My Featured Film

A Christmas Carol（1935）

I. About the Film

 "A Christmas Carol" 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, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016.

II. Versions of the Film

According to the YouTube, there are six film versions of the story that were released to theaters and three TV movie versions. These are listed below with links (to the extent available).

A Christmas Carol(1901)
A Christmas Carol(1910)
A Christmas Carol(1949)
A Christmas Carol(1951)

A Christmas Carol(1999)
A Christmas Carol(2009)

Works Cited （参考文献）

XmasFLIX. "Scrooge (or Marley's Ghost) (1901) "A Christmas Carol" First Film." YouTube. YouTube, 19 Dec. 2011. Web. 21 June 2016.

III. About the Lead Actor-Seymour Hicks

Seymour Hicks was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss. His most famous acting role was that of Ebenzer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's  A Christmas Carol.

Making his stage début at the age of nine and performing professionally by sixteen, Hicks joined a theatrical company and toured America before starring in Under the Clock in 1893, the first musical revue ever staged in London. Following this, he starred in a revival of  Little Jack Sheppard at the Gaiety Theatre, London which brought him to the attention of impresario George Edwardes. Edwardes cast Hicks in his next show, The Shop Girl, in 1894. Its success led to his participation in two more of Edwardes's hit "girl" musicals, The Circus Girl (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898), both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage. Hicks, along with his wife, joined the producer Charles Frohman in his theatre company and wrote and starred in a series of extraordinarily successful musicals, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), Quality Street (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Catch of the Season (1904).

Hicks used his fortune from these shows to commission the building of the Aldwych Theatre in 1905 and the Hicks Theatre in 1906, opening the latter with a new hit show, The Beauty of Bath. His stage performances were less successful in later years, and he opted instead to star in music hall tours, including Pebbles on the Beach (1912). He continued to write light comedies, the most popular of which was The Happy Day (1916). On film, he first appeared in Scrooge andDavid Garrick both from 1913. Later notable films included The Lambeth Walk (1939) and Busman's Honeymoon (1940), and his last film was the year of his death, 1949.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Seymour Hicks." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Characters

• 定義-Characters are persons, or animals or natural forces represented as persons, in a work of film or literature.
• 例-In A Christmas Carol, the main characters are Scrooge, Fred who is Scrooge's nephew, Ghost of Christmas past, Ghost of Christmas present, Ghost of Christmas of yet to come, Belle who was Scrooge's fiance, Bob Cratchit of the clerk who works for Scrooge's branch office.
• 略-Scrooge and Belle were engaged formerly.It was to the existence everyone fears after a Scrooge was to cruel man. It was Fred of his nephew that he touched such Scrooge gently.Ghost of Christmas past is the ghost who shows a situation at Christmas in the past from boyhood to adolescence to a Scrooge. Ghost of Christmas present is the soul generous by the kindness which shows a situation at the opposite present Christmas to a Scrooge with Christmas of a lonely Scrooge. Ghost of Christmas of yet to come is the solemn soul which shows the situation at the dark and miserable future Christmas which will be followed when not reforming, to a Scrooge.

B. Reaction Point - Acting

• 定義-Acting is playing a character in a play or movie.
• 例- The most important example of acting in A Christmas Carol is the acting of Seymour Hicks in the title role.
• 略-Seymour Hicks was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss.

C. Reaction Point - Set Design

• 定義-Set design is how the scenery looks and how it is built.
• 例- The best example of set design in A Christmas Carol is the London. This set was a reproduction of the real London.
• 略-A downtown in London is reproduced realistically.

D. My General Opinion

I found out that Christmas Carol is produced as a lot of movies and animations. There are very much lessons I get from A Christmas Carol.