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He’s just method acting Dickens

Even the text of the book points out that for all his love of money, Scrooge doesn’t indulge in luxuries or even decent quality food. There’s a reason his first reaction to the ghosts is “oh shit I ate something bad”

I think “the muppets were very clear about this!” is my new favourite way of concluding an argument.

Also since the story was written we've actually learned a bunch of stuff about economics that undercuts the idea of thrift as virtue

Not to mention the book is very short which means many of the adaptations don’t change much Just go watch the Muppets

Come to think of it, the entire series genuinely is basically a soft continuation of A Christmas Carol. Dickens fanfic.

The normalisation of Scrooge. They’re going to turn him into some kind of hero for this current day and age.

Also, as has been pointed out ad nauseum, most of the original story is the backstory, this is beyond pointless

“But what if the working poor deserve to die for lack of access to healthcare?” “Actually, child labor is good for society!”

The most recent one I can think of is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which is kind of borderline. That was 1998

Does that one where he becomes a pervert inside a computer count?

it’s a terrible sketch with ricky gervais that shows up on the internet every now and then

"Did anyone see The Professor (2018)?"

Heck, two entire runs of DuckTales.

Mr. Magoo’s Christmas tried to get the audience to view Scrooge in a more sympathetic light, but I didn’t fall for it.

You do not, in any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him."

But, what if like the 4 ghosts are wrong, man?

The Ghost of Christmas Present shows up to tell him he’s doing an awesome job and vanishes after they high five

Scrooge isn't, like, emotional though. He's an asshole because of the things he believes not because he says them meanly. There's no nice way to say, "You should have to work Christmas, Bob." He does use logic. His core beliefs are the problem.

Hmm there are prisons and workhouses. Good point.

in reality he would have broken his neck

Read the room guys

You’ve overlooked that he has an entire lifetime of bad memories centered around Christmas.

Perhaps they have a point. The Great Gatsby… not so great.

Overall I feel like our plutocrat overlords already have their view points represented sufficiently

Granted, I should have been more specific.

I, for one, have very much been looking forward to some Fezziwig backstory that was sorely missing in the original book

Ah yes. The good Assassin's Creed game

I'm in. Make it a musical and I'm starting a YouTube channel evangelizing it six months before it comes out.

Which, I'm just reminded, also stars Johnny Depp.

A Christmas Carving

Scrooge McDuck has money based magic powers.

If looked at another way, this could have been Bob Cratchit's villain story origin if Scrooge wasn't harassed and terrified into being a better human.

Not to mention the last 45 years

Better not be any overrun with my remake of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ which posits the idea that maybe Zaroff was right and some folks really do need to be hunted with dogs. Still, we can all be thankful their plans for an Amon Göth centred Shindler’s List remake fell through…

Fun loving happy scrooge makes a lot more sense than neglected, totally understandable scrooge. If we're not talking cartoons, then he's a bad bad man and that's about it.

And you know who can show up Albert Finney and Patrick Stewart? The man who played Tonto as a collection of bonkers ethnic stereotypes in 2013 opposite a cannibal.

Well, maybe Mr. McDuck should get ANOTHER movie! It's been too damn long since the last one!

And even THEN Scrooge McDuck isn't anywhere near as bad as Ebenezer Scrooge.

It sounds like Scrooge being whitewashed as an Ayn-Randroid John Galt.

"Josiah Bounderby, Job Creator" starring Scott Baio!

Yeh, trying to whitewash Scrooge is laughable. There's still horrible rich guys who don't pay their workers enough! They're a constant! Scrooge can give Bob Cratchit a living wage, as proven by the fact that he does!

I love this version so much.

Isn't that kinda what the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Batman are about when you really think about it?

We need a live action ducktales remake. Disney, get on that.

and the reboot was even more explicit in this message than the original!

"A Christmas Carol" is a well-meant story that had the unintended side effect of empowering a lot of assholes to harass people who don't celebrate Christmas, and giving them an epithet to throw around ("Scrooge").

Paramount and the Ellison’s Present a very loose adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (We’re Keeping the “Christ” in “Christmas”, Eat It Libs! (Yes, This Is A Part of the Title))

The line from the director about how they always wanted Scrooge to have a good argument made me laugh out loud. I'm picturing a bunch of those success mindset accounts that make memes of Tony Soprano smoking a cigar but now it's Johnny Depp dressed as Ebenezer Scrooge.

DuckTales brave enough to explore if Scrooge had a point *and* a hovercraft

C) An Austarian economic newsletter ran an article on the concept one year and became the laughing stock of the Internet.

But if the poor were going to steal off his dead body and he left any money in his pockets or jewelry on, why wouldn't a miser be like "good for them"? The whole point was to express how miserly and miserable of a man he was.

Scrooge can only be beloved if he has no pants I don't make the rules

And Blackadder.

Didn't the ghost of christmas past show us why Eb is Eb? Pass. I'll watch christmas story again. And again...

Dickens GAVE Scrooge a point to be right about, specifically about stores being open on Sunday, so workers could go shopping on their day off.

⋰ The entire Duck Run that god gave sense to and not to the goose was the tale of this post saying scrooge was right to the point …

Points for Duck Tales!

Not to mention the Carl Barks and Don Rosa comics

I believe people should have nice things and I won't go into how much credit card companies and banks take advantage of the poor. I just feel like we mindlessly sheep our way into shit. What if Scrooge did have a point, even a minor one?

After a decade of learning the very wealthy don't understand any science fiction or fantasy, now we learn they don't even understand the complex, subtle nuance of Charles Dickens.