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The setting of the town did not seem to portray the absolute cold and dreariness that dickens described. He could see people’s reaction to the book just by the way it was interpreted on screen. The way the miserly Scrooge was made into a white haired tight-lipped angry old man, and how tiny Tim limped emphatically while going through town with his mother. Small descriptions in the book that if not portrayed right form the book would ruin the moment Dickens tried to create with words. Some could say the acting and even the setting would appall him. He describes the bitterly cold and how the “fog and frost hung about the black old gateway of the house”, in the movie, the out-door scenes do not seem as cold with the people not as bundled up as you would have to believe if the weather was so wet and cold.

In all, I think that the book- to- movie sequence, in this instance gave the reader more insight to what Dickens was trying to do with this book.

I think Dickens would marvel at this film, Just the site of his creation in a real life setting would allow him self to see what he was trying to portray from his mind to paper. The film also had scenes that helped capture the fright and sorrow of old scrooge better than I think words could describe. As was stated in class the vernacular of the children and some of the people were not accurate to the period in time The children spoke a trained dialect that to Dickens would not be proper of that time period. It opens up your mind more to actually see a human form turned into a miserly man with a bitter mouth and old features. he age seemed to be the right time frame for the old man.

Although others could argue that Dickens would not have liked this film at all.