George C. Scott’s A Christmas Carol Painting

Ebenezer Scrooge: [on Tiny Tim] Tell me, Spirit... Will he live? Ghost of Christmas Present: I see an empty place at this table. I see a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die. Ebenezer Scrooge: No. Say he'll be spared. Ghost of Christmas Present: If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, none other of my species will find him here. But if he is to die, then let him die...! "AND DECREASE THE SURPLUS POPULATION!" Ebenezer Scrooge: You use my own words against me? Ghost of Christmas Present: Yes! So perhaps, in the future, you will hold your tongue until you have discovered what the surplus population is, and WHERE it is. It may well be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than MILLIONS like this poor man's child. 
 Belle: If there had been no understanding between us, would you seek me out and try to win me now, a dowerless girl with nothing but myself to bring to a marriage? [silence from Young Scrooge] Belle: You have no answer? Young Scrooge: You think I would not then? Belle: Oh Ebenezer, what a safe and terrible answer! So characteristic of the careful man. [pause] Belle: Ebenezer, I release you. You are a free man. I let you go with a full heart. May you be happy in the life you have chosen. 
 Tiny Tim: [outside Scrooge's office] Merry Christmas, Mister Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge: Don't beg on this corner, boy. Tiny Tim: I'm not begging, Sir. I'm Tim Cratchit. I'm waiting for my father. Ebenezer Scrooge: Tim Cratchit, eh? Well you'll have a long wait, then, won't you? [he walks off] Tiny Tim: Merry Christmas, Sir! Ebenezer Scrooge: Humbug. 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: Where are we now? I'm sure I don't know this place. Ghost of Christmas Present: The name would mean nothing to you. It's a place, like many in this world. Meg: Do we have enough wood for the night? Ben: Ah, it'll last through the night. At least there's one thing still free in this country. Meg: [Checking the food the children are cooking over the fire] Mary, Peter they're cooked. Peter (their son): They're too hot. Meg: They'll be cold soon enough. Mary (their daughter): Where did you get these father? Ben: I didn't steal them, if that's what you say. Meg: She didn't say you stole them. Ben: She should have some respect. Meg: Don't berate the girl. [Speaking to Mary] Meg: They fell from a cart into the road. Ben: You're father's not a thief girl. Not yet. Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. Children eating scraps! There are institutions. Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of? Ebenezer Scrooge: No! I am taxed for them. Isn't that enough? Ghost of Christmas Present: Is it? Meg: Ben, come back to the fire. Ben: Look at these hands, Meg. They're hard hands; they've done hard work. I want to work. I want to have bread for my children. It's not right that there's no work. Meg: We're together Ben. That's the important thing. Ben: I love you Meg. I love the children. Tomorrow take the children and go to the parish poorhouse. Meg: No! No. I'd rather we all drown in the river than go to one of those places and be separated forever. Ben: Until I get work? Meg: No! Ben, we're a family. We stay together. Come. Come back to the fire. Come. Ebenezer Scrooge: Why do you show me this? What does it have to do with me? Ghost of Christmas Present: Are they not of the human race!? Look here, beneath my robe! [opens his robe to reveal two filthy, ashen, corpse-like children standing where his legs should be] Ghost of Christmas Present: Look upon these! Ebenezer Scrooge: [stupefied with horror] What are they? Ghost of Christmas Present: They are your children! They are the children of all who walk the earth unseen! Their names are Ignorance and Want! Beware of them, for upon their brow is written the word "doom"! They spell the downfall of you and all who deny their existence! Ebenezer Scrooge: Have they no refuge, no resource? Ghost of Christmas Present: [smiles, mocking him from an earlier conversation] "Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?" Ebenezer Scrooge: [looks down at the children] Cover them. I do not wish to see them. Ghost of Christmas Present: I thought as much. [Present closes his robe to conceal the children] Ghost of Christmas Present: They are hidden... but they live... oh, they live… 
 Jacob Marley: [to Scrooge] I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. Is its pattern strange to you or would you know the length of the strong coils you bear yourself? It was as full, as heavy, as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago, you have labored on it since, it is a ponderous chain!
 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: [to the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come] Good Spirit, your nature intercedes for me and pities me. Assure me that I may yet change these shadows, by an altered life. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of all Three shall strive within me! I will not shut out the lessons that they teach! Tell me that I may sponge the writing from this stone! 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: [after seeing the memory of Belle walk out on him] I almost went after her. Ghost of Christmas Past: "Almost" carries no weight. Especially in matters of the heart. 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: [to the Spirit of Christmas Yet-to-Come after viewing the Cratchit family's mourn about Tiny Tim] I asked for tenderness and depths of feeling and you showed me that. Nothing more I need to see. Take me home.
 
 Fred Holywell: [on his Uncle Ebenezer] ... His wealth is quite useless to him, really. He doesn't do any good with it; he doesn't even make HIMSELF comfortable with it. Ebenezer Scrooge: [whom nobody else can see or hear] I haven't SQUANDERED it, if that's what you mean by "making myself comfortable!" Ghost of Christmas Present: You mustn't argue with those we visit. It's useless, and even tactless. Ebenezer Scrooge: Tact is a quality I despise. Ghost of Christmas Present: *That* I can see. 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: [after Marley enters] What do you want with me? Jacob Marley: Much. Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you? Jacob Marley: Ask me who I was. Ebenezer Scrooge: You're particular for a ghost. Who were you then. Jacob Marley: In life I was your partner. Jacob Marley. Ebenezer Scrooge: Can you sit down? Jacob Marley: I can. Ebenezer Scrooge: Well, do it then. 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: Fan pleaded for more time, but Father was a very... stern man. [Gives a grim smile] Ebenezer Scrooge: Ah, Fan... Ghost of Christmas Past: She died a young woman Ebenezer Scrooge: She had such a generous nature; Yes, too young. Ghost of Christmas Past: Old enough to bear a child. Ebenezer Scrooge: One son. Ghost of Christmas Past: Fred, your nephew. Ebenezer Scrooge: Fred Holywell, yes. Ghost of Christmas Past: Who bears a strong resemblance to your sister. Ebenezer Scrooge: Does he? Hmph, I never noticed. Ghost of Christmas Past: You never noticed? I'm beginning to think you've gone through life with your eyes closed. Open them. Open them wide. Mr. Poole: Mr. Scrooge, I presume? Ebenezer Scrooge: Indeed you do, sir. Mr. Poole: You don't know us? Ebenezer Scrooge: Nor do I wish to. 
 Ebenezer Scrooge: Very well... You're devilishly hard to have conversation with.
 Ghost of Christmas Past: Yes, well, it’s time to move on. Come along Ebenezer. You know the way. Scrooge: I could walk it blindfolded. Ghost of Christmas Past: Your school. Scrooge: I remember. Ghost of Christmas Past: And it’s Christmas Day. Scrooge: There’s a boy in there, neglected. Ghost of Christmas Past: The boy is deserted by his friends and his family. Scrooge: His mother is dead. His father holds him a grudge. Ghost of Christmas Past: Why does his father hold him a grudge? Scrooge: She died in childbirth. His birth. Ghost of Christmas Past: Weep for the boy, if the tears will come. Scrooge: He has his friends, even on this day -- from his beloved books. His Ali Baba. Dear honest Ali Baba. And the Sultan’s groom turned upside down by the Genie. Ghost of Christmas Past: But not a real child to talk to, not a living person. Scrooge: Robinson Crusoe, not real? [Chuckling] And Friday? And the parrot with green body and yellow tail? Not real? [Scoffs] He made do, this boy. 
 Fred Holywell: Uncle Ebenezer, this is my wife Janet. Janet this is Uncle Ebenezer. Janet Holywell: It's a pleasure. Ebenezer Scrooge: More like a surprise, wouldn't you say? Janet Holywell: Well, that too. Fred Holywell: That's quite true. Quite honestly, it is a surprise. At least yesterday, you made it quite clear, it seemed to me at least, that you had no intention of accepting my annual invitation. Ebenezer Scrooge: I made other things clear too, didn't I, Fred? That Christmas was a humbug - a waste of time and money. A false and commercial festival, devoutly to be ignored. Fred Holywell: Yes, basically, that was it. Ebenezer Scrooge: Well, I've come for three reasons. First, to beg your pardon for the things I said about Christmas. That was a humbug, Fred. Fred Holywell: Was it? Ebenezer Scrooge: I didn't know it then, but I know it now. Secondly, I've come to meet your wife. Fred Holywell: Well, here she is. Ebenezer Scrooge: Yes, and a very beautiful woman she is too. Janet Holywell: Thank you. Ebenezer Scrooge: I uh... I was in love once. Would you believe that? Janet Holywell: Yes. Ebenezer Scrooge: But I possessed neither the courage nor the optimism nor perhaps the depth of feeling that you two have. Thirdly, if the invitation to dine with you today is still in force, I accept. Fred Holywell: Of course, it's still in force! Hurrah! I was sure that one day... Ebenezer Scrooge: You were sure? Well, apparently you were right. Yes, I should like to dine with you and your friends. Janet Holywell: You'll be more than welcome! Ebenezer Scrooge: Merry Christmas to everybody… and a Happy New Year to the world! 
 Tiny Tim: And God bless us all, every one. 
 From ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1984) Starring Joanne Whalley ("I suppose my power enchanted you and you were helpless against it."), Michael Gough (Val’s Top Secret!), Edward Woodward ("If we don't come down hard on these clowns, we are gonna be up to our balls in jugglers."), Augustus Steranko ("Wasn't your... didn't your mole used to be on the other side?"), Anthony Walters (Lupin’s Black Beauty), Susannah York ("He'll be odd. Different. Isolated. Alone."), Evil Genius (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country), Frank Finlay (Basil’s Musketeers), Angela Pleasance (Gangs of New York), Bib Fortuna (An American Werewolf in London), Nigel Davenport (Exposition’s Island of Dr. Moreau), and Gen. George S. Patton ("It'd be naive of us, Mr. President, to imagine that these new developments would cause a change in Soviet expansionist policy. I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them taking over other mine shafts space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do. Thus, knocking us out of these superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!"). Screenplay by Roger O. Hirson (Gere’s Strike Force). Directed by Clive Donner (Charlemagne). 
 
 A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name. The film was directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. It was filmed in the historic medieval county town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
 
 
 George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor, director, and producer who had a celebrated career on both stage and screen. With a gruff demeanor and commanding presence, Scott became known for his portrayal of stern, but complex, authority figures like prosecutor Claude Dancer in Anatomy of a Murder, General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Herbert Bock in The Hospital, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Lt. Kinderman in The Exorcist III, and General George S. Patton in the biopic Patton, which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Described by The Guardian as "a battler and an actor of rare courage", his performances won him widespread recognition and numerous other accolades, including a Golden Globe, a Genie Award, and two Primetime Emmys. Scott first distinguished himself as a stage actor in New York, both in Off-Broadway and Broadway productions. He earned the first of four Oscar nominations for only his second film role, in Anatomy of a Murder, and soon achieved screen stardom through a series of lead roles in films like The Hustler (1961), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Dr. Strangelove (1964), and The Bible: In the Beginning (1966). Though he won the Best Actor Oscar for playing the titular role in Patton, he became the first actor to refuse the award, having warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences months in advance that he would do so on philosophical grounds if he won. Scott believed that every dramatic performance was unique and could not be compared to others. Scott continued to maintain a prominent stage career even as his film stardom waned, and by the end of his career he had accrued five Tony nominations, including four for Best Actor in a Play, earning his final nomination for playing Henry Drummond in the 1996 Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind. He directed several of his own films and plays and often collaborated with his wives Colleen Dewhurst and Trish Van Devere. 
 
 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella, and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School, one of several establishments for London's street children. The treatment of the poor and the ability of a selfish man to redeem himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character are the key themes of the story. There is discussion among academics as to whether this is a fully secular story, or if it is a Christian allegory. Published on 19 December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve; by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. Most critics reviewed the novella favourably. The story was illicitly copied in January 1844; Dickens took legal action against the publishers, who went bankrupt, further reducing Dickens's small profits from the publication. He went on to write four other Christmas stories in subsequent years. In 1849 he began public readings of the story, which proved so successful he undertook 127 further performances until 1870, the year of his death. A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many timesfor film, stage, opera and other media. A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and later inspired several aspects of Christmas, including family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games and a festive generosity of spirit. 
 
 Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (/ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he was returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education and other social reforms. Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers, a publishing phenomenon—thanks largely to the introduction of the character Sam Weller in the fourth episode—that sparked Pickwick merchandise and spin-offs. Within a few years Dickens had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers. His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris) is his best-known work of historical fiction. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social or working conditions, or comically repulsive characters. 
 Source: Wikipedia 
 
 
 Frank Cross: Well, I'm sure Charles Dickens would have wanted to see her nipples.
 
 Frank Cross: We don’t wanna scare the Dickens out of people. The Dickens out of people! Nobody gets me.

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