Never Too Late To Learn A Bit About Scrooge and Charles Dickens
By Hate2Iron
@Hate2Iron (15730)
Canada
January 13, 2019 10:12am CST
We watched a great movie last night... It was called "The Man Who Invented Christmas...
I just looked it up and it's been out since 2017 but darling daughter decided that we were going to have a Mother/Daughter night together with a movie that she thought that I would like! Loved Christopher Plummer in it!! He made the perfect Scrooge. Now Charles Dickens was a big surprise. I guess that I never thought of him as a young man and loved the little Irish girl. I think that her name was Tara!
We had popcorn and hot chocolate together and it was a great night. Hubby was otherwise occupied so we got to watch something that I don't think he wouldn't have chosen! ;)
Photo credit... bleeckerstreetmedia
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@Julie555 (4155)
• Russian Federation
14 Jan 19
Wow! I love this movie and watched it 3 times already. Actually, it`s not only an amazing Christmas spirit movie but a big pleasant surprise for all Dickens fans. It let us look at Charles Dickens not only as a gifted famous author of all times but as a human with broad philanthropic views, human with his own weaknesses, shattered dreams and sad past, which have their strong influence on all his life.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
That surprised me most about this movie... I never once wondered how Charles Dickens became the man... he became!!
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@Julie555 (4155)
• Russian Federation
15 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron True. That life full of hardships and desperate eagerness to become someone significant made him that person we cherish and remember still now.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
18 Jan 19
@Julie555 I'm so glad that she picked the movie!! I saw a different side of him!!
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Jan 19
so you are saying you watched one of the Scrooge movies? i mean there must be tons out. i have watched different ones over the years.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
14 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron oh now that sounds interesting. i know the man was quite a character, had a tough life, and was a very good writer
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
19 Jan 19
@bunnybon7 Definitely not what I was expecting... but then again, I never thought of him as a young man!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
This was more about how the book ever came to be written!! I never bothered to wonder!!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
13 Jan 19
Well I am glad you have a good little mother / daughter day. I do love Charles Dickens. I don't think I've seen that movie but I am pretty sure I saw it on amazon...
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
14 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron I have no children, but I understand it from the perspective of an aunt. I see my nephew all the time (every weekend) but there was half a year when he didn't come around. I don't ever see his sister.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
19 Jan 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum My daughter is the same way... she loves spending time with her niece although her niece looks at her as another playmate lol!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
I'm glad that we spent the evening together. When they get older, you do it less and less!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
The odd thing is that I never ever thought of Charles Dickens as a young man... and certainly not the way the movie protrayed him!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
It definitely gave you the same feeling as if you were at the movies... only the bathrooms are closer. ;)
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@leny34 (8506)
• Sidoarjo, Indonesia
14 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron yes this is fun, I've tried it today
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
19 Jan 19
@leny34 With the sort of winter we are experiencing... I can see this becoming a regular afternoon's activity!!
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
13 Jan 19
I have seen that movie and now I will have to watch it. Thanks for the suggestion.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
I think that it's well worth a second watch! :) It just might become a seasonal movie in our house!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
They certainly didn't pull out any stops for this one!! That's all I will tell you. ;)
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