The Movielicious #16 – Zombie Scrooge
December 18, 2009 by Florent
Filed under - The Movielicious, .Episodes, Featured
On this episode, your hosts:
- Patrick Beja (notpatrick on Twitter)
- Nicole Spagnuolo (nicolespag on Twitter)
- Mark “Turspter” Turpin (the_T on Twitter)
Discuss these flicks:
- Where the Wild Things Are
- A Christmas Carol
- And: A Christmas Story, The Muppets : A Christmas Carol, The Chronicles of Riddick
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just got around to listening to this edition of movielicious, and i wanted to suggest an alternate explanation for why some people really like where the wild things are and you guys didn’t.
i don’t think it really has as much to do with whether you grew up with the book or not. i think what makes the difference is how painful your childhood was. i really identified strongly with the kid in the movie, not just in his relationship with his family and his acting out, but also in how he perceived adults and how he wanted to be perceived. the movie does a beautiful job of capturing what it really feels like to feel like a misfit as a child.
Great episode guys. Though I have to say I personally loved the new version of ‘Scrooge’ (and I am a bit fan of many of the other versions including The Muppet, Mickey and Bill Murray versions). For me I particularly liked the ways the animation brought the urban setting to life. It showed a vibrance to 19th century England that I don’t think other Scrooge films have captured quite as well.
With regard to Nicole’s question about the Ghost of Christmas Present’s commentary about ‘men of the cloth’ and the closing of businesses every 7th day, that does indeed come from the original Dicken’s book, although the dialogue is slightly altered, it is clear that Dicken’s was doing some social commentary on ‘organized religion’ vs. simply being good to each other.
The story is quite terrifying in several places though and I would agree with Turpster that despite being a Disney film, younger kids would be better suited to see the Muppet or Mickey version. A Christmas Carol at its core is really a ghost story.