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A Christmas Carol (1999)
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A Christmas Carol (1999) is yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Sir Patrick Stewart as the old, hard-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge. It was produced by Hallmark Entertainment in association with TNT. It sticks very close to the book for the most part, including several minor sequences usually left out of adaptations.This adaptation also features Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit, Joel Grey as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Desmond Barrit as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Tim Potter as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Bernard Lloyd as Jacob Marley, Dominic West as Fred, and Laura Fraser as Belle. | |
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Black Comedy | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_222dc873 | comment |
Black Comedy: When the priest and coroner remark sadly on Marley's Dying Alone, with no relatives to grieve, Scrooge says appreciatively "at least he was spared that in his final hours." | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_23473ae7 | type |
Adaptation Expansion | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_23473ae7 | comment |
Adaptation Expansion: In the book, Marley's funeral is only referred to. This film, however, starts with his Lonely Funeral. Scrooge going to church after his reformation was an offhand mention in the book and is here expanded on when he goes, realizes he doesn't know the words to the hymns, and a kind parishioner helps him remember. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_31da1e24 | comment |
Shipper on Deck: Fred and Emily are clearly trying to set up their friend Topper and Emily's sister Betsy during their Christmas party. | |
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Disapproving Look | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_331e80a0 | comment |
Disapproving Look: While he would never directly backsass his boss, Cratchit does visibly roll his eyes at Scrooge's foul attitude when his back is turned. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_358d6f63 | type |
Anachronistic Soundtrack | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_358d6f63 | comment |
Anachronistic Soundtrack: Two diegetic examples: The boy who carols at Scrooge's office door sings "Good King Wenceslas," which dates from 1853, a full decade after the early 1840s setting of A Christmas Carol. (The Muppet Christmas Carol has the same anachronism – in the book the boy sings the much older song "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen.") The Ghost of Christmas Present's montage of Christmas throughout Britain and at sea has all the people they visit (starting with Tiny Tim) singing "Silent Night." But this song was only a German carol in the 1840s; it didn't receive its English translation until 1859. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_3687d605 | type |
Rapid Aging | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_3687d605 | comment |
Rapid Aging: Grey hairs start appearing in Christmas Present's beard in the afternoon, and by the end of the night he's bent and haggard, with his age evident in his voice. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_3dfdc686 | type |
Time-Passes Montage | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_3dfdc686 | comment |
Time Passes Montage: The Time Skip from Marley's funeral to seven years later is marked by the sign above the door going from black to covered in rust. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_3e74b72e | type |
The Pollyanna | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_3e74b72e | comment |
The Pollyanna: This version of Fred is incredibly jovial and undeterred by his uncle's umpteenth lecture on why Christmas is a humbug. When Scrooge does show up the next day, Fred pumps his hand up and down in unbridled glee. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_414b064b | type |
Lonely Funeral | |
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Lonely Funeral: Marley's funeral is attended only by his business partners, and his wake is attended by only three people, one of whom is the priest. Scrooge's funeral in the future has no one mourning him. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_439e50f7 | type |
What Have We Ear? | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_439e50f7 | comment |
What Have We Ear?: In the Fezziwig scene, Young Scrooge is shown doing one of these tricks with Eli Fezziwig. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_43a831db | type |
Epic Tracking Shot | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_43a831db | comment |
Epic Tracking Shot: After the funeral, the scene changes to the sky above London and slowly descending through the rooftops and bustle to Scrooge's business—in a remarkably similar fashion to The Muppet Christmas Carol, except that this London is smoggier. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: Christmas Present clearly finds Scrooge an unwelcome chore on a busy day, but tolerates him, allows him to linger at Fred's, and patiently corrects him until they get to the Cratchits. When Scrooge starts showing sympathy for them, Christmas Present loses it and quietly but mercilessly tears him a new one for his hypocrisy in being sad when he is the direct cause of their poverty. You could mistake his measured tone for calm until the Cratchits begin speaking again, and Christmas Present visibly snaps out of his quiet rage as though he'd forgotten they were there. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_4510b368 | type |
Ambiguous Gender | |
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Ambiguous Gender: Joel Grey as the Ghost of Christmas Past has a feminine appearance and a masculine voice, similar to popular depictions of angels. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Downplayed, but Scrooge raises his cane threateningly at a group of children, scaring them into backing off. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_4a6e9fd9 | type |
Obnoxious In-Laws | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_4a6e9fd9 | comment |
Obnoxious In-Laws: Mr Fezziwig's party song is the lament of a man who wants to marry Rose... but does not want to marry her uncle and her brother and her sister and her mother and her aunties in dozens and fat-headed cousins. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_4cecb933 | type |
Signs of Disrepair | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_4cecb933 | comment |
Signs of Disrepair: Scrooge is content to leave the sign unchanged because the rust and weathering is doing a fine (if gradual) job of erasing Mr. Marley's name for free. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_53224e46 | type |
Bookends | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_53224e46 | comment |
Bookends: Scrooge starts the film sitting in his cold, dark, bare room in a drab dressing gown, with a meager meal. He ends it sitting next to a roaring fire, wearing fine clothes, enjoying a glass of wine/sherry/brandy, showing that he's learned to treat himself better as well as others. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_58030b25 | type |
Visual Innuendo | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_58030b25 | comment |
Visual Innuendo: The womanizing Topper uses a lit fire poker to make hot gin punch when ladies are around, making the pot boil over. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_591a2fc5 | type |
The Grovel | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_591a2fc5 | comment |
The Grovel: When Scrooge takes Christmas dinner with his nephew's family, it's clear that he knows his treatment of Fred has soured his reputation with Fred's wife, so the first thing he does after Fred welcomes him is apologize. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Mrs. Fezziwig is on a diet but eats a lot to get the strength to go through with it. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Pausing the frame while Scrooge signs Marley's death certificate lets you see the person just before him, Edmund Swinbank, who died via "decay of nature." Marley himself is listed as having died via a visitation from God. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_6891554e | type |
Parlor Games | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_6891554e | comment |
Parlor Games: Fred's party group plays Blind Man's Bluff. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_71748a39 | type |
Named by the Adaptation | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_71748a39 | comment |
Named by the Adaptation: The two charitable gentlemen are named Mr. Williams and Mr. Foster, three Fezziwig daughters are named Marigold, Daisy, and Lily, Fred's sister-in-law whom Topper flirts with is named Betsy, and among the three people who sell Scrooge's belongings (of whom only Mrs. Dilber the laundress is named in the book), the charwoman is named Mrs. Riggs and the undertaker is named Mr. Crump. The credits also give Fred's surname as Bowley and his wife's name as Emily, though these names aren't mentioned onscreen. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_736d791f | type |
Adaptational Badass | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: Scrooge in the book is utterly terrified of Jacob Marley, especially when he unhinges his jaw, while this Scrooge is unnerved but more nonchalant and even helps him fix his jaw when it gets stuck open. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_75f626a5 | type |
Nostalgia Filter | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_75f626a5 | comment |
Nostalgia Filter: Invoked when Scrooge sees the Christmas party and wonders if it was really that wonderful. Then he sadly admits that it was. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_76b4b7dd | type |
The Comically Serious | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: Marley's ghost is temporarily dumbfounded by Scrooge attributing his appearance to bad food, i.e. moldy cheese or an underdone turnip. Then he reaches his Rage Breaking Point and starts screaming. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_777baed3 | type |
Out-of-Character Alert | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_777baed3 | comment |
Out-of-Character Alert: When he wakes up on Christmas Day, Scrooge walks out into the street wishing a Merry Christmas to all he meets. A number of people, undoubtedly more familiar with his usual Jerkass self, look at him like he's grown two heads. And on Boxing Day, Bob Cratchit is so shocked by his boss laughing and offering to raise his salary that he grabs the fireplace poker, clearly thinking that Scrooge has gone mad. But as Fred's ending narration noted, Scrooge didn't really care. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_7949fe65 | type |
Interscene Diegetic | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_7949fe65 | comment |
Interscene Diegetic: The Ghost of Christmas Present showing Scrooge people all over (and out to sea from) Great Britain singing "Silent Night". | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has no face visible under its hood except for its Glowing Eyes. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Scrooge asks if Tiny Tim will live, Christmas Present repeats Scrooge's earlier words about "reducing the surplus population." Then he absolutely lights into him, only stopping because the Cratchits are speaking again (just in time for Mrs. Cratchit to deliver her own polemic on Scrooge). | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_84764598 | type |
Dramatic Thunder | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_84764598 | comment |
Dramatic Thunder: Marley's scream in response to the "more gravy than grave" line is accentuated by a thunderclap. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_87c7f99d | type |
Sidetracked by the Analogy | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_87c7f99d | comment |
Sidetracked by the Analogy: The "dead as a doornail" is done as a conversation between Scrooge, the priest, and the coroner in which the coroner wonders aloud why a nail is supposed to be the deadest piece of ironmongery, a nod to the narrator of the original novel going on a brief tangent about the same at the beginning of the book. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_8816272b | type |
Blinded by the Light | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_8816272b | comment |
Blinded by the Light: When Scrooge attempts to cover the Ghost of Christmas Past with its cap, the more it's covered the brighter the light becomes. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_921cdca8 | type |
Nothing Personal | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_921cdca8 | comment |
Nothing Personal: When Marley talks about how the suffering he and Scrooge caused is being repaid in the afterlife, Scrooge attempts to alleviate his anguish by saying it was business. That doesn’t help in the slightest. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: It really hits Scrooge when he's taken to the Cratchit house and he sees how his "fifteen-bob-a-week Bob" lives—realizing, in fact, that he has a life outside of being Scrooge's clerk. Doubles as an Armor-Piercing Question. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_96b89043 | type |
Not So Above It All | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_96b89043 | comment |
Not So Above It All: When Scrooge watches one of Fezziwig's Christmas parties, his feet start tapping to the music. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_970c8a84 | type |
Big Fun | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_970c8a84 | comment |
Big Fun: Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig are rotund, cheerful, and out to make sure everyone has a good time at the Christmas party. Their three daughters are chubby and cheerful too, and their weight doesn't stop them from attracting suitors either. | |
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Floral Theme Naming | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_9723a8b8 | comment |
Floral Theme Naming: All of Fezziwig's daughters are named after flowers. | |
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| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: At Marley's wake, one of the men comments on Scrooge's 'dead as a doornail' remark by suggesting 'dead as a doorknob' or 'door knocker' would be better. Marley first appears to Scrooge with his face in his door knocker. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: When Fred sees the two charity collectors heading to Scrooge's office, he looks visibly nervous for them, knowing that it's gonna turn out badly. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Fran has a sweet melody that's heard when she appears in the past to pick up Scrooge from school and later on in the Present sequences where Fred's wife plays it on the piano and Scrooge holds up the Ghost of Christmas Present so he can listen. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Scrooge begs his past self to go back for Belle, but he doesn't. | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: Mr. Fezziwig is a large, jovial man who is adored by his workers and throws a generous Christmas dance every year. When Scrooge revisits the memory with Christmas Past, he starts reminiscing about the advice Fezziwig used to give him, too. | |
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Significant Wardrobe Shift | |
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Significant Wardrobe Shift: In the present and Christmas Future's vision, the Cratchits are in worn, threadbare clothing as they go about their meager Christmas. When they visit Scrooge's house for Christmas in the ending, they are turned out in much nicer fabrics and look much healthier to boot. Scrooge also. Although he's wealthy, his house, clothing, and meal are very sparse, indicative of his miserly ways. At the film's conclusion, he's sitting in front of a roaring fire, surrounded by much nicer furniture, dressed in a fine suit, and enjoying a glass of wine/sherry/brandy, showing that he's learned to treat himself better as well as others. | |
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Truer to the Text | |
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Truer to the Text: This adaptation includes three scenes almost always omitted from other adaptations—the lighthouse workers, coal miners, and sailors on a ship at sea. We see them in montages with different groups of people in different sections of the country singing Silent Night. Ignorance and Want are also included, as are the young debtors relieved at Scrooge's death, the shrouded corpse, Bob sitting by Tiny Tim's body and mentioning Fred in the future, Scrooge extinguishing The Ghost of Christmas Past with a giant candle snuffer, the other chained spirits Marley shows Scrooge and his face appearing on the tiles of Scrooge's fireplace. (On the other hand, Scrooge making amends with the charity collectors gets Adapted Out.) | |
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Glowing Eyes of Doom | |
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Glowing Eyes of Doom: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has these in this version. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Scrooge's reaction to the charity collectors is a visible eye-roll before telling them to get lost. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Scrooge as a child adored his sister, and as a young apprentice was merry, friendly, and did sleight-of-hand tricks to amuse his employer's son. | |
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Affluent Ascetic | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_c2e3f1b4 | comment |
Affluent Ascetic: Despite his wealth, Scrooge's home is cold and bare, his dressing gown drab, his evening meal meager. By the end of the movie, his house is well lit and warm, he's wearing a fine robe, and enjoying a glass of sherry, showing that he's learned to treat himself better as well as others. | |
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Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You | |
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Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Patrick Stewart is about to whack you with his walking stick, something that almost happens to a street urchin in-story, too. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Downplayed compared to other adaptations, as while Scrooge's father blamed him for his mother dying and sent him away he later repented and asked Fran to pick him up. | |
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Starts with Their Funeral | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_d8a81f59 | comment |
Starts with Their Funeral: Quite famously, Marley was Dead to Begin With. This version opens with him being laid to rest and Scrooge promising to carry the firm ahead just as they have been, rather than it being a vision of Christmas Past. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: Scrooge's sister Fan had her name changed to Fran. | |
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The Charmer | |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_e4bb68b8 | comment |
The Charmer: Scrooge is slightly put out that Topper is cheating at Blind Man's Bluff in order to mack on Betsy. One gets the impression that he's thinking about how he never had to cheat at parlor games in order to get a girl under the mistletoe. After his epiphany when he goes to Fred's party, he cuts a rug, blowing everyone's mind. After all, who would've thought the old gargoyle could dance like that? And the young lady he's dancing with? Swooning. | |
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"Psycho" Strings | |
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"Psycho" Strings: The coffin opening to reveal Scrooge's corpse is accompanied by some frantic strokes on the violin. | |
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Talking to the Dead | |
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Talking to the Dead: After Marley's burial. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Ignorance and Want, who are terrifyingly scrawny and haggard. Ignorance moves towards Scrooge hungrily until Christmas Present pulls him back and warns Scrooge to beware of him especially. | |
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Informed Poverty | |
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Informed Poverty: Fred is an affluent Victorian living in a nice house with a maidservant, but Scrooge still sneers at his finances. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Scrooge and Marley were genuinely friends in this version, and at his wake he tells him to rest content while promising to make their firm prosper. Scrooge admiringly remarks that Martha Cratchit, arriving late because of her job, is clearly a very hard-working young girl. (Christmas Present points out that she has to be.) | |
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