The Man Who Invented Christmas - Official Movie Review
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The Man Who Invented Christmas starring Christopher Plummer, Dan Stevens (IV), and Jonathan Pryce directed by Bharat Nalluri is reviewed by Alonso Duralde (TheWrap, Linoleum Knife) and Christy Lemire (www.ChristyLemi...).
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The Man Who Invented Christmas tells of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY), the film shows how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.
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Alonso Duralde and Santa Claus have never been seen in the same room.
No, Alonso and Scrooge have never been seen in the same room.
He says, "Bah, humbug," to everything.
This made me actually laugh out loud. Well done!
True, and he does go dark on Christmas Eve!
Is he perhaps Krampus and NOT Scrooge??
Dan Stevens said in interviews Dickens DID talk to himself,that that part is taken from his daughter’s diary,that for 6 weeks she’d hear him in his office yelling at himself while he was writing the book.
They gave him coal!! hahaha that's amazing.
😂😂😂 💎
These people have never met actual writers as a person who has been an avid writer since 13 I saw Dickens in this move and was like “writing has not changed at all in centuries because this is literally me.” Finally a writer got the the glorious honor of letting people see what is happening inside our brains. I do get the whole stenographer gripe. I didn’t even know there was a book.
I loved it! I'd give it a 9 or 10. I'm reading the book now. The emotional climax when the book gets released is a real tear-jerker. It's like an action film-- surprising for a film about a book being written.
Charles Dickens influence on Christmas and how we celebrate it cannot be overestimated. Before he released A Christmas Carol in 1843 the festival was largely a mundane event except among the elite of western society. He popularised it for the whole population.
I felt like the movie did enough to explain the title -- I got it anyway. Did it give the full historical context? No. But that would have taken a long time and created a completely different tone for the film. Also, the book is always better, Alonso! :) I really enjoyed the film. I liked the characters following Dickens around -- it was funny and an imaginative way to show the process and have Dickens deal with his own issues. I appreciated the light touch with which serious issues are handled, making it something I can share with my kids.
Christmas, as it's celebrated today in America, is really a product of two eras: Victorian England and 1950s America.
YESSS!!!! Dickens talked to himself!! And while he was in the process of writing A Christmas Carol he talked obsessively, he could be heard all over the house
Bah-Humbug. I loved it, even with its flaws. Regards, Goat from Ruthless Reviews.
Dickens invented it but Kirk Cameron saved it.
And made it really boring.
How bout that infinity trailer huh
The trailer puts me off. Because, in the context of historical imaginings, I just saw 'The Death of Stalin', which is one of the best films of the year. And which, instead of reviewing this, you could have talked about. Maybe it'll turn up on your best of the year. One lives in hope. Merry Christmas. xxx :)
Trevor Jones haven't they reviewed the Death of Stalin?
Hi KW. I thought they had, but may be confused with a review on a different channel. I've looked through their playlist of 2017 reviews and it's not there. Like I say, it might turn up in their best of the year. It's certainly one of mine. :)
Your review over-simplified the movie. In fact, while the physical manifestation of the lead character helps Dickens delve into the reasons for Scrooge's issues, Scrooge, in turn, helps Dickens clean out the skeletons in his own closet. The author's father is a HUGE cause for Charles' own foibles.
Remember when Marley says, *"You do not know the weight and length of the chain you bear, yourself"* , Dickens says, (pointing to Scrooge) "Surely you mean him."
*"You, Charlie"* , Marley replies.
In dealing with his own demons , Dickens helps Scrooge to deal with his own.
infallible rule: when Christy likes a movie that Alonso doesn’t like, that movie SSSUUUXXX
Dickens invented Christmas? I think not, I think he just jumped on the Germanic bandwagon that was the Saxe-Gotha Prince Albert bringing in his German Christmas traditions into England. If anyone can be called the man who invented Christmas as we know it today, it would be Prince Albert. Besides, Dickens was a (ahem) Dick, isn't he the one who left his wife because for a teenager after she had something like ten kids? And kept calling her fat and a Whale or something? Tried to run off with another young girl when married and also it was rumoured molested his wife's 17 year old sister. Pretty sure it was something like that, he was a ghastly man, I hope THAT is reflected in this film and they don't want to make it seem like he was a pretty, blue eyed Dan Steven's like darling family man. He was many good things, but bad too.
Natasha Aiken Where did you get all that information? Some biography or did you watch a documentary about him? In the introduction I’ve read of Dickens the old curiosity shop it said he really loved his sister in law and liked her to be around him in his wife and when she died he was really heartbroken. Really shocked to hear that he might’ve raped her or something...
He and his wife had ten kids and did divorce years after Christmas Carol came out because they had up to ten kids and the financial strain that involves 10 kids became too much,but the the film is not a biopic,it’s about how he came to write A Christmas Carol and the title is a metaphor.
Read about Dickens here...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Dickens
Father Christmas Duralde does approve!
This made me want to read the book. I still don't want to see the movie. I hate it in movies about writers who walk around writing down what other people say as though they can't come up with lines by themselves.
Um,it’s based on first hand accounts from his daughter of hearing him talking to himself while writing the book,the characters are from HIS mind so when he talking to a character,he’s battling with his own mind.
I loved this movie. It's one of my favorites I've seen this year!
Mary, I know what I'm gonna do the next day, and the next, and the next day after that. I'm shakin the dust off this crummy little town and I'm gonna SEE THE WORLD!!!
❤ I LOVE It's a Wonderful Life!!!
I just saw it.
Love it. It reminds me of the old cozy feeling magical family movie, a la 1995's A Little Princess, or Young Sherlock Holmes with the frame of Shakespeare in Love.
It's a light, fun entertaining movie...what did u guys expect..and want..?
Well, tbf, I haven't read the book..so, unlike Alonso, I didn't have any expectations... 😁
Like I said. I love it.
@5:20 re: author bio-pic hate: you must've really disliked "Shakespeare In Love" then .
Just saw this and I'm pretty much on the same page as Alonso. Never read the book, but the whole time I kept thinking, "okay, am I watching the origin of how Dickens wrote that story and 'invented' Christmas, or is this just another adaptation of A Christmas Carol?" The visuals (I mean, the color-grading) looks nice though and it is somewhat entertaining. 6 out of 10.
So this could be Shakespeare in Love in a way, with Dickens in the Shakespeare role.
Kevin Spacey looks great in this!
WorldPrez he is a great Dick Ins.
LOL. We went to see a movie a week or two after they made the announcement about removing Kevin Spacey from "All The Money In The World" and they'd already replaced him with Christopher Plummer in the trailer. It was crazy how fast they made that happen! And now Christopher Plummer has been nominated for a Golden Globe in that role. Weird times.
Simon Callow played Dickens in Doctor who during the Eccleston. run
Hope it's going wider...not playing at the mainstream (nearby) plexes yet.
I admire Alonso's ethics. I on the other hand am not so strong. My only opinion on this movie, am not seeing it in a theater.
Maybe it's just a fun movie? Ever think of that Duralde?
I thought Santy invented XMAS.
Alonso hates this whaaat no???
Why is that actor SO HOT but he picks ridiculous projects?
Beauty and the Beast?
Ridiculous projects? How can you interpret his choices as ridiculous? Most actors in Hollywood would kill to have played the famous Charles Dickens in a movie about the creation of one of the world's most iconic stories! And choosing to play the Beast in Disney's massive hit "Beauty and the Beast" was anything but ridiculous!
I think the general public usually enjoy the movies more than film critics. Lol
2:04 Wait a minute! Are you saying that Jesus was not born on December 25?
Blasphemy! You will go to hell!