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Differneces Beween This Version And Others

posted 9 years ago by sas6789
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Let me start off by saying I love this movie but it's worth pointing there are two major differences between this version and the all the others (that I've seen anyway)

1. In all other versions Scrooge was shown to be a nice guy before he improved his wealth but in this he never appeared to be nice even as a child hence this quote "Who cares about stupid old Christmas?"

2. In all other versions Scrooge's backstory is explained in detail about how he became the person he was i.e. being Hated by his father by his father and forced to stay behind at Christmas and how close he was to his sister before she died but in this version his sister isn't even mentioned which seems strange.

There's also other minor differences such as the inclusion of Robert Marley and that his nephew seems to actually hate him rather than feel sympathy for him as he does in other versions.

[–] hurricanehorton 9 years ago

This one has The Muppets in, other versions do not.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (1584) 2 years ago

Those are all notable differences.

[–] whoanelly (1559) 2 years ago

Re Robert Marley
It seems Henson wanted to portray Marley’s Ghost with the Statler and Waldorf muppets, and they are a set so there needed to be a second Marley. ( using the first name Robert is a nod to Bob Marley.)