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The beauty of A Christmas Carol

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  • #52
    seenitall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭seenitall


    I have to say, Guy Pearce is now my first ever SILF :D (I know, I know, showing my age again...)

    And if you think that's weird and wrong, I'd say that we have long gone past the weirdness stage in this adaptation, what with the child sex abuse of young Scrooge, and him blackmailing a yummy mummy into sex... I wonder what delights await us in the last episode?


  • #53
    Millicently
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    seenitall wrote: »
    I have to say, Guy Pearce is now my first ever SILF :D (I know, I know, showing my age again...)

    And if you think that's weird and wrong, I'd say that we have long gone past the weirdness stage in this adaptation, what with the child sex abuse of young Scrooge, and him blackmailing a yummy mummy into sex... I wonder what delights await us in the last episode?
    You might enjoy Tom Hardy in Taboo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDV8tXLLOmg


  • #54
    seenitall
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    Millicently wrote: »
    You might enjoy Tom Hardy in Taboo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDV8tXLLOmg

    Thank you, I might - I do like him. As it happens, he was a producer on this version of ACC, and his wife, Charlotte Riley, plays the Ghost of Christmas Present.


  • #55
    Millicently
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    seenitall wrote: »
    Thank you, I might - I do like him. As it happens, he was a producer on this version of ACC, and his wife, Charlotte Riley, plays the Ghost of Christmas Present.
    Apparently he's very appealing to mummies, even mummies who don't have children, on CBEEBIES Story time. I'm sure I can't think why. :D


  • #56
    Raconteuse
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    AKF wrote: »
    Sadly it isn't strange that it was left out.

    What Scrooge said was true, we don't want to admit it but the truth is surplus population is the biggest problem facing humanity (particularly at this moment in time) and pathetically no government or international body has the balls to say this publicly, and the generally cowardly the media never wants to say it either so the BBC hasn't the balls to leave the line that most people remember from the book because the truth hurts and their afraid of being accused of being racist if the line is left in.
    There is some seriously dark, uncomfortable sh1t in this adaptation. I don't think anyone was gonna leave out any unpleasant truth. Think they were just ****ing with the audience.

    It's a line in a classic book. The BBC is hardly afraid to leave that in. It's even included in a kids version (the Muppets one). And how would it be seen as racist?


  • #57
    AllForIt
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    I prefer Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.


  • #58
    matchthis
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    Missing Die Hard 2


  • #59
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,194 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    It's a fantastic novel.

    You can't go wrong with its basic premise that money alone can not bring you happiness and treating other people with kindness (especially those less well off) is of far greater importance.

    A major side result of the book is the role it played in popularising Christmas in popular culture and in society : Christmas was barely even being celebrated in England in the mid 19th Century.


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