If anyone doesn't know, the whole "coin eyes" thing is an ancient Greek tradition where the dead man who had the coins would use them to pay Charon, the Ferryman of River Acheron (the river that leads to the underworld).
@@ΕιρηνηΑντωνιαδου-λ8ψ Κοίταξε, έχω μια απορία σχετικά με αυτό. Βεβαίως και το σέβομαι το έθιμο σας αλλά τι να τα κάνει τα κέρματα στον Παράδεισο ο νεκρός? Χωρίς παρεξήγηση.....
@@sakellarioudimitris7439 Καμια παρεξηγηση ,απλως διατυπωνω κατι που εχω βιωσει απο παιδακι !Τωρα αν χρειαζονται οι νεκροι αντιτιμο για το "περασμα"τους ειναι αλλη ιστορια....!!!!Σεβομαι την παραδοση μα κραταω τα πιστευω μου για εμενα!
Actually the coins were placed on corpses eyes to stop them popping open. The same as the bandage around Marleys face was to stop his jaw from opening as the muscles release after death.
@@darkforestzombie218 If that was the only purpose, then why use 'coins'? Your "actually" statement should be more of a "there was a practical reason, too!" But no, you had to try and make yourself look smarter.
It's actually very popular. Just not as much as the older ones. It's honestly my favorite. I like that they decided to make it an adult-oriented movie instead of being family friendly
@@jamessparkman6604 Not really, it is revealed during the ghost of Christmas past sequence that he deeply hates Christmas because he couldn’t spend time with his family like his others friends during all his childhood, he deeply feel lonely, plus, he lost his wife ( they got separated) and probably his sister ( who died from a complicate pregnancy ) the day of Christmas.
@@bloodyrose1985 Jacob: So funny thing, my friend Scrooge who I enabled to become a greedy miser must have taken my coins that I needed to cross over Charon: that’s rough buddy. I guess I have no choice but to leave you wandering the earth in chains never allowed the sweet final rest of death looking at all the things you might have shared when you were alive Jacob: CURSE YOU SCROOGE!!
Always look forward to seeing this on tv around the holidays. Some critics tore it a new one for being so dark but honestly I think that's kind of the point of the movie. It's supposed to be dark and uncomfortable. Outside the whole flapping jaw thing from Marley's ghost and the pointless chase seen through town with the ghost of the future I think the movie is great. And holy moly the emotions that it feeds through Bob after Tim dies is just, damn
@@Slick-Salamander That's a terrible comparison. The Muppets CC was supposed to be a light hearted version of the story. While this was supposed to be very dark.
Disney's a Christmas Carol is an Epic movie, I also love how they filmed this and I also love the fact that they got Jim Carrey to speak as Scrooge. If they went with somebody else for Scrooge they probably would have messed it up.
Not only did he do the voice he did the motion capture for Scrooge! If you look behind the scenes you will see the process and his characteristics and expressions he actually did and he did them spot on! Jim Carrey is awesome 😎 x
The very very best version of a christmas carol and holds true to this day christmas eve 2020. Watch it every christmas eve since its release. My very favorite christmas movie by far.
I just started to read a Christmas Carol book from one of my libraries. And this movie is so accurate I can't but seeing these scenes when I read each part.
Just watched the behind the scene of this, this is such as good version and the cast is quite famous with faces such as Jim Carrey Daryl Sabara (spy kids) Colin Firth (mamma mia, etc) and Gary Oldman (Harry potter)
For those who don’t know, the reason why Marley’s jaw is bound up is because, to keep the dead man’s mouth from opening into a gaping maw, they’d bind the jaw shut with a handkerchief or a piece of cloth. Today, modern funeral homes stitch the mouth closed with metallic suturing used just behind the lips. A good case example of the former tradition was uncovered during the exhumation of three of the crew members of the Franklin Expedition. The cold environment not only preserved their soft body features, but it also preserved the clothing they wore as well as the cloth that was bound around their jaw. John Torrington, the most well-preserved of the three, has the most visible example of this, which you can see online (if you dare wish to look). This is also why, in all of the adaptations, we see Marley still wearing the jaw binding as _that_ was the last image Scrooge had in mind of his old friend. It is a Memento Mori - a reminder of death - that is used to remind Scrooge of the reality of his own mortality and what his fate could be.
0:14 For those who don’t know, the coins on Marley’s eyes: It’s said that when you die, your soul takes a ferry into the land of the dead. The coins are payment for the ferryman. If you’ve nothing to pay with, then you would be forever lost between the two worlds.
I remember when I was visiting family in Russia, we were watching TV and after Ratatouille ended I saw this scene of the movie and was immediately creeped out and decided to go play animal jam instead. Think I’ll give this movie a chance now that it no longer scares me
This is the most hilarious scene to me. I know it's supposed to show that Scrooge is a penny-pincher, but the expressions of the funeral guy/mortician/whatever he is are so bizarre.
This is the most entertaining movie I've ever seen, my favorite character is literally Scrooge because he's kind of a gangster like especially his clothes match him soooo gooood, the hat and the cloak and the stick he is holding in his hand
If you look carefully you can see the fabric strip holding his jaw up, he possible died from a broken jaw I haven’t read the book so I don’t know if that’s accurate but Marleys jaw is broken when he is a ghost
@@ljevans3156 Back in the day, they used those Stripes to Close the Mouth of the Dead. The Mouth would open itself when not properly closed.Today they use stitches to close the Eyes an the Mouth properly.
0:00 My absolute favorite detail I seem to be the only one to notice is that at the beginning you can see the 3 Spirits represented right there at the opening. The Candle of the Past, The Holly of The Present then The Ink and Quill of The Future, all 3 ghosts represented as how they appear XD
This was the first Christmas Carol adaptation I ever saw I was roughly 6 years old so didn’t know about the story beforehand. I assumed that this would be a nice, happy, pleasant story. BOY WAS I WRONG!!! The FIRST shot from this movie freaked me out and the rest of the movie scarred me for life 😅
Its always surreal for me to compare the movie with the behind the scenes footage of Jim Carrey and the other actors wearing jump suits with black dots all over their faces.
Haha Scrooge is how I felt during that one Christmas season when me and my classmates in high school were forced to sing Christmas carols for Music class under a terrible teacher!
@@larizarichard08the Patrick Stewart version is my favourite and he is my favourite Scrooge. His version of Scrooge felt more of natural depression as opposed to forced anger like most scrooges you find. I think the fact he could barely cry and had to force laughter out of him to break his mould said it all. To me, Carrey’s Scrooge had a natural anger by habit, determined not to look back but wasn’t suppressed enough to stop crying or laughing
Why dude got his hand out? I'm guessing he's wants payment for the burial right? I love way he lifts up his eyebrow like, "Keep it coming." Scrooge took them coins off Marley so quick. He said, "I'm getting my coins back some way, some how." 🤣
@@a.g.demada5263 i mean if your best friend just died and some git wanted you to pay him..your dead friend laying right there..im not sure meany people would hand over a penny for that
I've always loved the story of a Christmas Carol, but this scene fucked me up as a child. I was 5 when this came out and I never saw past the intro. I would have nightmares of just Marley's face...
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I like how Disney didn't sugar up the story and kept it true to the book.
Unlike Netflix;
That's not necessarily a good thing. Robert Zemeckis's "A Christmas Carol," is inappropriately dark for a Christmas movie, of all things.
@@WillScarlet16 huh?
@@berengerdietiker22 A Christmas Carol was never meant to be for kids when it was written by Charles Dickens.
For that matter, neither was The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
This movie is pretty good. I liked Jim Carrey's performance and how they handled perfectly humor and seriousness
Jim Carrey knows how to put it
If anyone doesn't know, the whole "coin eyes" thing is an ancient Greek tradition where the dead man who had the coins would use them to pay Charon, the Ferryman of River Acheron (the river that leads to the underworld).
Πολυ ωραια η πληροφορια σου φιλε μου!Εμεις οι ποντιοι το χρησιμοποιουμε ακομη αυτο το εθιμο οταν κανουμε νυχτερι στον νεκρο!
@@ΕιρηνηΑντωνιαδου-λ8ψ
Κοίταξε, έχω μια απορία σχετικά με αυτό. Βεβαίως και το σέβομαι το έθιμο σας αλλά τι να τα κάνει τα κέρματα στον Παράδεισο ο νεκρός? Χωρίς παρεξήγηση.....
@@sakellarioudimitris7439 Καμια παρεξηγηση ,απλως διατυπωνω κατι που εχω βιωσει απο παιδακι !Τωρα αν χρειαζονται οι νεκροι αντιτιμο για το "περασμα"τους ειναι αλλη ιστορια....!!!!Σεβομαι την παραδοση μα κραταω τα πιστευω μου για εμενα!
Actually the coins were placed on corpses eyes to stop them popping open. The same as the bandage around Marleys face was to stop his jaw from opening as the muscles release after death.
@@darkforestzombie218 If that was the only purpose, then why use 'coins'? Your "actually" statement should be more of a "there was a practical reason, too!" But no, you had to try and make yourself look smarter.
Is it just me or is this the most underrated version of a Christmas carol so far?
It's actually very popular. Just not as much as the older ones. It's honestly my favorite. I like that they decided to make it an adult-oriented movie instead of being family friendly
No, not just you, l think it’s very underrated. This now ranks alongside my all time favourite starring Alistair Simm
I agree with you
It is, haha.
It's my second favorite next to the George c Scott version
Even though Scrooge doesn't show it his voice breaks slightly when he says Marley is dead as a doornail because he lost his only friend.
Apparently this is what caused Scrooge to hate Christmas
Well, it's bit more complicated than that since Scrooge has always been a bitter, greedy and selfish man like Marley.
You're not the only one who noticed.
@@jamessparkman6604 Not really, it is revealed during the ghost of Christmas past sequence that he deeply hates Christmas because he couldn’t spend time with his family like his others friends during all his childhood, he deeply feel lonely, plus, he lost his wife ( they got separated) and probably his sister ( who died from a complicate pregnancy ) the day of Christmas.
Scrooge probably witnessed Marley's death
Jacob Marley at the dock in the underworld: "I swear I had my money here somewhe.....SCROOGE"
🤣🤣🤣
"I'm just gonna talk to him, yeah that'll scare him"
Charon: Come ON, buddy! I’m on a tight schedule. I got dead people to transport to the underworld
LOL 😂
@@bloodyrose1985
Jacob: So funny thing, my friend Scrooge who I enabled to become a greedy miser must have taken my coins that I needed to cross over
Charon: that’s rough buddy. I guess I have no choice but to leave you wandering the earth in chains never allowed the sweet final rest of death looking at all the things you might have shared when you were alive
Jacob: CURSE YOU SCROOGE!!
Always look forward to seeing this on tv around the holidays. Some critics tore it a new one for being so dark but honestly I think that's kind of the point of the movie. It's supposed to be dark and uncomfortable. Outside the whole flapping jaw thing from Marley's ghost and the pointless chase seen through town with the ghost of the future I think the movie is great. And holy moly the emotions that it feeds through Bob after Tim dies is just, damn
The "jaw thing" of Marley's ghost is meant to be disturbing and works great, and the chase is an exciting and well crafted scene too.
I don't think it helps that it has to compete with "The Muppets Christmas Carol", AKA the best.
@@Slick-Salamander That's a terrible comparison. The Muppets CC was supposed to be a light hearted version of the story. While this was supposed to be very dark.
🎅 🧑🎄 🎅 🧑🎄 Love this version of a Christmas Carol. Then again, I love them all. 🎄
Disney's a Christmas Carol is an Epic movie, I also love how they filmed this and I also love the fact that they got Jim Carrey to speak as Scrooge. If they went with somebody else for Scrooge they probably would have messed it up.
He didn’t play as Scrooge.
@@halloweenhangout Yes he did
Nah. I think other actors could have pulled it off. Your problem is just lazy imagination
Finally, some people who love this movie like I do. Would you believe this version is the only one like the original book?
Not only did he do the voice he did the motion capture for Scrooge! If you look behind the scenes you will see the process and his characteristics and expressions he actually did and he did them spot on! Jim Carrey is awesome 😎 x
Made 2009 and the cgi still holds great!!!
It's all motion capture too!
idk about that chief
Is this same animation of polar express
I mean, Avatar came out the same year, so...
@@Karlebow571 And *Beowulf (2007)*
The very very best version of a christmas carol and holds true to this day christmas eve 2020. Watch it every christmas eve since its release. My very favorite christmas movie by far.
I watch it every Christmas Eve too!! Best tradition!
@@jeromebiscuits9857 Me too!!
I just started to read a Christmas Carol book from one of my libraries. And this movie is so accurate I can't but seeing these scenes when I read each part.
I love how The animation look so good the people looks so real and I love 3D animations
Take a look at marley’s ghost
Just watched the behind the scene of this, this is such as good version and the cast is quite famous with faces such as Jim Carrey Daryl Sabara (spy kids) Colin Firth (mamma mia, etc) and Gary Oldman (Harry potter)
I never understood the slow coin payment when I was younger. Now I realize it’s showing Scrooge’s selfishness in money and wealth
He is a miser.
For those who don’t know, the reason why Marley’s jaw is bound up is because, to keep the dead man’s mouth from opening into a gaping maw, they’d bind the jaw shut with a handkerchief or a piece of cloth.
Today, modern funeral homes stitch the mouth closed with metallic suturing used just behind the lips.
A good case example of the former tradition was uncovered during the exhumation of three of the crew members of the Franklin Expedition. The cold environment not only preserved their soft body features, but it also preserved the clothing they wore as well as the cloth that was bound around their jaw. John Torrington, the most well-preserved of the three, has the most visible example of this, which you can see online (if you dare wish to look).
This is also why, in all of the adaptations, we see Marley still wearing the jaw binding as _that_ was the last image Scrooge had in mind of his old friend. It is a Memento Mori - a reminder of death - that is used to remind Scrooge of the reality of his own mortality and what his fate could be.
Best film adaptation of the book - Zemeckis and Carey nailed it
This is actually a dark and mysterious way to open a holiday story.
Definitely. It was dark when I first read it and when I watched the movie.
He was as hard and sharp as flint that rarely struck out a generous fire.
~Charles Dickens and Christmas carol.
You can tell deep down Scrooge was sad, but still kept his sturn look
Not deep down, clearly sad 0:33.
@@czzp77 just one of them people who refuse to feel sad or let other people see him this way.
The best version of the novel
I like how the horrified undertaker quickly pockets his coins in case Scrooge decides to snatch those back too lol
1:38 Me tapping into my savings for things I absolutely need but don’t necessarily want
Note to self: Never steal money from a dead person
Coins to pay the ferryman.
@@dinodisneylover1 Yes
Don't steal from the dead in general, whether it's money or otherwise.
@@Cloofinder Yep
0:14 For those who don’t know, the coins on Marley’s eyes: It’s said that when you die, your soul takes a ferry into the land of the dead. The coins are payment for the ferryman. If you’ve nothing to pay with, then you would be forever lost between the two worlds.
I tought it was inly in Greek mythology
@@a.g.demada5263 It is. That’s just how it started, I think.
@@andrewramos4238 I guess
Wiah even in the death you can’t escape from capitalism
So that's why Jacob Marley can't cross over. Scrooge indirectly condemned him to a life of Purgatory. Some friend he was.
My favorite version of A Christmas Carol and I've seen them all.
Still remember seeing it in pictures as a treat with my school before the holidays such a good movie 😊
1:10, this scene made me laugh so hard 😂
A face that a Karen would do XD
I remember when I was visiting family in Russia, we were watching TV and after Ratatouille ended I saw this scene of the movie and was immediately creeped out and decided to go play animal jam instead. Think I’ll give this movie a chance now that it no longer scares me
Wow Jim Carrey did an awesome job in this
Was I the only one who sees this as a total horror story? I got a hundred jumpscares and legitimely terrifying scenes from this film!
Yeeeeah everyone saying they loved it and whatever..like what?? 👀
@@milka1150 well yeah it's a well known childhood movie
@@slimjim1st473 My point is it was so scary
@@milka1150 did you like it tho?
@@slimjim1st473 yes I wasn't exactly a child when I saw it
This is the most hilarious scene to me. I know it's supposed to show that Scrooge is a penny-pincher, but the expressions of the funeral guy/mortician/whatever he is are so bizarre.
oh totally :)
Best A Christmas Carol adaptation ever made
When I was a kid I wasn't crazy sbout this movie but after reading the book I love this film now
This version is closer to the book.
You know your a great actor when you get to do the Christmas carol.
The animation was way ahead of its time.
I never noticed the touch of realism to his body. The head wrap is to keep the jaw closed
And the coins on his eyes are for what ?
That's true, but seeing as Marley's ghost had a head wrap in the original illustrations, it's only natural.
@@a.g.demada5263 It was an old tradition to bury the dead with coins so they could pay the toll into the afterlife.
@@binkyboy448 ah ok like in Greek mythology
This is the most entertaining movie I've ever seen, my favorite character is literally Scrooge because he's kind of a gangster like especially his clothes match him soooo gooood, the hat and the cloak and the stick he is holding in his hand
His clothes were rather regular style for this time
I loved this version fun to see it in the theaters no crummy songs either 😍
Best Christmas Carol ever!!⛄❄❄❄
By far the closest adaptation to the book
Im always thinking how hard ebenezers face must have it being so mad and grunoy all the time, its gotta hurt a little.
Marley looks like he is angry when he lying dead in the coffin.
That’s my first name
@@marleyhenry5616 If I was one of this people who singing I would just keep singing louder even if Scrooge looking with a angry stare.
He probably died still desperate for wealth.
If you look carefully you can see the fabric strip holding his jaw up, he possible died from a broken jaw
I haven’t read the book so I don’t know if that’s accurate but Marleys jaw is broken when he is a ghost
@@ljevans3156 Back in the day, they used those Stripes to Close the Mouth of the Dead. The Mouth would open itself when not properly closed.Today they use stitches to close the Eyes an the Mouth properly.
Wow! This is the best portrayal of Scrooge that I have ever scene. Yeah, I've been under a rock.
One of my favourite Christmas movies.
Marley may be dead but that wont save you from his visit
I love this story. I read this book every december.
0:00 My absolute favorite detail I seem to be the only one to notice is that at the beginning you can see the 3 Spirits represented right there at the opening. The Candle of the Past, The Holly of The Present then The Ink and Quill of The Future, all 3 ghosts represented as how they appear XD
Jim Carrey's depiction of Ebenezer Scrooge was a little reminiscent of Count Olaf.
1:24 - my mom when i get money
I 💕 the video.. so Amazing merry Christmas 🎁
You're mean one,mr.Grinch.
Wrong movie, but I'll go with it
@@themysteriousredwarriorblo1662 You're a mean one,Mr. Scrooge you really are a Sting
@@thebotherbrothersstudiospr6883 fun fact about both movies is the same guy.
0:49 damn he writes fast
Yes, he is! Lightning fast!
He was used to writing for many years.
I watch this movie every year. Can't help it xD
0:33 kids 2 days after a new meme comes out
This was the first Christmas Carol adaptation I ever saw
I was roughly 6 years old so didn’t know about the story beforehand. I assumed that this would be a nice, happy, pleasant story. BOY WAS I WRONG!!!
The FIRST shot from this movie freaked me out and the rest of the movie scarred me for life 😅
Me, it was the adaptation with Mickey.
I also saw the Barbie one
@@a.g.demada5263 Same here. The Mickey adaptation was COMPLETELY different!
@@caroldefender4144 true but I admit I prefer the Barbie adaptation. Not because I'm a girl but because the story is great and on another angle
This was indeed one of the most memorable movies and of course, traumatized me as a kid. Quite sad the studio was separated
I haven't watched it but the graphics is amazing .
3:14 I like that background music
I have the movie, and I understand how bad he felt. It's like how I lost two friends of the program I was part of.
Its always surreal for me to compare the movie with the behind the scenes footage of Jim Carrey and the other actors wearing jump suits with black dots all over their faces.
The cg still holds up
I watched the making of this. It's truely something special to behold.
I am impressed. Thanks for this clip.
Haha Scrooge is how I felt during that one Christmas season when me and my classmates in high school were forced to sing Christmas carols for Music class under a terrible teacher!
For me this is the best version so far.
2:10 LOL, this movie predicted the "math is math" meme.
Undertaker and his apprentice looks like Mr Sowerberry and Noah Claypole
THIS is the real Disney!!!! Bring it back for hell's sake
1:56 Robotnik voice
00:50 I’m surprised on how fast Scrooge can write on how old he is.
He's probably done it hundreds of times by that point
1:58 The Bowler Hat Guy from Meet the Robinsons
This movie was so accurate to the book, i like that they didn’t tone it down
I’m remembering fifth grade, my teacher read this book and we watch the movie it was so good
Una joya esta película
some good character exposition
Loved it
I love this all'comics thank you disiny
The best version of a Christmas Carol , change my mind...
How about the version with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge or the 2003 Cartoon version with Nicolas Cage as Marley
@@larizarichard08the Patrick Stewart version is my favourite and he is my favourite Scrooge. His version of Scrooge felt more of natural depression as opposed to forced anger like most scrooges you find. I think the fact he could barely cry and had to force laughter out of him to break his mould said it all. To me, Carrey’s Scrooge had a natural anger by habit, determined not to look back but wasn’t suppressed enough to stop crying or laughing
@@larizarichard08 Michael Caine was the best Scrooge IMO
*whenever I pick up pennies from the ground
“Tuppence is tuppence.”
So sweet the Little Scrooge with Helium Voices!!😏✋👍🇦🇹
This movie is great, because it stayed true to the book.
However, The Muppet Christmas Carol is my ultimate favorite.
When I was a kid I thought this was live action at first
same
This movie was more closer to the book and I say it’s very well done . I feel like I wanna read the book too
fantastico jim carry
Why dude got his hand out? I'm guessing he's wants payment for the burial right? I love way he lifts up his eyebrow like, "Keep it coming." Scrooge took them coins off Marley so quick. He said, "I'm getting my coins back some way, some how." 🤣
Yes, that's it. Scrooge has to pay for the burial but you can see how hard it is for him to give one coin
@@a.g.demada5263 i mean if your best friend just died and some git wanted you to pay him..your dead friend laying right there..im not sure meany people would hand over a penny for that
@@jackey6149 you think so ? That's the man's job so that's normal to be paid for that
Dickens would be proud
I'm sure of it
I Think it is the Best christmas Carol movie...
1:26 the person in my dream
1:28 me wondering if I should follow him or stay
The most historical cartoon I’ve ever seen
I love watching the Scrooge because I like it when he’s grumpy!
I've always loved the story of a Christmas Carol, but this scene fucked me up as a child. I was 5 when this came out and I never saw past the intro. I would have nightmares of just Marley's face...
Major Sheev Palpatine vibes here lol
Disney: We are the most kid friendly movie company to exist
This movie: *literally opens with the image of a dead man with coins on his eyes*
Watched the full movie and it's fire
Oh now I get the meaning of stealing a coin off a dead mans eye.
He robbed the dead ☠️
He should do a directors cut and put in all the deleted scenes and make a good movie better
1:58 | Back away, praddock!
I would like to see this.I haven't seen it lol
Its creepy
@@hugeshalaw Nah it's not
It’s so good
@@tizyman7120 It is, actually.
I watched this and many other Versions as a child and this is by far my favourit Id highly recommend it :)