Watching Robert Zemeckis’ fever-dream nightmare (and his Yellow Submarine remake would have been loopier, from what’s surfaced on YouTube) is LITERALLY like watching Zemeckis encountering the book for the first time, and run to us excitedly jabbering about what he’s just found out.
Although, of course, he has to make the “boring” bits more “exciting” audiences like himself, like the Incredible Shrinking Scrooge during the rag-and-bones scene, or having Marley suddenly have wacky jaw-failure during “Mankind was my business”…
I’ll give him credit for translating the Ignorance and Want scene into words of one syllable for his imagined audience.
But if your main argument is how good a performance Jim Carrey gave as Scrooge (although we can see his creepy-annoyance shtick work its way into Christmases Past and Present), Carrey openly claimed he was trying to labor-of-love homage Alastair Sim’s all-time performance in the British B&W 1951 version.
…Go watch THAT one instead–which covers most of the other six reasons–and get back to us.
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Watching Robert Zemeckis’ fever-dream nightmare (and his Yellow Submarine remake would have been loopier, from what’s surfaced on YouTube) is LITERALLY like watching Zemeckis encountering the book for the first time, and run to us excitedly jabbering about what he’s just found out.
Although, of course, he has to make the “boring” bits more “exciting” audiences like himself, like the Incredible Shrinking Scrooge during the rag-and-bones scene, or having Marley suddenly have wacky jaw-failure during “Mankind was my business”…
I’ll give him credit for translating the Ignorance and Want scene into words of one syllable for his imagined audience.
But if your main argument is how good a performance Jim Carrey gave as Scrooge (although we can see his creepy-annoyance shtick work its way into Christmases Past and Present), Carrey openly claimed he was trying to labor-of-love homage Alastair Sim’s all-time performance in the British B&W 1951 version.
…Go watch THAT one instead–which covers most of the other six reasons–and get back to us.
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