The man who invented Christmas Film Review – An Instant Classic (may contain spoilers)
An uplifting story, set in Victorian England about the inspiration behind the classic novel 'A Christmas Carol'. Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) is a successful author both in England and America. Unfortunately his last 3 novels (since Oliver Twist) have been flops.
Charles needs to urgently overcome a period of writers block so that he can compose a new novel and find a way out of growing financial difficulties. The film provides some background into the author's early life and family.
One evening he overhears his children's nanny telling his children a ghost story and this inspires him to create the characters and develop his own ghost story. Charles's book character details are directly influenced by several real life characters that he meets along the way, Christopher Plummer is excellent as Scrooge and we see Charles regularly discussing the developing plot with 'Scrooge' (in his imagination) while writing the book.
The book is finished and published on 19th December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve, changing the way we view Christmas and charitable giving ever since.
I really liked the film, particularly the way it brought the author to life.
8/10.
Charles needs to urgently overcome a period of writers block so that he can compose a new novel and find a way out of growing financial difficulties. The film provides some background into the author's early life and family.
One evening he overhears his children's nanny telling his children a ghost story and this inspires him to create the characters and develop his own ghost story. Charles's book character details are directly influenced by several real life characters that he meets along the way, Christopher Plummer is excellent as Scrooge and we see Charles regularly discussing the developing plot with 'Scrooge' (in his imagination) while writing the book.
The book is finished and published on 19th December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve, changing the way we view Christmas and charitable giving ever since.
I really liked the film, particularly the way it brought the author to life.
8/10.
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