Film Analysis Of A Christmas Film : A Christmas Carol

Is your reaction to the reenacted scenes different than to the written one? My reaction to the 2001 film is not much different from how I read the play myself. That is until I reached the end of the film. Things became seemingly different from what I would have expected.

In 2003, many people would have never thought that Elf would be as great of a success as it is today. Elf is a once in a generation Christmas movie that includes clever and humorous jokes as well as hits the soft spot of much of the audience This comedy may seem cheesy to many but as the story takes off you will not want to leave your seat. From people getting hit by taxis to elves getting into fist fights with Santa, this totally unpredictable movie will keep you laughing for 97 minutes. You will have a hard time keeping up with the movie because you will spend so much time catching your breath. Once you watch the movie once, it will turn into a Christmas tradition for years to come.

Have you ever thought of Christmas as a humbug, or just another ordinary day? Probably not, but if you were to ask Ebenezer Scrooge (from A Christmas Carol), his response to Christmas would be “Bah, Humbug.” Just after we finished reading the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, last week, on December 1, 2017, my classmates and I went to see a live performance of A Christmas Carol at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The play was adapted by Barbara Field, and directed by Drew Fracher. In this essay I will be reviewing how well Actors Theatre portrayed the plot, setting, and characters from the book A Christmas Carol into a live play.

To my understanding, the movie Home for the Holidays not only reveals a lot of potential family conflicts, but also reflects a lot of different communication approaches of the various family members. As a foreigner, I have never experienced Thanksgiving homecoming dinner before, so I may cannot understand some of the holiday customs in the movie, but I found out that their family interactions are interesting indeed.

My daughter and I went to the play “The Snow Queen” at the Marquis Theater in Northville, Michigan on December 10, 2016. The Marquis Theater is a beautifully restored historic landmark. Upon entering, you are transported back to an earlier time. The lobby features the original french doors, the stained glass windows, and the old fashioned ticket booth. The theatre is a victorian design that has two aisle ways with red upholstered seats on the left, right, and middle. The theater is quaint in size but that only adds to the magical allusion that is created when you watch “The Snow Queen.”

In the film “The Princess Bride” directed by Rob Reiner, a story about a fairy tale adventure that all begins with a beautiful girl name Buttercup who works on a farm alongside the farm boy named Westley, who she is deeply in love with. After a while, Westley decides to go seek his fortune, which made Buttercup very upset as she wonders whether she’ll see Westley ever again.

Exit Through the Gift Shop is critical of how our culture values and judges artwork because of the degree to which expectations and others’ beliefs manipulate our interpretations of reality. The documentary demonstrates this phenomenon concerning art, but it also applies to all subjective experiences. Through Thierry’s opening gallery Life is Beautiful, Exit Through the Gift Shop shows how expectations and conformity manipulate our experiences.

The theatrical film The Lion In Winter stars Peter O’Toole as King Henry II, and Katharine Hepburn as his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Adapted from his stage play of the same title, author James Goldman provides a fictional, but plausible, account of intra-family deceit and political conniving within the large and powerful Angevin Empire, which spanned much of the land that is now Britain, and much of what is now Northeastern France, within the medieval world. Directed and edited by Anthony Harvey, the story, set in the winter of 1183, details the succession crisis faced by the aging King Henry II, as his three surviving sons vie for the crown, and Queen Eleanor plots, both with and against them, to regain her freedom, and become the

In the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas, one of the characters, the Grinch, is a fictional holiday antagonist, his only goal is to stop Christmas from happening (Howard, 2000). The Grinch lives alone on top of Mount Crumpits outside of Whoville, his age is undisclosed but appears to be around 40 years in age and is unemployed. He does not have any social relationships to friends or citizens of Whoville, and rather spend his time alone. The only social companion the Grinch has is his dog Max. Additionally, there is no history of drug or alcohol use. Antisocial Personality Disorder is more prevalent in men than in women, and is characterized by a callous unconcern for the feelings of others. The person disregards social norms and

“Bah, Humbug” an iconic line from a story we all know and love, said by a character that was made for us to hate. Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 1843, in part as an attempt to garner some success, and also as an attempt to convince the masses of kindness and charity at Christmas time. While it did not gain him commercial success, the legacy this story has left, succeeded in inspiring our society to give a little more at Christmas time. Nowadays, the story has become synonymous with Christmas. It would be hard to imagine a Christmas without some adaptation of Dickens masterpiece. As A Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted Literary sources, it is no surprise that Dr. Who would take a crack at it. The episode “The Unquiet Undead” aired in 2005, and takes place during the time of Dickens, and while it is not a direct adaptation of A Christmas Carol. it’s many allusions, and similar story structure, make it an apt analogy for it. Of course, revision is Dr. Who’s game, so the alien ghosts, and reanimated corpses are not a surprise either.

The animated and non-animated versions of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas can be compared to view the similarities and differences of both films. The animated movie was produced in the 1960’s and is approximately thirty minutes long, while the non-animated movie was produced in the 2000’s and is around an hour and a half long. They both star the Grinch, an angry man that hates Christmas. Because of his hate for the holiday season, the Grinch plans to dress as Santa Claus and steal all of Whoville’s decorations and presents. Both of these versions of the fim share similarities such as names of landmarks and characters, scripts, and story plots. However, these versions also have differences including the length of the movie, the

The book A Christmas Carol tells a fantastic story that all readers will come back to time and time again. In this novel Charles Dickens excellently conveys the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. At the beginning of this tale Scrooge is a morose man who loathes Christmas with a passion. He is firm in his belief that the only business he need worry about in life is money. However the spirits of Christmas past, present and future haunt Scrooge with lessons that cause a drastic change in the way Scrooge goes about his business. Anyone who has ever read this story by Dickens knows that he conveys many messages throughout the text. The author makes readers understand that the true business of being human is the common welfare by showing how Scrooges’ experiences transform his perspective on business.

The 1947 version the mother and the neighbor work a lot and rarely see each other. They fall in love. When he makes a decision to leave his law firm she’s not sure about going through with the plans, but comes around. The mother taught the daughter that there might not be a knight in shining armor coming to their rescue but they were doing just fine without one. In 1947 the lawyer argued that Kris Kringle wasn’t insane for claiming to be Santa Claus because that is his identity. The question of whether or not Kris Kringle is really Santa Claus is not resolved by proving the post office is willing to recognize him as such.

Have you every watched the movie yes or no called A Christmas Carol? A Christmas Carol is about an adapt. On Christmas Eve Scrooge had got to met three ghost Past, Present, Future. These ghost show him how his past, future, and present is going to be. Each ghost had an influence on him to me the Future had the greatest impact on him.

Since the holidays are getting closer what better movie to talk about than a movie about love and Christmas. The Holiday is a romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet, who play two women who are both suffering romantic disappointments and meet online on a website that helps people find the perfect vacation spot and exchange homes for two weeks. Both Iris (Winslet) who lives in a peaceful little town outside of London and Amanda (Diaz) who lives in crazy Los Angeles, decide to swap homes in order to vacate their lives for the holidays. At first, things are bit chaotic because they are trying to adjust to the culture change, but soon become acquainted with their surroundings. As they escape life they are open to many unexpected experiences that lead to what they have been running from… Love.