to live to adulthood? In real life, Anya's brother, Alexei, had hemophilia which is passed down by mother to son. The illness was also the main reason Rasputin got into the palace in the first place. So, what would happen to Little Dmitri?
Anya would have a 50/50 chance of either having a daughter who was a carrier for or a son with hemophilia. Since she never got to have any children of her own in real life, it is unknown if she was even a carrier of the disease like her mother. Women usually carry the disease while men show the symptoms as Xx and xy. She could have inherited the normal X chromosome from her mother instead of the mutated one and obviously her father didn't have the disease so he would not pass the bad X chromosome to her either. So, very possible for Anya to have to worry about her son, but not a certainty.
I always thought the ending was Anastasia choosing to make her own family with the man she loves, and them going off without reward money was them choosing love and happiness over wealth and power. The ending of the movie does keep history accurate along with the hope that the youngest princess could have escaped alive. Don't get me wrong the money would have helped, but Dimitri's arch needs him to forsake his greedy tendencies. Also Anastasia grew up without money or any hope of acquiring wealth. From the beginning she only wanted to know where she came from and that she was loved. She found both of those of things before officially meeting her grandmother. The pair made it out of Russia so they could, in theory start a life anywhere in Europe. I like the unconventional, open ending of the movie, but that could be the Nostalgia bias lol.
OMG THANK YOU! I was actually whining about this a few weeks ago! Like Anastasia FINALLY finds her fsmily and regains her memories after YEARS of wanting that, and she just BAM WAM, leaves for some guy she has know for like, what, a week Like. Nope. Keept grandma, ditch the guy
And where did Dimitri even have to go? No family, no friends (the only was was staying with Sophie), no home, NOTHING! Finding your long-lost family shouldn't be a box to check and then you move on to the next thing. *ANNOYED SIGH*
I loved this movie, the villain is really up there with Disney villains! However, i didn't really like the ending. She found her Grandma then leaves her for Dimitri. I would've liked it better if she stayed with her grandma
It's so strange. They act as if finding your family after 10 years of hoping/dreaming is just a box to check off, then you move onto the next thing. They should have all just stayed together.
It was romanticized for a historical figure who had a more tragic reality. I know they weren’t going to do reality because they were writing this for audience but still
I belive it ends runnin off with dimitri because in real life anastasia was never found. so in the movie they give em a happy endin somehow with her dissapearin
THANK YOU! I work at a theater as an usher, & a co worker & I both agreed that the ending to both Anastasias were stupid, because Anastasia wanted to find her family, her Grandmother was heartbroken for her, & at the end "true love" is suddenly more important than family for BOTH of them?! Agreed that she should have at least stayed close to the grandmother! Hope they wrote letters! This is why I hate romance movies!! Romance above all else makes me SO mad!! Maybe in the musical Grandmother was trying to keep Anastasia safe like Gleb did, but you're right, in the movie there is NO EXCUSE!
It always felt strange to me that she ran off with Dimitri. She always wanted to find her family, but now that she finds them, she just runs away with this guy she met days ago.
It really is so strange. "We've found each other! Okay, now peace out Grandamama!"
@@TheFangirlWatches Lol yeah. Big fan btw!!
I just took it as her giving up the high life for him 🤷♀️ does sound a bit weird though I guess.
Well to be fair I don't think she ever imagined that her lost family would be royal. It can be kind of scary to go from a poor orphan to then becoming a rich and influential person.
@@TheFangirlWatches LOLOLOL XD
Sophie being a bigger woman, yet still fashionable and outgoing, was a huge inspiration as a kid. She was also THE connection they had to the Empress.
Hystorically shape was more important than size. The whole "pluse size" is a modern invention.
I always wondered why they changed the character of Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch from the play into this generic woman called Sophie in the film.
She was beeeeautiful
When Grandmama told Anya that Dimitri didn't take the money and Anya told her she wouldn't be able to reunite with Dimitri because just found her; Grandmama said that they would always have each other but not to miss her chance to reunite with Dimitri. I believe that Anya and the Dowager Empress would still see each other but I don't get the impression that either would publicly announce that Anya's the Duchess Anastasia after realizing that she loves Dimitri.
It's conveyed to the audience that Dimitri and Anya wouldn't have been allowed to marry if she were a duchess since royal families marry into other royal lines. "Duchesses don't marry kitchen boys" Dimitri knew that he'd have to let Anya go after she's royalty. Anya herself was nervous throughout the movie about adjusting to royal life only seemed to steel her resolve at becoming royalty when she believed Dimitri was a crook who was taking advantage of the Empress's broken heart. When Anya realized that Dimitri was a good person who wanted happiness for both Anya and the Empress even if it meant he'd be alone and Anya would believe the worst about him, she realized that he meant more to her than royal life.
Personally, I don't think they'd be destitute or living in poverty, I think that the Empress would help Anya and Dimitri build the life that would allow them the most joy and fulfillment for them. Anya really wanted a real forever home and deep down so did Dimitri so I think they'd be want a modest life.
In the Broadway musical I believe the same thing, because they even have a song about how Vlad and Lily (since they changed Sophie's name to Lily for some reason) were in a relationship that kept them apart due to their different social classes and the reality of the situation would be very clear to Dimitri and Anya. The Broadway musical was trying extra hard to maintain historical accuracy so they really went hard on Russian history and accuracy.
This is how I feel as well
Agreed! I couldn’t have said it better.
Yeah I always felt like she’d always head over to her Grandma’s house weekly, and have tea.
This is what I thought. Maybe one day she is acknowledged publicly as a royal in this reality, but for a while, I think she’d just be with Dimitri in a nice house while having weekly or something visits to her grandma. I wish we would’ve seen a little, Idk montage though? It would’ve been nice to at least see pictures of what happened after that boat ride in the credits
came here to say this, you put it perfectly
But....
The ending was vague.
The voice-over of Anya even said "...We will be together in Paris soon, wish me luck"
Sophie: ....It's a perfect ending...
Marie: No it's a perfect beginning.
I see it as Sophie is looking at it as Anya’s story is over: she found her family and got true love. Story over.
The dowager empress is looking at it in a different light, she has finally been reunited with her granddaughter, her Granddaughter is getting married, the two found each other it’s a new beginning for everyone and it couldn’t begin in a more perfect way.
Anastasia is definitely one of my favorites but I agree, I always thought the end was a bit strange.
same, I never understood why they have to run away and how everybody is okay with it
Same
"I've lost you for 10 years, I love you so much! Now, off you go - you're getting awfully old to not be a wedded woman who lives alone!" Like, wtf Granny?!
@@TheFangirlWatches ikr she was kinda rude
Hi conny 🍖
“There’s nothing in French or Russian culture that says when you marry you can’t contact your family”
Marie Antoinette and catherince the great are shooketh
YEP
I guess some countries do take the Fire Nation approach of cleansing their queens of their old lives so they can focus on their new obligations. 🤔
@@TheFangirlWatches yeah I think it was something like having close friends and family would get in the way of spending time with there husband and uhum doing the dirty also often most people not just monarchs were married for alliance so there was decent chance that you’d be married to someone from a completely different country community the such so having contact with your old friends and family would stop them from assimilating closer to the family and area there marrying into really shows you something about how they treated woman
Tbf Catherine’s mother was pretty narcissistic. I can understand why Catherine wouldn’t want to be around her after getting married.
@@Starfire861yeah though you could also look at Alexandra Anastasias own mother as an example too
I always felt so bad for grandmama, it felt like she went through so much just to essentially lose her granddaughter again. I feel like the ending was too empty, and it already played with reality having Rasputin come back so why not give a more satisfying ending. Love your videos and your voice is amazing 😍
Grandmama said that they'd always be together and in Anya's letter to Grandmama she said they'd see each other soon. She and Dimitri were eloping (getting married without any fanfare or big fancy party) but even in the letter she said that she'd continue to see Grandmama. I do agree with you about Rasputin showing ip at the end since it is VERY strange how the Villain interacts with Anya in person at that part and other times in a nightmare and bad circumstances she has no idea were caused by him. It's kinda rare for a hero and villain to be that one-sided till the very ending. (Though I guess I suppose Hercules was like that too)
Technically they would see each other again. It’s not as if she completely abandoned her.
@@Nightman221k I don't remember seeing Rasputin at the end of the movie?? Am I missing something?
@@Kat-593 I meant the confrontation she had with Rasputin that ended with her crushing his magic object.
Tbh I like the movie specifically because of the ending. The way I understood it was, that the duchess wanted Anja to be Anastasia but that she also realised that Anastasia had grown up to be Anja and that Anja wants to lead a different life. I'd rather have it this way I think.
Same. The only "princesses" animated movie that I trully adore is Anastasia, specifically because of the unique ending. Different from other Princesses, she chose to let go of her titled. Because for her, the important thing is she know who she was and already found her family (her grandma). The same for Dowager Empress, it doesn't matter if Anastasia accept her title or not, they will always be family no matter what. It's not all happy ending, it rather more realistic
i always thought the ending meant they'd travel the world together and have adventure. i didnt think past that lol this was interesting to think. they could have just been given a guest house somewhere safe to live in, and no one would ever know.
The ending had to show that Anastasia was giving up her nebulous connection to the past to embrace her future with Dimitri (and all that being exiled royalty that that entails). She had to be choosing to live like a regular person, not rich and connected, which is what the leaving the note and leaving before she even became a part of her grandmother's life symbolizes.
Also, the "prince/love interest" of the movie can't be seen as having less ability to take care of his One True Love ™️ then her family can.
The "real" story, or point, of the movie was the journey of falling in love and choosing that over your previous life ambition.
Or I could be talking out of my rear-end.
But yeah, a more satisfying end would have been her rejecting the "royalty in exile" lifestyle with her grandmother for a more informal yet warmer low-key "family in everything but name" relationship where everyone got a Happy Ending ™️.
THIS..Like who's to say, they don't come back?
The ending was vague..
This is how I felt as well, she wanted to live with a new beginning. As corny as it sounds the song for the movie At the Beginning sums it up for me. She finally can let go of her heavy past and move on to a new beginning. She knows who she is and who she will always be but now her life can truly begin. Besides she will be in touch and grandma saying it's a new beginning made me know she was happy for her to let go.
Exactly. It represents making her own future separate from the shadow of her past.
@@devilovesdevil At The Beginning definitely sums it up pretty well
This was an interesting video but here’s my essay.
Anastasia only wants a family, she found that in Dimitri. Through the journey Vlad and Dimitri became her family.
Anya wanted to stay with the family she made and her grandma just wanted Anya to be happy.
They’re eloping to begin their life together. Anya is closing the chapter on the quest to find her family because she found it in her Grandma and Dimitri. She’s beginning her life with the man she loves to move forward with her life instead of always looking back at the past.
Additionally it makes sense for them to elope because Anastasias class was always getting between them. From when Dimitri was a child with a crush all the way to the end where Pooka, holding her crown, interrupts there almost kiss. Class has always been a preventing factor in there relationship so they leave her title behind.
Despite all that there is one line in the movie that counteracts your point. Anya in her goodbye letter says “We’ll be in Paris together soon”
Huh. We watched the ending of Anastasia very differently.
I always assumed that they ran off to get married and did a little honeymoon and came back. I always assumed that they. came. back. I'm sad now.
Meghan, this ending works REALLY well in accordance with the history, not just because the real Anastasia never resurfaced, but because the real Anastasia was a strong willed tomboy who hated the so-called “glitz and glitter” of court. So her running off with a man she fell in love with and away from the glamour of court sounds really in character for her.
I have always imagine Anastasija’s life with Dmitrij being much like her aunt Olga’s life in Canada with her husband Mr Kulikovskij.
Her Imperial Highness The Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, sister of Emperor Nikolaj II, married, just like Anja, a commoner (with the approval of her brother off corse) making her lose her imperial titles compeletely. Throughout her life she lived as Miss Olga Kulikovskaja, but this never prevent her from having a good relationship with the rest of her family.
And in the letter that Anja leaves for her amama, Marija Fjodorovna, it says; ”𝓌𝑒’𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑔𝑒𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃!”, so I guess they would still be seeing each other. Marija also says (when hugging Anja) ”whatever you chose, we will always have each other”. So maybe Anastasija lived her life as Anja the commoner, with a secret and very close relationship/friendship with the former Empress of Russia. Imagine her explaining that weird conection to her kids.
My question is though, how does the Dowager Empress explain the newspaper article being shown (and wripped apart) during the clocktower-scene where Rasputin tells Bartok he’s planning on killing Anja. In the article there’s a picture of young Anastasija with the headline: ”Royal party planned. Romanov princess found”. And then, like: ”Oooops, sorry ya’ll! I guess I was wrong...?” LOL
Wow that explain alot to why it very heavily implied that "princesses don't marry kitchen boys" because they do not... I mean even if the monarch in Russia already fallen, royals in Europe are all basically kinda related. So yeah, she will still become royals again and very high ranking one too. I doubt she can be with Dimitri if she accept the title....
@@dre_ocean oh yeah, that's right! Since all the princely houses and royal lineages are related to one another, Anastasija could not possibly have remained a Grand Duchess and at the same time choose a kitchen boy for a husband. Especially considering that the imperial Romanov dynasty was so close to both the British, the German and the Danish crown - the three most prominent royal houses in Europe. If Anastasija had decided to be reunited with her grandmother as an Imperial Highness, the white russian government would have a direct heir to the house of Romanov. I believe she would become the perfect figurehead to the russian government and that her role would be similar to that of Grand Duchess Marija Vladimirovna, who off corse married an Prussian prince. Even if both Russia and Prussia are dethroned, their royal descendants still lives under the same laws of morganatic marriages. So in order to choose Dmitrij, I think Anastasija had to give up her grandmother. She couldn’t have both - not even in a Don Bluth fairytale 😢
@@Martinilero Oh yeah I just realize how closely related Anastasia to royals in England, Denmark, and Germany... She won't ever marry Dimitri if she take that title 🥲 But honestly that also what I like in Anastasia. She chose love and family, not the life of royalty. Her happiness is not being royal, but having home, love, and family
@@dre_ocean YES!!!! Oh yes, that’s the whole beauty of it! Anja went out on a journey, believing she would find herself by finding out about her past. And during this journey, she thinks; ”if only the dowager empress recognize me as the Grand Duchess, then I will finally find out who I am. But what she didn’t realize was; she already knew who she was. She had known that all along.
For 10 years she had lived as Anja the orphaned, and it’s that strong-willed, brave, sassy, warm and committed young woman that she truly is. She was no longer the Grand Duchess Anastasija Nikolajevna, she was Anja. The answers about her true identity were hidden within her all the time.
So for me, the end of the movie isn’t really about Anja chooses love before the throne or Dmitrij before the title (he is just a bonus). For me, as I see it, Anja finally realizes who she really is. She was born an Imperial Grand Duchess of Russia - but that’s not who she is. Not anymore. So she chooses herself. She chooses Anja before Anastasija (the expected image of her) and that’s what makes it all soooo beautiful! 🙏🥹♥️
The Empress could've reintroduced Anastasia saying she was already married to Dimitri when they found her. I feel like they should've shown more of Anastasia's and Dimitri's relationship. I feel like they spent most of the movie fighting with each other, and then they dance once, and all of a sudden they have feelings for each other.
Kinda reminds me of Hercules where he figures out he’s a God but then he chooses to be with Meg instead.
so when i was a kid my understanding of the ending was this: anya didn't know she was anastasia when she was growing up, and all she ever wanted was a family she could call her own. however, when she did find out who her family was, there is a sort of guilt and pressure with that - not only in social status but just knowing that the whole of russia wanted you and your family dead at one point can really hurt a person's mental health. anya is not "anastasia" anymore ( even though she is biologically ), her character is just a simple orphan girl who wanted love. she thought that love had to come from a family, but it really didn't need to. she found that love in dimitri, she found that love in the world beyond the orphanage ( refer to journey to the past as she's singing about the opportunities the world had to give despite it being terrifying, "home, love, family" ), and love in finding herself. anya found who she was, but if she were to stay with the duchess, she would have to deal with the pressures of society, the press, the glamour, the do's and don't's of the posh life. bottomline: anya wouldn't be anya anymore, she would just be in this foreign name "anastasia." she would never live a normal life again, and she could probably never be truly happy with dimitri as dimitri is a carefree person who doesn't want to be tied down to one place. he wants to do something great, whether it be finding riches or going on this great journey. so it made sense to little me that she would run away to live a happier life with dimitri because she finally realized that what she was looking for wasn't necessarily a biological family, it was her found family. her found family was dimitri ( and vlad as well, but i'm pretty sure he went to stay with sofie by the end of the movie.
so in short: anya didn't want to live under the pressure and stress the name "anastasia" had to offer. after she found out who she actually was and met her real family, she probably felt complete with herself and decided to live her life for her, not just someone who is constantly trying to find who she is as she's already done it. anya is finally just anya, living life's journey with someone she loves, content with what she found out about herself, and finding who she truly was at the end of the movie.
Is it bad that I always imagined they eloped and went on their honeymoon and then went back to France and just lived in relative obscurity?
My favorite Don Bluth movies are All Dogs go to Heaven and An American Tail.
I think it has less to do with her being a royal and dipping and more with the real idea about what I means to be an orphan. You have a lot of questions about who you are. And when you find out it doesn't negate who you were before that. You have a lot of questions answered but you do have decide if that's what you really want. I had a lot of questions growing up. I was never an orphan but my bio mom died after I was adopted. I was 4 so I didn't have lots of answers. I don't know if I could completely change my life to become a royal. Family is important but you do give up a lot of freedom. Anastasia did not hate her life. She just longed for answers. I recently found my family. And while it was amazing to see people who looked like me and could give me answers, they were still strangers. They have a completely different upbringing than I did and I'm not sure I would trade for theirs. Its been 2 years and I haven't really spoken to them. Its still a little clumsy but it does make sense. Even if she will have to struggle without the money. I struggle without my bio families money. But she never had that to begin with. And it wasn't like Dimitri is a street begger he had a job that while not entirely legal, he could make money no matter where he was.
Well Anastasia is kind of a fantasy what-if based on real life. The real Anastasia was killed with the rest of her family, the rumor that she had escaped was perpetuated for some time since her grave was kept a secret until 1991. I don't know for sure, but I think the ending is Don returning the what-if back to the real timeline where her Grandmother was alone- painting a pretty picture that she would at least have a surviving relative. Although I think the real story would be worth adapting to film, she was a very brave- spirited girl even during captivity which you can read in her wiki:
"She and other members of the household performed plays for the enjoyment of their parents and others in the spring of 1918. Anastasia's performance made everyone howl with laughter, according to her tutor Sydney Gibbes."
"In the summer, the privations of the captivity, including their closer confinement at the Ipatiev House negatively affected the family. According to some accounts, at one point Anastasia became so upset about the locked, painted windows that she opened one to look outside and get fresh air. A sentry reportedly saw her and fired, narrowly missing her. She did not try again."
"Anastasia stuck her tongue out at Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the detachment, when he momentarily turned his back and left the room."
She was ultimately executed, her family jewels hidden in her corset saving her life momentarily.
Not all Disney movies are really happy ending look at the brothers Grimm
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The grand duchess could’ve used the situation to end the search for Anastasia. Even if she didn’t accept anja, then at the very least she would be done with all of the fakes.
I Love Anastasia one of my fave movies
Samsies! I have loved this movie since it came out, and it's visually so much more detailed than the Disney movies of that same timeline.
@@TheFangirlWatches same i Love it so much one of my childhood faves
It’s a nicer ending than what happened to the real Anastasia 🥺🥺🥺
Made it to the end! I never thought about it like that. I always assumed that they were going to go live happily after traveling some or something. You make a good point, though I don’t think it’s going to effect how I watch Anastasia and instead is going to be one of those “huh, well that’s a bit weird” thoughts in the back of my head while watching. This is one of my favorite movies, I can quote the entire movie word for word and can do the choreography for the songs. I did it in college for a talent show, well it was more I sang and did the choreography for Once Upon a December which was a lot harder to do when you’ve got a microphone in your hand and were told to basically stay in one spot on the stage.
I used to sing once upon a December all the time when I was a kid. I really loved it because I am from a cold climate just like Anastasia.
I never thought of it this way...I always thought that they'd run away to get married because "princesses don't marry kitchen boys", and if they do it now before she's officially titled as princess then there's no way it can be undone. Then, they can come back to Empress Marie. After all, Anastasia did say in her letter that they'll be together in Paris soon and Marie seemed pleased and didn't try to stop her. So I was under the impression they'll be back very soon after marrying.
Yeah that's what I thought because as soon as she's revealed as the princess her life wont be her own anymore and the people will have a lot to say about how she lives, I mean that's why the Revolution started in the first place the one that killed her family, because the people weren't happy with what the royals were doing(I know that wasn't exactly in the movie but I think it's still explains something of context)... So The grand duchess wanted her to be happy and alive And she would be more happy with Dimitri in her life as well as her and Sophie, than if she had to give him up because he was a commoner... I think all she wanted at this point in her life was for her granddaughter to be happy...
Hercules was purposefully stylised and this film was rotoscoped.
Because the film ended with an open possibility, I always assumed Anastasia returns back with Dimitri after being satisfied with some of their European travelling, and then decides to marry and settle down with her (or near) her grandmother. It'll be like a big reunion with Sophie and Fladd. Then either her grandmother passes away and Anastasia takes over the throne, or Anastasia taking the throne during her grandmother's final years of life Princess Diaries 2 style.
I feel it wasnt that weird, the grandma even states it's not an ending it's a new beginning. She will always be in touch cuz she will always have her. Her whole lifes after the incident was finding who she was and who loved her. She finds out who she is and is at peace knowing she will never lose that connection to grandma again but what after? Her life just began a new and she wants to start that new life with making a new family with Dimitri. You cant forget how she grew up, she was a duchess for a short period of her life but who she became is a tough street kid and that's a life she wouldnt feel was hard to adapt too. I'm sure grandma would keep their private life to them so she can be happy. To think she just ditched grandma is weird, she loved her but she also has her own life and grandma could see that.
I always thought she left because the whole high sosciety thing made her uncomfortable and the grand duchess would not have been free to marry as she pleased. Expecially not to a former servent.
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Great video! Anastasia is one of my favorite childhood movies.
Mine too! I had all the dolls and loved her so much.
You are such a great singer!! 🤩
Also remember Dmitri and Anastasia almost died so that's probably the logic of running off to elope. Anastasia also had no one growing up and yes her grandmama is her family but she doesn't know her, she's spent more time with Dmitri than anyone else.
I thought the ending implied she would come back as she says something in her note like, "We will be together again soon." which to me foreshadowed she was going to still be in her grandma's life but not part of the whole royalty thing.
They say money can't buy you happiness but being broken busted sucks too .
Gotta say I don't see a problem with the ending at all. Just saw it as her and Dmitri going on a new adventure together before eventually returning to the grandmother. Pretty sure it's all implied in how the grandma says the this is a perfect beginning. But what do I know? XD
I love Anastasia but I agree. The way Anya and Dimitri run off seems rushed and weird. I wish there was just one more scene at the end, like the next day, different clothes, different atmosphere, everyone happy. Instead, the movie ends with Anya wearing the same torn-up dress from her battle with Rasputin, and it seems like she and Dimitri made this rushed decision to leave. I wish the movie had ended in daylight, happiness, wholesomeness (perhaps, Anya hugging her grandmother at the doorstep to leave for a honeymoon with Dimitri and promising to see her again as soon as possible, then leaving with Dimitri hand-in-hand into the beautiful spring day, contrasting the cold winter from the beginning of the movie. Anya could also be wearing some normal lady clothes, neither royal nor poor, but something in between, showing how she has grown into herself, instead of trying to conform into this princess role).
The ending truly feels rushed and cut too early.
I guess I was just too young to understand the ending, so I always took it as, Anastasia left to marry Dimitri and go on their honeymoon, then came back after the events of the movie concluded.
When I was a kid my uncle would send falsified tapes he made for us (vhs were a little expensive where I lived) and some would come with knock offs of famous movies instead of the originals or damaged. I just assumed I got a Anastacia vhs with the ending missing
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You are not overthinking this one. I always thought it was weird too
Yes! That ending is so awkward and feels unfinished.
@@TheFangirlWatches Why does Dimitri look like Jack Dawson from Titanic
This is how I took it she didn't want to live in the spot light but we don't know what happend after the movie.... to me I would rather marry for love than live a rich lonely life
I'm sorry to tear a hole in all this, but you say around 4:36 that the dowager empress never announces that Anastasia has been found... but! Right when Rasputin is in the tower and deciding to "take matters into his own hands", he tears up a newspaper that announces that Anastasia has been found, hence the party they were throwing for her.
Ok kinda off topic but you're a really good singer! I hope you're having a wonderful day today and happy holidays
This movie lives as a faded memory in the corners of my mind along side “a fish tale”.
Also dang you have a voice.
Never noticed that before. I completely agree though.
I definitely felt unfulfilled with the ending but omg I've always absolutely adored this movie, and the song you sang is my absolute favorite! 😍 Like so beautiful but haunting and lonely...? (once upon a December)
Anastasia beautiful movie but I hundred percent believe that they should’ve made it under a different name and under different circumstances I think the ending always lacking some thing please they could’ve just passed forward to the future like every other one and show them having one kid yeah I’m not historically accurate but at least that Duchess could be active to see it. And that would be so much more satisfying even showing the second love interest having children within would been nice.
I believe in taking it out of the store for contact I would’ve been so nice. If they wanted to have Russia and Paris need to make a generic fantasy land that’s like Russia and Paris. It not necessarily it to stay with it
Your singing is gorgeous as always! Have you thought of doing song covers or lending your voice to projects on UA-cam?
lol, well I've tried a few times on different collab groups, but no one was ever interested. 😂 I don't know if I'm just a bad singer or if no one ever wants to collab with me because I'm old.
It wasn't Disney's back then, 20th Century Fox made Anastasia.
Correct, it was part of Don Bluth's contract with Fox, and then his next movie, Titan A.E., performed so badly that Fox shut down their animation division.
It's also strange how the dog acts. It just so happens the dog comes out of nowhere, flaps its ears like a bat ect, ect.
I can’t remember if the movie explains it, but the dog’s name is Pooka, and that means “guiding spirit.” My 90s trivia might be off, but I think Anastasia the movie never says that, but there’s a Pokémon episode that does, lol.
@@TheFangirlWatches that's really interesting.
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Seems legit
UA-cam at it's finest! lol
To be fair she left a note telling her grandma about it lol and her grandma told her that she should follow her heart, because she knew Dimitri loved her and Anastasia loved him, her grandma just wanted them to be happy. Knowing her granddaughter was alive and well was enough for her.
Same thing for Anastasia she wanted to find her family and she did, and not only that she was also about to start her own with Dimitri ;u;
I do agree that it was sort of weird she never got to present herself to the public and that they don’t mention if she just went away with dimitri temporarily as in a sort of honeymoon or if it was forever 🤷🏻♀️
Damn. You know what I think she should have just went "I'm alive and this man is my husband to be! And my grandma is okay with it. If you disagree with it then move." And boom! No awkward ending. Hell I just made a new ending that would have made it better!
I would have liked that ending better!
@@TheFangirlWatches Thank you.
Princess Anastasia Mignonette Thermopolis Romanov :D
@@evanjacques2993 😀
The second movie in the Anastasia series
At least in Paris they did know that Anatasia was found since it was in a newspaper which is showing in the scene Rasputin in the clock tower.
To be honest, I like to think Anya and Dmitri went off to New Orleans and befriended Tiana and Naveen. Maybe even working at Tiana's Palace. Considering that both films were set in the 1920's and that the couples have similar dynamics (from hating to each other to falling in love thanks to some slow dancing with the ending being the blue-bloods settling down in working class with the paupers), I don't see why Disney can't make a decent crossover with the two franchises. Especially since FOX is now own by the Mouse.
I mean I'd watch the hell out of that.
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I saw the Broadway touring stage play as well. Loved it.
I thought she goes to honeymoon with Dimitri and comes back after a while, didn’t know she eloped lol
I never really considered the ending in this much detail before! I guess I always assumed that it meant Anastasia was choosing to have a life with Dmitri instead of taking on her old royal title, but I always figured that her note saying "We'll be in together in Paris again soon" implied that she would come back to visit. But now I don't knooooooooow, lol!
I was lucky enough to see the play on Broadway four years ago or so--I loved the changes they made in the play! I figured that the grandmother's thing about saying "I probably won't see that imposter again" and donating the reward money was basically her protecting Anastasia's choice to remain hidden. Like she was saying it to the press or something, not that it was necessarily the end of their relationship. But it was really vague, so honestly, it could have meant anything.
Can you do a video on Gleb and Rasputin and see which is the better antagonist?
What I want to know is when Anya left that letter for her Grandma. Because at the end, when they're dancing away on the boat, they're wearing the same clothes as they had during the final fight with Rasputin. Did they really sneak back in to leave the letter and tiara and like... not change into some not torn clothes???
Im the opposite on the songs! Journey to the past is so difficult but Once upon a December is like an easy warm up song 😂
The time when the movie came out was right about the time when we were learning all about it in school, so I never really questioned the ending. Looking back on it, it was a little weird that they chose to end the movie like that though. Still a great movie though!
PS: I see my girl Venus in the background there!
I think I just thought they were off on a honeymoon
I’ve watched this movie too many times growing up. The movie and ending make perfect sense. When Anastasia spoke with her grandmother after being reuniting with her at the ball. She asked Anastasia if the lifestyle of a Romonov was what she really wanted. Anastasia played it off but growing up in foster care she couldn’t relate to those people she simply wanted to know where she came from and she found her grandmother. Her grandmother then went on to say you’ll always have me. She knew by then Anastasia had fallen in love with Dimitri. Over time during the movie the two had developed feelings so she chose to be with him in the end. It makes perfect sense
As someone who studied the surviving Romanov family - including the current heir to the throne, Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich of Russia (born 1981) - one of the reasons not touched upon the the film as to why Anastasia ran away with Dmitri is because, if revealed as the missing Grand Duchess, she would not only be at-risk of being assassinated by Bolshevik anti-royalists, but also likely expected to marry someone else out of duty, not love.
(This is also the plot of "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement", albeit with Chris Pine's character also being a royal descendant.)
The current Romanov heir to the Russian royal throne was born from a political marriage between his mother and father, the Grand Duchess of Russia and a Prince of Prussia, respectively. This was done because every other male Romanov heir to the throne prior had either had morganatic marriages, or did not marry and/or produce children who qualified for the Russian throne. Thus, his mother had no choice but to marry for duty in order to continue the Romanov royal bloodline.
Thus, Anastasia marrying Dmitri would be considered a morganatic marriage, as Dmitri is a commoner, and their children would be ineligible to receive any titles, aside from the surname "Romanovskii-Dmitriyevich" [insert Dmitri's last name here], or just "Dmitriyevich" ("child of Dmitri"). "Romanovskii" was reserved for the children of royal-commoner marriages, similarly to "FitzRoy" meaning "[illegitimate] son of the king" in English royal history.
(There was a Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich who was a member of the Romanov family through Alexander II, being his grandfather, and Nicholas II being his first cousin. Dimitri spent a great deal of his youth in the company of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family at the Alexander Palace, as they viewed him almost like a foster son. He can be seen in film footage escorting his cousin, Anastasia, during the dynasty's tercentennial celebrations in 1913. He was also one of the conspirators in the killing of Grigori Rasputin around 1916. He was 25 in 1916, so he was a bit old to be a child when the Romanovs were put to death. However, there is no evidence in the movie to suggest that Dmitri is, in fact, Grand Duke Dmitri. The Grand Duke was exiled to Paris in 1920. In 1926, Grand Duke Dmitri married Audrey Emery, an American heiress, after falling in love with her, in a morganatic marriage. The couple had one son, Paul Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, in 1928, before divorcing in 1937. Paul was raised as an American citizen, as his mother was American. Grand Duke Dmitri and Audrey now have 4 grandchildren through their son, Paul.)
More info on Grand Duke Dmitri: www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/Dmitri.php
There is also the matter that, at the time, Anastasia had many male still-living Romanov cousins who would be eligible for the throne before she was, under the laws of Russian succession. Thus, even if her identity had been announced to the public, Anastasia would never inherit the Russian throne, or even be seen as the next heir. Exposing her true identity would also open her up to assassination attempts, as seen with her other surviving relatives.
"In Russia, succession passed through the female line only after the extinction of all male branches of the dynasty. [...] Given the fact that they were all living in exile, the majority of the members of the Imperial House [of Romanov] did not consider themselves to be obligated to follow strictly the requirements of the Fundamental Laws [of marriage and succession].
This is exemplified by the many morganatic (unequal) marriages that occurred after 1917-that is, marriages with persons who do not belong to royal or ruling houses. Grand Dukes and Princes-of-the-Imperial-Blood who had entered into morganatic marriages did not themselves lose their rights to the throne or their membership in the Dynasty, but their descendants, by virtue of Articles 36 and 188 of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire, possessed no dynastic rights whatsoever (neither the right to the throne, nor titles, nor even the dynastic surname “Romanoff”).
[...] Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, a male-line grandson of Tsar Alexander II, claimed the headship of the deposed Imperial House of Russia, and assumed, as pretender, the title "Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias" in 1924 when the evidence appeared conclusive that all Romanovs higher in the line of succession had been killed.
[...] Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, son of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, was the sole male dynast of the Imperial House to enter into an equal marriage after 1917. On August 13, 1948, he married Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna, the daughter of the Head of the Georgian Royal House, H.R.H. Prince George Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhrani. From this marriage was born on December 23, 1953, Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna.
Inasmuch as all other living male dynasts of the Imperial family had entered into morganatic marriages, and because their advanced age made it unlikely that any of them would enter into new and equal marriages and, even less likely, have children-the Grand Duchess became the presumptive future Heiress to the throne by virtue of the inviolable Article 30 of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire.
[...] In 1976, [with other male lines having died out], Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna [of the House of Romanov] entered into an equal marriage with Prince Franz-Wilhelm of Prussia, who, after being received into the Orthodox Church, took the name Mikhail Pavlovich, and was granted the title Grand Duke by his father-in-law, Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich.
On March 13, 1981, a son was born of this marriage: Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich. By an agreement made between Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich and Prince Louis Ferdinand, the respective Heads of the Russian and German Imperial Houses, Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich’s father became a member of the Russian Imperial House, and therefore the newborn child belonged from the time of his birth to the Romanoff Dynasty and bore a Russian title."
www.imperialhouse.ru/en/imperialhouse-en/succession/385.html
Furthermore, Anastasia's two paternal aunts, the Grand Duchesses Xenia and Olga - the sisters of Czar Nicholas II, Anastasia's father - also survived, and both have living descendants today. However, Xenia married her father's first cousin once-removed, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (i.e. intra-familial royal incest), and Olga married her gay also-cousin, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (i.e. more intra-familial incest).
Eventually, Olga demanded an annulment, as her husband turned out to be gay, and it was granted in 1916. The following month, Olga remarried cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years before. The two had two sons, Tikhon [Romanovskii-]Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (b. 1917) and Guri [Romanovskii-]Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (b. 1919), who were also Anastasia's first cousins. Olga escaped revolutionary Russia with her second husband and their two sons in February 1920. They joined her mother, the Dowager Empress, in Denmark.
The Romanovs encouraged heirs to marry their cousins in order to keep the family in power, as only male Romanovs could inherit titles. The Grand Duchess - Anastasia's "grandmama" - even did not approve of her daughter Olga's marriage for love, and refused to see her husband, Nikolai, due to this. More info on the Kulikovsky descendants: www.russianlegitimist.org/who-are-the-kulikovskys
I don't know about you, but I think Anastasia would rather marry Dmitri than be forced into a marriage with one of her own Romanov cousins. However, if Dmitri was, in fact, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, then the Grand Duchess would approve of Anastasia and Dmitri's marriage.
I was just thinking about this movie today
I didn't really think about it, but you're right. That ending is kind of strange. I wonder if Anastasia and Dimitri were originally supposed to die?
Thank you for the theory, and I hope you have a Merry Christmas! :)
Oh I hope not! I don't think Don Bluth is that dark, but could you imagine the ending if the two main characters died?! 😱
And Merry Christmas to you too!
I watched this video last night and 2:21 where the Russian guard says that there really was no Anastasia was really jarring. It was when the Empress decided to give the reward money to charity. Therefore, it implies that the empress knows young Anastasia well enough to know that she wouldn't run off with some guy and leave her family out of the wedding. That implication kept me awake last night, because it implies that Anya has always been an imposter.
Love your sweater. Looks like Atticus from Infinity Train.
I love corgis Infinity Train and corgis so much, and the back of the sweater has the doogos booty! lol
SO GLAD YOU MENTION "MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS"
IT CAN! LOL That quote is so dumb! People today fail to understand the real meaning behind it
What it really means is.."don't Love your money, don't be a scrooge..use it..live life.."
Yes! It's so often used in association with who to marry - as in, choose the poor guy over the rich guy, because he'll obviously love you more deeply since he doesn't have a job or anything weighing down his time, lol. NO! Even if that was the intent, love fades, choose to live in a nice house with food in your children's stomaches! But, that kind of romanticism is why parents used to arrange marriages for their children, so they didn't end up starving and "in love" over taken care of in the long term. 😂
@@TheFangirlWatches YES LOL
Surprise twist: Anastasia Romanov may be cinderella anastasia's ancestor
What about the newspaper that Rasputin tore up, the headline was: Royal Party Planned Romanov Princess Found. The picture was of Anastasia of a child though. So I guess Anya's identity was still private yet the public was informed.
Anastasia is my favorite Don Bluth movie ever. Also saw the play in person, it’s so good.
I haven't seen the film in so long but when I was a kid, I took the ending as more of Anastasia and demetri took off to explore the world and live their life and grandmama was still going to be apart of their lives, just privately. Particularly her hugging the note and smiling, I figured she was accepting her grand daughter's wishes and was happy for her. But now that you mention all the little details... did they have any money to run off on an adventure? Is grandma paying for them? Or did they just go and forget the fact that this whole ordeal was for money?
Small thing: They actually DID announce that they'd found Anastasia to the public in the movie (Rasputin and his henchman were reading a newspaper announcement that was front page news) and I believe that the ball in question was actually in celebration of that. Weirdly enough though, in the newspaper, they used the portrait of Anastasia form when she was a little girl instead of a photograph, which implies that no one has actually seen her yet and the press is merely taking the Dowager Empresses' word. Apparently that's how Rasputin found out that Anastasia had been reconnected when there were so many easier ways to communicate the villain knew that?
Something I think the musical did well was expanding the "family" Anastasia found in including the exiled aristocracy in Paris, who mourn over their lost fortunes and good times, all stuck in the past. It really shows to the audience that to an orphan who doesn't remember "the good old days" doesn't fit into that group and that neither can ever really understand one another. Just because they were all cut from the same cloth doesn't mean that they'll view each other as family or even friends. Anastasia in the musical went through genuine hardship that Sophie and the other aristocrats who fled never understood or cared about, and she doesn't really have a connection to that world or even her grandmother beyond bloodline and fond memories. She's more comfortable with Dmitri because he understands both sides of her, and can relate to her experiences as the person she came to be, not as the missing grand duchess everyone else expects her to be.
I mean to be fair she never said she won't ever come back to see her grandmama again, she just go for a while to marry the man she loves and after their honeymoon she will come back to her grandmama to live together as a whole family and maybe have a baby with him and show him to her grandmama. that the ending I see in the movie since it is open to interception
Nice video by the way could you do it Video essay on the ending for the series finale for lost what did The ending meant
I thought one of the writers said it was purgatory or death or something like that. I've actually never watched the show but I remember hearing so much buzz about it back when it was new.
The Fangirl yeah I’m confused on the ending could you do a discussion on the ending on what it meant you could do a video Essay on it like you did with this episode
I only ever seen bits and parts of it, but it sounds like they were going for a "Go for your heart" thing, so they just go off to get married, the heck to being rich. But with you sound with being poor, it reminded me of the Everclear song, "I will Buy You a New Life". It brings up how being poor really stinks even now a days.
I married poor and I'll tell you what, I would never do it again! Love is like a flower - it blooms for a hot minute, and then dies, and then your contractually obligated to that other person you married forever (back then, at least, now you can get divorced easily). I'd rather learn to love someone who I didn't have immediate chemistry with than go the hot-and-heavy route, which almost always fizzles out. But, uhhh, I don't think any of that was the intended ending for this movie! lol
Actually it was 1917 when Anastasia and the romanov family were killed
Made it to the end. I saw this in the 4th grade when the special needs class went on a field trip to a movie theater. I saw it as a chance to not do any schoolwork for the day so I wanted to go. On the bus ride back to school, the bus assistant explained that Anastasia and Rasputin were real people and talked a little bit about them so I kinda got a history lesson anyway. I'd LOVE a Titan A,E, theory or just a Titan A,E, related video in general (That's my all time favorite movie and even what inspired my interest in lizards...even though my bearded dragon was a million times nicer than the lizard in the movie). I I used to be obsessed with Titan A,E, and maybe could help you a little bit.
She leaves a note literally saying they "will be together in Paris again soon" so that implies they are just possibly traveling and she will visit. The play is left ambiguous because the government would have never left her alone otherwise, as shown with the character Gleb who was following her throughout the play. Once it came out she was the real duchess, she would have been killed or at least captured. Gleb literally begs her to say she isn't Anastasia because he would have to kill her according to the law.
You look so beautiful ♥️ plus such amazing ideas.
Also WOW on your 'once upon a december'
I kinda thought the ended was a way to acknowledge the princess was never found and also the whole "princesses don't marry kitchen boys" line.
Ana had the choice to pick royal life with a grandmother she hardly remembers(which in that time was likely to lead to being overthrown especially if a random woman came out of nowhere to claim they should rule) or see the world and maybe get married to this guy that had put his life on the line for her multiple times and proved he cares about her more than money.
I wonder why Disney hasn’t done anything to Anastasia,Thumbelina,FerngullyAnd Titan A.E Set they’re all under the 20th Century Fox logo
Another question concerning Anya and Dmitri; if they have a son, would he be able to live to adulthood? In real life, Anya's brother, Alexei, had hemophilia which is passed down by mother to son. The illness was also the main reason Rasputin got into the palace in the first place. So, what would happen to Little Dmitri?
Anya would have a 50/50 chance of either having a daughter who was a carrier for or a son with hemophilia. Since she never got to have any children of her own in real life, it is unknown if she was even a carrier of the disease like her mother. Women usually carry the disease while men show the symptoms as Xx and xy. She could have inherited the normal X chromosome from her mother instead of the mutated one and obviously her father didn't have the disease so he would not pass the bad X chromosome to her either. So, very possible for Anya to have to worry about her son, but not a certainty.
@@ashthemusicalgirl1330 oh shoot! I forgot about that!
I always thought the ending was Anastasia choosing to make her own family with the man she loves, and them going off without reward money was them choosing love and happiness over wealth and power. The ending of the movie does keep history accurate along with the hope that the youngest princess could have escaped alive. Don't get me wrong the money would have helped, but Dimitri's arch needs him to forsake his greedy tendencies. Also Anastasia grew up without money or any hope of acquiring wealth. From the beginning she only wanted to know where she came from and that she was loved. She found both of those of things before officially meeting her grandmother. The pair made it out of Russia so they could, in theory start a life anywhere in Europe. I like the unconventional, open ending of the movie, but that could be the Nostalgia bias lol.
OMG THANK YOU! I was actually whining about this a few weeks ago! Like Anastasia FINALLY finds her fsmily and regains her memories after YEARS of wanting that, and she just BAM WAM, leaves for some guy she has know for like, what, a week
Like. Nope. Keept grandma, ditch the guy
And where did Dimitri even have to go? No family, no friends (the only was was staying with Sophie), no home, NOTHING! Finding your long-lost family shouldn't be a box to check and then you move on to the next thing. *ANNOYED SIGH*
@@TheFangirlWatches Yeah! That too, like. Aaaah nope the end had NEVER clicked with me. Like, not even as a kid xD
I was 6 when i last watch this movie.Good Movies.
I loved this movie, the villain is really up there with Disney villains! However, i didn't really like the ending. She found her Grandma then leaves her for Dimitri. I would've liked it better if she stayed with her grandma
It's so strange. They act as if finding your family after 10 years of hoping/dreaming is just a box to check off, then you move onto the next thing. They should have all just stayed together.
Lol I love this assessment. I always thought the same stuff
It was romanticized for a historical figure who had a more tragic reality. I know they weren’t going to do reality because they were writing this for audience but still
I belive it ends runnin off with dimitri because in real life anastasia was never found. so in the movie they give em a happy endin somehow with her dissapearin
THANK YOU! I work at a theater as an usher, & a co worker & I both agreed that the ending to both Anastasias were stupid, because Anastasia wanted to find her family, her Grandmother was heartbroken for her, & at the end "true love" is suddenly more important than family for BOTH of them?! Agreed that she should have at least stayed close to the grandmother! Hope they wrote letters! This is why I hate romance movies!! Romance above all else makes me SO mad!! Maybe in the musical Grandmother was trying to keep Anastasia safe like Gleb did, but you're right, in the movie there is NO EXCUSE!
Please talk about "Bartok the magnificent" it's my favourite movie❤
I have to embarrassingly admit that I've never seen it. I should though, I think it's in with my Anastasia DVD!