http://realchristmas.com/2009/11/can-you-objectively-watch-disneys-a-christmas-carol/ Celebrating Contemporary Christmas Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:38:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://realchristmas.com/2009/11/can-you-objectively-watch-disneys-a-christmas-carol/comment-page-1/#comment-183 History Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:43:46 +0000 http://www.realchristmas.com/?p=464#comment-183 I saw the movie and noticed Disney stuck closely to history and the Dickens text, except in one instance, where they changed history surprisingly and unnecessarily. For some reason, a woman asks Scrooge "are there no workhouses?" while behaving slutty. This not only makes the movie less appropriate for children, but removes the important history lesson of what "workhouses" were back in those days. Many of Dickens' tales regard workhouses, because he spent time in one as a youth. The tale of Oliver Twist begins with the boy in one. He's not a prostitute, he's an orphaned boy victimized by the Poor Laws, subject to slavery. I assume Disney did not confuse this deliberately, because portraying a child toiling while a slavemaster held a whip would have been more acceptable imagery in a movie for kids. I saw the movie and noticed Disney stuck closely to history and the Dickens text, except in one instance, where they changed history surprisingly and unnecessarily. For some reason, a woman asks Scrooge “are there no workhouses?” while behaving slutty. This not only makes the movie less appropriate for children, but removes the important history lesson of what “workhouses” were back in those days. Many of Dickens’ tales regard workhouses, because he spent time in one as a youth. The tale of Oliver Twist begins with the boy in one. He’s not a prostitute, he’s an orphaned boy victimized by the Poor Laws, subject to slavery. I assume Disney did not confuse this deliberately, because portraying a child toiling while a slavemaster held a whip would have been more acceptable imagery in a movie for kids.

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