FX's A Christmas Carol

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(12-24-2019, 09:57 PM)BrownAssClown Wrote: Yea, I didn't care for this either. I also saw a "Making Of" about this on FX. They said this is the way Dickens "probably" wanted to write the story in the first place, but due to the times he was living in, toned it down. I'm not buying that. BTW, I like George C. Scott as my favorite 'Scrooge", but the Patrick Stewart version is a little closer to Dickens book. I also like the 1951 version too.

Those three each have something related to the book that the there don’t. The Sim one leaves out the “perhaps in the eyes of heaven you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child” speech which I’ve always liked. I think the Christmas Present spirit in the Scott version does that best. I do think the Sim post-transformation Scrooge is the best of the three. And I also like their version of the three meeting up at Joe’s to pawn Scrooges stuff the best.

And yeah I’d like to see their reasoning behind thinking a Dickens wanted to write it that way. Did they think he also wanted to include the absurd scene with Marley being awoken in his coffin by dripping piss?