My Featured Film

Scrooge (1935) "A Christmas Carol" with Seymour Hicks

I. About the Film

Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Scrooge (1935 Film)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 7 May 2016. Web. 27 June 2016.

II. Versions of the Film

Works Cited （参考文献）

XmasFLIX. "Scrooge (1935) "A Christmas Carol" with Seymour Hicks."YouTube. YouTube, 12 Dec. 2012. Web. 27 June 2016.

III. About the Author

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), the second of eight children of John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam, rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. Huffam is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's eponymous Dombey and Son (1848).

 In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia. When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy".

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Charles Dickens." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 June 2016. Web. 27 June 2016.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - characters(人物)

• persons - or animals or natural forces represented as persons - in a work of literature
• Sir Seymour Hicks – Ebenezer Scrooge
• Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer.

B. Reaction Point - costumes(俳優が着用した衣服)

• the clothing worn by the actors who play the characters
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  Men of the main character always wear coats

C. Reaction Point - film director(監督)

• the person who directs the making of a film
• Henry Edwards was an English actor and film director. He appeared in 81 films between 1915 and 1952.

D. My General Opinion

I thought that I felt sorry for spending the life not to know the warmth of love and the human heart.

I thought that it was an overseas idea, and the place where an apparition of a living person appeared on Christmas was wonderful.