![]() ![]() ![]() When Scrooge asks Fred why he got married, Fred replied that he was in love. He offers to invite Scrooge to his home for Christmas, but Ebenezer quickly declines, telling Fred he’s a fool for wasting his time and money on the holiday and scolding him that he could be rich if he focused more on money and less on his friends and wife. Shortly, in walks Scrooge’s nephew Fred, all cheerful and full of Christmas spirit. Bob Cratchit is working there, shivering from the cold in the building as he only has a dying coal ember to keep him warm, with the rest of the coal locked up, with the keys on Scrooge’s desk. Scrooge then goes to his place of business, where he works as a money collector. Dogs cower away from him, kids start running away upon seeing him, and even the carolers stop singing as he passes by them. However, one lone man walking to work is in no mood for this – Scrooge. Kids are spinning wheels on sticks, townspeople are buying all sorts of Christmas foods, a butcher working in a basement for a party throws a chunk of beef at some poor kids begging for food, only to have a dog grab it and have the kids chase it, some other kids holding on to the bumper and riding on the back of streetcars and carolers in the street singing. The film then cuts to Christmas Eve seven years later as the camera zooms all around the town in 3D as everyone is cheerful in the streets. As he turns to leave, he takes the tuppence covering Marley’s eyes, rubs them off, and pockets them. Scrooge, even more reluctantly, takes out a second penny and very slowly and almost unwillingly drops it in the undertaker’s hand. However, the undertaker still keeps his hand out, expecting more. ![]() Scrooge looks at him menacingly and then reluctantly takes out a penny and drops it in his hand. The undertaker then holds his hand out for a tip. The undertaker (funeral director) hands a pen to an elderly, outstretched hand of Ebenezer Scrooge, who uses it to sign his name on the death certificate as being a witness. He apparently has died the night before on Christmas Eve. The scene then shows the deceased Jacob Marley in his coffin with two pence coins covering his eyes at the funeral parlor. The movie begins with the book A Christmas Carol opening and the words, “Marley is dead.” appearing. ![]()
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