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giantkillerjack · 4 months ago

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Anastasia the Musical sucks so bad. They really said "We're gonna cut the best song from the movie - just axe the absolute banger that is 'In the Dark of the Night' - because we are being SERIOUS and GROWN-UP now. We are A Big Historical Realism Musical Now. This is FOR REAL, okay!? We don't have a SILLY villain like Rasputin! We have Gleb! [Please Just Clap.] We are HISTORICALLY GROUNDED. -- Anyway, here's a musical unironically glorifying the Russian monarchy~~ 💖😌💖😌💖😌💖"

#anastasia #anastasia musical #Anastasia movie #anastasia the musical #that said everything added in relation to Sophie and Vlad was 👌👌👌 chef's kiss #to add insult to injury they use the tune from in the dark of the night in a solemn dirge about the pain of having to leave one's country #I'm not actually against adding more historical realism into Anastasia but you have to give the monarchy that treatment as well #if you want to actually reckon with the oppressive regime of Russia in that time period you can't give a free pass to the monarchy #they're like completely uninterested in why the revolution happened and everything in relation to the royal family is #this glittering nostalgic shallow thing. which also describes the original but that at least had a campy magical historical fiction angle #that made suspending disbelief pretty easy. also how dare you add more ballads i mean for fuck's sake #I don't care if Anya and Dimitri saw each other TWO times as children instead of one! i don't care! i don't need a 6 minute song about it!#he's like 🎵 i saw you in a parade once. gosh the monarchy sure had some pretty parades and beautiful spectacle 🎵#and she's like 🎵 omg i remember you that's crazy i sure did love being a part of the family of the Czar 🎵#if you're going to add an introspective song maybe have Anastasia reckon with how her father was a great father and a violent ruler!#maybe address the inherent emotional conflict of grieving genuine trauma and also recognizing the fault of the ruling class.#i have memories of rewinding the movie just for a second or third viewing of 'in the dark of the night'#memories of jamming out to it in the car with my friends. then clicking skip 100+ times on my friend's ipod shuffle just to play it again #original #been a while since I saw the musical but I still get mad about this sometimes. half-assed ''Realism'' means less fun and more glaring flaws #please just clap #it's not like there's nothing there to develop it's just that they did it bad. I'm fine with adding a sad song about leaving home but ffs #also why not make Gleb a campy weirdo? he's SO. BORING. at least fuck up in an entertaining way.

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