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Ignored Epiphany is when the character has an epiphany but chooses to ignore it; having an epiphany and then dying before he can do anything about it doesn\'t count.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Marley may have had a realisation on his deathbed but that doesn't stop him from being forced to walk the Earth carrying chains as a ghost.
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'''''Scrooge''''' is a 1951 British film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', regarded by many as ''the'' definitive screen version of Dickens' story.
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** Mrs. Dilber's presence was expanded in the movie as the first witness to the changed Scrooge, in a scene that's both hilarious and heartwarming.
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It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise their respective roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''. The screenplay was written by Noel Langley (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'').
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It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise their respective roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''. The Brian Desmond Hurst was the director, and the screenplay was written by Noel Langley (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'').
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It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''. The screenplay was written by Noel Langley (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'').
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It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the their respective roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''. The screenplay was written by Noel Langley (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'').
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'''''Scrooge''''' is a 1951 British film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', regarded by many as ''the'' definitive screen version of Dickens' story. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''.
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'''''Scrooge''''' is a 1951 British film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', regarded by many as ''the'' definitive screen version of Dickens' story.
It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''.''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''. The screenplay was written by Noel Langley (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'').
It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film
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'''''Scrooge''''' is a 1951 British film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', regarded by many as ''the'' definitive screen version of Dickens' story. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''.
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'''''Scrooge''''' is a 1951 film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''.
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'''''Scrooge''''' is a 1951 British film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol''.
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** '''Mrs. Dilber''': A guinea? For me? What for?
** '''Ebenezer''': I'll give you a guess!
** '''Mrs. Dilber''': [[{{Beat}} [pause]]] To keep me mouth shut?
** '''Ebenezer''': I'll give you a guess!
** '''Mrs. Dilber''': [[{{Beat}} [pause]]] To keep me mouth shut?
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: This exchange on Scrooge's staircase after he catches up with Mrs. Dilber and gives her a guinea:
** '''Mrs. Dilber''': A guinea? For me? What for?
** '''Ebenezer''': I'll give you a guess!
** '''Mrs. Dilber''': [[{{Beat}} [pause]]] To keep me mouth shut?
** '''Mrs. Dilber''': A guinea? For me? What for?
** '''Ebenezer''': I'll give you a guess!
** '''Mrs. Dilber''': [[{{Beat}} [pause]]] To keep me mouth shut?
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* AgeLift: Fan in the original novel is Ebenezer's younger sister. Here she is the older sibling.
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* AgeLift: Fan in the original novel is Ebenezer's younger sister. Here she is the older sibling. Also, both are in their late teens/early 20s in the scene where she comes to bring him home from boarding school, whereas in the book they're children at that point.
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** Scrooge's sister Fan. Which leads to a troubled relationship between him and his nephew Fred. [[FridgeBrilliance Much like his father's relationship with him]].
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** Scrooge's sister Fan. Which leads to a troubled relationship between him and his nephew Fred. [[FridgeBrilliance [[HistoryRepeatsItself Much like his father's relationship with him]].
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** Scrooge's sister Fan. Which leads to a troubled relationship between him and his nephew Fred.
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** Scrooge's sister Fan. Which leads to a troubled relationship between him and his nephew Fred. [[FridgeBrilliance Much like his father's relationship with him]].
* HeelRealization: Starts when Scrooge describes his old boss Fezziwig, he stops, noting that he wishes he could talk to his clerk, Bob Cratchit.
* HeelRealization: Starts when Scrooge describes his old boss Fezziwig, he stops, noting that he wishes he could talk to his clerk, Bob Cratchit.
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* CorruptTheCutie: The Christmas Past sequence shows this happening to Ebenezer.
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* CorruptTheCutie: The Christmas Past sequence shows this happening to Ebenezer.Ebenezer, along with him developing his JadeColoredGlasses.
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* AscendedExtra: Mrs Dilber, as noted above, receives more screen time. A lot of adaptations tend to leave her out.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Scrooge and Marley essentially. Oddly enough when we see Alice in the present day, she still looks the same.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Scrooge and Marley essentially. Oddly enough when we see Alice in the present day, [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished she still looks the same.same]].
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* MaybeEverAfter: In contrast to the novel where she has a family of her own, Alice/Belle's romantic situation isn't addressed. She's shown in the Christmas Present sequence - where she isn't in the novel. Although it isn't said, this does leave things open for Scrooge to reconcile with her if she isn't married.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Played with. In the original novel the Christmas Past sequence shows that Belle married someone else and had a family - which is the last we see of her. This adaptation shows her counterpart Alice in the Christmas Present, helping feed the poor on Christmas Day. It's never confirmed whether or not she did have a family.
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* AgeLift: Fan in the original novel is Ebenezer's younger sister. Here she is the older sibling.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Scrooge and Marley essentially. Oddly enough when we see Alice in the present day, she still looks the same.
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Killed Mid Sentence means killed-by-the-author mid-sentence, so it applies to characters who just plain die without needing to be renamed.
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* [[KilledMidSentence Died Mid-Sentence]]: Marley, while attempting to warn Scrooge of his fate and to "save himself".
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* [[DubNameChange Adaptation Name Change]]: Love interest Belle becomes Alice instead.
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* CorruptTheCutie: The Christmas Past sequence shows this happening to Ebenezer.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Marley may have had a realisation on his deathbed but that doesn't stop him from being forced to walk the Earth carrying chains as a ghost.
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* StepfordSmiler: When Bob Cratchitt comes home in the Christmas Yet To Come part, he tries to pretend that he's happy about an imagined goodbye from Tiny Tim. But he quickly collapses into his wife's arms in tears.
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* CanonForeigner: The PredatoryBusiness which buys out Fezziwig is personified by Mr. Jawking in the 1951 film. Jawking serves has an EvilMentor to Scrooge and Marley both, pairing them up in an ominous scene. He is later caught embezzling from his own banking house; Scrooge and Marley bail him out in return for 51% of the stock share, effectively a hostile takeover.
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* CanonForeigner: The PredatoryBusiness which buys out Fezziwig is personified by Mr. Jawking in the 1951 film. Jawking. Jawking serves has as an EvilMentor to Scrooge and Marley both, pairing them up in an ominous scene. He is later caught embezzling from his own banking house; Scrooge and Marley bail him out in return for 51% of the stock share, effectively a hostile takeover.
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* CanonForeigner: The PredatoryBusiness which buys out Fezziwig is personified by Mr. Jawking in the 1951 film. Jawking serves has an EvilMentor to Scrooge and Marley both, pairing them up in an ominous scene. He is later caught embezzling from his own banking house; Scrooge and Marley bail him out in return for 51% of the stock share, effectively a hostile takeover.
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* [[KilledMidSentence Died Mid-Sentence]]: Marley, while attempting to warn Scrooge of his fate and to "save himself".
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** Mrs. Dilber's presence was expanded in the movie as the first witness to the changed Scrooge, in a scene that's both hilarious and heartwarming.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he gets a better look at Fan's death, Scrooge realizes that she asked him to look after Fred. He begins to feel very contrite, as he has gone out of his way to ''avoid'' Fred.
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--> '''Scrooge''': Forgive me, Fan!
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* This movie covers Fan's DeathByChildbirth, as well as her final moments with her brother. The only other adaptation to attempt this was ''Ebbie'', which aired in 1995.
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* This movie covers Fan's DeathByChildbirth, as well as her final moments with her brother. The only other adaptation to attempt this was ''Ebbie'', which aired in 1995.
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** Scrooge's mother died giving birth to him, leading to a trouble relationship between him and his father.
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''Scrooge'' is a 1951 film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''Film/AChristmasCarol1971''.
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!!''Scrooge'' provides examples
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''Scrooge'' is a 1951 film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley; both would reprise the roles in the 1971 animated film ''Film/AChristmasCarol1971''.
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* AdaptationExpansion:
** Adds an extended StartOfDarkness sequence depicting how Scrooge and Marley were corrupted by an unscrupulous mentor luring them away from Fezziwig's good influence.
** Then there is the touching scene where Scrooge comes to Fred's house to accept his invitation for Christmas dinner at last, fearful that he would be rejected, only to find he needn't have doubted Fred's love.
* AlmostDeadGuy:
** Young Scrooge, thinking his sister has died, bitterly storms from the room, and misses her dying request to him.
** Later, much older Scrooge has Marley delivering a warning with his last breaths, but it's pretty much over his head. Scrooge even waited until business was over to bother visiting him; his maid incredulously declares "I'll see if I can get him to hold out, I'm sure!"
* CreepyChild: Ignorance and Want.
* DeadpanSnarker: Scrooge.
* DeathByChildbirth:
** Scrooge's mother died giving birth to him, leading to a trouble relationship between him and his father.
** Scrooge's sister Fan.
* LaughingMad: When Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning and can't stop laughing out of joy, his housekeeper thinks, justifiably, that he's gone quite mad.
* MarketBasedTitle: Was released as ''A Christmas Carol'' in some markets.
* StartOfDarkness: The Christmas Past sequence explores this, more so than other adaptations.
* TimeshiftedActor: [[{{Minder}} George Cole]] as Young Ebenezer Scrooge and [[Series/TheAvengers Patrick Macnee]] as Young Jacob Marley.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion:
** Adds an extended StartOfDarkness sequence depicting how Scrooge and Marley were corrupted by an unscrupulous mentor luring them away from Fezziwig's good influence.
** Then there is the touching scene where Scrooge comes to Fred's house to accept his invitation for Christmas dinner at last, fearful that he would be rejected, only to find he needn't have doubted Fred's love.
* AlmostDeadGuy:
** Young Scrooge, thinking his sister has died, bitterly storms from the room, and misses her dying request to him.
** Later, much older Scrooge has Marley delivering a warning with his last breaths, but it's pretty much over his head. Scrooge even waited until business was over to bother visiting him; his maid incredulously declares "I'll see if I can get him to hold out, I'm sure!"
* CreepyChild: Ignorance and Want.
* DeadpanSnarker: Scrooge.
* DeathByChildbirth:
** Scrooge's mother died giving birth to him, leading to a trouble relationship between him and his father.
** Scrooge's sister Fan.
* LaughingMad: When Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning and can't stop laughing out of joy, his housekeeper thinks, justifiably, that he's gone quite mad.
* MarketBasedTitle: Was released as ''A Christmas Carol'' in some markets.
* StartOfDarkness: The Christmas Past sequence explores this, more so than other adaptations.
* TimeshiftedActor: [[{{Minder}} George Cole]] as Young Ebenezer Scrooge and [[Series/TheAvengers Patrick Macnee]] as Young Jacob Marley.
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