A Christmas Carol/YMMV: Difference between revisions
m
→top: clean up, replaced: Big Lipped Alligator Moment → Non Sequitur Scene
m (revise quote template spacing) |
m (→top: clean up, replaced: Big Lipped Alligator Moment → Non Sequitur Scene) |
||
| (5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 6:
* [[Anvilicious]]: But [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|good!]] (Apparently Dickens even considered "The Sledgehammer" as a title.)
** While the moral of charity and giving is obvious, more specifically, the novella was meant as a [[Take That]] to Thomas Malthus, whose warnings of overpopulation resulted in laws that Dickens hated because he felt they hurt the poor.
*** Actually by [[Word of God|his own admission]] the main purpose of the novella was that [[Money, Dear Boy|Dickens needed a paycheck]].
* [[
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: So, you've just finished watching the Zemeckis adaptation and the ending credits start to roll. Unless you were paying attention during the opening credits, you probably weren't expecting Andrea Bocelli to suddenly throw down an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipd8ZI_2Vkk incredibly epic version of "God Bless Us Everyone"].
** As well as nearly half the movie's soundtrack, especially during the eye popping aerial shots of the town.
Line 16 ⟶ 17:
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|It is never stated that Marley and the other ghosts mentioned in the book did NOT receive this chance. It isnt unreasonable to assume that they too got a visit from the spirits one Christmas Eve, but failed to heed their warnings.]]
**** As for why he seemed surprised, it's one thing to think to yourself, "nobody likes me and I don't care", and actually seeing just how little your death affects anything, and how, if anything, his death more or less makes the world BETTER, since he's not around to ruin people's good cheer anymore.
** All that money Scrooge has to be generous with now that he's reformed? He wouldn't have it to do good with if not for all the years of being a stingy miser with harsh business practices. If he'd always run the business like it's implied he should (basically giving away money to anyone who needs it), he'd have soon been out of money and poorer than Bob Cratchit. (Who would then not even have a job himself.) Then all the poor people who need money wouldn't have even a stingy miser to go to for their loans, and run out of money for their businesses all the sooner. So apparently the [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|real lesson]] here is "be a skinflint and take advantage of everyone until you're old enough and wealthy enough to be a philanthropist".
* [[It Was His Sled]]: Granted, it is pretty obvious how it's going to end.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Scrooge and Marley earn this in the 1951 version. They offer to bail the Mercantile Association out of the debt caused by Jorkin's embezzlement, provided they'll be allowed to buy up 51% of the total stock. They'll only save the company if they can ''become'' the company, and both look really pleased about it.
* [[Newer Than They Think]]: As stated in the description, more than a few Christmas traditions were inspired by or [[Trope Codifier|received a wider audience]] because of this story.
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: Scrooge's comments about the workhouse may seem very harsh, but the workhouse was ''intended'' to be a really bleak place and a last resort, not a place that was nice to be.
** When the people in debt whine to him "It's Christmas!" when he asks them to pay him back, he points out that he told them when their payments would be due back when they took the loans. It's thus not at all a surprise that their payments are due on Christmas, and shouldn't be an excuse not to pay. It's also pretty clear that a lot of the people he's given loans to couldn't get loans from anyone else, meaning that his interest rates are higher because he's lending to ''high risk'' applicants, something that anyone giving loans would do.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Happens with many adaptations in general.
** The Ghost of Christmas Past in particular tends to get hit with this. This could be because the description in the book is extremely difficult to depict visually; the first paragraph of the description is fairly doable, but the second paragraph...
Line 25 ⟶ 28:
*** The 2009 adaptation comes closest to the novel: [[Fridge Brilliance|He's a candlestick]] to fit with the light-on-his-head theme, [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|along with some other stuff symbolizing the past.]]
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The land from whence Mr. Zemeckis draws his CGI characters.
** There was some improvement over his previous efforts ([[The Polar Express]] in particular), but he did tend to [[You All Look Familiar|re-use faces for several characters]] (compare Fezziwig and Bob Cratchitt), and in one scene (in the future, where the Cratchitts are mourning Tiny Tim) the eldest son's face freezes after he's done with his lines.
* [[The Woobie]]: Bob Crachit. But the most important woobie is Scrooge himself because [[Being Evil Sucks]].
** Bob is more of he [[Iron Woobie]] variety as he manages to maintain a relatively positive attitude despite his own personal sorrow.
* [[
{{reflist}}
| |||