Anastasia (1997 film)
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Anastasia is a 1997 film about the daughter of the last Russian czar. Rasputin puts a curse on the Romanov line and kills everyone but Anastasia. She loses her memories and ten years later sets out to find her family, she is found by two Russian men, Dimitri and Vladimir, who seek the reward that her grandmother Marie promised to the ones who'll find her. But Rasputin rises from the grave to make sure she is never reunited with her grandmother.
- Directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Written by Susan Gauthier and Bruce Graham.
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[edit] Dowager Empress Marie
- There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was ninteen hundred and sixteen and my son Nicholas was the Czar of Imperial Russia. We were celebrating the 300th anniversary of our family's rule. And, that night, no star burned brighter than that of our sweet Anastasia, my youngest granddaughter. She begged me not to return to Paris, so I had a very special gift made for her, to make the seperation easier for both of us.
- ...
- But we would never be together in Paris, for a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Romanovs. His name was Rasputin. We thought he was a holy man, but he was a fraud, power-mad and dangerous.
- ...
- So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been was now gone for ever. And my Anastasia, my beloved grandchild, I never saw her again.
[edit] Dialogue
- Anastasia: Dimitri, do you really think I'm royalty?
- Dimitri: You know I do.
- Anastasia: Then stop bossing me around!
- Dimitri: I think you broke my nose.
- Anastasia: [puts her coat on] Men are such babies.
- Dimitri: No, no. No, you don't know. I was the boy in the palace. The one who opened the wall. She's the real thing, Vlad.
- Vladimir: That means our Anya has found her family. We have found the heir to the Russian throne. And you...
- Dimitri: Will walk out of her life forever.
- Vladimir: But...
- Dimitri: Princesses don't marry kitchen boys.
- Dowager Empress Marie: Where did you get this?
- Dimitri: I know you've been hurt, but it's just possible she's been as lost and alone as you.
- Dowager Empress Marie: You'll stop at nothing, will you?
- Dimitri: I'm probably about as stubborn as you are.
- Dowager Empress Marie: You're a very good actress. The best yet, in fact. But I've had enough.
- Anastasia: Peppermint?
- Dowager Empress Marie: An oil for my hands.
- Anastasia: Yes. And I spilled a bottle. The carpet was soaked and it forever smelled of peppermint. Like you. I used to lie there on that rug and, oh, how I missed you when you went away. When you came here, to Paris.
- Dowager Empress Marie: You were the boy, weren't you - the servant boy who got us out? You saved her life and mine and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward.
- Dimitri: Not anymore.
- Dowager Empress Marie: Why the change of mind?
- Dimitri: It was more a change of heart. I must go.
- Dimitri: If we live through this, remind me to thank you.
- Sophie: [She and Dowager Empress Marie just finished reading Anastasia`s farewell letter after marrying Dimitri] They`ve eloped! Isn`t it romantic? It`s the perfect ending.
- Dowager Empress Marie: No, it`s the perfect beginning.
- [After Bartok almost smashes Rasputin's reliquary]
- Rasputin: I sold my soul to this. My life, my very existance, depends on it. And you... [chuckles, then turns angry] almost destroyed it!
- Bartok: I get it! You break it, you brought it!
- Rasputin: See that you remember, you despicable rodent! [throws Bartok across the room]
- Bartok: Oh sure, blame the bat. What the heck? We're easy targets.
- Rasputin: What are you mumbling about?
- Bartok: Anastasia, sir! Just wishing I could do the job for you, sir. I'd give her a HA! And a HI-YA! And then a OUU-WA! And I'd kick her, sir.
Dimitri:(After anastasia hands him a dynamite stick and they hide behind boxes)"What do they teach you in those ophanges?"
[edit] Cast
- Meg Ryan — Anastasia (voice)
- John Cusack — Dimitri (voice)
- Kelsey Grammer — Vladimir (voice)
- Christopher Lloyd - Rasputin (voice)
- Hank Azaria - Bartok (voice)
- Bernadette Peters- Sophie (voice)
- Angela Lansbury - Dowager Empress Marie Fyodorovna (voice)
[edit] External links
- Anastasia quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Anastasia at Rotten Tomatoes
- The official Anastasia site
