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A Christmas Carol(2009, Robert Zemeckis) - Movie Review

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Status Quo

- Ebeneezer Scrooge, a miserable, cold-hearted creditor, continues to be greedy and unmerciful on Christmas Eve. He rejects a dinner invitation, overworks his employee, yells at charity workers, and spits that the entire idea of Christmas is nonsense.

However, that night, Scrooge starts to see strange things, and soon enough, out comes his old friend and business partner Jacob Marley's ghost through the door. Marley's ghost warns what will happen if Scrooge continues living this way. After telling Scrooge that three more ghosts will visit him, Marley disappears.

Rise of action

- Afterward, Scrooge meets two more ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past and The Ghost of Christmas Present.

The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past. Scrooge sees himself as a miserable child and a young man who loves money even more than his fiancée.

The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge, his clerk Bob Cratchit’s family. At Bob Cratchit’s house, Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, very ill and without one leg but full of spirit. The ghost then takes him to see his nephew Fred’s Christmas dinner party - which he had been invited to but refused firmly.

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- Finally, The Ghost of Christmas Future terrifies Scrooge by showing him visions of his death, and nobody giving even a second thought about it.

Climax

- Scrooge pleads to the Ghost to give him a second chance in life. He vows that he will be kind and wholehearted and respect Christmas from now on.

Resolution

-  The three ghosts’ journey through Christmas teaches Scrooge about the error and wrongs he made. Then he wakes up on Christmas Day. Full of excitement, Scrooge buys a giant turkey for the Cratchit family and spends the day with his nephew, full of happiness.

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Status Quo

- Ebeneezer Scrooge, a miserable, cold-hearted creditor, continues to be greedy and unmerciful on Christmas Eve. He rejects a dinner invitation, overworks his employee, yells at charity workers, and spits that the entire idea of Christmas is nonsense.

However, that night, Scrooge starts to see strange things, and soon enough, out comes his old friend and business partner Jacob Marley's ghost through the door. Marley's ghost warns what will happen if Scrooge continues living this way. After telling Scrooge that three more ghosts will visit him, Marley disappears.

Rise of action

- Afterward, Scrooge meets two more ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past and The Ghost of Christmas Present.

The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past. Scrooge sees himself as a miserable child and a young man who loves money even more than his fiancée.

The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge, his clerk Bob Cratchit’s family. At Bob Cratchit’s house, Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, very ill and without one leg but full of spirit. The ghost then takes him to see his nephew Fred’s Christmas dinner party - which he had been invited to but refused firmly.

Climax

- Finally, The Ghost of Christmas Future terrifies Scrooge by showing him visions of his death, and nobody giving even a second thought about it.  Scrooge pleads to the Ghost to give him a second chance in life. He vows that he will be kind and wholehearted and respect Christmas from now on.

Falling action

- The three ghosts’ journey through Christmas teaches Scrooge about the error and wrongs he made. Then he wakes up on Christmas Day.

Resolution

- Full of excitement, Scrooge buys a giant turkey for the Cratchit family and spends the day with his nephew, full of happiness.

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Ebeneezer Scrooge
Jacob Marley
The Ghost of the Christmas Past
The Ghost of the Christmas Present
The Ghost of the Christmas Yet to Come
Bob Cratchit
- Mrs. Cratchit
- Tiny Tim
- Martha Cratchit
- Peter Cratchit
Fred(Scrooge's nephew)
Fan Hollyway(Scrooge's sister)
Fezziwig
Belle

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“Bah, humbug!” - Scrooge

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” - Narrator

“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!” - Scrooge

‘’No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.’’ - Ghost of Christmas Past

"God bless Us, Everyone!" - Tiny Tim

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Human Kindness

Relationship between social class

Social injustice and Poverty

The last moment before death

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A Christmas Carol Questions for discussion 

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A Christmas Carol Questions for discussion 

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Question 1.

Scrooge seems to consider Marley, his old business partner, as a 'friend.' On the first page, the narrator says that Scrooge 'mourned' for Marley. Scrooge had departed from his lover because he loved money more. Could he have had a real friend? And mourn for them from the heart? Was not scrubbing Marley’s name off the sign a hint to Scrooge’s feelings?

Question 2.

Marley says that he had been wandering around for seven long years. How and why couldn’t he contact Scrooge for that long time but suddenly show up? Was it because Scrooge was about to die too? Like Marley did seven years ago, on Christmas Eve?

Question 3.

Scrooge act’s most harshly toward his employee, Mr. Cratchit. He shows no feelings for Bob’s poor family whatsoever. He only worries about the money he will have to pay Bob. But when the Ghost of Christmas Past takes him to his past, he cries over a little boy, himself in the past. If he felt so sad about himself being left alone by other children, why didn’t he feel pity toward Mr. Cratchit’s family?

Question 4.

What did Scrooge live for? He has a lot of money but only spends a little on himself and certainly not for others. But he continues to work. What was he living and working for? For the sake of making money itself? But it seems so meaningless.

Question 5.

Scrooge’s nephew was always there every Christmas to invite his uncle to dinner. If Scrooge had accepted the invitation, would his life have changed?

Question 6.

Tiny Tim symbolizes the plight of the poor and evokes feelings of charity in the rich; what other symbolic meanings can be found in the characters?

Question 7.
Scrooge was once poor too but became a man who judges other people by their wealth. He tells his employee Bob Cratchit not to stick his nose out when his poor. Can we find Scrooge's attitude toward other people in ourselves?