Magic and Moonlit Wings

me on the left bank, you on the right

finally finished this piece!! 

MOVIES I’VE WATCHED IN 2022 ↳ 7. Anastasia (1997) ★★★★

It’s a perfect ending. No. It’s a perfect beginning.

ANASTASIA (1997)

Don Bluth only knew how to draw one man, but dammit he wasn’t gonna let that stop him.

To be fair, he knew how to draw two men

twinks and bears

I scream every time

Like. He is ready for this con to be OVER. He likes this girl but he was in it for the money and he knows that’s the one question he forgot to give her an answer to, because no one knows what he did that night.

The absolute wonder in his face as he realizes the girl he saved has been right in front of him; it’s no longer a con. The money isn’t even in his mind. He’s gone his whole life assuming she’s dead or long gone, that he failed.

But here she is, and in this moment he’s so shocked and awed, and it’s such a beautiful moment.

(Via @catefrankie )

Anastasia wasn’t a Disney movie.  Saying it is now, simply because Disney bought Fox, is creatively anachronistic.   Don Bluth didn’t fight in the animation trenches and escape the clutches of The Mouse to have his work artistically misattributed.  I’m not dying on this hill.  I’m defending this hill.  I’m killing on this hill.

Just started imagining a Necromancer using their magic to create undead for the sole purpose of creating a musical number and they need back up dancers for their song solo.

Ah yes, the necromancer subclass: necrodancer

multiclassing in bard

For context: animator and producer Don Bluth left Disney and released various movies, including Anastasia, through Fox, but Disney owns Fox now, so Disney now has rights to the movie.

For a long time and as many of you are aware of, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of a Don Bluth take on Strange Magic. 

That’s not to say I don’t adore the animation we have! I just know that Don Bluth’s take would be the incredible blend of beautiful, suspiciously horny and fantastical that his films always are. 

I’m going to make a master post of the whole crew once I finish with everyone, but I wanted to share what I had so far! 

I got obsessed with Anastasia 1997 lately and I can’t stop singing those songs and smiling like an idiot when those lovey dovey moments come up.

Just some midnight randomness:

If Anastasia would have had Sophie’s body! <3 

Stupid GIF, making my lovely HD pixely (so I added a still in good quality)! ;D  

Did something similar with Belle a few months back

me watching anastasia (1997)

All the weird misinterpretations and revisions of Russian history aside, Anastasia is one of my favourite movies because its plot structure is so fucking weird

It’s a period piece romance. That’s cool, that’s all well and good, except that on the sidelines there’s an undead warlock who’s trying so hard to kill the protagonist, but all in ways that the protagonist either doesn’t notice or doesn’t accept as supernatural

And it isn’t a twist! The audience knows about the warlock! The warlock has a villain song! The warlock is one of the principal characters! But the protagonist spends 95% of the movie completely unaware of the warlock, and just spends the entirety of the movie doing period piece romance things while being repeatedly inconvenienced by the warlock until the climax, when the protagonist has to very suddenly

I have never seen a movie with a plot structure like this before, and I don’t think I’ll see one like it ever again. It’s like an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that turns Lady Catherine into a vampire who’s just repeatedly trying to drink Lizzy’s blood, but Lizzy doesn’t even notice until the climax whereupon she stuffs Lady Catherine’s mouth with garlic and cuts off her head (an adaptation I would kill to see, by the way). There are two completely different genres playing out at the same time, and one of them is trying to kill the other

Anyways that’s why the stage musical is bad, thank you and good night

EARLY CONCEPT ART BROUGHT TO LIFE

I have made 8 of these so I guess it´s now officially a series. :D

BEHOLD

I’ll give her a HAH and a hiYAH and I keek her ser.

“I could teach you the latest dance steps. It starts with like a WHOOP, and then you get real crazy with the hips, sir. It’s fun!”

not 2b controversial but have u heard thers a rumor in st petersburg ? have u heard what theyre saying on the street?? Although the tsar did not survive 1 daughter may be still alive….. the princess ANASTASIA !??! (but please do not repeat)