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What's The Best Version of Dickens?

What Is The Best Version of a Christmas Carol?


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The Muppets version has the best-ever Ghost of Christmas Past, I think. Everybody always has trouble with that one, but I think that ghost is just wonderful, and pretty close to the book, too.
 
I'd have to say Albert Finney. I was majorly freaked out by the hell scene. I don't care that it didn't really fit, it just scared me. Especially where he falls into the grave.
 
I saw the Bill Murray version a few years ago, or at least part of it. I am guessing it was supposed to be a comedy, but I wasn't laughing so I only got about half way through.
 
No choice for the 1843 novel?

I'm pretty sure I've seen all the ones you've mentioned, and I just think each falls short in its own way.

Oh, I love the novel - I usually reread it every year.

Corp. Clegg, am I remembering correctly that you and I had a very similar exchange one time on a thread about Dracula? Where everyone was talking about the movies, and you brought up the novel? Maybe not. But this does feel very deja vu-ish.

Probably. They are two of my favorite works of fiction, and, no matter how many times Hollywood tries, it can never seem to get them right.

This is compounded by the fact that, come Halloween, everyone wants to have a Dracula movie fest, and, come Christmas, everyone wants to do CC. I'd just rather read the books.
 
I chose the version with Patrick Stewart, but I would also pick A Muppet Christmas Carol, with Scrooged in third, and Alistair Sim's in 4th. Oh, and I also like the animated one with Tim Curry as Scrooge.

J.
 
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