Line #11 WesternAnimation/AnnaAndBella


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3	''Anna & Bella'' is an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning 1984 animated short film from UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, directed by Børge Ring.
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5	Anna and Bella are two elderly sisters. Over some red wine they sit at a table and flip through a photo album, laughing merrily as they remember the good times they had growing up together. The mood grows darker, though, when Anna sees a photo of herself as a young woman canoodling with a handsome young man, and remembers how romantic heartbreak and jealousy drove her and Bella apart.
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9	* BigLittleBrother: It's implied that Anna is the older of the two and Bella is a little taller than she is.
10	* CreditsGag: The credits for this cartoon start with the words "Filmed On Location."
11	* DeadAllAlong: A servant enters to call the ladies to dinner--then turns around and flies away with the wings sticking out of her back. Anna and Bella then follow her, flapping their wings. They are both angels in heaven.
12	* DisneyDeath: Zigzagged. Anna's reminiscing ends with Bella seemingly dying as a young woman after their car crash, but Bella pulls her back to the present and reveals to the audience that she survived and died of old age along with Anna.
13	* DreamSequence: Anna has a dream where she transforms into several terrifying animals while venting her rage over losing the young man to Bella. Unfortunately she is driving the car while having this dream.
14	* FramingDevice: Anna and Bella, sitting around and guzzling red wine as they look over their photo album and laugh.
15	* GrayRainOfDepression: Pouring rain as Anna sits alone in the car while the young man goes out with Bella.
16	* LimitedAnimation: Zig-zagged. Sometimes the animation is drawn with fine detail, as with the girls in their youth and young womanhood. Sometimes it's quite a bit cruder. Sometimes the two are mixed, like when the kids dashing out of Anna and Bella's school are very crudely drawn blobs, followed by Anna and Bella drawn in fine detail.
17	* MatchCut: From the picture of Anna and Bella laughing together as children to a picture of them when they are elderly, laughing together in the same position.
18	* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: Except for Anna's angry shout of "Bella!" at the beginning to let the viewer know which is which.
19	* NameAndName: ''Anna & Bella''
20	* NoodleIncident: At one point (pictured above), the Anna and Bella look at a picture and burst out laughing. We don't know what they're laughing at but we do know it was an occasion where Anna lost her glasses.
21	* SiblingTriangle: A wedge is driven between the two sisters when the young man that Anna is sweet on winds up going out with Bella.
22	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Bella's sex with and orgasm from the handsome young man is symbolized by them flying up to space together, circling the moon, and the ding of a bell with the sounds of moans in the background, followed by Bella descending to earth with a dreamy look on her face.
23	* StaggeredZoom: Starts with a closeup of a monster's face, then a couple of staggered zooms out to reveal that the monster has a naked woman in his clutches. Then the camera zooms out again to reveal that this is a comic book being read by Anna as she's sitting on the toilet.
24	* VisualPun:
25	** Pre-teen Anna and Bella are skipping around in a field, when the flowers suddenly bloom. Then they suddenly bloom too, instantly developing hips and breasts as they TimeSkip into puberty.
26	** Then the horny boys who chase after them are symbolized by--bees.

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