I have but one caveat.
"When love is gone" has to be in there.
Fricking philistine producers. Whiffs the whole emotional resonance of the reprise at the end. Thank the lord for DVD's.
The only sane answer in this thread, tbh. Also I wish I could find an original copy of it because all the ones on the interwebs are from the horrible dvd version that's color corrected and brightened up and completely kills the grim mood. Seriously I remember watching it on CBS as a kid and it was as dark as Batman TAS.
Did Charles Dickens basically create Christmas as we know it? Before, it was a party where you get shitfaced and have fun with the boys. But now it's all about family, presents and children
Dude, Christmas Carol is about being more generous to those who REALLY need it, not to spoiled, consoomer fricks.
Victorian England was a dystopian hellhole for the lower classes, and Dickens having personal experience, knew what the frick he was talking about. Please, check the story and his biography before talking nonsense.
imagine watching any version of the christmas Carol and thinking Scrooge at the beginning is better off than Scrooge at the end. you probably eat onions whole.
>was a loveless old miser >absolutely miserable and alone (like you) >sees the error of his ways and grows as a person >Is now happy and filled with a renewed sense of purpose and community
HURR DURR SIMPERING homosexual MUH POLITICAL DICHOTOMY WHICH MUST BE FORCED INTO EVERY CONVERSATION. have a nice day you miserable grinch frick. frick Trump frick Biden and frick any moron who worships either.
>Scrooge you miserable Bastard, if you pay for Tiny Tim's medicine for the rest of his life we'll let you have some turkey and maybe we won't shit on your grave
>Before, it was a party where you get shitfaced and have fun with the boys
Back in the day it was a feast for the whole village to get fricked up, kids to do whatever shit kids do while everyone else gets roaring drunk. The office christmas party is probably a truer christmas tradition (so long as it's done right, with vomiting and infidelity).
Yea, and winters in England were pretty terrible. You have to remember, these people were living off of British food. There's no "spring vegetables" in England.
I hated it. >No don’t you see, your butthole dad isn’t the problem constantly screwing up and making your life difficult, it’s you for standing up for yourself!
It was pretty insightful though.
Like, I never knew Scrooge got his ideas from a random maid. Or that most of the lines from the story were stolen from random people he met in the 2 months before writing the story. Or that he ran to catch his father at the last minute before turning in his manuscript. There's a lot about Dickens I didn't know.
>I was the only one who didn't need to read his lines from the script lmao.
god, that must've been brutal for anyone to sit through >uni class
If you had said high school I'd've understood, but I would think adults paying for classes would take it more seriously...
>god, that must've been brutal for anyone to sit through
That's not all, it was an EFL class. Imagine a bunch of 19 y.o. Mexicans (poorly) reading from a script.
muppets
closely followd by the Guy pierce one (don't care that its dark and depressing. Don't care that it took liberties with the OG plot. Don't care that Bob cratchett's wife is mixed race. Don't care that Tiny Tim is Midge's son.). its outstanding.
Gotta throw in another vote for the Muppets, it's the perfect combination of drama and campy (though actually funny) humor. And Micheal Cain plays it completely straight and it works brilliantly. My favorite holiday movie of all time I think.
the one that included the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come's "kind" hand trembling when Scrooge pleads to it. Something about such a frightening figure displaying such humanity and compassion really stuck with me
Best ghost
Albert Finney in Scrooge with music by Leslie Bricusse
Mr. Magoo with music by Merrill and Styne
Rich Little
Alastair Sim
George C. Scott
Basically, if you’re over 40 even if you grew up watching the Muppet Show in prime time, their Christmas Carol is mid. It’s not even the best muppet Christmas movie. >John Denver >Emmet Otter >xmas eve on Sesame Street >muppet family Christmas >The Christmas Toy (predates Toy Story by like 15 years)
Muppets opening is kino >The London rooftops seen in the opening credits were all models that stood approximately three feet tall. The opening shot was photographed at one or two frames per second, and as the camera pulled back, crew members pushed other buildings into the frame to achieve the effect or passing right through the rooftops.
Alright, Cinemaphile. Three days till Christmas. Time to settle it.
What is the best Christmas Carol adaptation
When the masked man talks he thrills you
Thrills you on a plane!
But there's nothing like flights plans and starting the fire
And years of searching for Bane
He'll fill your plane with hired guns
(And your ass with a hot load!)
And the loyalest gun
The most hiredest one
Is the agent SEE EYE AYE!
Cowboy stance as any
Calls it in for many
This is the agent SEE EYE AYE
Oh, there goes Mister Big Guy
There goes "Master Plan"
If they stole his prize from on the plane, it'd be the Masketta Man!
Oh, Bane he hates that agent 'cause he thinks he thinks he'll start the fire
If he were the Batman he would earn all of Gotham's ire!
>Doesn't have Scrooge visit cratchit.
that's been an established stage tradition for over a century. Leaving it out of an adaption when it's so well known would be idiocy
Actually, copyright laws back then were shit and publishers stole Dickens work and republished it without paying royalties to him so he actually lost money
This anon is correct, and I totally agree. The 1951 Alistair Sim version is best. I think there's even a colorized version, which makes it appeal more to today's children.
You know this board is full of fricking homosexual newbies when they think Muppets or Jim Carrey is the best.
Scrooge (1951) is pure fricking cinema and is one of the greatest adaptations of any book ever.
Was anyone else unlucky enough to sit through this? Quite the impressive bait and switch from Netflix, it really seems normal for a while at the start.
The under-seen Richard Williams animated version from 1970, featuring Alistair Sim reprising Scrooge. Also has the most book-accurate version of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
unironically The Muppets
muppets
fippy bippy
Based and Muppetpilled, might just watch it tonight
This.
I also liked the Blackadder version though it plays with the original story a bit.
anyone esle finds muppets super creepy and just cant watch it/
People who say this haven't even watched any other version
>*sniffs fart*
Thread already over.
the muppets version is a bad adaptation, but it's still my favorite version.
>scrooge ends up having christmas dinner with the cratchits instead of his nephew
This is an accurate statement.
As far as adaptations go, it's kind of awful. As far as entertainment goes, it is definitely my "go to".
Michael Caine holds the film together and is great. The puppetry is obviously fantastic.
>scrooge ends up having christmas dinner with the cratchits instead of his nephew
The nephew is with him at the dinner, anon. Watch again.
I literally just watched this for the very first time in my life
I agree with you
Yup. Best Scrooge, by and far. I don’t think any other actor nailed the coldness of Scrooge like Caine, save for maybe Scott.
Caine's Scrooge also speaks more direct lines from the book than any other adaptation, too.
I have but one caveat.
"When love is gone" has to be in there.
Fricking philistine producers. Whiffs the whole emotional resonance of the reprise at the end. Thank the lord for DVD's.
Mickey's.
The only sane answer in this thread, tbh. Also I wish I could find an original copy of it because all the ones on the interwebs are from the horrible dvd version that's color corrected and brightened up and completely kills the grim mood. Seriously I remember watching it on CBS as a kid and it was as dark as Batman TAS.
Muppet
George C Scott
Frick the Muppets.
>try to escape a mad pagan cult in the wicker man
>end up playing a mad animistic ghost
Did Charles Dickens basically create Christmas as we know it? Before, it was a party where you get shitfaced and have fun with the boys. But now it's all about family, presents and children
Yes, and it sucks. Mawkish overly commercial bullshit. Scrooge was right about it being humbug.
Dude, Christmas Carol is about being more generous to those who REALLY need it, not to spoiled, consoomer fricks.
Victorian England was a dystopian hellhole for the lower classes, and Dickens having personal experience, knew what the frick he was talking about. Please, check the story and his biography before talking nonsense.
Scrooge was also correct about the state taking care of poor people by using tax money.
imagine watching any version of the christmas Carol and thinking Scrooge at the beginning is better off than Scrooge at the end. you probably eat onions whole.
He went from a strong captain of industry willing to make the hard decisions to a simpering cuck. He was Trump and became Biden.
>was a loveless old miser
>absolutely miserable and alone (like you)
>sees the error of his ways and grows as a person
>Is now happy and filled with a renewed sense of purpose and community
HURR DURR SIMPERING homosexual MUH POLITICAL DICHOTOMY WHICH MUST BE FORCED INTO EVERY CONVERSATION. have a nice day you miserable grinch frick. frick Trump frick Biden and frick any moron who worships either.
>Scrooge you miserable Bastard, if you pay for Tiny Tim's medicine for the rest of his life we'll let you have some turkey and maybe we won't shit on your grave
Charles Dickens did for England, Washington Irving did for America
Literally who?
Muppets
>Before, it was a party where you get shitfaced and have fun with the boys
Back in the day it was a feast for the whole village to get fricked up, kids to do whatever shit kids do while everyone else gets roaring drunk. The office christmas party is probably a truer christmas tradition (so long as it's done right, with vomiting and infidelity).
office christmas parties
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Part of the reason he wrote the book is because he felt christmas had less value to people than it used to
Yea, and winters in England were pretty terrible. You have to remember, these people were living off of British food. There's no "spring vegetables" in England.
>Did Charles Dickens basically create Christmas as we know it?
I liked it.
I always like Dan Stevens.
no homosexual but this. He’s one of those actors who’s always the best part of whatever he’s in.
Alright homosexual calm down.
I hated it.
>No don’t you see, your butthole dad isn’t the problem constantly screwing up and making your life difficult, it’s you for standing up for yourself!
It was pretty insightful though.
Like, I never knew Scrooge got his ideas from a random maid. Or that most of the lines from the story were stolen from random people he met in the 2 months before writing the story. Or that he ran to catch his father at the last minute before turning in his manuscript. There's a lot about Dickens I didn't know.
Okay, but are you still considering that you're a gay moronic Black person and you should have a nice day?
Did capitalism replaced the original Christmas carol story and no-one left who knows that it's about the poor and humanity?
this question is always asked, I want to know which is THE WORST adaption? I say Muppets Christmas Carol
I never grew up with it so I don't get the hype for it
Agreed, can't stand muppetgays.
The play I had to put on for a uni class. I was the only one who didn't need to read his lines from the script lmao.
>I was the only one who didn't need to read his lines from the script lmao.
god, that must've been brutal for anyone to sit through
>uni class
If you had said high school I'd've understood, but I would think adults paying for classes would take it more seriously...
>god, that must've been brutal for anyone to sit through
That's not all, it was an EFL class. Imagine a bunch of 19 y.o. Mexicans (poorly) reading from a script.
I appreciate you using EFL correctly.
Flintstones Christmas Carol
nobody even remembers the 1979 TV movie version with Henry (the fonz) Winkler.
muppets
closely followd by the Guy pierce one (don't care that its dark and depressing. Don't care that it took liberties with the OG plot. Don't care that Bob cratchett's wife is mixed race. Don't care that Tiny Tim is Midge's son.). its outstanding.
I like scrooged with bill murray too
I really liked that one too.
People preferring muppets are the antichrist.
Gotta throw in another vote for the Muppets, it's the perfect combination of drama and campy (though actually funny) humor. And Micheal Cain plays it completely straight and it works brilliantly. My favorite holiday movie of all time I think.
I like the Daffy Duck one
the one that included the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come's "kind" hand trembling when Scrooge pleads to it. Something about such a frightening figure displaying such humanity and compassion really stuck with me
Best ghost
I only saw it in the Netflix animated movie, weirdly
It's a Wonderful Life
this one
my homies
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come scared me when I was a kid
Sim, Doctor Who, Mickey, Stewart. I think George C. Scott's was also good but I can't remember it.
Thread. Best Scrooge ever. Reason why made Mr Burns look like Sims
>Sims
It’s “Sim”.
This is the best one and the only one to make me cry. It feels the most dark and most genuine
Yeah, when he sees his sister again in the past, his joy and tears seeing her again feel genuine.
> Tonight your ass will be visited by three ghosts!
>My foot, my other foot, and my PAINIS
Albert Finney in Scrooge with music by Leslie Bricusse
Mr. Magoo with music by Merrill and Styne
Rich Little
Alastair Sim
George C. Scott
Basically, if you’re over 40 even if you grew up watching the Muppet Show in prime time, their Christmas Carol is mid. It’s not even the best muppet Christmas movie.
>John Denver
>Emmet Otter
>xmas eve on Sesame Street
>muppet family Christmas
>The Christmas Toy (predates Toy Story by like 15 years)
Muppets opening is kino
>The London rooftops seen in the opening credits were all models that stood approximately three feet tall. The opening shot was photographed at one or two frames per second, and as the camera pulled back, crew members pushed other buildings into the frame to achieve the effect or passing right through the rooftops.
When the masked man talks he thrills you
Thrills you on a plane!
But there's nothing like flights plans and starting the fire
And years of searching for Bane
He'll fill your plane with hired guns
(And your ass with a hot load!)
And the loyalest gun
The most hiredest one
Is the agent SEE EYE AYE!
Cowboy stance as any
Calls it in for many
This is the agent SEE EYE AYE
Oh, there goes Mister Big Guy
There goes "Master Plan"
If they stole his prize from on the plane, it'd be the Masketta Man!
Oh, Bane he hates that agent 'cause he thinks he thinks he'll start the fire
If he were the Batman he would earn all of Gotham's ire!
>Oh, Bane he hates that agent 'cause he thinks he thinks he'll start the fire
Fix the line.
>2 frames per second
me trying to run crysis in 2007
i like the one with patrick stewart
I like the Mickey mouse one the most . Mostly because the art is kino. And scrooge McDuck. There's arguably better ones though.
I've already told you.
George C. Scott is in it, so that's cheating.
Muppets is the best.
The one with Patrick Stewart wasn't half bad either.
Shit Tier: Jim Carey version.
George C Scott, Patrick Stewart, or the 1951 one.
The Muppets is the best.
Scrooged is a close second.
The George C Scott adaptation fulfills all those criteria.
So Muppets is best.
By those criteria, Muppets is the worst.
>Doesn't have Scrooge visit cratchit.
that's been an established stage tradition for over a century. Leaving it out of an adaption when it's so well known would be idiocy
I meant at the end. He should be visiting his Nephew, not Cratchit.
For me, it's Captain Picard Scrooge.
based, this version never gets the credit it deserves
Stewart is overrated. His Scrooge is over acted and emotionally bland.
George C Scott
Albert Finney's 1970 Scrooge or bust. Plus it has a song in it called I Hate People that is based.
>Write a novel about poverty and greed
>End up becoming filthy rich off of it
pottery
Actually, copyright laws back then were shit and publishers stole Dickens work and republished it without paying royalties to him so he actually lost money
Correct.
The 1951 version with Alistair Sim has all of these except Belle's new husband. My fav version.
This anon is correct, and I totally agree. The 1951 Alistair Sim version is best. I think there's even a colorized version, which makes it appeal more to today's children.
The Flintstones Christmas carol
I'm israeli
Happy Hanukkah, fren
Have always loved it since a kid, mainly thanks to Murray.
If not best, the most original adaptation.
Probably not the "best", but definitely the most relevant/relatable.
Hard to relate to Victorian times/people.
the one with george c scott, ez
Dickensian accurate sprits when?
Asking it to rank on faithfulness to the novella, GPT gives us a top-4 of
>1. Sim (1951)
>2. Finney (1970)
>3. Scott (1984)
>4. Stewart (1999)
Studies say the your preferred version of a Christmas Carol is directly related to the version you saw first.
You know this board is full of fricking homosexual newbies when they think Muppets or Jim Carrey is the best.
Scrooge (1951) is pure fricking cinema and is one of the greatest adaptations of any book ever.
It IS the best, except Tiny Tim is gigantic, he doesn't look like he's on death's door the way he's supposed to.
He's Big Tim now, chud
The best Tiny Tim is Rich Little as Truman Capote as Tiny Tim.
Lol I watched this one a ton as a kid (my grandmother recorded it on video) and I had no idea who half the people Rich Little was impersonating.
My favourite is the Jim Carrey version followed by the Muppets
Someone had better have mentioned Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol already.
Mischief in general is PEAK
scrooged. sorry the only good Muppet Christmas is Muppet Family Christmas
Was anyone else unlucky enough to sit through this? Quite the impressive bait and switch from Netflix, it really seems normal for a while at the start.
simple as
The under-seen Richard Williams animated version from 1970, featuring Alistair Sim reprising Scrooge. Also has the most book-accurate version of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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>Alister Sims