Scrooged is a christmas movie train wreck you cant. The problem i faced was that the soundtrack album for scrooged is woefully out of print. In this modern take on charles dickens a christmas carol, frank cross bill murray is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, claire phillips karen allen. Bill murray is unforgivably cruel as the ruthless and sadistic tv network exec frank cross, who is forced to grow a conscience after visits from the ghosts of christmas past, present and future. Murray s network ibc is preparing to broadcast a live version of a christmas carol with, in a good bit, buddy hackett as scrooge, so it is against this backdrop that murray s own journey.
Aug 19, 2020 bill murray s role in on the rocks looks to be the quintessential murray part, a philandering asshole who you cant help but be charmed by. I watched a sleighful of scrooges for my book have yourself a movie little christmas and am. Think of it all bill murray as a modernday scrooge, buster poindexter as the ghost of christmas past, carol kane as the ghost of christmas present, bobcat goldthwaite as a modernday bob cratchit. From overworked executives to ghosts of christmas past, the dark. The ghost of christmas past is a character from the novel a christmas carol by charles dickens role in the story. The ghost of christmas past is a character from the novel a christmas carol by charles dickens. Frank is the president of ibc, a fictional television network, that will be airing its own production of a christmas carol. But, im a huge bill murray fan and this movies has lots of stars i love. Ghost of christmas past christmas carol christmas movies friends gif bonfire night bill murray head. Based on the 1843 novella a christmas carol by charles dickens, scrooged is a modern retelling that follows bill murray as frank cross, a cynical and selfish television executive. The part eventually went to actor david johansen who was friends with billy murray. Scrooged ghost of christmas past clip paramount movies.
But bill murray is there first, to catch the coin, to interrupt the broadcast with a sincere but rambling tribute to the power of christmas, to the potential for love and hope even in the darkest of times. If you look closely, youll see that the ghost of christmas past david. A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on christmas eve. The many ghosts of a christmas carol scrooge horror. Scrooged is a christmas movie train wreck you cant believe. But after firing a staff member, eliot loudermilk bobcat goldthwait, on christmas eve, frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to. Young frank even remarks that the ginsu knives are sharp enough to cut through a tin can as easily as a tomato. Here he sees his childhood, his early career and the love of his life played by karen allen. Dec 07, 2020 in 2018, charles dickens classic novella a christmas carol turns 175, but its utility as a springboard for movie and tv adaptations shows no signs of slowing down. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Marley is the first ghost other than the three spirits to visit ebenezer seven years later. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. A 1988 comedy film directed by richard donner and starring bill murray, scrooged is a moderately loose modern retelling of a christmas carol, with the twist of taking place in a world.
Scrooged is a 1988 american christmas comedy film directed by richard donner and written by mitch glazer and michael odonoghue. Based on the 1843 novella a christmas carol by charles dickens, scrooged is a modern retelling that follows bill murray as frank cross, a cynical and selfish television executive, who is visited by a succession of ghosts on christmas. Bill murray and rashida jones play father and daughter in. He shows him scenes from his past that occurred on or around christmas, in order to demonstrate to him the. The ghost of christmas past is the first spirit to visit scrooge after the ghost of marley.
Dec 23, 2020 scrooged is a christmas carol dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world well, the late eighties anyway. Scrooged bill murray eng ita 1988 multisubs 1080p h264. Think of it all bill murray as a modernday scrooge, buster poindexter as the ghost of christmas past, carol kane as the ghost of christmas present, bobcat goldthwaite as a modernday bob. High quality bill murray scrooged gifts and merchandise. Bill murray plays frank cross, a television network head that is trying to put on a live version of a christmas carol. A look at the various film adaptations of charles dickens a christmas carol. The portrayal cross is very similar to the classic scrooge. Dec 11, 2020 on my own scrooge like odyssey walking downtown with no ghost to guide me, scrooged happened to be playing in an old movie theatre in the village. I watch this every christmas, along with christmas vacation, the ref and a christmas story. While the film gives the viewer those christmas warmandfuzzies in the end, this adaptation of a christmas carol is a much crueller, much darker.
Highspirited high jinks on christmas eve put frank cross bill murray in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious takeoff of charles dickens a christmas carol. Dialogue reveals that a little boy does not speak because he saw his father killed in the past. The many adaptations of charles dickens a christmas carol ranked from. Russell thorndike is suitably grumpy in the lead role, and all the ghosts are. The first funny adaptation of charles dickens most wellknown novel to be done, scrooged is most notable for seeing the return of bill murray following a four year stop due to the success of the original and. Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. Dec 26, 2018 how many times do you think a christmas carol has been. Dec 23, 2019 the cigarsmoking, cabdriving ghost of christmas past shows us the lovable, more innocent frank who cut himself off from the world and the joy of christmas itself through a ragstoriches media career that gives the viewer somebody to sympathize with, where scrooges victorianera boardingschooltobanker trajectory can be harder to identify with. Bill murray plays the role of frank cross a unbelieving, selfish tv executive who is visited by three spirits on christmas eve, each trying to teach him a different lesson. Dec 19, 2019 in the 1988 dark comedy scrooged, coldhearted tv exec frank cross bill murray is about to unveil a livebroadcast adaptation of charles dickens a christmas carol. The twist on the story is that cross isnt heartless like in the charles dickens original. The christmas carol ghosts dutifully took frank back to his past and back to the set that the company is using to air a live, christmas eve rendition of a christmas carol. Finally, the scrooged script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the bill murray movie.
The ghost of christmas past is the first of the three spirits after the visitation by jacob marley who haunts the miser ebenezer scrooge in order to prompt him to repent. Charles dickens a christmas carol, the classic story of a time travelling pensioner. Dec 10, 2020 and thus he meets the ghost of christmas past a highenergy taxi driver played by david johansen, the ghost of christmas present a manic dancing fairy played by carol kane, and the gruesome ghost of christmas future realized mostly by visual effects. The part eventually went to david johansen due to his friendship with bill murray. Carol kane as the ghost of christmas present from the film scrooged. Though its easy to remember the 1980s as a decade packed with bill murray. The ghost of christmas past in a christmas carol characters. Bill murrays modern day scrooge, frank cross, is an over the top, cruel and callous man, whose mean spirit comes from his need for power. Dec 24, 2011 i mean, you have to love any adaptation of charles dickenss a christmas carol that includes the solid gold dancers and casts onceandfuture new york dolls frontman david johansen as the ghost of christmas past. Scrooged gif scrooged ghostofchristmaspast billmurray.
Bill murray the 1988 christmas movie scrooged, made as a modern adaption of the charles dickens novel a christmas carol, has by now become a favorite among families all across the world. Scrooged script transcript from the screenplay andor. A darkly comic and surreal contemplation of charles dickenss a christmas carol, this effectsheavy bill murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former snl funnyman assuming the role of television executive frank cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Scrooged script transcript from the screenplay andor bill. Scrooged is a rare christmas film that withstands the test of time. The sadistic ghost of christmas present uses a lot of slapstick violence on bill murrays character who gets kicked in the groin, slapped, punched in the face, pulled by the tie, pushed, and headbutted. Nov 21, 2015 after frank cross bill murray encounters the ghost of marley, he stumbles through the rest of the movie, which is a movie still seeking its identity. The perfect scrooged ghostofchristmaspast billmurray animated gif for your conversation. On my own scrooge like odyssey walking downtown with no ghost to guide me, scrooged happened to be playing in an old movie theatre in the village.
Scrooge christopher plummer and the familiar ghosts of christmas still make an. The film is a retelling and reimagining of charles dickens immortal classic a christmas carol. The ghost of christmas past christmas specials wiki. With bill murray, karen allen, john forsythe, john glover. Based on the 1843 novella a christmas carol by charles dickens, scrooged is a modern retelling that foll. There were a few silent versions, but this was the screens first. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of scrooged. Dec 24, 2016 with each ghost, frank is being forced to reexamine his past, his relationship to his brother james john murray and his wife wendie wendie malick, his secretary grace cooley alfre woodard, and the former love of his life claire phillips karen allenbut the deadline is approaching and the show must go on.
This was bill murray in an adaptation of a christmas carol. A christmas carol film adaptations best and worst movie versions. He plays a powerful and cynical tv executive frank cross who is the scrooge obviously. Being a ghost story of christmas, commonly known as a christmas carol, is a. Dec 22, 2017 1988 bill murray taking a more modern approach, this clever story within a story comedy, sees a tv executive scrooged by his former boss and three ghosts. Intended to capitalize on murray s success in ghostbusters 1984, scrooged contains many references to the earlier if largely unrelated film. He has cut himself off from everybody who loves him, he delights in criticizing and humiliating his colleagues, and he leads a lonely life, sitting in his highrise office, watching tv and. Scrooged now people say im a lot like that fairy, but im not buying.
He first preys upon scrooge by appearing as the knocker and also causing. Dec 31, 2019 the ghosts have always been the driving force of the story, but in scrooged they reach an entirely new level. Dec 06, 20 after pushing poltergeists back to the afterlife in the 1984 blockbuster ghostbusters, bill murray now found himself surrounded by the ghosts of christmas past, present and future, who are out to put an attitude adjustment under frank crosss christmas tree. The tv scrooge tosses a coin from his window for the boy to buy the biggest goose in the butchers shop which, thanks to early industrial revolution labor practices, is open on christmas day. The first proper scrooge flick arrived in 1901, with walter robert booths scrooge, or, marleys ghost, a blackandwhite silent short, which somehow managed to condense dickens entire.
Ghost of christmas past christmas carol christmas movies friends gif bonfire night bill murray head tattoos iconic movies. Its christmas in new york city, and frank cross bill murray, selfish, workaholic, harddrinking. Scrooged gif scrooged billmurray ghostofchristmasfuture. Bill murray stars in richard donners blackly comedic take on dickens classic as a misanthropic tv executive whose life is turned around by three very different christmas ghosts. Updating dickens scenario from scrooge as miserly banker to. Bill murray 1950 1 film deaths 2 tv deaths 3 gallery 4 noteworthy connections loose shoes coming attractions. Scrooged 1988 rotten tomatoes scrooged 1988 tmdb scrooged 1988 plot. I slid into the dark back seat, one of many other solo viewers but possibly not as lonely, on christmas. He shows him scenes from his past that occurred on or. Scrooged dvd carmel clay public library bibliocommons.
In the place of ebenezer scrooge is frank cross a modern television network executive out to make a buck and a name for himself with a live special on christmas eve. The definitive answer to this question is the 1988 cult classic scrooged. Murray retires to his office and is visited by the ghost of his old boss a cue for some gruesome make up and prosthetics who warns him that he will be visited by three ghosts. Mostly these subtle reimaginings stay very true to charles dickens immortal novel and are set in. Some disturbing imagery for the very young includes a dusty ghost of the.
My assigned passage was the one in which the ghost of christmas past takes scrooge to revisit a scene from his childhood. Nov 23, 1988 locked deep inside bill murray there is a small, hyperactive misanthrope fighting to be heard through the large heavy body that contains him. Ghostbusters 2, groundhog day, space jam, fantastic mr. In the telecast within the movie, one of a christmas carols selling points is. Watching it again this year, i felt like grace and her family are the real heroes of this story. A cynically selfish tv executive gets haunted by three spirits.
In december of 2015, netflix aired a very murray christmas, an original holiday special hosted by bill murray, who at some point in the past fifteen years or so was upgraded from a likable comedic actor to an inexplicable pop culture demigod, bested in cant do no wrongness only by jeff goldblum. A christmas carol adaptations ranked from worst to best collider. Ghosts of christmas past, present, and future, redemption for the old man, and a. Playing the ebenezer scrooge of scrooged is bill murray as frank cross. Scrooged dvd charlotte mecklenburg library bibliocommons. Dec 19, 2019 to accomplish this, a christmas carol spends the vast majority of its time exploring and analyzing scrooge s past. Taking a more modern approach, this clever story within a story comedy, sees a tv executive scrooged by his former boss and three ghosts. Scrooged sessions at a palace cinema location near you. While others are watching white christmas, miracle on 34th street and its a wonderful life, im curled up with bill murray and his crazy, cruel, hilarious take on scrooge. Deck the halls scrooged, the holiday classic starring bill murray, turns 30 this. Trivia sam kinison was originally slated to play the part of the ghost of christmas past. To remake the story, we took the romantic element franks relationship with his former.
The ghost of christmas past takes frank to the year 1969, where he watches his younger self giving claire a set of twelve ginsu knives on christmas eve. Behind the terrific makeup and effects nominated for an academy award, the. This entire production seems to be in dire need of visits from the ghosts of christmas. While this results in a somewhat uneven distribution of time between the three ghosts both present and future are remanded to the miniseries final hour the emphasis on backstory nevertheless offers a compelling and fittingly somber explanation for why scrooge is the. Based on the 1843 novella a christmas carol by charles dickens, scrooged is a modern retelling that follows bill murray as frank cross, a cynical and selfish television executive, who is visited by a succession of ghosts on christmas eve intent on helping him regain. Scrooged is a headon crash of two family faves, a chr. As rehearsals start, frank is visited by the ghost of christmas past, appearing. The movie stars bill murray as frank cross, a tormented tv network president who is approaching the christmas season in a foul mood.
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