December 15, 2004

Dickens rolls over

As in: Media

So I watched Karrol's Christmas last night, an amusing (if schmaltzy) re-telling of the Dickens that asks "what if the ghosts visted the wrong guy?"

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    Two things amused me about the movie.
  1. When the main character and the Scrooge character appear and then disappear at the original nativity, one of the wise men sees them and is bewildered. "I've gotta lay off the Myrrh." Drug jokes about the three wise men rock!
  2. When "Jacob Marley" comes to visit the main character, he's a cheery Jamaican guy with dreadlocks (at the left side of the picture). The film suggests that he's related to Bob Marley, who was one of the "original" Marley's descendants. Dickens' Marley apparently had a son who went on a trip to Jamaica.
Posted by briley at December 15, 2004 10:41 AM