The finest in Bolshevism, in a jar!Below are the notes I took during the beginning of Anastasia, before I gave up on watching Anastasia. I know lots of people love this movie, and I do feel bad about not giving it more of a chance. Maybe I will some day. But for now:
The movie opens with a nostalgic voiceover: "There was a time not so long ago when we lived in an enchanted world of beautiful palaces." Yeah, there was a time not so long ago when we lived in an enchanted world of serfdom and, even when that was abolished, persistent economic inequality so great that it incubated a violent popular revolution WHICH IS ACTUALLY PRETTY TOUGH TO DO, GOOD JOB RUSSIA. I know that communism in the Soviet Union didn't work out, but I can already feel that I'm going to have major issues with this movie romanticizing czarist Russia. But whatever, Angela Lansbury, please continue. Tell me about how this society with no social mobility to speak of was totally idyllic.
Rasputin crashes the royal ball, and he's a creepy-looking motherfucker. Gray skin was basically a genius invention on the part of animators. That way you can have villains who would in reality be the same color as the good guys, but you can make them look darker (aka eviler). COOL.
Oh shit the premise of the movie is that dark magic caused discontent in Russian workers, leading to the revolution? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA awesome. I mean, look, I understand that this is a cartoon for children and not supposed to be realistic, but why even bother with this setting? Why not take these ideas and stick them in a fairytale world?
At this point I abandoned ship.
A story about this movie:
ReplyDeleteOne time I got really really drunk and watched it.
I don't remember anything about it, but everybody I watched it with remembers it as being the first time they ever heard me yell at a cartoon for over an hour.
I remember the first time I yelled at a cartoon WITH you for over an hour. It was Enchanted, and we were disturbed.
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