What is different about the book and movie of 'A Christmas Carol'?

Answer 1

A Christmas Carol has been made into so many different movies in so many different interpretations (one even has a female Scrooge) that it's impossible to compare the book without first watching a specific, named movie. Most movies, however, are pretty faithful to the story.

Answer 2

They are the same. the original book was called a Christmas Carol. The first film to drop that name was in 1951 and they called it "Scrooge" in the UK but had to change it back to A Christmas Carol for the US market

Answer 3

Marley was dead and scrooge was still alive. Ghost of Marley felt pity for Scrooge, something taht neither did in their previous live and unlike Scrooge Marley wanted to do a his old friend a kind service by warning him about his foreseeable death if he did not change his ways

Answer 4

One key difference between the book and movie adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" is the visual representation of the story. The movie typically portrays the characters and settings visually, while the book relies on the reader's imagination to create these images. Additionally, movies might take creative liberties with the storyline or characters, whereas the book presents the original version as written by Charles Dickens.

Answer 5

It is about a bitter old man named ebenzer scrooge who is visited by the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future after being haunted by his old partner

Answer 6

frequently in the films the chains wrapped around Jacob Marley are seen as standard link chains, in the book each is made up of iron book ledgers, safes, money bags, bank books

Answer 7

it was made diffrently by diffrent people.