Sobre a Animação e vida real dos Romanov.
Check out the comparisons between reality and the history of the film.
REALITY x MOVIE
By Bianca Nobre
Updated 10/29/2016
What is "Flowery" and what is Truth?
As the film is a free classification (for the family and children), it is in fact that all the events that occurred during the Bolshevik Revolution could not happen.
I'm just making a comparison with the movie and the real story and not saying the movie is wrong because of it all. I also want to bring an interest in the real story as well.
BEGINNING OF THE FILM:
Fact: "The year was 1916, we are celebrating 300 years of the Romanov Dynasty". (More or less)
→ Actually, this celebration took place throughout the year of 1913, not in 1916.
Fact: The imperial family lived in the winter palace in St. Petersburg. (Flowery)
→ They actually lived in the Alexander Palace (Tzarskoe Selo).
Fact: At the commemoration of 1916, Rasputin launches the curse of the Romanov (die in 15 days), and soon afterwards a war against the Czar family takes place. (More or less)
→ It was not the curse that killed family.
→ On July 17, 1918 the Czar family was shot dead in the basement.
→ There was a war, yes, that of the Bolsheviks, but the film is not very explicit.
→ And yes, Rasputin existed.
Fact: Anastasia is 8 years old. (Flowery)
→ Anastasia was 17 years old.
Fact: Anastasia, in the movie Grandma wins a music box with her parents who turn when she was 8 years old. (More or less)
→ In real life, Anastasia won a music box from her grandmother on her 13th birthday, but the real one had a silver ballerina on top of her.
Fact: Dimitri, a servant of the palace, helps Anastasia and her grandmother to flee. (More or less)
→ Dimitri did not really exist; But there was a boy who tended the chickens (in the house in Ekaterinburg-Siberia) and he seemed to like Anastasia.
→ He did not help her escape, on the contrary, when they went to do the massacre, they sent a letter to this boy a few days before saying that some relative was sick, not to raise witnesses. And he traveled to see this relative.
Fact: Empress Marie is able to escape in the wagon to Paris leaving Anastasia. (Flowery)
→ The Empress Marie crosses Russia passing through Germany until arriving at Paris.
→ In case she could not do it in the middle of World War and Anastasia's grandmother stayed in Russia until 1919, she did not leave the country exactly on the day of the revolution.
TEN YEARS LATER:
Fact: There are rumors throughout St. Petersburg that Anastasia did not die and that her Grandmother would pay a fortune (10 million rubles) to anyone who gave her back to her. (More or less)
→ There were rumors, but there was no reward fortune for Grandma.
→ The fact that they did not find the body of the Gra-Duchess, shook all of Russia, generating the rumors.
Fact: When Anya leaves the orphanage and decides to look for clues about his past in "Saint Petersburg". (Flowery)
→ In fact, the city was called "Petrograd". The name had been changed during World War I by being "too German".
Fact: Dimitri and his friend Vladimir tried to rehearse women to be Anastasia and "hand her over" as if it were the Grand Duchess and get the money. (More or less)
→ This really happened a lot, people trained girls to be Anastasia, and there were many after the rumors.
Fact: The film recounts the fact that it happened after the disappearance of the Grand Duchess. That would be Anya, an 18-year-old girl, who could not remember who she was. She started wandering alone with a single clue. (More or less)
→ In real life the most famous "supposed" Anastasia was Anna Anderson.
→ Anya and Anna are very similar, are not they? Anya means Anna in Russian.
Fact: Pooka, the puppy that accompanies Anya on her journey, takes her to the "right" ways. (Flowery)
Pooka also did not exist, but in fact there were three - Jimmy, Joy and Ortino.
→ Joy was Alexei's dog, was found alive in the house where the family was killed.
→ Jimmy was Anastasia's dog, he did not survive, he was killed next to the family for no clues.
→ Ortino, who was the French bulldog of Grand Duchess Tatiana, was not seen after the massacre.
Fact: Dimitri sees that there is a similarity between Anya and Grand Duchess Anastasia, convinces her to be Anastasia and go to Paris. (More or less)
→ Anna Anderson was very physically similar to Anastasia, and besides, there were injuries to the head and arms and so could be her.
→ She was found by exiled monarchs from Germany.
Fact: Rasputin learns that Anastasia is alive and back with her evil plans. (Flowery)
At this time Rasputin was already dead. He was killed 2 years before the Czar family was killed.
Fact: Sophie first cousin of the Empress. (More or less)
→ Sophie was not the Empress's cousin (not that I know of), but rummaging through the story, there are reports of two "Sophie".
Nanny Sophie Karlova and a friend of Czarina Alexandra named Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden. She wrote three books about the Romanov family. They are: "The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna", "Left Behind" and "Before the Storm". And Sophie also went to meet Anna Anderson and soon declared that she was not Anastasia.
Does it have anything to do with it?
Fact: Anya answers all questions correctly and remembers a boy and a wall opening up. (More or less)
→ Anna Anderson knew personal things from the Czar family that nobody knew. Nor the court officials.
Fact: Anya hears that Dimitri was a farce. (Flowery)
→ This was not to be disappointment for Empress and yes the city should be tired of hearing girls claiming to be Anastasia and it was also a forbidden thing to be said on the street.
→ Then they made a DNA with a hair of Anna Anderson that was in a book of her husband. And the result was that Anna was not Anastasia.
Fact: When Empress Marie, grandmother of Anastasia says: "But you have the beauty of your mother Alexandra!", It seems that the whole family got along well. (More or less)
→ The relationship between Alexandra Feodorovna (Mother of Anastasia) and Marie Feodorovna (Anastasia's Grandmother) hated each other, contrary to what the film attempts to show.
Existing Facts
This part are existing facts hidden in small details of the film.
I do not know if you noticed any more ...:
● Part of the song '' Rumors in St. Petersburg ":
→ Shows people whispering about the rumor; And they stop talking when the cop comes close.
→ This really happened, because at that time it was forbidden to talk about it, but of course they talked about it. If the police saw people were arrested.
● Also show people complaining about the revolution.
→ And in fact after the revolution, the situation of the people who were no longer there ... became worse.
● Part of the song "I'm Learning":
● When it says:
"He made faces to scare the uncle / Who fell in the river / But how bad / And he smiled and apologized when his father arrived and saw"
→ This part comments as Anastasia was, she was very mischievous, so much that they called her a devil and other similar nicknames.
● Anya shows by commenting on an ancestor's cat, a fact that Dimitri and Vlad were surprised at not commenting on it and / or not knowing about:
"Your cat was yellow! / We did not tell you this fact!"
→ Well this part shows a parallel, Anna Anderson knew things about the Romanov family that nobody knew.
Part of Anya's nightmare on the ship where she meets her father and sisters, Nicholas II speaks: "Hello sunshine!" .
"... She was so alive, and her hype so infectious, that several members of the suite fell in the manner of calling her" Sunshine, "the nickname given to her mother by the English Court." (Falconer, Colin - Anastasia)
● Part of the song "Paris, The Key to Your Heart", several people appear.
→ And some of them actually existed ...
The drawing that Anastasia gives to her grandmother at the beginning of the film.
→ It is real, she had drawn for her father in 1914.
In the picture in the hall with all the family includes a dog.
→ The dog existed. This spaniel was Joy, as he had explained in the picture on the side.
The dress that Anastasia wears in the last scene of the movie.
→ Anastasia once wore a dress almost exactly like the one in the movie. This same dress was seen in the 1956 film version of Anastasia.
When Anya returns to the palace in St. Petersburg, in the hall you can see paintings.
→ These paintings are real, but there is an exchange of orders between them. The painting on the left side of the painting of the coronation of Alexandra and Nicholas is the true one.
At the beginning of the film, when Rasputin falls on ice and technically "dies".
→ Did Bluth want to represent Rasputin's death in real life?
Because when Raputin was killed, his body was thrown on ice.
Read more about Rasputin.
Read more about Rasputin.
Scenarios:
In Russia:
1- Sant Basil Cathedral: Appears for a few seconds after the prologue and the film logo. But not so difficult to notice this huge building rising that is in the heart of St. Petersburg. Which actually looks more like a palace than a cathedral.
2- Alexander Palace: Imperial Palace of Russia. It was where the family lived longer, unlike the movie that says they lived in the Winter Palace. He appears only in the prologue to the film, and then the story takes place in the other Palace.
3- Hermitage: Also known as "Hermitage Museum" or "Winter Palace, another residence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family.
4- Carriages: Note the details of the carriage drawn in the film - it's the same as at the time!
5- Party Hall: This is the famous hall that Anya dances and sings "It was in the month of December". In the film the hall was enlarged to make it more impressive.
In Germany:
6- Strasburg: It is a city of Germany and appears when Anya and the others are going to catch a bus until they take the ship.
In France:
7- Chanel boutique: It seems that the designers of the film were inspired by the store that did not exist at the time, but there is a great resemblance to a Chanel store on Cambon Street.
8- Moulin Rouge: The famous Moulin Rouge did not escape in appearing in the film, no one goes to France without taking a step there. The famous old cabaret with can-can dancers give a very funny air in the film when Vlad leaves in the middle of the stage to pick up Sophie's shoe.
9- Arc de Triomphe: It is a monument built in commemoration of the military victories of Napoleon Bonaparte located at one of the two ends of the Avenue Champs-Élysées. In the film during the song "Paris, the key to your heart".
10- Eiffel Tower: And you could not miss it, the Eiffel Tower, right ?! Built as the entrance arch of the 1889 World's Fair. It is the largest tourist attraction in Paris, making it the most visited country in the world.
11- Palais Garnier: Appears when Anya and the others will watch the Russian ballet Cinderella.I think this is one of the buildings most faithfully reproduced. For even outside from the inside like the stairs, corridors and the stage.
12- Jardin des Tuileries: are the most central gardens of Paris, a dense and historic city with few parks. A long French-style garden and lawns along the River Seine. It appears when Anastasia finds Pooka and finds Rasputin.
13- Palais des Tuileries: You can not see it right, but it's where Anastasia and her grandmother kill the longing and do the big ball. It is the palace that overlooks the great Jardin des Tuileries, when Anastasia descends the stairs looking for Pooka.
14- Pont Alexandre III: Two reasons make it impossible to take another bridge to the final battle: it is a sublime bridge, it was shameful not appear in the film, and Czar Alexander III, and was the grandfather of Anastasia.
15- Ponte Neuf: it is the oldest of the bridges that cross the Seine river in Paris. It appears when Anastasia and Dimitri return to St. Petersburg on the ship.
