The Messed Up Origins of A Christmas Carol | Classics Explained - Jon Solo

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• JO

  @JonSolo · 5 years ago · pinned

  Thanks for watching, Solo Fam! Here's hoping you enjoy this special Christmas episode! I'm going to go drink some eggnog and contemplate human existence now. 🎅

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• AN

  @AnimaMandala · 5 years ago

  Most versions I've seen only tell the audience of Tiny Tim's death by showing the Cratchit family in mourning. But in "Mickey's Christmas Carol", we actually see them gathered at his gravestone, laying down his crutch. It's brief, with no dialog, but more poignant, and always held more of an impact to me.

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• SO

  @sonjasmind · 5 years ago

  Why isn't this man on tv or netflix. Get Jon a research team, editors, and a set. I could watch him break down any story. xoxoxo Jon Solo.

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• MI

  @micaylab1 · 5 years ago

  The section with Christmas Future is the most Gothic storytelling.

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• CH

  @christianmarshal6117 · 5 years ago

  Scrooge actually begins to piece together he’s the dead guy fairly quickly but out of fear he goes into a state of denial trying to convince himself it isn’t so.

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  @ChakChakGuy · 3 years ago

  the biggest surprise for me when reading the story was that the second ghost takes him on a huge journey (A hospital, a ship in the midle of the ocean,....) showing him how even in the hardest and saddest places in the world christmas can bring happiness (and also emphasizes that these places exist) and that part is cut out of pretty much every single adaption I've seen so so far. Even this analysis. The only adaption that doesn't ignore it completely is the muppets version, which at least shortly pans to a hospital during one of the musical numbers

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• TH

  @thepoisonalex · 5 years ago

  “There’s one guy you can’t help but think of when you think of someone with a lack of holiday cheer” <br>Me: &nbsp;The Grinch! ...oh.. you said Scrooge

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• DA

  @DamonNomad82 · 5 years ago

  As a kid, I imagined the Ghost of Christmas Present as being a specter made from torn wrapping paper, discarded ribbons, and empty boxes.

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• CH

  @christianmarshal6117 · 5 years ago

  The Ghost of Christmas Present doesn’t really definitively say that Tiny Tim will die. He tells Ebenezer “That is the future... my power lies in the present. But I do see a vacant seat where Tiny Tim once sat and a crutch without an owner carefully preserved in the poor chimney corner. If these visions remain unaltered by the future then yes, the boy will die.” and then he decides to really hit Scrooge with a guilt trip gut punch by saying, “But if he’s going to die then he’d better do it, and decrease... ‘the surplus population’.” Ooo direct hit!

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• UB

  @ubtpixielox · 5 years ago

  My strongest memory of this story is reading it to my little sister as a child. We spent probably half an hour just reading and rereading the very first line, &quot;Marley was dead&quot;, and laughing hysterically at it. Good times... X,D good times...

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• DO

  @Dove77879 · 5 years ago

  This one was less of a &quot;messed up&quot; origin and far more of an &quot;origin born of good intention&quot; and I like that.

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• AN

  @Ang-ang- · 5 years ago

  “Imagine all of your devices go off” me with my iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch when I get a call 👁👄👁

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