Ebenezer review – Johnny Depp’s Scrooge tries to exorcise ghosts of business past
The latest film version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is decent enough, though its star is rather better as the legendary miser before redemption arrives Here for lovers of Dickens – and fans of subtext – is…
Source: The Guardian ·
The latest film version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is decent enough, though its star is rather better as the legendary miser before redemption arrives Here for lovers of Dickens – and fans of subtext – is an unexpectedly watchable new movie version of A Christmas Carol starring a top-hatted and heavily madeup Johnny Depp; it is a film about whether it’s possible for a man to earn redemption before it is too late. (The answer is … sure, as long as you say sorry and change your ways. But Mr Scrooge never launched a libel action against the Sun for calling him an un-Christmassy old meanie.) In fact, screenwriter Nathaniel Halpern and director Ti West have put together a perfectly serviceable, faithful adaptation – a tradaptation, if you will – of Dickens’s masterpiece about the hideous old miser saved from damnation on Christmas Eve by the appearance of three Christmas…