I should check out this Alistair Sim version.
My favorite versions are Ebenezer and Scrooged.
My favorite versions are Ebenezer and Scrooged.
A Christmas Carol - favourite version?
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Me too! All the others are just too pathetic for my tastes: I'm ok with a bit of pathos, but there is something as "too much pathos". Half-way through I usually find myself wanting to kick Tiny Tim's crutches to the ground and watch him collapse in slo-mo.Bring it! I love that version.
Yes. Yes you should.
For sure. As I understand it, Orwell was mainly criticizing the fetishization of the story by the culture more than lambasting the story itself.
Hell, IIRC, even Dickens himself was a little dismayed over how much people loved the book.
The stage version at Omaha Community Playhouse.
Agreed. I really don't think there's any other that captures the period so well, handles Scrooge's transformation with so much gusto or plays the Capraesque schmaltz as well. Even the colorized version is a delight.
Interesting note: the toys Tiny Tim sees in the window are authentic Victorian era toys borrowed for the production.
While I prefer the Omaha stage version most of all, I do remember being extremely creeped out by the Albert Finney version, particularly the scene where Scrooge falls into his own grave and ends up in hell. 
Scrooged by a long shot. Disappointed it wasn't on the list, although as the OP said there have been lots. It's my favourite of all Christmas stories.
I've been watching it every year for twenty years, mostly on Christmas Eve but due to family commitments I now just try and catch it sometime in December.
Sod it, I'll go watch it right now.
Blackadder's Christmas would be a hot second.
I've been watching it every year for twenty years, mostly on Christmas Eve but due to family commitments I now just try and catch it sometime in December.
Sod it, I'll go watch it right now.
Blackadder's Christmas would be a hot second.
I confined myself to versions that feature a Victorian era "Ebenezer Scrooge" (even in musical/animated/puppet form).
Yes, there is. It's better than the other musical version with Grammer. It's actually better than most versions, despite the dreadful artwork.
Of the ones selected, by a hair, the George C. Scott. But on weekends Alastair Sim gets custody.
There are people who get down on Dickens for being a leftwing critic of capitalism, but he's not. (The idea just shows you how far right some people are.) Oscar Wilde's Soul of Man Under Socialism had some amusing thoughts about obligations to charity and gratitude for charity which put a useful perspective on what ideas lurk in A Christmas Carol, I think.
That would indeed be funny, but it doesn't seem to fit Wikipedia's reportage... particularly since Dickens seems to have tried to repeat the phenomenon.
Admittedly, I haven't actually seen many versions, mostly because I just love The Muppet Christmas Carol so much. I think I must have seen it every year since it came out, so for me it's as necessary a part of celebrating Christmas as the tree or my small-but-growing nutcracker collection. But this year I think I also want to make sure I see the Alistair Sim version.
I just saw it and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I was especially looking forward to seeing how they handled Scrooge's transformation at the end and that didn't disappoint. Now I can finally say I saw it.
Scrooged all the way!
But of the ones available, it's easily the Disney version.
But of the ones available, it's easily the Disney version.
