I know it’s Christmas, but I have to say that my favorite Dicken movie is “Tale of Two Cities”. Very well done and moving.
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I enjoy his novels, but Dickens was a philanderer. Dumped his wife and kids for a younger woman.
I read Martin Chuzzlewit, and it is VERY under-rated. From it we get the word Pecksniffian. Other favorites are Bleak House, Tale of Two Cities and Nicholas Nickleby.
Good movie: “The Man Who Invented Christmas”
I kept waiting for it to tell me how he fared financially later in life.
Everyone who likes Charles Dickens should read Chapter 6 of A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh. It was also published in an Alfred Hitchcock collection as a short story called “The Man Who Loved Dickens”. I won’t spoil it, but I always think of that story when the subject turns to Dickens.
Was Halloween observed in England in the 1840's?
Alister Sim was one of the best Scrooges.
I had all his works at one time...old small leather books....illustrated.
It’s a conversion story.
What religious backgrounf do you think old “Ebeneezer” hails from?
His nephew employs Christian charity to land the big fish before it dies of old age like its partner!
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You see he is a scraggly half starved looking guy.
Also, this wasn't Dickens' first attempt at a tale of redemption, set at Christmas. An earlier effort was titled "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton". It's a quick read, if you're interested.
I always liked Alistair Sims interpretation best.
No movie does the book justice.
The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in
a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but
the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish
it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the
shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put
on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of
a strong imagination, he failed.