Most great actors who played Scrooge were hamstrung by the production. Patrick Stewart was dumbed down for Hallmark. Michael Caine had all his scenes stolen by his costars. To play Scrooge well you need to be cold-hearted, sentimental, terrified, giddy, and joyous. Albert Finney nails most of those but a singing role doesn't quite do it. Alistair Sim does them all perfectly.
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, after a moment’s thought, “I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people’s opportunities of innocent enjoyment.”
“I!” cried the Spirit.
“You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,” said Scrooge. “Wouldn’t you?”
“I!” cried the Spirit.
(Link explains what the heck Scrooge is talking about)
https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/dec/21/scrooge-s-accusation-20181221/
Went with a book tree for Christmas this year. How many titles can you read?
The best Christmas movie scene ever is in _Miracle on 34th Street_, when the little Dutch girl's face lights up when she finds that Kris can speak Dutch too. But some of the context has probably gotten lost in the last fifty years. Why would a New York woman adopt a little Dutch girl? Robert Matzen explains.
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