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Best Scrooge Portrayal

Whose portrayal of Scrooge do you consider to be the definitive one?  

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  1. 1. Whose portrayal of Scrooge do you consider to be the definitive one?

    • Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, 1999) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/patrickstewart.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Michael Caine (The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/michaelcaine.jpg[/IMG]
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    • George C. Scott (A Christmas Carol, 1984) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/gcscott.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Scrooge McDuck (Mickey's Christmas Carol, 1983, voiced by Alan Young) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/scroogemcduck.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Albert Finney (Scrooge, 1970) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/albertfinney.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Mister Magoo (Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, 1962, voiced by Jim Backus) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/magoo.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Fredric March (A Christmas Carol, 1954) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/fredricmarch.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Alastair Sim (Scrooge, 1951) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/alastairsim.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Reginald Owen (A Christmas Carol, 1938) [IMG]http://photos.imageevent.com/takara_soong/trek/reginaldowen.jpg[/IMG]
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    • Other
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A thread about favourite Christmas movies got me thinking on this. I think everyone has a favourite scrooge. I listed as many as I could think of and in order of the year of the film.

 

Who is your definitive Scrooge and why?

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I haven't really seen them all but of the ones I've seen I voted for Patrick Stewart - I think partly because Scrooge seems more realistic - a genuinely flawed human being. In other versions he seems more pathetic or cartoonlike. Maybe a caricature. I have the Stewart and Albert Finney verisons in my collection.

 

Did you mean to leave out Bill Murray's "Scrooged" since that was an "adaptation" and didn't Henry Winkler do a version too - I've never seen that one.

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For me the best portrayal of Scrooge was done by Patrick Stewart..He made me believe somehow that he was a real person and not just a fictional chracter..

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I haven't really seen them all but of the ones I've seen I voted for Patrick Stewart - I think partly because Scrooge seems more realistic - a genuinely flawed human being.  In other versions he seems more pathetic or cartoonlike.  Maybe a caricature.  I have the Stewart and Albert Finney verisons in my collection.

 

Did you mean to leave out Bill Murray's "Scrooged" since that was an "adaptation" and didn't Henry Winkler do a version too - I've never seen that one.

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Yes, Henry Winkler did a version called "An American Christmas Carol" and it was very good.

 

Not George C. Scott good, but good all the same.

 

What I like about the George C. Scott version is Bob Cratchett played by none other than our very own David Warner (a.k.a Chancellor Gorkon, that awful Cardassian dude that held Picard prisoner, and also a character in ST:V???? can't remember his name.)

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Look at my avatar. "My" Pat, of course. :P :laugh:

 

I love that movie, I'll watch it over the Christmas days, most likely more than once :P

Pat does an amazing job as Scrooge and I really can't think of anyone who could do it better, but that's just my opinion... I'm a little biased on that... :P

 

(My biggest wish would be to see his one-man-play of "A Christmas Carol" on stage, who knows, maybe he'll do it again one day... :P )

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Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, 1999)

 

George C. Scott was a very close second

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I almost went with Pat, but I have to go with Michael Caine; I love the Muppet Christmas Carol too much not to vote for him. lol. :P

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As mentioned, I listed all that I could think of and used a little help from a site dedicated to the character/movie for pictures. I knew I missed some so I included the other choice for that reason.

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Patrick Stewart's version of Scrooge was the best. George C Scott's version would probably be a close second.

 

Though I have a special place in my heart for the Scrooge McDuck version (as I am a huge Mickey Mouse fan, and grew up watching that version every Christmas) and my mom would be thrilled to see Mr Magoo listed as she adores that version of the story (I must admit I like it quite a bit too :P )

 

Muppet Christmas Carol was an excellent take on it. And Scrooged is another good movie.

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I have seen all of them just about but my fav has to be Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, 1999)...the best one IMO :)

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I am going with George C. Scott. I like them all, but I grow watching Scott as Scrooge.

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I'll go with Michael Caine as his is probably the only full version I've seen besides Scrooge McDuck. Plus the Muppets were involved so that sweetens the deal.

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Methinks I see a bit of Patrick Stewart/star Trek bias here. I'm a movie buff, like alot of people here and I've seen just about everyone of those movies listed. The best by far, and many movie critics agree with me, is the Alistair Sim version from 1951. Stewart did a reasonable job in his version but his character was much too polished. Sim's version was far nastier and more believeable for the time period of the movie and his conversion far more heart warming. If you've never seen it, please rent it. The story and characters make this version the most enjoyable version I have every seen, plus, as an added bonus, you get to see a young Patrick Macnee in one of his early movie roles.

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I have only seen A christmas carol with Patrick stewart so thats the one i will vote for,but i would love to see the muppets one i used to love the muppets when i was a kid :)

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