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Bah, Humbug! If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips shall be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
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~ Ebenezer Scrooge suggesting how villainous he is at heart to those who care about Christmas.
Ebenezer Scrooge is the main protagonist of the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol and its many adaptations in film and TV. He is a greedy, selfish, spiteful old miser who hates Christmas until three spirits show him the error of his ways.
In the 1939 movie, he was played by the late Reginald Owen.
In the 1951 movie Scrooge, he was portrayed by the late Alastair Sim.
In the 1970 movie Scrooge, he was portrayed by the late Albert Finney.
In the 1978 TV special The Stingiest Man in Town, he was voiced by the late Walter Matthau, who also portrayed Carson Dyle in Charade, while his younger self was voiced by the late Robert Morse, who also voiced Santa Claus in Teen Titans Go!.
In the 1984 film adaptation, he was portrayed by the late George C. Scott, who also portrayed Percival C. McLeach in The Rescuers Down Under, General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, John Rainbird in the 1984 film adaptation of Firestarter and Smoke in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
In the 2004 TV movie A Christmas Carol: The Musical, he was portrayed by Kelsey Grammer, who also portrayed Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons, Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Harold Attinger in Transformers: Age of Extinction, and Hunter in Storks.
In the 2009 Disney version, he was voiced by Jim Carrey, who also played The Grinch in the live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the title character in The Mask, The Riddler in Batman Forever, the title character in The Cable Guy, Hank Evans in Me, Myself, & Irene, Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Walter Sparrow in The Number 23, Steve Gray in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series.
In the 2022 Netflix version, he was voiced by Luke Evans, who also played Driver in No One Lives, Owen Shaw in the Fast & Furious franchise, Gaston Legume in the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake, Ben Hawkins in Ma and the Coachman in the live-action Pinocchio remake.
Other Media[]
Due to being to main character in the story, Scrooge has appeared in almost every single adaptation of the story to date, with varying levels of faithfulness to the original tale.
In Mickey's Christmas Coral, he was portrayed by Scrooge McDuck.
Scrooge's money-lending company on Christmas Eve 1843. Scrooge is described by Dickens as "... a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" Among his many shortcomings, he regards Christmas as a "humbug" and puts his clerk, Bob Cratchit, to long hours for little pay. On Christmas Eve, he politely declines his nephew Fred's invitation to Christmas dinner and turns away two humanitarian workers collecting gifts for the impoverished.
Because Scrooge is such an evil threat to those who care about Christmas, he is visited by the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, who died on Christmas Eve seven years before. Marley, like Scrooge, has spent his life amassing his wealth and exploiting the poor, and as a result is doomed to wander the Earth for eternity chained by his own greed. Marley informs Scrooge that he faces the same fate as him, and that as a final chance for redemption, he will be visited by three Christmas spirits: Past, Present, and Future.
The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Scrooge back in time to his days as a schoolboy and young man. These visions reveal that Scrooge was a lonely youngster who was taken away to a boarding school by his unloving father. (In some film productions of the story, the ghost says that Scrooge's mother died while giving birth to him, and his father hated him for it.) His only solace was his loving younger sister Fan, who begged their father repeatedly to let Scrooge return home, and he eventually relented. Fan died shortly after giving birth to her son, Fred. The spirit then transports him to another Christmas a few years later, when he attends a Christmas party hosted by his generous boss, Mr. Fezziwig. The ghost then shows him a Christmas in which his fiancée, Belle, abandons him because she understands his love for money has taken precedence over his love for her. Finally, the spirit transports him to a Christmas Eve years later, when Belle is happily married to another man.
The Ghost of Christmas Present then visits Scrooge and shows him the entire city of London celebrating Christmas, including Fred and the impoverished Cratchit family. When Scrooge expresses worry for Cratchit's unwell son Tiny Tim, the spirit reminds him that unless something happens, the boy will die, and uses Scrooge's earlier statements about "decreasing the surplus population" against him. The soul then gives birth to two deformed, sickly children, Ignorance and Want. When Scrooge asks if they have somebody to look after them, the spirit responds with more of Scrooge's own words: "Are there no prisons, no workhouses?"
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge on Christmas Day one year later. Tiny Tim perished, just as the previous spirit prophesied; his father couldn't afford to give him sufficient care on his meager manager pay. Scrooge is subsequently shown scenes from the death of a "wretched man" by the spirit: His business associates snicker about how it'll be a cheap funeral, and one associate will only go if lunch is provided, his belongings are stolen and sold by his housekeeper, undertaker, and laundress, and a young couple who owed the man money are relieved he's dead, as they now have more time to pay off their debt. Scrooge is then shown the man's tombstone, which displays his name.
Scrooge weeps over his own grave, pleading with the ghost for a second chance, before waking up to realize it is Christmas morning. He quickly repents and becomes a model of generosity and love, visiting Fred, giving Cratchit a raise, and becoming Tiny Tim's "second father." "Many laughed to see this change in him," the last narration says, "but he let them laugh and little heeded them, for he knew that no good thing in this world ever happened at which some did not have their fill of laughter." His heart chuckled, and that was all he needed. And it was always said of him that if any guy living knew how to keep Christmas well, it was him."
Gallery[]
Illustration with classical Scrooge features.
Alastair Sim as Scrooge in the 1951 film.
Scrooge McDuck as Scrooge in the 1983 Mickey’s Christmas Carol.
George C. Scott as Scrooge in the 1984 film.
Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1992 Muppet’s Christmas Carol.
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