6/21/2023 0 Comments A christmas carol george c scott![]() ![]() This is the first live-action version of A Christmas Carol that I can recall seeing as a child. They appear in the original story, but are often left out of the film versions. ![]() * Ignorance and Want, the scrawny child symbols lurking under Christmas Present's robes, are featured in this adaptation. It is used to underscore the cruelty of prisons and workhouses at the time and the way families who were forced into these institutions would have been separated from one another. * There is a scene where Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present observe a homeless family sheltering under a bridge and worrying how they will survive that is not explicitly in the book. A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843, you will recall.)įred & Scrooge on Christmas Day, note the Christmas Tree in the background. (Christmas trees weren't really popularized in England until about 1846 when a sketch of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family gathered around a Christmas tree was first published. Fred is also, apparently, an early adopter of the Germanic Christmas tree in this version. * Nephew Fred is given a surname, Holywell ("holly-well" - get it?) that is not in the book. ![]() Old Scrooge observing his younger self and his father None of these details appear in the original story. * We learn a bit of backstory for Scrooge and his father in this version (i.e., that Scrooge's dad is named Silas and that he bears Ebenezer a grudge because his mother died as a result of his birth). Some things that are different from other adaptations: This version is notable for its attention to early Victorian period detail. Scrooge shoves caroling children out of his way Cratchit, Frank Finlay as Jacob Marley, and Joanne Whalley as Scrooge's sister, Fan. Scott as Scrooge, David Warner as Bob Cratchit, Edward Woodward as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Roger Rees as Scrooge's nephew, Fred Holywell/the Narrator, Susannah York as Mrs. The cast includes a host of notable actors including George C. It is a very faithful adaptation of Dickens' novella for the most part. This feature-length made for tv adaptation was filmed entirely in Great Britain, mostly in the town of Shrewsbury. ![]()
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