Christmas is coming, and with it, the annual tradition of the holiday rewatch. When it comes to holiday stories, there are few that are as beloved as A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ immortal tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghostly visitors who teach him the error of his ways.A Christmas Carol remains popular thanks, in part, to the multiple stage and screen adaptations of the past 180 years since its publication. Movie interpretations of the classic go back almost as far as the invention of moving pictures, and have appeared on the small screen since the golden age of television. Of the dozens upon dozens of adaptations, there are ten adaptations that stand out as the cleverest, most faithful, and overall best versions of A Christmas Carol.In order to make the movie family-friendly, MGM insisted on cutting several scenes from the novel out of the movie. These edits resulted in a brief runtime, an almost jarringly fast conversion for Scrooge — made more believable by Owen’s performance — and a lack of faithfulness to the original text. The spirit of A Christmas Carol, however, remains intact as Dickens’ message of generosity and fellowship with others is made clear.
Christmas is coming, and with it, the annual tradition of the holiday rewatch. When it comes to holiday stories, there are few that are as beloved as A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ immortal tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghostly visitors who teach him the error of his ways.
A Christmas Carol remains popular thanks, in part, to the multiple stage and screen adaptations of the past 180 years since its publication. Movie interpretations of the classic go back almost as far as the invention of moving pictures, and have appeared on the small screen since the golden age of television. Of the dozens upon dozens of adaptations, there are ten adaptations that stand out as the cleverest, most faithful, and overall best versions of A Christmas Carol.
In order to make the movie family-friendly, MGM insisted on cutting several scenes from the novel out of the movie. These edits resulted in a brief runtime, an almost jarringly fast conversion for Scrooge — made more believable by Owen’s performance — and a lack of faithfulness to the original text. The spirit of A Christmas Carol, however, remains intact as Dickens’ message of generosity and fellowship with others is made clear.
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