In 1951, Alastair Sim made the quintessential Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (also released as Scrooge in the UK). His performance you will see emulated by all others who have played the character since (including Jim Carrey in the more recent Disney animated version). In this short film, the only film version of A Christmas Carol to win an Oscar, Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern reprise their roles as Scrooge and Marley from the classic 1951 British film version. The word humbug is misunderstood by many people. The word describes deceitful efforts to fool people by pretending to a fake loftiness or false sincerity. So when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only pretend to charity and kindness in a scoundrel effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooges eyes, he is the one man honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so for him, every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool him and take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them. (paraphrased from IMDB)
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 08:05:01 +0000
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