Blog Post 3

Anastasia-Once Upon a December

The movie that I remember most from my childhood is the animated movie called Anastasia. It was and sometimes is still my favorite movie. Anytime that anyone says "movie from your childhood", that's the one that I think of. The movie is about the duchess of the Russian empire who falls from a train causing her to lose her memory and become an orphan. The duchess' grandmother holds a reward for anyone who can bring her back safely. Two men hear of this reward and looks for a woman who can play the role of the grand duchess, but little do they know that they have found the real duchess. As they go on a journey for the grandmother's house in Paris, the grand duchess regains her memory and remembers everything. But of course, there has to be a bad guy in every movie. The bad guy in this movie is called Rasputin. He lives in some dark underworld place and finds ways to stop the grand duchess and her grandmother from reuniting because he wants to have Russia all to himself. The link above is the song that she sings in her old house (mansion). It is the first instance that she starts to regain her memory. I've watched this movie so much that all the details stand out whenever I re-watch it. Every once in a while I will find new things that help me understand some of the lyrics or some of the reasons that the characters say things.