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...commentary and fright-nighting; in Scream 2, he insists on going that one step more meta on our ass. Reenactments of reenactments of movies of movies. References to conversations about classes about sequels to movies existing in both our world and this alternative world that has the fictional slasher flick, Stab...
...stalks a mystery target while the FBI scrambles to catch up with him, using the expertise of Gere's former IRA terrorist Declan Mulqueen. When Mulqueen and the Jackal finally meet, sparks fly and a gay kiss occurs. OK, not really, but it sure would have made this dopey flick a lot more interesting...
Suffering from amnesia about her pre-Revolutionary childhood, she is raised near Petrograd as an orphan named Anya, rather than being brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. Indeed, the Fox flick barely mentions that neither Anastasia's parents nor siblings survived the Revolution. Running into a pair of con artists--who, in Fox's twist on history, are looking for an Anastasia impostor to claim the Romanov fortune--Anya leaves cold, miserable Russia and discovers her own identity as Anastasia as everything ends up happy in Paris...
Here, though, the Fox studios did not approach the life of Anastasia with the primary intention of recasting history. Rather, they were only searching for the obligatory princess heroine that every animated flick features. Consider the vast range that have appeared in Disney's canon, from Snow White and Cinderella to Ariel, the princess under the sea, Pocahontas, the Indian princess, and Jasmine, the sultan's daughter, to name but a few. As Anya herself astutely observes, "I guess that every lonely girl hopes she's a princess." One can only imagine where this will lead--perhaps Disney's Diana...
...appropriate to note, in conclusion that Fox did take care to place, at the end of some of the longest titles I have ever seen, a disclaimer announcing that the film was just a huge historical fantasy and should not be taken as factual. But after a fun flick, who cares?Photo courtesy of Robert Speller & SonsSEVEN: The real Anastasia, seated far right...