Question by David: Why is the Movie Anastasia so different to what really happened yet they can say based on a true story?
I felt sorry for the Russian Royal family & felt like crying when I watched the movie.Then I read what really happened & I got annoyed & now I feel sorry for Rasputin.
So I am still a bit confused what really happened & who was the bad guys/Girls?
Answers and Views:
Answer by Ms. Minerva
The bad guys were the uneducated lot that took over the initial revolt which did have a certain amount of integrity and purity of action involved with it.
Thugs often do inexplicable things….murdering the Russian royal family was one of them. One can’t say that Russia has actually benefitted from the Revolution…..Industrialization would have occurred without Stalin,,,,the Dumas would have eventually become an entity similar to the United States Senate or the UK House of Commons…
There are probably few Russians who would not tell you that they would have preferred even a bad Tsar who provided a central point for their country to what has happened to them without the stabilizing influence of a monarch.
Their country is in shreds, and has been for a long, long time. It is sad considering what it might have been.
Thugs never act to the benefit of anything or anyone other than themselves….that is how you can pick them out..
Several questions have been asked lately concerning Anastasia. All of the answers contain detailed answers… spend a moment looking through open and resolved questions.
A short answer is that all the remains of the the last Tsar, his wife, and his children were eventually located. They were identified using DNA.
Anna Anderson was exhumed…and using DNA….was found not to have been a Romanov, but had DNA belonging to some peasant family.
Rasputin was one of the Lord’s oddities….and a case could be made either way as to whether he was a good person or not. Only God has the right to judge that.
Read all the answers in the comments.
What do you think?
Louise C says
I must admit I haven't seen the film, but the true story of the Romanovs would not really be a suitable subject for a children's cartoon, so I imagine it must have been changed a good deal.
Rasputin was a holy man reputedly able to help the young Taservich, who suffered from haemophilia. Nicholas and Alexandra became very dependent on Rasputin because they were convinced that he was the only person who could help their son. The influence that he evidently had over the imperial couple contributed to their unpopularity, and his sexual and alcaholic excesses were very scandalous to the russian public.
Rasputin was murdered by a clique of aristocrats, led by Prince Felix Yusupov, a distant relative of the Tsar. Wild stories were told of how difficult it had been to kill him (they claimed to have shot, poisoned, beaten him and then thrown him in the river to drown).
The russian throne was increasingly unstable, asit had been for years. When Alexandra first married Nicholas, her grandmother Queen Victoria was very unhappy about it. She wrote:
"All my fears baout her future marriage now show themselves so strongly and my blood runs cold when I think of her so young most likely placed on that very unsafe throne, her dear life and above all her husband's constantly threatened and unable to see her but rarely. It is a great additional anxiety in my declining years! Oh how I wish it was not to be that I should lose my sweet Alicky."
Queen Victoria was right to be worried. The Romanovs were overthrown, imprisoned, and then they were shot. There does not seem to be any truth in the rumours that one of them survived. The woman claiming to be Anastasia has, so I understand, been proved to be an imposter.
stardancer says
you can say “based on a true story” and make up 95% of it- just look at ANY movie or book that claims to be “based on a true story” and then find out the actual “true story”- often not so close….
dart says
Cause it is BASED on a true story.
It is NOT a true story.
That's what it means when a book or movie says it is BASED on something else…doesn't mean it really tells things the way they really were.
They changed it to make it more fairy tale like.
Don't feel sorry for Rasputin…he WAS evil!
Paco says
It is a popular subject for home made youtube movies. Since there was at least five movies made since the 1970's that depicted the execution there are several scenes circulating. The second video uses footage from four different movies so you see them getting shot over and over again.
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I think that Britain was spared the horror that befell the french monarchy and the Russian monarchy because they essentially lost most of their wealth in the 18th and 19th century. The Tsar never lost his wealth, and at his death he owned most of the country. He is considered on of the wealthiest men in all of history.