I watched the Scott version today and it
was good and pretty faithful to the text but Scott's take on the character just didn't sit right with me. This is the descripion of Scrooge from the book:
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
There was none of this in Scott's performance. He portrayed him as being way too confident and powerful... Scrooge is none of these and physically he wasn't even close. On the other hand, David Warner I thought was excellent as Cratchett and I thought it caught the atmosphere of Dickensian London very well. So, there you go... good but not
great. My vote still stays with Sim
