Dickens couldn’t have predicted it but he was actually writing perfect scenes and dialogue for black and white movies of the ’20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. No way a color film could depict the sheer misery, grimness, and hopelessness of those days. And the fact that those depressing elements still exist in our social structure is the saddest memory for this time of year.
My daughter and I used to perform in A Christmas Carol as the Char Women (we expanded the role and made it a bit of comedic relief) for a few years at the community theater. It was a great way to celebrate Christmas. Weeks of rehearsals and the weekends of performances. The cast became friends, shared laughs and then topped it all off with a post production Christmas party. Good times.
Caulfield is well read enough to have based his Halloween costumes on The OId Man and the Sea and A River Runs Through It and “To Light a Fire” in previous years, yet he’s only now gotten around to A Christmas Carol? Bah! Humbug.
“This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
a chrismas carol was my first experience to tradition thatI understood, my neighbor / babysitter explained how every christmas eve she would spead the evening rereading the story savoring the writing and its meaning.
Somewhere in the early chapters of The Humor Writing Guidebook, if such a book were to exist, would be the technique where you swap a concept end for end, or upside down. That’s how today’s works.
Somewhere in the massive amount of feel-good and virtue of the outcome of A Christmas Carol, we lose the fact that, at its heart, it’s one of literature’s great ghost stories. I could point that out directly, but that would be kind of didactic. Swap it end for end, with the ghost story as the given and the feel-good as the surprise, and now you have something like a joke.
At least that’s what the ghost of humor soon to come told me.
Kim Metzger Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I can tell a version of “A Christmas Carol” is good depending how much I cry over Tiny Tim. I weep buckets during the Alastair Sim version.
sandpiper almost 6 years ago
Dickens couldn’t have predicted it but he was actually writing perfect scenes and dialogue for black and white movies of the ’20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. No way a color film could depict the sheer misery, grimness, and hopelessness of those days. And the fact that those depressing elements still exist in our social structure is the saddest memory for this time of year.
asrialfeeple almost 6 years ago
Merry Christmas!!
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Sportymonk almost 6 years ago
Mr. Magoo’s was best with Patrick Stewart’s next.
car2ner almost 6 years ago
My daughter and I used to perform in A Christmas Carol as the Char Women (we expanded the role and made it a bit of comedic relief) for a few years at the community theater. It was a great way to celebrate Christmas. Weeks of rehearsals and the weekends of performances. The cast became friends, shared laughs and then topped it all off with a post production Christmas party. Good times.
Stephen Gilberg almost 6 years ago
I wonder: If I’ve seen about 10 adaptations of the story, will I get anything out of reading the book?
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Caulfield is well read enough to have based his Halloween costumes on The OId Man and the Sea and A River Runs Through It and “To Light a Fire” in previous years, yet he’s only now gotten around to A Christmas Carol? Bah! Humbug.
57-Don almost 6 years ago
“This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
oakie817 almost 6 years ago
https://youtu.be/WwdI-gbm5kE
kunddog almost 6 years ago
a chrismas carol was my first experience to tradition thatI understood, my neighbor / babysitter explained how every christmas eve she would spead the evening rereading the story savoring the writing and its meaning.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
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Somewhere in the early chapters of The Humor Writing Guidebook, if such a book were to exist, would be the technique where you swap a concept end for end, or upside down. That’s how today’s works.
Somewhere in the massive amount of feel-good and virtue of the outcome of A Christmas Carol, we lose the fact that, at its heart, it’s one of literature’s great ghost stories. I could point that out directly, but that would be kind of didactic. Swap it end for end, with the ghost story as the given and the feel-good as the surprise, and now you have something like a joke.
At least that’s what the ghost of humor soon to come told me.
WCraft Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Next to the Nativity account, my favorite Christmas story!