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Scrooge says, "Christmas has two s's in it, and they're both dollar signs." A disheartened Cratchit counters by reminding Scrooge "whose birthday we're celebrating." However, Scrooge never budges from his position that the true meaning of Christmas is about profit, and that it is now nothing more than "a sales curve. Wake up, Cratchit.
Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge , and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst , with a screenplay by Noel Langley .
The song has also been sampled, quoted, and featured as a dramatic device in numerous films: Tom Brown's School Days (1940) Scrooge (1951; released in the U.S. as A Christmas Carol) Robin Hood Daffy (1958; Warner Brothers cartoon) The Buccaneer (1958), sung by Claire Bloom. Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974; short film [54])
The fact that Scrooge seems to hate Christmas makes us ascribe the saying to someone who simply has no interest in the holiday. However, there is more to the meaning than just a general dislike.
The musical opens with the company singing a Christmas carol medley as the city of London begins to reminisce over the coming of Christmas ("Sing A Christmas Carol"). "). Meanwhile, Scrooge and his clerk Bob Cratchit are visited by Scrooge's nephew Harry, who, in contrast to his uncle, is excited for Christmas and deplores how Scrooge is keeping Cratchit working at 7pm on Chris
Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has become a defining ...
Mr Men: A Christmas Carol by Adam Hargreaves (2007), a children's book in the Mr. Men series retelling the story with Mr. Mean in the Scrooge role. [208] [209] I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (2009) is a novel by Adam Roberts dealing with the aftermath of Tiny Tim's parlous health.
The production featured few songs, but those it did feature forced the adapters to severely condense the story, especially the final third. Rather than having a Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, the adaptation featured a mynah bird, who leads Scrooge to a graveyard in which he sees not only his own grave, but that of Tiny Tim.