I love the fact that they stayed true to the original story the way Dickens wrote it. It's an instant classic... dark, haunting, and magical. The dialogue and visuals are excellent.
If you want fluff watch the Mickey version.
Well said. Love this version.
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It has become my favorite version of the film, esp. because it remains 'relatively' true to the original story.
Dark it is, figuratively, and literally, as was old London..burning coal and thick fog..
My favorite scene is Scrooge walking past the brick wall leading to his iron gate, his shadow cast, in the fog, from the light of the gas lamps..beautiful artwork.
I wish I could say I liked it more then I ended up doing so. It wasn't bad and maybe if I saw it in the theater it would of rated higher. I enjoyed it when they did stick with the Story and book but when they really went over board with the visuals is where they lost me.
Case in Point. Did they really need to do the Mini Scrooge during the Rag Picker Scene? Just to have the Mouse and Scrooge being chased by the Poker? I understand that this was made for the big screen and the use of 3D effects but that really just was not needed.
On the other hand one scene I really like, early in the film when they showed Scrooge looking out his window and seeing all the Ghost flying around. There was a woman with a child on the street corner and the Ghost wanting to help her that was really powerful and did move me.
I gave it 5 out of 10 stars It could of been better but lost me when they went overboard with the Special Effects.
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Totally agreed. Ive always had a thing for Dickens era london and it was just so beautful and still dark and grim in this film.
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The mini Scrooge scene comes from the novel when Scrooge is called a tiny, insignificant creature. He is discovering that he isn't all that important in the grand scheme of things...a great lesson!
shareAbsolutely. Within moments of my initial viewing, I knew I was in for some darkened, wintery ghost fun, true to Dickens' pov.
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It was acclaimed as being as close to the actual book as possible with small artistic differences; most pretty minuscule.
I remember the "Behind the Scenes" extras on the Blu-ray/DVD and they explained that they took painstaking care to bring the original story to life, as it was written. Because they could now finally do so, with all the marvels of modern computer technology and advancements in animation.
They tried to be as vivid and accurate as possible to the actual descriptions in the book -- right down to the tattered bed curtains in Scrooge's bed chambers.
Anyway, it's a faithful adaptation -- the dialogue was practically the same and the ghosts appeared much as described by Dickens.
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