What are your favorites from the various movie/TV adaptions of A Christmas Carol?

[JamalChristophr]

Ebeneezer embezzled??

I’'m shocked…I didn’t catch that in the films. I figured he “earned it!” Remember those old Smith Barney commercials from the 70s and 80’s.

“We make our money, the old fashion way…”

It’s good to know what Dickens wrote and how it was adapted for better or not…I’ll read Dicken’s this year as well for good measure.

I think Scrooge could just have easily become mega-materialistic and self-centered by following standard business practices, he did not have to engage in a criminal action to be where he was, though I suppose it’s fully acceptable as a story line.

 

[Della]

Ebeneezer embezzled??

I’'m shocked…I didn’t catch that in the films. I figured he “earned it!” Remember those old Smith Barney commercials from the 70s and 80’s.

“We make our money, the old fashion way…”

It’s good to know what Dickens wrote and how it was adapted for better or not…I’ll read Dicken’s this year as well for good measure.

I think Scrooge could just have easily become mega-materialistic and self-centered by following standard business practices, he did not have to engage in a criminal action to be where he was, though I suppose it’s fully acceptable as a story line.

Well, the way the film we’re referring to tells it, Scrooge and Marley take advantage of another person’s embezzlement to take over the company–thus bailing out the embezzler for their own gain, certainly not to keep the embezzler from going to Botany Bay prison. So, they aided and abetted a felon, although they didn’t actually do the embezzlement. This scene was not part of Dickens’ original story, but it made sense within the film’s context–helping to explain how important money had become to Scrooge.

 

[JamalChristophr]

Oh, ok, I think I remember better now…they saw a business opportunity, but I’m not sure they actually broke the law themselves, probably was unethical, though, but so much in business is often a grey area…does anyone disagree?

 

[Della]

Oh, ok, I think I remember better now…they saw a business opportunity, but I’m not sure they actually broke the law themselves, probably was unethical, though, but so much in business is often a grey area…does anyone disagree?

I don’t know it is was illegal according to English law at the time. It seems the company agreed to let Scrooge and Marley take over simply to keep the stock from dropping and the investors from losing their money. Probably unethical, though, like you say.

 

[UnumCorpus]

For my part, I just finished watching my absolute favourite “A Christmas Carol” adaptation…the classic 1951 Alastair Sim version. It always makes me feel so joyful! :extrahappy:

A very Merry Christmas to you all!

And to quote directly from the book itself:

“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone!”

 

[DaveBj]

For my part, I just finished watching my absolute favourite “A Christmas Carol” adaptation…the classic 1951 Alastair Sim version. It always makes me feel so joyful! :extrahappy:

A very Merry Christmas to you all!

And to quote directly from the book itself:

“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone!”

Spousal Unit and I did presents this afternoon (because we’re doing Midnight Mass tonight, which means we’ll be sleeping in tomorrow), and after that we watched the 1938 and 1951 versions.

“I must stand on me 'ead! I must stand on me 'head!”