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Another maxing, another part! How are you liking the latest strips? I'm still hoping for news of more dolls (France? Canada? China? ... France?)--anything you're hoping for? I hope your summer (or what season it may be) is fun!

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Re: Anastasia

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Livestream lets me know how many viewers there are so I knew you were there! Well not you specifically, but how many people. (Which sounds a bit creepy BUT)

Off the top of my head: The line about "how dare you smoke without my permission?" on the train is taken from the live action film, where Anna(/Anya) is at a gathering of old aristocrats and chastises a man who just called her a fraud for lighting a cigarette without her permission, causing him to look at her dramatically.

There was also a line where Dmitri says something like "There's a canal just out there, go throw yourself in it and start swimming," which I think was a reference to the LA film, where the Dmitri and Vlad characters (can't recall their names) find Anna in the canal, having jumped in to kill herself. Also, I'm pretty sure that the reason they had Lily lighting the lamps, and the empress singing about the lamps being lit or not lit, is because of a line from the film and play where the empress tells Anna (who she's just recognized as 'Anastasia') as an old servant lamplighter in one of her palaces in Finland, who goes into each empty room, lighting them all even though the palaces are now empty and the former world is gone.

Oh gosh I know there's got to be more, but I'd have watch it again to get them all.

I agree about Journey to the Past having better story pacing where they placed it! It's definitely a big "act 1 closer" type of number. I'm not sure if you could see in the video because of the stream quality, but the actress was tearing up during it... I remember the director of the play said that many of the young women auditioning (they had to sing that song) cried while singing it because it was such a part of their childhoods. I liked her new 'first' song, obviously not as upbeat as Journey to the Past but it lets us know where her character is at.

Yes!! I noticed that too, the "Come my minions/rise for your master" melody was used. They also used it as a musical motif at least once with Gleb&co. Omg! I didn't notice anything from At the Beginning--do you remember what it was?

I got teary during Once Upon a December (the ghost dancing version) and during Journey to the Past, and then during the Dmitri and Anya revelation scene, when Anastasia and Nana reunited, and also during the confrontation when the ghosts appeared!

Are there any changes you noticed that you liked? Or didn't like?

Re: Anastasia

[(Anonymous)]

so much love for the other adaptations went into this :') happy to hear it seems like they got to do all they wanted to pay homage.

*clutches heart* no, i didn't notice she was crying, but aw! the leads were amazing and i love the actress more for knowing she felt such a connection to the song from her childhood. that'd be a dream come true for any little girl who grew up rewinding all the big songs and singing along with them, to grow up and get to do this...

they only played just a little of "at the beginning" as musical background at the start of the very last scene where they're talking about anastasia's future. so it wasn't incorporated into any actual singing parts, but if you listen for it, you should hear it around that part. i think it only just played enough that would get through a lyric's length ("we were strangers starting out on a journey...") as like a punctuation to the happy moment. it would've nice if they'd kept playing it in the piano in the background through more of the scene, too. i hope you can see what i mean when you see it next; i swear i'm not imagining it! i still love that song, so trust i'd recognize it, haha.

hmm, i can't say i didn't like any changes! but i'm so glad there was no cartoon villainry. that conflict was my least favorite part of the animated movie ;P

so was the first time you watched it actually with the meme? :O

Re: Anastasia

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Same here!

that'd be a dream come true for any little girl who grew up rewinding all the big songs and singing along with them, to grow up and get to do this...
Did you? ;) And ngl, I still do this.

I went back and heard it! Ahhhh!! It was I think the "life is a road and I wanna keep going, love is a river I wanna keep flowing" melody, played what I think was a trumpet? AMAZING EAR to spot that!

Oh definitely. It didn't feel silly or ridiculous and I love it for that. I really like how Gleb had his own connection to Anastasia, and oh gosh the scene where he looks in her eyes and 'recognizes' her....

Speaking of Rasputin, Have you read one of the earlier scripts to the film, where Rasputin is the villain but he's not undead? Though he does have some magic powers. In this script it's pretty much Bartok who has all the cartoonishness. (There's a super creepy line Rasputin has about the firing squad in the ending action scene.) Here's the script!

Yes this was the first time! Right after I got the links to the video I immediately watched Journey to the Past and Once Upon a December, but I didn't watch the entire show until today with you guys!

Re: Anastasia

[(Anonymous)]

yes, I absolutely was that little girl who'd replay the songs over and over to sing along to. and also an mgm sing-along tape that had anastasia and ferngully songs with the lyrics, just in case i needed to do that even more than i already did. no shame in belting 'em out alone to this day; most of my favorite songs to do that with are still my old faves from childhood... squints, miss witch, would you happen to be an anon i was talking to about musicals a while back

omigosh, i'm so glad i wasn't imagining it...that song's so good but it made me also want to cry just hearing it when i was kid, haha. EMOTIONS.

and no, i never knew that about the original script! thank you for the link. i see why they felt they had to amp up rasputin's goofiness for the cartoon because that creep factor would've had a danger of being too much...using that as a rhyme when they're about to fall to their death, omw...

oh, thanks for sharing it for the first time with us, then! you had a lot of patience to wait till you could stream it for us before you watched it yourself!

Re: Anastasia

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Ferngully! Na na na na na~ maybe probably, do you remember which ones we talked about?

No problem at all. I think in that script (I'm not sure when exactly it was made--it has to be a fairly later script, since at one point the film had talking dogs, cats, and I think even a turkey?? Maybe I'm confusing the turkey with Pocahontas. This script seems pretty close to the final film in content, with the exception of Rasputin not being a zombie, anyway.)

I have to head to bed but good night and thanks for watching it, I'm glad you enjoyed it and we got to share the experience!!