Why change Anastasia's age?
I love this film, but it always bugged me a little how they made it so Anastasia is 8 when the Romanov tercentenary and revolution both happen in quick succesion in 1916 (both wrong, the tercentenary actually being in 1913 and the revolution in 1917). That would mean she was born in 1908 and is 18 in 1926. The real Anastasia was born in 1901 and was 12 during the tercentenary, turned 16 in 1917 and would have turned 25 in 1926.
I also always wondered why the film chose 1926 as a start point for the adult Anastasia's story, but apparently that's the year the new Soviet government admitted that the entire Romanov family had been murdered, so I guess it makes sense that's when there'd be rumours about one of the daughters possibly surviving.
And yes I know it makes little sense trying to apply logic to a film with a talking bat and an undead Rasputin 😆 I just find it odd since there's other times that the filmmakers showed a really good attention to detail (showing Alexei walking with a limp for example). So why make Anastasia younger? Granted she couldn't be 25 and leaving an orphanage, but she could have been working (like in the musical).
What do you think?