Adapted from Words Like That S1 Ep. 5: “Christmas Movie Special + End of Year Story Updates,” originally released December 19, 2023.
I am a Charles Dickens fanatic. I’ve been working my way through his complete works for the last 8 years. I’ve read all the majors, and I’m into the minors and short stories. I wrote my graduate thesis proposal on Dickens’s prose style (although I didn’t end up pursuing the thesis because I changed majors mid-stream, but, anyway…). In short, I love Dickens, and A Christmas Carol is, in my book, the greatest Christmas fiction story.
Consequently, it’s been adapted on screen at least 50 million times. (My team fact-checked that number, and it’s approximately 100% accurate.) Everybody, of course, has their favorite version, and mine is the 1984 rendition, starring the indomitable George C. Scott as Scrooge.
Cole Powell is an arts and media commentator and award-winning singer/songwriter from Jayess, MS, USA.