A Christmas Carol
A Grand start last night to this mini series, produced by the team that made Peaky Blinders. Off to watch the second part shortly.
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I'm a great Christmas Carol fan, and watch most of the versions over December so looking forward to watching it.
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Absolutely + 1
Watched it yesterday and the acting was brilliant.
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Reports in todays papers that there was a lot of mumbling. Anyone remember Jamaica Inn? If you can't hear the dialogue, it seems a bit pointless. I hadn't watched it yet. Given those comments I shan't bother.
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Peeing on a grave and bad language, I don't think the genius Charles Dickens included stuff like that in his books. Only watched 1 episode so far and I think the BBC has managed to somewhat devalue the original story. Further episodes will tell if I change
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Superb, their(creators) remit was to bring Scrooge into the modern era & that was done with stunning effect. I found the writing & acting left me feeling hollow so was it’s power. I’ve enjoyed all & every version I’ve watched but this one is the most powerful. Another piece of the jigsaw was put in place as Scrooge the boy sat in that coach with his sister post boarding school. Truly horrific in its unspoken pain.
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You may know it's part of GCSE Literature and I would say there isn't a school anywhere that doesn't have wall displays on it, and it's the staple last week of term English lesson watching the video, while all us poor maths teachers can do is get the class to add up all the gifts in the 12 twelve days of Christmas (it's 364 btw), you can imagine which lesson is the more popular.
Some English teachers say they prefer the George C Scott version as being the most accurate to the book having more dialogue from it, personally I think it has the best Scrooge but not the best other actors like Bob and Mrs Cratchit (which I think Miss Piggy does a better job on)
I wonder how this version will go?
Everyone have a great Christmas and ... God bless us everyone.
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I've just watched the first two episodes back to back and I completely agree with you. Wow just so powerful, I was gripped all through it.
In previous versions Scrooge was just a sort of bumbling fool who had just gone off the rails but with some or little malice in him. This Scrooge however is just so hateful that I can't believe that he can be saved or changed. Looking forward to the last one.
As you say superb.
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Yup, anything that hits your emotions that deep is down to the whole production crew. The last time I felt such despair of my fellow Humans was Animal cruelty. I think this will be the benchmark of the contemporary Scrooge going forward C👍🏻
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I really enjoyed it! I'm sure I can't be the only one who was made to read Dickens at school and has detested it ever since. But what this production has done is to make me want to go back and read the original novel again. One of the highlights of this year's Christmas viewing - not that there's been much opposition!
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Saw the last episode yesterday and wow, yes one of the best adaptions I think and agree with Rocky it now sets the standard.
Nice twist at the very end too.
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I don't think there's anything "odd" about enjoying any reading material to be honest.
Some years back, after an excellent school production of Great Expectations I went back to read that. I shall do the same with A Christmas Carol but that'll probably be it as far as Dickens is concerned for the time being.
BTW, a bit off thread, but am I alone, or odd, in having found the much vamped come back of Gavin & Stacey an excruciatingly pointless waste of 60 minute's viewing?
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Like several others on here, I like "The Classics " so much so that I have the complete works of both Dickens and Shakespeare on my Kindle and regularly dip in for a change from Sci Fi / Fantasy.
As for G & S , Moulesy mate, I found it very poor when it was fresh onto the screen, and there was no obvious way I could be forced to watch this latest money making episode
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BTW, a bit off thread, but am I alone, or odd, in having found the much vamped come back of Gavin & Stacey an excruciatingly pointless waste of 60 minute's viewing?
Not ever having watched the original stuff, I didn't bother with the comeback. Good to know I haven't wasted 60 minutes which, at my age, I can ill-afford to do.
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We all enjoyed G&S except the one person who'd never watched the series so couldn't work out the funny story lines. Have enjoyed the "mature" University Christmas Challenge too, can't say I've bothered with much else, but did watch Worzel Gummidge and missed the Jon Pertwee version which our children loved.
But as for Dickens adaptions I prefer those closer to the original.
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This philistine has never read any Dickens, so I come to this with little idea of the story, no idea of the writing, and only incomplete viewings of other Dickens adaptations. OH loves Dickens.
It was watchable, but only because of the superb acting. Very slow, good imagery, possibly a realistic interpretation of a brutal time in our history. Still got to catch up from episode one.
Other than UC, OC and a Royal Institute lecture, it’s the only mainstream TV we have seen. OH has been overdosing on the Carry On films while I have been snuffling and sneezing elsewhere.
I shall be tuning in to watch Dracula though!🧛♂️😁
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We did some research, and avoid the big multiplexes, and find a more arthouse venue. We use The Showroom in Sheffield. Newcastle might have something similar if it’s a location that suits you? We make an afternoon of it, go for lunch in cinema eatery, take our own choice of nibbles and drinks. A world away from stinky hotdogs, plonkers tethered to their phones and too loud building shaking sound tracks. 👍
Edit: found this, sounds very like our Showroom
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No one mentioned watching Call the Midwife. It was remarkable.They got all the way to Scotland behind a Great Western Railway engine and used a button A and B phone box that sent pips to add more coins.
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