Not Taking Any Chances

Not taking any chances

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ANASTASIA SHOULD HAVE BEEN CURSED TOO!!!

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DISCLAIMER: There is indeed a curse in the film, but it is cast onto Nicolas Romanov by Rasputin - “Mark my words; you and your family will die within a fortnight. I will not rest until I see the end of the Romanov rein forever.” And since Anastasia survived Rasputin cannot die due to the curse he cast, but Anastasia is in no way affected by it throughout the film. She looses her grandmother and suffers from hallucinations and amnesia for 10 years, but these things are not connected to the curse from the beginning of the film. 

Anastasia - “Let me go! Please!” Rasputin - “You will never escape me child. Never!”

The more I think about this, the more frustrated I get. My problem with the magic in this movie would have been SO EASY to fix. The only thing needed would have been a curse cast on Anastasia, something along the lines of: “You shall forever be apart from all your family”. 

When the curse is first taking effect, that is when Anastasia is separated from her grandmother (instead of grandma just having a weak grip), and then Rasputin´s magic keeps her away from her family. There could have been a short montage her grandmother coming back to look for her granddaughter, but the curse is making it impossible for them to find each other.

Grandmother - “Hold onto my hand!” Anastasia - “Don´t let go!”

Even Anastasia´s amnesia would have been more intriguing his way; the curse is actively forcing out her memories (instead of being the aftermath of an unrelated accident). But throughout the film the memories are trying to re-surface as best as they can in the form of hallucinations and dreams (que “Once Upon A December!!”). Imagine the ball-room scene slowly but surely becoming more and more green in color, as the curse is doing it´s best to hide the memories of her family. This way it would also make more sense why Anastasia cannot even recognize her family members (or even herself) when looking at the paintings in the palace (btw, why hasn’t all the shit been stolen during these past 10 years???)

It isn’t until Dimitri comes along and forces Anastasia to meet her grandmother again when the curse is finally broken. The whole idea of Anastasia being a victim of dark magic would have been more suspenseful from a storytelling POV, but this way we would also have had a much better connection between the main character and the villain. Not only are they both cursed, but now the magic that Rasputin possesses has been affecting Anastasia all this time.

Anastasia - “That face…”

As the movie is now, Anastasia is not in any way aware of Rasputin after she accidentally hits hear head as a child. And when they meet again in the movies climax he is simply the man who swore revenge on her family (and has been trying to kill her during the past couple of days without her having any clue about it). 

But THIS WAY he would be 100% responsible for all her misery - her memory-loss,  the separation from her grandmother, her nightmares, her hallucinations - Everything would now be connected to Rasputin instead of being mostly based on a series of unfortunate events.

Rasputin - “And me… A rotting corpse… Last seen at a party like this one.” Anastasia - “A curse!” Rasputin - “Followed by a tragic night on the ice. Remember?”

Just notice how all of these lines would have been more impactful if Anastasia was cursed too.

The point of all this? 

IDK. It´s 3.30AM and this is what I do when I cannot sleep - Ramble on about animated movies. But admit that this should have been canon. :P

So, here we have Lapis and Lazuli with Lapis Lazuli’s dress and Lapis Lazuli with Lapis and Lazuli’s clothes :D

You guys have no idea how much I wanted to do this, it’s been like a year since I had this idea in my head, wonder why it took me so long.

Bonus~