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DICKENS AND THE WORLD’S MOST BELOVED TALE by joel martens
THE STORY BEHIND Utter the phrase “Bah Humbug!” and there isn’t a person on the planet
or at least very few, who won’t be transported to the dark, inhospitable world that surrounds the old crank, Ebenezer Scrooge. There are few books that have entered and stayed a part of the world’s archive
of literary works as has Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol. So much a part of the human consciousness is the story, that the experiences in the short novella, oft told and oft translated and never once out of print, are now imbedded in cultures the world around. Who can’t recall those three visitations by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future and their ominous warnings about “The chains forged in life, made it link by link, and yard by yard; girded of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” Then there are the foreboding children carried by another of the ghosts, “They are Man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” It’s a story so familiar to all and though much is known of Dickens prolific
body of work, little has been shown about the process of creating his stories.A Christmas Carol would eventually revive his sagging career and set him once again on the path of success, making him a literary luminary and offer a foretell- ing of the many beloved classics that would follow: David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers, A Tale of Two Cities andGreat Expectations. A new film by Director Bharat Nalluri,The Man Who Invented Christmas,
sets out to change at least a part of what is known of Dickens creative process. The film takes aim at one of the more challenging moments in his career, he was deeply in debt after three failed novels and desperate to resuscitate his flagging fame. Nalluri, along with seasoned thespians Dan Stevens [Downton Abbey] and Christopher Plummer [The Sound Of Music], have managed to tell a delightful tale about how he managed to write the story that would entrance the world. The Rage Monthly sat down with Bharat Nalluri to discuss how a man who
didn’t really know what Christmas was, went about creating such a classic story around the world’s most beloved tale.
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