A Christmas Carol (2009)
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The music was composed by Alan Silvestri and orchestrated by William Ross, Conrad Pope, Silvestri, and John Ashton Thomas. The entire score was conducted by Silvestri and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony alongside Page LA Studio Voices and London Voices.[29] Much of the music was based on actual carols, including \"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,\" \"Deck the Halls,\" \"O Come, All Ye Faithful,\" \"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing\" and \"Joy to the World.\" The album was later issued physically through Intrada Records. The theme song, \"God Bless Us Everyone,\" was written by Glen Ballard and Silverstri and performed by Italian classical crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli.
Another one: The score by Alan Silvestri sneaks in some traditional Christmas carols, but you have to listen for such as \"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen\" when its distinctive cadences turn sinister during a perilous flight through London.
For those with harder-to-rattle clans, this is a touching and haunting adaptation of a story most of us know by heart in one form or the other. Carrey's genius at physical comedy is evident throughout the film in small moments like when Scrooge does a jig, sings along with carolers, or slides down a railing. While there aren't many huge laughs, there's enough levity to break through the otherwise somber nature of Scrooge's time-traveling, life-changing visits to Christmases past, present, and future. Oldman and Firth are, as always, fine supporting players, and Robin Wright Penn (a Beowulf alum) adds a wistful, feminine vulnerability to the only woman Scrooge ever loved. With the current economic doom and gloom, this is a well-timed holiday narrative about hope, redemption, and love.
The redemption tale of a miser who's shown the error of his ways by time-traveling ghosts has become nearly as integral to Christmas celebrations as the story of Christ's birth.Filmmakers wasted no time before dramatizing Dickens' writings. The first filming of A Christmas Carol occurred all the way back in 1901, when R.W. Paul produced and Walter R. Booth directed the 11-minute silent black & white short Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost. While Dickens' less seasonal texts were favored in those early days of the 20th Century, A Christmas Carol had already been put on film ten times before synchronized sound was invented and first used in parts of the lost 1928 short Scrooge. The story would first be adapted as a feature-length film in 1935's Scrooge. Since Alastair Sim portrayed the antihero in 1951's highly-regarded drama, hardly a year has gone by without Dickens' novella being tapped at least on television. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push({});Besides that Sim film, some of the better-known versions include a 1938 film starring Reginald Owen, the 1970 Albert Finney musical Scrooge, the 1983 animated featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol (starring Scrooge McDuck), the 1988 Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, and 1992's The Muppet Christmas Carol. In addition to those cinematic adaptations, television has given us Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), and faithfully-titled movies starring George C. Scott (1984) and Patrick Stewart (1999). With so many of these versions etched into the cultural consciousness and at least a few of them probably occupying places in your heart, was another filming needed Perhaps not. But director Robert Zemeckis felt he had something new to offer the story and if you've been following Zemeckis' career in recent years, then you know that something was motion capture animation.Zemeckis had ventured into blending live-action with animation in 1988's blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it was The Polar Express (2004) that provided a career-changing experience for the Back to the Future and Forrest Gump helmer. Since that slowly profitable filming of Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning book, Zemeckis has been in love with motion capture animation, more than many critics and much of the general public feels he should be. Zemeckis' 2009 A Christmas Carol followed Beowulf and Zemeckis-produced Monster House down the mocap trail, getting released a month and a half before the entire industry seemed to recognize and acknowledge the medium by way of James Cameron's innovative Avatar.Rather than attesting to the medium's potential, Cameron's effects-loaded epic seemed to uncover the ways in which Zemeckis was falling short, at least with audiences. Because whereas the essentially animated Avatar cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 million and grossed a record $2.8 billion (and counting) worldwide, A Christmas Carol spent $200 million on production and needed foreign grosses to even approach recouping those costs. Shortly after Carol's theatrical run had ended, Disney announced it was closing the Zemeckis-led ImageMovers Digital studio just three years and one finished film after acquiring it. A second effort, Mars Needs Moms, will be released next March. It's not yet clear where the Disney-produced, Zemeckis-directed mocap Yellow Submarine remake, scheduled for 2012 release, will be made. It sounds like it will take more than a studio closing to get Zemeckis to again shoot actors without body suits and sensors. Despite Jim Carrey being cast to an extent comparable to Tom Hanks' Polar Express contributions, Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol proves to be a surprisingly faithful and shockingly dark filming of Dickens' tale. I know you know the story, but I'll synopsize it less to recall it and more to reveal how it's told here. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push({});The film opens on Christmas Eve 1836, as bony, pointy-nosed miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Carrey) signs the death certificate of his newly-deceased business partner Jacob Marley. We jump ahead precisely seven years and find Scrooge as cold and heartless as ever, brushing off solicitors, sidewalk carolers, and his nephew Fred (Colin Firth). That night, Scrooge is visited by the shackled ghost of Marley (Gary Oldman), who issues a ghastly warning and advises him to expect three more spirits to illustrate just how wrong a life placing money above mankind is.Scrooge, of course, is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come (all Carrey). Fiery, innocent Past shows him and us the lonely childhood and abandoned romance that shaped him. Jovial giant Present points out the impoverished but warm family of his overworked clerk Bob Cratchit (also Oldman). And the silent shadow Yet to Come reveals the dark fates that lay ahead should ways not be changed. The film stays remarkably true to Dickens' text, leaving a substantial amount of the original prose intact and even retaining a scene as rarely touched as the beggar children Ignorance and Want appearing as the final warning of the expiring Ghost of Christmas Present. That is one of several frightening moments that aren't softened here as they usually are. 59ce067264