📺 The festive season is seemingly incomplete without endless adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Victorian morality tale Why are we still so obsessed with it?
When were you last visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come? Chances are, if you turn your television on over the festive period, it will happen sooner than you expect.was first published the best part of two centuries ago. So why are we still so obsessed with this morality tale? So trapped in a past where Tiny Tim frolics along cobbled Victorian streets? Allow me to take you on a trip through Christmas Carols of Past, Present and Future to find out.
Reginald Owen, playing Scrooge, confronts the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Lionel Braham, in the 1938 MGM production ofThe Man Who Invented Christmas Every few years for the duration of the 20th century, an attempt was made to tell the Scrooge story. To begin with, these were fairly obvious and self-consciously Dickensian retellings, like 1938’s. But in the second half of the century the deference to the source material lifted.
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