A Christmas Carol

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They're mumbling.

Ffs.

They can hear it three houses away. The telly is up at 11. Still can't hear a damn thing.

Is this what pay my tv licence fee for?!

Ah. I think it is fabulous. However, I do have subtitles on.

Yes I noticed the mumbling but seems to improved now

I was about to give up but its starting to look interesting so I'll give it a chance .

I've switched channels. I was so looking forward to this but I can't cope with mumbling actors and long moody soliloquys. I think I'm Christmas Carol'd out.

Wish it was truer to the text. Dickens just doesn't need improving.

Love it. Stephen Graham is fabulous as always.

Guy Pearce is doing a good impression of Alan Davies for some reason!

I was really excited about this but it's very quiet and very dark (in terms of lighting). I will hang on in there.

Can't hear half the dialogue, can't see half the scenes as so gloomy. I was looking forward to this but going to give up.

Not sure will help a gcse student of a Christmas Carol?
He is not watching it as at a sleepover but wondering if should?
I am sort of enjoying it but missing actual words of Dickens.

There really has not been a single word of Dickens in this yet.

Humbug.

Did anyone see the Christmas Carol monologue with Simon Callow last year? I think it was a repeat, it was a filmed version of a play he did in a real house, the audience had to follow him round the rooms, i loved that.

I've given up.

Too sweary to show at school.

I've given up. It's one of my favourite books but I was up for a fresh look but this is just shite. Not a single word or scene from the source material. Clearly Mr Peaky Blinders thinks himself a better writer than Charles Dickens. Bah fucking humbug.......

I'm loving it! Not noticed the mumbling.

I’m really enjoying it.

I think it is going to be quite a political re-interpretation. I was watching the Alisdair Sim version the other day and thought it would be great to make it more relevant to our age of austerity. And here this is.

Also, I wonder whether a GCSE student these days would be able to quote a high production value TV drama in an essay (they would of course have to know the original quite well and not get the details of the book and TV drama mixed up).

after 'christmas carol gone wrong' I can't take it seriously anymore...

Indeed. Many moons ago my little brother, who had not read his Shakespeare well, started putting elements of film he had watched of a production in his homework. He confused himself as did not know the play well.

"Man,“ said the Ghost,“if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear
that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and
Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It
may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!“

From the original text. Pretty pertinent to today I would say.....

I'm an English graduate and can imagine incorporating a political approach to A Christmas Carol with some discussion of this interpretation at secondary level these days. Only ,however, if I had read the original.

I watched the beginning on silent with sub-titles, and the language seemed far too modernised. Why must everything be dumbed-down to be made 'accessible'?

Oh no this is awful, so dark I can hardly see anything. I have the volume up full blast as I can't hear anything. Not one line of Dickens.
Bloody rubbish

A big contrast to a lovely production I saw at the theatre with 'Dickens' reading/ acting the story...

However, I am still watching!