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Robert Zemeckis' Christmas Carol also skips dinner. It goes straight from Cratchit's sliding adventure to Scrooge's arrival at home. I suppose it's a comparison between the joyful frivolity of the sliders (though everything looks gloomy in this movie so far) and the silent solitude of Scrooge's walk. Like in a couple of other versions we've looked at, there are no other people on the streets in Scrooge's part of town.
His house is a large mansion that stands tall and lonely, separated from the world by a large, brick wall. The ponderous, black, iron gate sounds like prison when Scrooge closes it behind himself. I don't imagine that Scrooge shares this building even with business offices. The whole point of the place is to show how cut off and isolated he is.
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Wow. This screen cap is so dark I had to crank up the brightness on my screen just to see anything!
I know. It's horrible. I can see it better if I tilt my laptop screen at a different angle, but the movie is super dark and I don't have the energy to try to brighten it up.
The dark, gloomy nature of the scene fits the mood, I suppose.
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