[3] December 24, 2012
Perhaps Charles Dickens was writing musicals and didn’t realize it. Scrooge [4] has all the hallmarks of musical theater - emotional catharsis, bigger-than-life characters, and innate moral sense.
[3] Perhaps Charles Dickens was writing musicals and didn’t realize it. Scrooge [4] has all the hallmarks of musical theater - emotional catharsis, bigger-than-life characters, and innate moral sense.
[8] Is Scrooged [9] (1988) a Dickens movie or a Bill Murray movie? A bit of both, actually. If the tale’s overall arc is familiar, some of the details are delightfully oddball.
[11] It seems a strange thing to say about one of the most depressing films ever offered, but The Road [12] is beautiful in its depiction of parent/child love that transcends the worst the world can throw at us.
[14] There are a few moments in the computer-animated A Christmas Carol [15] when it seems bent on re-imagining the yarn as a theme park thrill ride. But despite these lapses, it delivers. And Jim Carrey gets most of the credit.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scrooge-1970
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Albert+Finney%22+title:%22Scrooge%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19161#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/teen-blog/not-your-daughters-book-club-just-your-daughters-books
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19160#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scrooged-1988
[9] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Bill+Murray%22+title:%22Scrooged%22
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19047#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-road-2009
[12] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22John+Hillcoat%22+title:%22Road%22
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19016#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-christmas-carol-2009
[15] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Jim+Carrey%22+title:%22Christmas+Carol%22
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/18998#comment-form
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=7
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=4
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=5
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=6
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=9
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=10
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=11
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=12
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41