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- Subtitles by explosiveskull & GoldenBeard
- ^.^.^.^.COLORED by.^.^.^.^
- ® Sud_Arun collections ®
- akumenang.com
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- (people chattering)
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- 00:00:51,908 --> 00:00:54,476
- (young woman)
- Oh, hurry up, Mr. Dickens!
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- 00:00:54,478 --> 00:00:56,878
- (man)
- Hey, I paid 50 cents for this!
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- 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,247
- - Come on, Dickens!
- - (man 2) Come on, Charley!
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- 00:00:59,249 --> 00:01:01,281
- (chattering continues)
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- 00:01:01,283 --> 00:01:04,284
- (man 3)
- We want Charles!
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- 00:01:04,286 --> 00:01:06,022
- (man 4)
- I want to see Charles!
- 9
- 00:01:07,323 --> 00:01:09,389
- (man 5)
- Where is Dickens?
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- 00:01:09,391 --> 00:01:12,762
- - (chattering continues)
- - (crowd clapping impatiently)
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- 00:01:31,147 --> 00:01:32,880
- (Charles's voice)
- My dear Forster,
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- 00:01:32,882 --> 00:01:34,848
- how can I give you
- the faintest notion
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- 00:01:34,850 --> 00:01:36,918
- of my reception
- here in America?
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- 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,820
- - (knocking)
- - (man) Five minutes. Five minutes.
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- 00:01:39,822 --> 00:01:43,190
- Of the crowds that pour
- in and out the whole day,
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- 00:01:43,192 --> 00:01:45,794
- of the people that line the
- streets when I go out.
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- 00:01:45,796 --> 00:01:49,166
- (crowd chanting,
- indistinct)
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- 00:01:54,236 --> 00:01:56,004
- (man)
- Places, please. Places!
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- 00:01:56,006 --> 00:01:57,104
- Hello, Charley.
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- 00:01:57,106 --> 00:01:59,841
- Of the balls, dinners,
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- 00:01:59,843 --> 00:02:03,344
- speeches, parties,
- assemblies without end.
- 22
- 00:02:03,346 --> 00:02:07,248
- There never was a king or emperor
- upon the earth so cheered.
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- 00:02:07,250 --> 00:02:09,951
- (orchestra playing fanfare)
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- 00:02:09,953 --> 00:02:12,887
- (man)
- Tonight, live on stage...
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- 00:02:12,889 --> 00:02:14,189
- Ready?
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- 00:02:14,191 --> 00:02:17,424
- - (man) the great magician of our time...
- - Ready.
- 27
- 00:02:17,426 --> 00:02:19,828
- (man)
- whose wand is a book!
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- 00:02:19,830 --> 00:02:21,963
- The Shakespeare
- of the novel.
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- 00:02:21,965 --> 00:02:24,165
- The people's author.
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- 00:02:24,167 --> 00:02:27,869
- - The great and marvelous Boz!
- - (audience cheering)
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- 00:02:27,871 --> 00:02:31,371
- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- 00:02:31,373 --> 00:02:34,475
- Mr. Charles Dickens!
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- 00:02:34,477 --> 00:02:38,015
- - (orchestra continues playing)
- - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
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- 00:02:41,016 --> 00:02:42,616
- Thank you! Thank you!
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- 00:02:42,618 --> 00:02:45,453
- (man) Look, it's him!
- It's really him!
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- 00:02:45,455 --> 00:02:48,392
- (laughing)
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- 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,927
- - (man) Hey there, Boz!
- - (woman) Whoo!
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- 00:02:52,929 --> 00:02:56,030
- Dear friends! Dear friends!
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- 00:02:56,032 --> 00:03:00,067
- You have welcomed me to your country
- with such open arms that I fear I...
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- 00:03:00,069 --> 00:03:02,002
- Ohh!
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- 00:03:02,004 --> 00:03:05,141
- - (orchestra continues playing)
- - (cheering continues)
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- 00:03:08,177 --> 00:03:10,278
- (orchestra fades)
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- 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,513
- (Charles's voice)
- Americans are friendly,
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- 00:03:13,515 --> 00:03:16,250
- earnest, hospitable,
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- 00:03:16,252 --> 00:03:18,521
- kind, frank, accomplished,
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- 00:03:19,656 --> 00:03:22,155
- warm-hearted, fervent,
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- 00:03:22,157 --> 00:03:24,561
- and... enthusiastic.
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- 00:03:26,395 --> 00:03:28,031
- I can't wait to get home.
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- 00:03:48,251 --> 00:03:51,084
- - (bell tolling)
- - (dog barking)
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- 00:03:51,086 --> 00:03:54,155
- (hoofbeats
- on cobblestone)
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- 00:03:54,157 --> 00:03:55,960
- (horse whinnies)
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- 00:04:27,656 --> 00:04:29,627
- - (bird wings fluttering)
- - (exhales)
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- 00:04:39,168 --> 00:04:41,371
- (sighs)
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- 00:04:45,375 --> 00:04:47,110
- (discordant notes)
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- 00:04:48,978 --> 00:04:50,644
- - (single chord)
- - (knocking on door)
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- 00:04:50,646 --> 00:04:52,548
- - (exhales)
- - (discordant notes)
- 57
- 00:04:54,184 --> 00:04:56,550
- Mrs. Fisk,
- I have told you repeatedly
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- 00:04:56,552 --> 00:04:58,519
- not to disturb me
- when I am working.
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- 00:04:58,521 --> 00:05:00,124
- (discordant notes)
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- 00:05:01,690 --> 00:05:05,425
- Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
- Only, Mr. Forster is here.
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- 00:05:05,427 --> 00:05:07,060
- Forster.
- Yes, of course.
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- 00:05:07,062 --> 00:05:09,230
- As you can see,
- Mr. Forster,
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- 00:05:09,232 --> 00:05:11,598
- we're having all-new
- wallpaper put in, French,
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- 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,634
- new doors,
- new door knocker,
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- 00:05:13,636 --> 00:05:15,702
- new roller blinds
- for the windows,
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- 00:05:15,704 --> 00:05:20,007
- new bookcases in the
- library, a new chandelier,
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- 00:05:20,009 --> 00:05:22,243
- all chosen by Charles,
- of course.
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- 00:05:22,245 --> 00:05:24,611
- And the staircase is
- to be painted green.
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- 00:05:24,613 --> 00:05:27,548
- - Though not too dull a green, Signor Mazzini.
- - Ma certo. Sì, capisce.
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- 00:05:27,550 --> 00:05:29,517
- - (chuckles)
- - You know how Charles is.
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- 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:32,156
- - Only the best for Mr. Dickens.
- - Yes. (chuckles)
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- 00:05:33,288 --> 00:05:37,257
- Mr. Forster,
- if you'll allow me,
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- 00:05:37,259 --> 00:05:39,260
- how do things stand between
- you and Miss Wigmore?
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- 00:05:39,262 --> 00:05:40,762
- Oh, splendid,
- Mrs. Dickens.
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- 00:05:40,764 --> 00:05:43,798
- In fact, I intend
- to ask her to bestow upon me
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- the greatest happiness
- a man can ever know.
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- 00:05:47,202 --> 00:05:49,570
- - (clears throat)
- - Well, to marry me.
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- 00:05:49,572 --> 00:05:51,406
- Oh!
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- 00:05:51,408 --> 00:05:53,440
- Oh, I'm very glad
- to hear that.
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- 00:05:53,442 --> 00:05:56,476
- Forster! Forster, Forster, Forster.
- So sorry!
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- 00:05:56,478 --> 00:05:58,579
- I completely lost track
- of the time.
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- 00:05:58,581 --> 00:06:00,048
- - Shall we?
- - Charles.
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- 00:06:00,050 --> 00:06:01,615
- - You need to pay Signor Mazzini.
- - Hmm?
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- For the parlor mantle.
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- 00:06:03,586 --> 00:06:05,752
- - How much?
- - Seventy-five pounds.
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- 00:06:05,754 --> 00:06:09,156
- Seventy-five?
- What's it made of, gold?
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- 00:06:09,158 --> 00:06:12,360
- Carrara marble, Signor.
- Finest quality.
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- 00:06:12,362 --> 00:06:14,394
- No gentleman
- would accept less.
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- 00:06:14,396 --> 00:06:16,630
- No? Well, quite.
- (clears throat)
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- 00:06:16,632 --> 00:06:19,469
- Well, I will have the money for you
- when I return, Signor Mazzini.
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- 00:06:21,071 --> 00:06:22,239
- Good day, Mrs. Dickens.
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- 00:06:23,173 --> 00:06:24,605
- Good day, Mr. Forster.
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- 00:06:24,607 --> 00:06:26,643
- (Mazzini chattering
- in Italian)
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- 00:06:28,812 --> 00:06:32,079
- Ah! Come in!
- (laughs)
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- 00:06:32,081 --> 00:06:34,082
- Good-bye,
- little strangers!
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- 00:06:34,084 --> 00:06:35,315
- (children) Bye!
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- 00:06:35,317 --> 00:06:37,721
- - Say good-bye to Mr. Forster, children!
- - Bye!
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- 00:06:40,189 --> 00:06:43,091
- - I'll hail us a cab.
- - What? No, it's a waste of money. We'll walk.
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- 00:06:43,093 --> 00:06:45,093
- It's damned expensive
- being a gentleman.
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- 00:06:45,095 --> 00:06:46,526
- Forster,
- this meeting...
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- - Aye! I know my job.
- - Good.
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- 00:06:48,298 --> 00:06:50,565
- - And the money?
- - Leave the publishers to me.
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- 00:06:50,567 --> 00:06:52,433
- Good.
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- 00:06:52,435 --> 00:06:54,637
- Slow down!
- What's the hurry?
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- (Forster) Charles
- Bloody Dickens, huh?
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- 00:07:00,877 --> 00:07:04,545
- The best-selling bloody author in the
- history of English bloody literature.
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- 00:07:04,547 --> 00:07:08,315
- Three of his books you have published
- in the last year and a half. Three!
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- 00:07:08,317 --> 00:07:10,183
- So where's the money?
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- 00:07:10,185 --> 00:07:13,654
- Mr. Forster, like you, we are as
- puzzled as the Egyptians in their fog.
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- 00:07:13,656 --> 00:07:15,723
- - (Forster) How's that?
- - Martin Chuzzlewit.
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- 00:07:15,725 --> 00:07:19,459
- A masterpiece of the
- picaresque genre, and yet...
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- 00:07:19,461 --> 00:07:21,796
- Barnaby Rudge. A fine book.
- An important subject.
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- 00:07:21,798 --> 00:07:23,764
- But, alas...
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- 00:07:23,766 --> 00:07:26,233
- And the travel book,
- American Notes.
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- 00:07:26,235 --> 00:07:28,668
- Perhaps a little too candid
- for our American cousins.
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- 00:07:28,670 --> 00:07:31,171
- No joke. I heard they were burning
- copies of it in the streets.
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- 00:07:31,173 --> 00:07:32,406
- (object slams
- on table)
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- 00:07:32,408 --> 00:07:35,308
- Well, they're mad as snakes,
- the Yanks.
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- 00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:38,613
- But what about this 50 pound a month
- you're withholding from his royalties?
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- 00:07:38,615 --> 00:07:40,581
- What is the explanation
- for that?
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- 00:07:40,583 --> 00:07:43,885
- You may remember that when Mr. Dickens
- approached us about the tour to America,
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- 00:07:43,887 --> 00:07:46,521
- we were pleased to provide him
- with an interest-free loan.
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- 00:07:46,523 --> 00:07:49,490
- With the provision that, in
- the unlikely case of profits
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- 00:07:49,492 --> 00:07:51,858
- being inadequate
- to certain repayments...
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- 00:07:51,860 --> 00:07:55,396
- What? So he's had a couple of flops?
- Well, who hasn't? Huh?
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- 00:07:55,398 --> 00:07:57,264
- Your publishing house
- wouldn't exist without this man.
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- 00:07:57,266 --> 00:07:59,834
- What about an advance?
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- 00:07:59,836 --> 00:08:02,736
- - On?
- - A new book.
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- 00:08:02,738 --> 00:08:04,440
- You have a new book
- in mind?
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- 00:08:06,809 --> 00:08:09,343
- Yes.
- Of course he does.
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- 00:08:09,345 --> 00:08:12,647
- Well, in that case, I mean we'd
- obviously love to consider it.
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- 00:08:12,649 --> 00:08:15,451
- - Consider?
- - That is to say, if we like it.
- 133
- 00:08:16,685 --> 00:08:19,322
- - If?
- - I'm sure that we will.
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- 00:08:21,790 --> 00:08:23,591
- Gentlemen,
- I bid you good day.
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- 00:08:23,593 --> 00:08:27,228
- Mr. Forster, please, we had no
- intention of causing offense.
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- 00:08:27,230 --> 00:08:28,663
- Well,
- he's in a fettle now.
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- 00:08:28,665 --> 00:08:30,865
- I'll give him a day
- to calm down.
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- 00:08:30,867 --> 00:08:33,700
- And then...
- It's most awkward.
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- 00:08:33,702 --> 00:08:36,337
- He was in last week,
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- 00:08:36,339 --> 00:08:38,238
- in some difficulty.
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- 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,574
- Again.
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- 00:08:39,576 --> 00:08:41,876
- No, that's not possible.
- He's in the countryside.
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- 00:08:41,878 --> 00:08:44,214
- He's under strict
- instructions to remain there.
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- 00:08:46,515 --> 00:08:47,750
- What is it this time?
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- 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,962
- "I need money immediately or
- productive of fatal consequences,
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- 00:09:00,964 --> 00:09:03,797
- I beseech you
- to do the needful..."
- 147
- 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:07,803
- He's been offering Mr. Dickens's
- autographs for sale in the newspapers.
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- 00:09:13,308 --> 00:09:16,477
- - How much did you give him?
- - Forty-five, all told.
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- 00:09:16,479 --> 00:09:17,479
- Forty-five?
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- 00:09:19,749 --> 00:09:23,316
- Well,
- I'll pay it all back.
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- 00:09:23,318 --> 00:09:25,521
- But not a word of this
- to Charles, do you hear?
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- 00:09:32,294 --> 00:09:33,963
- (men chattering, laughing)
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- 00:09:35,498 --> 00:09:38,302
- - (chattering, laughing continue)
- - (exhales)
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- 00:09:39,701 --> 00:09:41,701
- "What's the secret?"
- they say.
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- 00:09:41,703 --> 00:09:43,206
- There is no secret.
- I sit down...
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- 00:09:45,942 --> 00:09:49,910
- - Charles. What are you doing here?
- - I'm hiding from Thackeray.
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- 00:09:49,912 --> 00:09:52,345
- They absolutely
- come pouring out of me.
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- 00:09:52,347 --> 00:09:54,781
- He'll no doubt want to commiserate
- me on my Chuzzlewit reviews,
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- 00:09:54,783 --> 00:09:56,783
- which he will quote
- by heart.
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- 00:09:56,785 --> 00:09:58,287
- Come on.
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- 00:10:08,664 --> 00:10:12,699
- (sighs) I am clammin' for some scran.
- Where's Robertson?
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- 00:10:12,701 --> 00:10:14,602
- Why do we come here,
- hmm?
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- 00:10:14,604 --> 00:10:18,339
- The service is terrible. The food is
- inedible. The fees keep going up.
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- 00:10:18,341 --> 00:10:20,344
- It's full of...
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- 00:10:21,844 --> 00:10:24,411
- (groans)
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- 00:10:24,413 --> 00:10:25,945
- Gentlemen.
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- 00:10:25,947 --> 00:10:27,714
- You're not Robertson.
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- 00:10:27,716 --> 00:10:29,586
- The name is Marley, sir.
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- 00:10:30,886 --> 00:10:33,753
- - Marley? Marley with an "E"?
- - Yes, sir.
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- 00:10:33,755 --> 00:10:35,823
- Hmm.
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- 00:10:35,825 --> 00:10:38,658
- Uh, oh, don't worry.
- He collects names.
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- 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:40,895
- We'll have some oysters
- and a bottle of champagne.
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- 00:10:40,897 --> 00:10:42,466
- Very good, sir.
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- 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,633
- - Champagne?
- - We're celebrating.
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- 00:10:46,635 --> 00:10:49,369
- - Celebrating?
- - Hello, Thackeray. (sighs)
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- 00:10:49,371 --> 00:10:51,571
- - How are you?
- - Tolerable.
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- 00:10:51,573 --> 00:10:53,074
- I thank ye.
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- 00:10:53,076 --> 00:10:55,776
- Charles, I must say I am relieved
- to see you out and about.
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- 00:10:55,778 --> 00:10:57,777
- Relieved?
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- 00:10:57,779 --> 00:11:00,781
- You know, after those vile things
- they wrote about Chuzzlewit.
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- 00:11:00,783 --> 00:11:03,584
- I won't even
- call them reviews.
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- 00:11:03,586 --> 00:11:05,685
- - No matter. I never read them.
- - Quite right.
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- 00:11:05,687 --> 00:11:08,457
- Scandalous what one is
- allowed to print nowadays.
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- 00:11:16,532 --> 00:11:18,531
- Go on.
- What did they say?
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- 00:11:18,533 --> 00:11:21,901
- "Dull, vapid, and vulgar.
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- 00:11:21,903 --> 00:11:26,806
- Not a single character capable of
- exciting the reader's sympathies."
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- 00:11:26,808 --> 00:11:29,776
- I certainly didn't think
- it was vulgar.
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- 00:11:29,778 --> 00:11:32,079
- Oh, look.
- There's Macready.
- 189
- 00:11:32,081 --> 00:11:35,583
- Poor thing. His Macbeth was
- absolutely shredded in the Times.
- 190
- 00:11:35,585 --> 00:11:37,921
- I must go and give him
- my condolences.
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- 00:11:41,657 --> 00:11:43,690
- I'm sick of London.
- 192
- 00:11:43,692 --> 00:11:45,425
- It's overcrowded,
- overpriced...
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- 00:11:45,427 --> 00:11:47,795
- - You love this town.
- - No place for a man without money.
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- 00:11:47,797 --> 00:11:49,930
- Not to mention
- the bloody fog.
- 195
- 00:11:49,932 --> 00:11:52,836
- But it's your inspiration, your
- what-do-you-call-it... your magic lamp.
- 196
- 00:11:54,770 --> 00:11:57,841
- (muttering, grunting)
- 197
- 00:11:59,174 --> 00:12:01,441
- I tell you, Forster,
- my lamp's gone out.
- 198
- 00:12:01,443 --> 00:12:03,511
- I've run out of ideas.
- 199
- 00:12:03,513 --> 00:12:05,045
- - (Marley grunting)
- - I feel old.
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- 00:12:05,047 --> 00:12:07,515
- - (cork pops)
- - (Marley exhales)
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- 00:12:07,517 --> 00:12:08,951
- Old?
- You're a puppy.
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- 00:12:11,052 --> 00:12:13,820
- You're exhausted, that's all.
- Too many speeches.
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- 00:12:13,822 --> 00:12:16,456
- I've got another one tomorrow
- for the Children's Refuge.
- 204
- 00:12:16,458 --> 00:12:18,592
- Well, you have to learn
- to say no.
- 205
- 00:12:18,594 --> 00:12:22,162
- How can I say no if I can be useful, if
- I can lighten the burden of another?
- 206
- 00:12:22,164 --> 00:12:25,031
- Well, you have to, what with your
- new commission to think about.
- 207
- 00:12:25,033 --> 00:12:27,801
- Forster, I just told you that...
- Sorry. New commission?
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- 00:12:27,803 --> 00:12:30,905
- It's from Chapman and Hall,
- for your new book.
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- 00:12:30,907 --> 00:12:33,473
- I've told them you'll have the first
- chapter done by the end of the year.
- 210
- 00:12:33,475 --> 00:12:36,109
- You like a deadline.
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- 00:12:36,111 --> 00:12:38,881
- - Do you mind telling me what it's about?
- - I'll leave that up to you.
- 212
- 00:12:45,053 --> 00:12:47,456
- - (footsteps)
- - (woman laughing, faint)
- 213
- 00:13:13,048 --> 00:13:15,584
- (woman hooting loudly)
- 214
- 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:19,623
- (hooting)
- 215
- 00:13:25,861 --> 00:13:28,063
- (hooting)
- 216
- 00:13:31,567 --> 00:13:34,734
- (woman) And on Christmas
- Eve, they say,
- 217
- 00:13:34,736 --> 00:13:36,871
- the fairy mounds open wide
- 218
- 00:13:36,873 --> 00:13:39,839
- and the fire spirits
- pour into the night.
- 219
- 00:13:39,841 --> 00:13:42,675
- And then
- the Lord of the Dead
- 220
- 00:13:42,677 --> 00:13:45,813
- leads all of the spirits
- into a wild hunt.
- 221
- 00:13:45,815 --> 00:13:47,214
- And he calls to them...
- 222
- 00:13:47,216 --> 00:13:49,148
- (loud hooting)
- 223
- 00:13:49,150 --> 00:13:51,053
- (children giggling)
- 224
- 00:14:10,907 --> 00:14:13,641
- - Do we have a new housemaid?
- - What?
- 225
- 00:14:13,643 --> 00:14:16,075
- Uh, yes. Tara.
- 226
- 00:14:16,077 --> 00:14:19,081
- She's Irish.
- Charley adores her.
- 227
- 00:14:23,653 --> 00:14:24,921
- What are you doing?
- 228
- 00:14:26,688 --> 00:14:29,290
- - It was only a stub.
- - Another hour in that.
- 229
- 00:14:29,292 --> 00:14:32,660
- - Oh, really, Charles.
- - If you carry on like this, we'll end up in the poor house.
- 230
- 00:14:32,662 --> 00:14:34,328
- - You're funny.
- - I'm not joking.
- 231
- 00:14:34,330 --> 00:14:36,095
- Charles!
- 232
- 00:14:36,097 --> 00:14:39,233
- You give money to every and
- any beggar in the street.
- 233
- 00:14:39,235 --> 00:14:43,036
- You insist we move to a bigger house
- and order in all new fixtures,
- 234
- 00:14:43,038 --> 00:14:45,138
- and then you complain
- about a new candle.
- 235
- 00:14:45,140 --> 00:14:47,877
- Debt is an ogre, Kate. If you're
- not careful, it can eat you up.
- 236
- 00:14:50,779 --> 00:14:52,780
- Are we in trouble?
- 237
- 00:14:52,782 --> 00:14:55,049
- No, of course not.
- 238
- 00:14:55,051 --> 00:14:56,686
- Then what?
- 239
- 00:14:57,653 --> 00:14:59,887
- Nothing.
- 240
- 00:14:59,889 --> 00:15:03,125
- I'm just sick of writing tooth
- and nail for bread, that's all.
- 241
- 00:15:04,293 --> 00:15:05,993
- Hmm.
- 242
- 00:15:05,995 --> 00:15:08,896
- - Should've become a journalist.
- - You hate the press.
- 243
- 00:15:08,898 --> 00:15:11,198
- - Or a lawyer.
- - "The law is an ass."
- 244
- 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,267
- I believe you wrote that.
- 245
- 00:15:13,269 --> 00:15:15,905
- A hairdresser, then,
- in the Burlington Arcade.
- 246
- 00:15:17,306 --> 00:15:19,607
- Do you know what
- I should have liked to be?
- 247
- 00:15:19,609 --> 00:15:21,642
- An explorer,
- 248
- 00:15:21,644 --> 00:15:24,877
- paddling a canoe somewhere
- in the wilds of Canada
- 249
- 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:27,714
- in a pair
- of buckskin breeches,
- 250
- 00:15:27,716 --> 00:15:29,782
- all on my own.
- 251
- 00:15:29,784 --> 00:15:31,288
- No nappies to change.
- 252
- 00:15:37,192 --> 00:15:38,727
- By the way, dear,
- 253
- 00:15:39,861 --> 00:15:41,932
- I-I saw the doctor today.
- 254
- 00:15:47,736 --> 00:15:49,637
- Not another...
- little stranger.
- 255
- 00:15:49,639 --> 00:15:51,738
- Are you pleased?
- 256
- 00:15:51,740 --> 00:15:53,706
- Well, of course.
- 257
- 00:15:53,708 --> 00:15:55,044
- (laughs)
- 258
- 00:15:56,879 --> 00:15:58,748
- - Well, that's splendid.
- - Yes.
- 259
- 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:15,764
- I am a necromancer.
- 260
- 00:16:17,133 --> 00:16:18,868
- Behold.
- 261
- 00:16:23,371 --> 00:16:25,307
- (all gasping)
- 262
- 00:16:35,317 --> 00:16:37,751
- - And now...
- - (gasping)
- 263
- 00:16:37,753 --> 00:16:40,956
- (man making
- eerie whistling sounds)
- 264
- 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:46,093
- (gasps)
- 265
- 00:16:46,095 --> 00:16:48,898
- (man hooting, cackling)
- 266
- 00:16:50,331 --> 00:16:53,099
- - (moaning)
- - (chuckling) Charley.
- 267
- 00:16:53,101 --> 00:16:55,969
- Charley,
- it's all right.
- 268
- 00:16:55,971 --> 00:16:57,905
- - I'm here.
- - (gasps)
- 269
- 00:16:57,907 --> 00:17:01,711
- - (bell tolling)
- - (hoofbeats on cobblestone)
- 270
- 00:17:13,722 --> 00:17:15,221
- (rapid footsteps)
- 271
- 00:17:15,223 --> 00:17:18,191
- Mistress Chickenstalker!
- 272
- 00:17:18,193 --> 00:17:20,728
- Mistress Chickenstalker, what
- has happened to your pinnie?
- 273
- 00:17:20,730 --> 00:17:22,729
- You look as if you've
- been caught in a cyclone.
- 274
- 00:17:22,731 --> 00:17:24,331
- That's much better.
- 275
- 00:17:24,333 --> 00:17:27,137
- Master Corporal Skittles, sir.
- On your feet, sir!
- 276
- 00:17:31,973 --> 00:17:34,208
- (laughing)
- 277
- 00:17:34,210 --> 00:17:37,413
- Ah, Lucifer Box.
- 278
- 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,317
- - Would you do me the honor?
- - (laughing)
- 279
- 00:17:42,384 --> 00:17:44,117
- Good.
- 280
- 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,221
- Ah, the Snodgering Blee.
- We meet at last.
- 281
- 00:17:48,223 --> 00:17:50,056
- What's this?
- 282
- 00:17:50,058 --> 00:17:53,026
- You have forgotten
- to wash behind your ear.
- 283
- 00:17:53,028 --> 00:17:55,362
- (laughing)
- Cor!
- 284
- 00:17:55,364 --> 00:17:58,201
- Now you must be...
- Don't... Don't tell me.
- 285
- 00:17:59,367 --> 00:18:01,034
- - (whispers) Who is that?
- - Tara.
- 286
- 00:18:01,036 --> 00:18:03,237
- Tara. Of course.
- 287
- 00:18:03,239 --> 00:18:05,439
- - I see you've made a conquest.
- - (chuckles)
- 288
- 00:18:05,441 --> 00:18:07,940
- What was that wonderful story
- I overheard you telling
- 289
- 00:18:07,942 --> 00:18:11,411
- about fairy mounds
- and the fire spirits?
- 290
- 00:18:11,413 --> 00:18:15,882
- Only a story my gran used to tell
- us, sir, back home in Ireland.
- 291
- 00:18:15,884 --> 00:18:17,985
- She used to say
- that on Christmas Eve
- 292
- 00:18:17,987 --> 00:18:21,220
- the veils between this world
- and the next thin out,
- 293
- 00:18:21,222 --> 00:18:24,894
- and that's when the spirits
- cross over and walk among us.
- 294
- 00:18:26,194 --> 00:18:27,797
- Do they indeed?
- 295
- 00:18:29,030 --> 00:18:31,364
- Well, well, well.
- 296
- 00:18:31,366 --> 00:18:33,001
- Christmas Eve.
- 297
- 00:18:34,569 --> 00:18:39,075
- (applause)
- 298
- 00:18:41,442 --> 00:18:43,943
- Thank you so much
- for coming.
- 299
- 00:18:43,945 --> 00:18:46,815
- - It was such an interesting speech.
- - Thank you very much.
- 300
- 00:18:47,817 --> 00:18:50,083
- - Your hat, sir.
- - Thank you.
- 301
- 00:18:50,085 --> 00:18:52,885
- Oh, Mr. Dickens, it's such
- an honor to meet you.
- 302
- 00:18:52,887 --> 00:18:55,389
- - We just adore your books.
- - No, we don't.
- 303
- 00:18:55,391 --> 00:18:59,026
- - Well, I love them.
- - Nonsense. You just like a good cry.
- 304
- 00:18:59,028 --> 00:19:02,062
- What is it you particularly
- object to in my books?
- 305
- 00:19:02,064 --> 00:19:05,097
- Pickpockets, streetwalkers,
- charity boys.
- 306
- 00:19:05,099 --> 00:19:07,100
- Those people
- don't belong in books.
- 307
- 00:19:07,102 --> 00:19:09,135
- "Those people"?
- You mean, the poor?
- 308
- 00:19:09,137 --> 00:19:12,005
- Look here, Mr. Dickens.
- I'm a self-made man.
- 309
- 00:19:12,007 --> 00:19:14,274
- Pulled myself up
- by my own bootstraps.
- 310
- 00:19:14,276 --> 00:19:17,844
- Never asked for anything from anyone
- that I wasn't willing to pay for.
- 311
- 00:19:17,846 --> 00:19:20,913
- - Really? No help from anyone?
- - None.
- 312
- 00:19:20,915 --> 00:19:24,788
- Well, Papa did give us a very small
- cotton mill when we were married.
- 313
- 00:19:27,189 --> 00:19:29,922
- What do you suggest we do
- with "those people"? Hmm?
- 314
- 00:19:29,924 --> 00:19:31,126
- Are there no workhouses?
- 315
- 00:19:33,863 --> 00:19:36,263
- Do you know how many people
- would rather die than go there?
- 316
- 00:19:36,265 --> 00:19:38,065
- Then they'd
- better do it
- 317
- 00:19:38,067 --> 00:19:40,303
- and reduce
- the surplus population.
- 318
- 00:19:45,941 --> 00:19:47,576
- (man) Can you spare
- a bob, please?
- 319
- 00:19:57,353 --> 00:20:00,557
- Care to buy, sir?
- Hard workers.
- 320
- 00:20:03,659 --> 00:20:05,124
- Fit any chimney.
- 321
- 00:20:05,126 --> 00:20:07,196
- - You f...
- - (whinnies)
- 322
- 00:20:14,435 --> 00:20:16,338
- Quick!
- Come on! In here!
- 323
- 00:20:19,909 --> 00:20:21,845
- - Down here now!
- - (child cries out)
- 324
- 00:20:23,979 --> 00:20:25,459
- - (man) Come on!
- - (child screams) No!
- 325
- 00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:38,225
- (man) I lift mine eyes
- unto the hills
- 326
- 00:20:38,227 --> 00:20:41,094
- from whence cometh
- my help.
- 327
- 00:20:41,096 --> 00:20:44,297
- My help cometh
- even from the Lord,
- 328
- 00:20:44,299 --> 00:20:46,533
- who hath made
- heaven and earth...
- 329
- 00:20:46,535 --> 00:20:50,437
- All right, all right. I'm not paying
- you by the hour. Skip to the end.
- 330
- 00:20:50,439 --> 00:20:53,206
- (man, rapidly) Rest eternal, grant to him, O
- Lord. Let light perpetual shine upon him.
- 331
- 00:20:53,208 --> 00:20:55,107
- - Amen. Amen.
- - Amen.
- 332
- 00:20:55,109 --> 00:20:57,009
- Shame, innit?
- 333
- 00:20:57,011 --> 00:21:00,247
- All that money and no one here to
- mourn him except Old Scratch there.
- 334
- 00:21:00,249 --> 00:21:03,150
- - Who's that?
- - His business partner.
- 335
- 00:21:03,152 --> 00:21:05,952
- The meanest cur on two legs,
- so they say.
- 336
- 00:21:05,954 --> 00:21:07,890
- Aye, right.
- Come on.
- 337
- 00:21:45,227 --> 00:21:48,464
- Ah... humbug.
- 338
- 00:21:58,507 --> 00:21:59,642
- "Humbug."
- 339
- 00:22:03,545 --> 00:22:06,013
- "Are there no workhouses?
- 340
- 00:22:06,015 --> 00:22:07,447
- Well, then they'd
- better do it
- 341
- 00:22:07,449 --> 00:22:09,649
- and decrease
- the surplus population."
- 342
- 00:22:09,651 --> 00:22:13,423
- (chuckling) "Old Scratch.
- All that money. Shame."
- 343
- 00:22:15,423 --> 00:22:17,790
- Good evening, sir.
- 344
- 00:22:17,792 --> 00:22:19,127
- Yes, it is,
- Mrs. Fisk.
- 345
- 00:22:20,528 --> 00:22:22,528
- - Charles?
- - (shouting) Humbug! Humbug!
- 346
- 00:22:22,530 --> 00:22:25,134
- Humbug! Ha-ha!
- 347
- 00:22:31,773 --> 00:22:35,074
- (Charles's voice) It's about a businessman.
- Or a factory owner. A miser.
- 348
- 00:22:35,076 --> 00:22:39,179
- His partner dies. He doesn't shed a tear.
- Thinks only of the money.
- 349
- 00:22:39,181 --> 00:22:40,713
- And on
- Christmas Eve...
- 350
- 00:22:40,715 --> 00:22:44,351
- On Christmas Eve,
- he meets some kind of... of...
- 351
- 00:22:44,353 --> 00:22:48,154
- of supernatural guides,
- or spirits, possibly,
- 352
- 00:22:48,156 --> 00:22:50,257
- who in the course
- of one night
- 353
- 00:22:50,259 --> 00:22:53,794
- teach him what a miserable,
- loathsome, selfish toad he is.
- 354
- 00:22:53,796 --> 00:22:56,065
- It's a short book.
- Short and sharp.
- 355
- 00:22:57,199 --> 00:22:58,498
- A hammer blow
- to the heart
- 356
- 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:01,069
- of this smug,
- self-satisfied age.
- 357
- 00:23:07,342 --> 00:23:09,375
- - It's a comedy.
- - (laughing)
- 358
- 00:23:09,377 --> 00:23:12,312
- - Brilliant.
- - (laughing continues)
- 359
- 00:23:12,314 --> 00:23:14,780
- - Does it have a title?
- - Yes.
- 360
- 00:23:14,782 --> 00:23:17,352
- (clears throat)
- Humbug: A Miser's Lament.
- 361
- 00:23:20,689 --> 00:23:23,190
- A Christmas Ghost Story...
- Christmas Song...
- 362
- 00:23:23,192 --> 00:23:24,824
- Christmas Ballad.
- Something like that.
- 363
- 00:23:24,826 --> 00:23:28,828
- Intriguing, really.
- Ah, just one question.
- 364
- 00:23:28,830 --> 00:23:30,198
- Why Christmas?
- 365
- 00:23:32,134 --> 00:23:34,534
- - Well, why not?
- - Does anybody really celebrate it anymore?
- 366
- 00:23:34,536 --> 00:23:37,170
- Apart from our clerk, who
- never misses an opportunity
- 367
- 00:23:37,172 --> 00:23:39,639
- to take a day off...
- with pay.
- 368
- 00:23:39,641 --> 00:23:43,776
- More or less an opportunity for picking
- a man's pocket every 25th of December.
- 369
- 00:23:43,778 --> 00:23:47,213
- - (chuckles)
- - What we mean to say, Mr. Dickens, is,
- 370
- 00:23:47,215 --> 00:23:49,751
- not much of a market
- for Christmas books, what?
- 371
- 00:23:55,190 --> 00:23:59,625
- It is a Christmas book because Christmas
- is, or ought to be, the one time of year
- 372
- 00:23:59,627 --> 00:24:03,563
- when men and women
- open their shut-up hearts
- 373
- 00:24:03,565 --> 00:24:07,467
- and think of people below them as if they
- really were fellow passengers to the grave
- 374
- 00:24:07,469 --> 00:24:09,568
- and not another race
- of creatures altogether.
- 375
- 00:24:09,570 --> 00:24:11,837
- We are already
- halfway through October.
- 376
- 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:15,174
- Even if you had already written it, we
- couldn't possibly get it illustrated,
- 377
- 00:24:15,176 --> 00:24:18,344
- typeset, printed and bound,
- advertised and distributed to shops
- 378
- 00:24:18,346 --> 00:24:19,816
- in only six weeks.
- 379
- 00:24:22,483 --> 00:24:23,586
- Well...
- 380
- 00:24:24,752 --> 00:24:26,585
- thank you
- for your opinion.
- 381
- 00:24:26,587 --> 00:24:27,690
- Mr. Dickens!
- 382
- 00:24:31,593 --> 00:24:34,527
- Tie it off now.
- That's it.
- 383
- 00:24:34,529 --> 00:24:38,864
- Scaly-headed vultures.
- Money-grubbing, scum-sucking...
- 384
- 00:24:38,866 --> 00:24:41,567
- - But, Charles...
- - I'll do it myself.
- 385
- 00:24:41,569 --> 00:24:44,504
- - What?
- - I'll pay for it myself... all of it.
- 386
- 00:24:44,506 --> 00:24:46,672
- Illustrations, everything.
- I'll distribute it myself.
- 387
- 00:24:46,674 --> 00:24:50,209
- But, Charles, this is madness.
- Think of your finances, huh?
- 388
- 00:24:50,211 --> 00:24:52,379
- Come on. We'll go back.
- We'll renegotiate.
- 389
- 00:24:52,381 --> 00:24:54,280
- No shame in it.
- It's just business.
- 390
- 00:24:54,282 --> 00:24:57,449
- Why throw everything away
- for a minor holiday?
- 391
- 00:24:57,451 --> 00:25:00,353
- No, I've never felt so strongly
- about anything in my life, John.
- 392
- 00:25:00,355 --> 00:25:02,455
- You can help me or not,
- as you wish.
- 393
- 00:25:02,457 --> 00:25:04,824
- - Where are you off to?
- - Going to raise some capital.
- 394
- 00:25:04,826 --> 00:25:06,593
- One thing I've learned
- from my father...
- 395
- 00:25:06,595 --> 00:25:08,961
- people will believe anything
- if you're properly dressed.
- 396
- 00:25:08,963 --> 00:25:11,698
- (Charles) Mr. Trabb!
- Your finest cravats!
- 397
- 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:13,903
- (whistle blows)
- 398
- 00:25:19,607 --> 00:25:21,674
- Ah.
- 399
- 00:25:21,676 --> 00:25:23,776
- Nothing like the air
- of the metropolis
- 400
- 00:25:23,778 --> 00:25:26,313
- to put color in your cheeks,
- eh, Mother?
- 401
- 00:25:26,315 --> 00:25:27,680
- (inhales, exhales)
- 402
- 00:25:27,682 --> 00:25:29,251
- (laughs)
- 403
- 00:25:33,989 --> 00:25:37,224
- (squawking)
- 404
- 00:25:37,226 --> 00:25:40,994
- There you are, sir. Best quality.
- A-1 condition.
- 405
- 00:25:40,996 --> 00:25:43,263
- And look inside.
- 406
- 00:25:43,265 --> 00:25:45,334
- Autographed
- by the author.
- 407
- 00:25:47,536 --> 00:25:50,539
- "To Papa. Love, Charles."
- 408
- 00:25:53,008 --> 00:25:55,644
- - Five bob.
- - (scoffs, chuckles)
- 409
- 00:25:56,644 --> 00:26:00,546
- Hello, old dog.
- (squawks)
- 410
- 00:26:00,548 --> 00:26:04,017
- Perhaps we could,
- um, strike a bargain.
- 411
- 00:26:04,019 --> 00:26:06,923
- - (raven) Hello.
- - Good with children, is it?
- 412
- 00:26:15,263 --> 00:26:16,565
- Too much?
- 413
- 00:26:18,532 --> 00:26:21,934
- Aha! Mr. Dickens
- and Mr. Forster.
- 414
- 00:26:21,936 --> 00:26:24,270
- How do you?
- 415
- 00:26:24,272 --> 00:26:26,408
- Very well, thank you,
- Mr. Haddock.
- 416
- 00:26:27,476 --> 00:26:28,874
- Mittens.
- 417
- 00:26:28,876 --> 00:26:30,576
- (purring)
- 418
- 00:26:30,578 --> 00:26:33,380
- You are a bad boy.
- 419
- 00:26:33,382 --> 00:26:35,681
- (growling)
- 420
- 00:26:35,683 --> 00:26:38,320
- - (Mittens yowls)
- - (Haddock exhales, chuckles)
- 421
- 00:26:39,820 --> 00:26:42,021
- (cracking)
- 422
- 00:26:42,023 --> 00:26:44,990
- Now, how may I be
- of service to you?
- 423
- 00:26:44,992 --> 00:26:47,459
- Well, sir,
- it's about the loan.
- 424
- 00:26:47,461 --> 00:26:50,398
- There was something I wanted to tell you.
- What was it?
- 425
- 00:26:51,799 --> 00:26:55,035
- It was some rather good news,
- if I recall correctly.
- 426
- 00:26:55,037 --> 00:26:56,670
- What, uh...
- 427
- 00:26:56,672 --> 00:26:57,839
- Ah.
- 428
- 00:27:00,409 --> 00:27:01,674
- Biscuit?
- 429
- 00:27:01,676 --> 00:27:04,713
- Well... thank you.
- 430
- 00:27:08,916 --> 00:27:10,019
- Mmm.
- 431
- 00:27:11,586 --> 00:27:14,988
- Ah! Uh, yes.
- 432
- 00:27:14,990 --> 00:27:17,590
- Now, what was I, uh...
- What...
- 433
- 00:27:17,592 --> 00:27:21,026
- Uh, you said something
- about good news?
- 434
- 00:27:21,028 --> 00:27:23,063
- Possibly
- about the lawsuit?
- 435
- 00:27:23,065 --> 00:27:25,731
- Ah, the lawsuit.
- 436
- 00:27:25,733 --> 00:27:27,901
- Yes, the copyright
- infringement.
- 437
- 00:27:27,903 --> 00:27:30,636
- Oliver Twisted. "As re-originated
- from the original."
- 438
- 00:27:30,638 --> 00:27:33,038
- Yes! Ha!
- I have it here.
- 439
- 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,644
- Uh... Ah, yes.
- 440
- 00:27:36,644 --> 00:27:39,978
- Good news indeed.
- We won.
- 441
- 00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:42,882
- The fine was set
- at £2,200.
- 442
- 00:27:42,884 --> 00:27:45,117
- 2,200!
- 443
- 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,720
- The bad news is,
- the defendants have no money.
- 444
- 00:27:47,722 --> 00:27:49,625
- - Ah.
- - Bankrupt.
- 445
- 00:27:50,726 --> 00:27:52,728
- Disappointing, I know.
- 446
- 00:27:55,463 --> 00:27:58,030
- But we'll have them arrested,
- throw them into debtor's prison.
- 447
- 00:27:58,032 --> 00:27:59,599
- No. No, no.
- 448
- 00:27:59,601 --> 00:28:00,803
- No?
- 449
- 00:28:02,371 --> 00:28:03,806
- As you wish.
- 450
- 00:28:04,705 --> 00:28:06,940
- In the meantime,
- 451
- 00:28:06,942 --> 00:28:09,077
- if you would be
- so good...
- 452
- 00:28:16,718 --> 00:28:18,321
- here's my bill.
- 453
- 00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:27,427
- No rush.
- Next week will be fine.
- 454
- 00:28:27,429 --> 00:28:28,995
- Hmm.
- 455
- 00:28:28,997 --> 00:28:33,600
- Tell you what. Why don't we
- defer this until... January?
- 456
- 00:28:33,602 --> 00:28:36,469
- And while we're at it, perhaps
- you might add a little bit more.
- 457
- 00:28:36,471 --> 00:28:38,171
- I'll make it
- worth your while.
- 458
- 00:28:38,173 --> 00:28:39,674
- More?
- 459
- 00:28:42,176 --> 00:28:44,413
- You wish to borrow more?
- 460
- 00:28:47,048 --> 00:28:48,683
- Not very much.
- Just...
- 461
- 00:28:50,085 --> 00:28:53,486
- £300...
- till January.
- 462
- 00:28:53,488 --> 00:28:55,889
- I think we can
- increase your loan
- 463
- 00:28:55,891 --> 00:28:59,159
- at, shall we say,
- 25 percent?
- 464
- 00:28:59,161 --> 00:29:00,696
- God's teeth!
- 465
- 00:29:02,196 --> 00:29:03,465
- Thank you.
- 466
- 00:29:07,836 --> 00:29:09,739
- Charles.
- Charles.
- 467
- 00:29:10,939 --> 00:29:12,838
- - Are you all right?
- - Yeah.
- 468
- 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,606
- Never better.
- 469
- 00:29:14,608 --> 00:29:16,745
- Now find me
- an illustrator.
- 470
- 00:29:23,117 --> 00:29:27,786
- He was a tight-fisted,
- hand to the grindstone
- 471
- 00:29:27,788 --> 00:29:31,557
- old... Scratch.
- 472
- 00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:33,660
- (grumbles)
- 473
- 00:29:33,662 --> 00:29:35,597
- Scrounger.
- 474
- 00:29:36,565 --> 00:29:37,732
- He was a...
- 475
- 00:29:39,134 --> 00:29:42,137
- covetous old sinner.
- (grumbling)
- 476
- 00:29:44,038 --> 00:29:45,604
- - Name!
- - (giggling)
- 477
- 00:29:45,606 --> 00:29:47,006
- Shh.
- 478
- 00:29:47,008 --> 00:29:49,642
- Screwpull! Scrabbly.
- 479
- 00:29:49,644 --> 00:29:51,978
- Name! Ah!
- 480
- 00:29:51,980 --> 00:29:53,846
- (whispering) Well, go on.
- He won't bite.
- 481
- 00:29:53,848 --> 00:29:56,149
- Screwpull.
- 482
- 00:29:56,151 --> 00:29:59,219
- (muttering, grunting)
- 483
- 00:29:59,221 --> 00:30:00,689
- - (loud thump)
- - Aah!
- 484
- 00:30:04,025 --> 00:30:05,494
- (knocking)
- 485
- 00:30:16,938 --> 00:30:17,871
- - Scrimple!
- - (screams)
- 486
- 00:30:17,873 --> 00:30:19,138
- Aah!
- 487
- 00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:21,274
- You're... What are you
- doing in here?
- 488
- 00:30:21,276 --> 00:30:23,575
- I've just come to see
- to the fire, sir.
- 489
- 00:30:23,577 --> 00:30:26,578
- I'm not to be interrupted under
- any circumstances! Do you hear?
- 490
- 00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:29,681
- I beg your pardon, sir.
- It won't happen again.
- 491
- 00:30:29,683 --> 00:30:31,619
- Wait. What's that
- in your pocket?
- 492
- 00:30:38,692 --> 00:30:42,094
- Varney the Vampire,
- or The Feast of Blood.
- 493
- 00:30:42,096 --> 00:30:45,998
- You won't tell Mrs. Fisk, will ya?
- She'll think I was shirkin'.
- 494
- 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,636
- - Where did you learn to read?
- - My mum taught me.
- 495
- 00:30:49,671 --> 00:30:51,069
- But then she died
- 496
- 00:30:51,071 --> 00:30:53,074
- and I had to go
- to the Grubber.
- 497
- 00:30:54,576 --> 00:30:56,812
- The workhouse?
- 498
- 00:31:00,048 --> 00:31:03,551
- - Is it any good?
- - Well, yes, sir. Thrilling.
- 499
- 00:31:05,987 --> 00:31:08,990
- Tell you what.
- I'll make you a trade.
- 500
- 00:31:12,693 --> 00:31:15,161
- Varney the Vampire
- for...
- 501
- 00:31:15,163 --> 00:31:16,895
- Uh, where is it?
- 502
- 00:31:16,897 --> 00:31:19,567
- (humming) Ah!
- 503
- 00:31:22,069 --> 00:31:24,170
- Aladdin
- and His Magic Lamp.
- 504
- 00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:26,038
- Oh, my.
- 505
- 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,240
- Read it.
- Let me know what you think.
- 506
- 00:31:28,242 --> 00:31:30,144
- Thank you, sir.
- 507
- 00:31:31,145 --> 00:31:33,912
- (clock chiming)
- 508
- 00:31:33,914 --> 00:31:35,283
- Hmm.
- 509
- 00:31:39,788 --> 00:31:41,621
- Who is Scrimple?
- 510
- 00:31:41,623 --> 00:31:43,021
- Hmm? Scrimple?
- 511
- 00:31:43,023 --> 00:31:45,924
- - When I come in, you were saying...
- - Oh!
- 512
- 00:31:45,926 --> 00:31:49,761
- It's just a name
- for a story I'm concocting.
- 513
- 00:31:49,763 --> 00:31:53,269
- Get the name right and then, if you're
- lucky, the character will appear.
- 514
- 00:31:54,935 --> 00:31:56,736
- Hmm.
- 515
- 00:31:56,738 --> 00:31:57,972
- He's not here yet.
- 516
- 00:31:59,974 --> 00:32:02,877
- Scrantish?
- 517
- 00:32:04,945 --> 00:32:07,148
- Scrarmer.
- 518
- 00:32:09,049 --> 00:32:10,382
- - (snapping fingers)
- - Come on.
- 519
- 00:32:10,384 --> 00:32:13,686
- (rolling "R")
- Scrunge.
- 520
- 00:32:13,688 --> 00:32:15,622
- Aw, come on!
- 521
- 00:32:15,624 --> 00:32:17,026
- Come on,
- you old sinner!
- 522
- 00:32:19,326 --> 00:32:20,996
- Scrooge!
- 523
- 00:32:22,696 --> 00:32:26,132
- Shut the window! Do you
- think I'm made of money?
- 524
- 00:32:26,134 --> 00:32:28,634
- Mr. Scrooge.
- 525
- 00:32:28,636 --> 00:32:32,037
- - How delightful to meet you, sir.
- - Sorry I can't say the same.
- 526
- 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:34,774
- Come now. Don't be standoffish.
- We ought to be friends.
- 527
- 00:32:34,776 --> 00:32:36,742
- - Don't have friends. Don't need 'em.
- - Ah.
- 528
- 00:32:36,744 --> 00:32:38,878
- Naturally.
- 529
- 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,747
- - I know. Let's play a game.
- - Don't like games.
- 530
- 00:32:40,749 --> 00:32:42,748
- Well, humor me.
- 531
- 00:32:42,750 --> 00:32:46,919
- What do you think of when I
- say the word... "darkness"?
- 532
- 00:32:46,921 --> 00:32:48,190
- Cheap.
- 533
- 00:32:49,223 --> 00:32:51,125
- - Love.
- - Swindle.
- 534
- 00:32:52,794 --> 00:32:54,830
- - Money.
- - Security.
- 535
- 00:32:56,397 --> 00:32:58,965
- - Children.
- - Useless.
- 536
- 00:32:58,967 --> 00:33:01,070
- - Workhouse.
- - Useful.
- 537
- 00:33:04,172 --> 00:33:05,307
- Christmas.
- 538
- 00:33:08,676 --> 00:33:10,111
- Christmas?
- 539
- 00:33:11,413 --> 00:33:12,847
- That's right.
- 540
- 00:33:17,117 --> 00:33:19,786
- - (Mrs. Fisk) Help! Help! Get it away!
- - (children squealing, chattering)
- 541
- 00:33:19,788 --> 00:33:21,754
- - (groans)
- - (Mrs. Fisk) Away!
- 542
- 00:33:21,756 --> 00:33:23,422
- (grunts)
- 543
- 00:33:23,424 --> 00:33:25,091
- - (screams)
- - What is going on?
- 544
- 00:33:25,093 --> 00:33:26,992
- Get it away,
- the filthy thing.
- 545
- 00:33:26,994 --> 00:33:29,194
- Come on, Grip, old chap.
- Back in the cage.
- 546
- 00:33:29,196 --> 00:33:31,130
- - Father?
- - Ah. Charles.
- 547
- 00:33:31,132 --> 00:33:32,998
- - Good day.
- - What are you doing here?
- 548
- 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,101
- Well, we were
- in the neighborhood
- 549
- 00:33:35,103 --> 00:33:38,203
- and we thought we'd drop by with
- a present for the children.
- 550
- 00:33:38,205 --> 00:33:40,273
- (Charley) His name is Grip.
- He talks!
- 551
- 00:33:40,275 --> 00:33:42,808
- - Can we keep him?
- - (Grip) Hello, old girl.
- 552
- 00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:45,077
- It's bad luck, a bird in the house.
- It means death.
- 553
- 00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:46,813
- - Hello!
- - Father, in here.
- 554
- 00:33:46,815 --> 00:33:48,717
- - (squawking)
- - Of course.
- 555
- 00:33:51,352 --> 00:33:54,319
- Charles? Charles?
- 556
- 00:33:54,321 --> 00:33:56,988
- What are you doing
- back in London?
- 557
- 00:33:56,990 --> 00:33:59,491
- (sighs)
- My dear Charles.
- 558
- 00:33:59,493 --> 00:34:02,394
- I will not disguise from you
- that this is not the ardor
- 559
- 00:34:02,396 --> 00:34:04,396
- with which a loving father
- might be expected...
- 560
- 00:34:04,398 --> 00:34:07,100
- - You are supposed to be in Devon.
- - (scoffs)
- 561
- 00:34:07,102 --> 00:34:08,334
- Banishment!
- 562
- 00:34:08,336 --> 00:34:11,503
- Be merciful
- and say "death,"
- 563
- 00:34:11,505 --> 00:34:14,143
- for exile has more
- terror in its look.
- 564
- 00:34:15,342 --> 00:34:18,244
- Father,
- we had an agreement.
- 565
- 00:34:18,246 --> 00:34:19,945
- Hmm?
- 566
- 00:34:19,947 --> 00:34:21,780
- I bought you a house.
- 567
- 00:34:21,782 --> 00:34:24,016
- I gave you an allowance.
- 568
- 00:34:24,018 --> 00:34:26,818
- For which
- I am very grateful.
- 569
- 00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:29,889
- As for me, I'm happy
- wherever the weather.
- 570
- 00:34:29,891 --> 00:34:33,762
- But your mother is of
- a more delicate sensibility.
- 571
- 00:34:34,795 --> 00:34:37,963
- Charles,
- the mere sight of cows
- 572
- 00:34:37,965 --> 00:34:40,234
- causes her
- actual physical pain.
- 573
- 00:34:41,402 --> 00:34:43,436
- Father.
- 574
- 00:34:43,438 --> 00:34:46,340
- And I have research to do
- in the London Library.
- 575
- 00:34:49,010 --> 00:34:50,713
- - Research?
- - Oh, yes.
- 576
- 00:34:52,045 --> 00:34:53,945
- Yeah.
- 577
- 00:34:53,947 --> 00:34:56,816
- I have a commission
- from The Spectator
- 578
- 00:34:56,818 --> 00:34:59,421
- to write a feature
- on the Bank Charter Act.
- 579
- 00:35:00,454 --> 00:35:02,487
- The editor
- was very impressed
- 580
- 00:35:02,489 --> 00:35:05,391
- with my series
- on marine insurance.
- 581
- 00:35:05,393 --> 00:35:09,929
- Good for you, Father. I do hope that
- you and Mother will stay here with us.
- 582
- 00:35:09,931 --> 00:35:13,068
- The children and I will so enjoy
- having some company in the evenings.
- 583
- 00:35:20,108 --> 00:35:22,277
- The Spectator.
- Well, that's, um...
- 584
- 00:35:23,478 --> 00:35:25,481
- That's most impressive.
- 585
- 00:35:27,414 --> 00:35:29,817
- (chuckles)
- Thank you, dear boy.
- 586
- 00:35:30,451 --> 00:35:32,150
- Oh, by the way,
- 587
- 00:35:32,152 --> 00:35:34,420
- you couldn't lend me
- a tenner, could you?
- 588
- 00:35:34,422 --> 00:35:37,123
- That blighter took my last
- farthing for the cage.
- 589
- 00:35:37,125 --> 00:35:38,360
- - (wings fluttering)
- - (gasps)
- 590
- 00:35:42,429 --> 00:35:45,331
- - (squawk)
- - It was the bird, sir. It flew upstairs.
- 591
- 00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:50,302
- Oh, um, I'll see
- that it's all cleared up.
- 592
- 00:35:50,304 --> 00:35:53,005
- - (squawking)
- - Please, can we keep him?
- 593
- 00:35:53,007 --> 00:35:54,842
- Well, I, um...
- 594
- 00:35:57,512 --> 00:35:59,481
- (laughs)
- Come on, Walter.
- 595
- 00:36:02,449 --> 00:36:04,483
- (sighs)
- 596
- 00:36:04,485 --> 00:36:07,523
- "This is not the ardor
- with which a loving father..."
- 597
- 00:36:08,389 --> 00:36:10,159
- (sighs)
- 598
- 00:36:11,893 --> 00:36:12,994
- (Scrooge)
- Humbug!
- 599
- 00:36:14,161 --> 00:36:16,497
- - What is?
- - Christmas.
- 600
- 00:36:19,434 --> 00:36:21,032
- What about it?
- 601
- 00:36:21,034 --> 00:36:23,101
- Well, what is it
- but an excuse
- 602
- 00:36:23,103 --> 00:36:26,541
- for picking a man's pocket
- every 25th of December?
- 603
- 00:36:28,376 --> 00:36:30,242
- Yes. Keep going.
- 604
- 00:36:30,244 --> 00:36:33,445
- A time for paying bills
- without money.
- 605
- 00:36:33,447 --> 00:36:36,481
- A time for finding yourself a year
- older and not an hour richer.
- 606
- 00:36:36,483 --> 00:36:38,383
- (chuckles)
- 607
- 00:36:38,385 --> 00:36:40,552
- If I could work my will,
- 608
- 00:36:40,554 --> 00:36:43,121
- every idiot who goes about with
- "Merry Christmas" on his lips
- 609
- 00:36:43,123 --> 00:36:45,291
- should be boiled
- in his own plum pudding
- 610
- 00:36:45,293 --> 00:36:49,061
- and buried with a stake of holly
- through his heart, he should.
- 611
- 00:36:49,063 --> 00:36:53,999
- (laughs) Oh, Mr. Scrooge, you and I are
- going to do wonderful things together.
- 612
- 00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:58,670
- Oh, but he was a tight-fisted
- hand at the grindstone, Scrooge.
- 613
- 00:36:58,672 --> 00:37:01,574
- A squeezing, wrenching,
- 614
- 00:37:01,576 --> 00:37:05,211
- grasping, scraping,
- 615
- 00:37:05,213 --> 00:37:08,014
- clutching,
- covetous old sinner.
- 616
- 00:37:08,016 --> 00:37:10,016
- (knocking)
- 617
- 00:37:10,018 --> 00:37:11,353
- (Mr. Dickens)
- Charles?
- 618
- 00:37:14,588 --> 00:37:16,389
- Hard at work?
- 619
- 00:37:16,391 --> 00:37:18,557
- What can I help
- you with, Father?
- 620
- 00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:22,461
- Well, I was wondering if we might have
- an extra candlestick for our room.
- 621
- 00:37:22,463 --> 00:37:24,429
- - Of course.
- - Oh!
- 622
- 00:37:24,431 --> 00:37:27,368
- Cigars. Oh, yes.
- 623
- 00:37:28,469 --> 00:37:30,403
- I must confess,
- 624
- 00:37:30,405 --> 00:37:35,273
- I have acquired an irrepressible
- habit of smoking whilst I write.
- 625
- 00:37:35,275 --> 00:37:36,708
- Dreadful habit, I know,
- but...
- 626
- 00:37:36,710 --> 00:37:38,613
- Oh, yes.
- (chuckles)
- 627
- 00:37:39,947 --> 00:37:41,215
- Thank you.
- 628
- 00:37:44,952 --> 00:37:46,485
- Hmm. Going well?
- 629
- 00:37:46,487 --> 00:37:48,990
- (sniffs)
- Oh. (laughs)
- 630
- 00:37:50,324 --> 00:37:52,326
- I won't detain you.
- 631
- 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,508
- Don't do that.
- D-Don't.
- 632
- 00:38:09,510 --> 00:38:11,543
- - Why not?
- - (man groans)
- 633
- 00:38:11,545 --> 00:38:13,112
- (sighs)
- Too late.
- 634
- 00:38:13,114 --> 00:38:15,347
- (dragging, thumping)
- 635
- 00:38:15,349 --> 00:38:16,615
- Who is it?
- 636
- 00:38:16,617 --> 00:38:18,120
- Who is it?
- 637
- 00:38:19,554 --> 00:38:20,987
- - Bunsby?
- - (thumping continues)
- 638
- 00:38:20,989 --> 00:38:22,621
- (groaning continues)
- 639
- 00:38:22,623 --> 00:38:23,692
- Clennam?
- 640
- 00:38:25,693 --> 00:38:28,427
- - Heep? Hexam?
- - (thumping, chains clanking)
- 641
- 00:38:28,429 --> 00:38:30,195
- - Oh, stop, stop!
- - Magwitch?
- 642
- 00:38:30,197 --> 00:38:31,299
- No.
- 643
- 00:38:32,599 --> 00:38:33,701
- Marley.
- 644
- 00:38:36,771 --> 00:38:39,604
- (screaming)
- 645
- 00:38:39,606 --> 00:38:41,175
- (groans)
- 646
- 00:38:42,643 --> 00:38:45,577
- Is that you, Jacob?
- 647
- 00:38:45,579 --> 00:38:47,746
- - You know him?
- - My business partner.
- 648
- 00:38:47,748 --> 00:38:50,516
- Last time I saw him
- he was dead as a doornail.
- 649
- 00:38:50,518 --> 00:38:53,219
- How do you, Jacob?
- 650
- 00:38:53,221 --> 00:38:55,755
- (Marley)
- Business, business.
- 651
- 00:38:55,757 --> 00:38:58,724
- Mankind was my business.
- 652
- 00:38:58,726 --> 00:39:01,296
- The common welfare
- was my business.
- 653
- 00:39:02,663 --> 00:39:04,132
- Charity...
- 654
- 00:39:05,365 --> 00:39:06,568
- mercy...
- 655
- 00:39:08,235 --> 00:39:10,135
- forbearance,
- and benevolence
- 656
- 00:39:10,137 --> 00:39:12,371
- were all my business.
- 657
- 00:39:12,373 --> 00:39:15,240
- He was never one
- for a straight answer.
- 658
- 00:39:15,242 --> 00:39:17,309
- And yet I practiced
- none of them!
- 659
- 00:39:17,311 --> 00:39:19,077
- Come in.
- 660
- 00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:20,414
- Come in, please.
- 661
- 00:39:25,318 --> 00:39:27,588
- (groaning)
- 662
- 00:39:39,666 --> 00:39:41,603
- (gasps, sighs)
- 663
- 00:39:43,838 --> 00:39:47,175
- You are fettered.
- Why?
- 664
- 00:39:48,643 --> 00:39:51,612
- I wear the chain
- I forged in life.
- 665
- 00:39:54,849 --> 00:39:56,284
- I made it...
- 666
- 00:39:58,286 --> 00:39:59,653
- link by link,
- 667
- 00:40:01,222 --> 00:40:03,191
- yard by yard.
- 668
- 00:40:04,759 --> 00:40:08,463
- And of my own free will,
- I girded it about me.
- 669
- 00:40:09,730 --> 00:40:12,530
- Of my own free will,
- 670
- 00:40:12,532 --> 00:40:14,432
- I wore it.
- 671
- 00:40:14,434 --> 00:40:18,373
- (wheezing groan)
- 672
- 00:40:23,710 --> 00:40:27,415
- Do you know the weight and length
- of the chain you bear yourself?
- 673
- 00:40:29,550 --> 00:40:30,818
- You mean him,
- surely.
- 674
- 00:40:33,353 --> 00:40:35,156
- Mm-mmm.
- 675
- 00:40:36,257 --> 00:40:37,659
- You, Charley.
- 676
- 00:40:40,260 --> 00:40:43,130
- Your chains,
- all around you.
- 677
- 00:40:44,865 --> 00:40:47,335
- Past and present...
- 678
- 00:40:49,137 --> 00:40:50,572
- and what is to come.
- 679
- 00:40:52,472 --> 00:40:55,407
- (screams)
- 680
- 00:40:55,409 --> 00:40:58,776
- Hail to thee,
- blithe turkey,
- 681
- 00:40:58,778 --> 00:41:01,246
- whose exquisite odors
- 682
- 00:41:01,248 --> 00:41:04,349
- now perfume
- the circumambient air.
- 683
- 00:41:04,351 --> 00:41:05,918
- (inhales)
- 684
- 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,720
- And let this day
- be fragrant
- 685
- 00:41:08,722 --> 00:41:12,258
- with the love
- we bear one another.
- 686
- 00:41:12,260 --> 00:41:15,360
- And may God bless us,
- every one.
- 687
- 00:41:15,362 --> 00:41:17,396
- Every one.
- 688
- 00:41:17,398 --> 00:41:19,166
- (clapping)
- 689
- 00:41:22,269 --> 00:41:24,403
- Mr. John Dickens.
- 690
- 00:41:24,405 --> 00:41:27,373
- You're under arrest
- for a debt of 42 pounds.
- 691
- 00:41:27,375 --> 00:41:28,606
- - Father!
- - Charley.
- 692
- 00:41:28,608 --> 00:41:30,744
- Father,
- tell them to stop!
- 693
- 00:41:31,878 --> 00:41:33,445
- Take everything
- that shines, boys.
- 694
- 00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:35,748
- It's all right, Charley.
- 695
- 00:41:35,750 --> 00:41:38,617
- - Tell them to stop, Father!
- - It's all right.
- 696
- 00:41:38,619 --> 00:41:40,822
- Please, Charley,
- don't worry.
- 697
- 00:41:42,389 --> 00:41:43,858
- - (gasps)
- - (accordion squawks)
- 698
- 00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:50,132
- (clock chiming)
- 699
- 00:41:51,298 --> 00:41:53,869
- (children shouting,
- chattering)
- 700
- 00:41:55,503 --> 00:41:57,936
- (Charles) What about Leech
- for the illustrations?
- 701
- 00:41:57,938 --> 00:41:59,637
- (Forster) Leech?
- He's so prickly.
- 702
- 00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:02,541
- - And he's by no means the cheapest.
- - I don't want the cheapest.
- 703
- 00:42:02,543 --> 00:42:05,778
- Oh, Charles, for God's sake, slow down.
- You move at railway speed.
- 704
- 00:42:05,780 --> 00:42:07,746
- I don't want the cheapest.
- I want the best.
- 705
- 00:42:07,748 --> 00:42:09,347
- - It's going well then?
- - What?
- 706
- 00:42:09,349 --> 00:42:11,749
- - The book.
- - It's brilliant. Best thing I've ever written.
- 707
- 00:42:11,751 --> 00:42:13,385
- - What, so you...
- - I've got 11 pages.
- 708
- 00:42:13,387 --> 00:42:15,787
- - Eleven?
- - Well, if it weren't for constant interruptions.
- 709
- 00:42:15,789 --> 00:42:18,990
- We've got my father staying with us. He
- could not have come at a worse time.
- 710
- 00:42:18,992 --> 00:42:20,492
- Oh.
- 711
- 00:42:20,494 --> 00:42:21,896
- Miss Wigmore.
- 712
- 00:42:24,297 --> 00:42:25,764
- Ah.
- 713
- 00:42:25,766 --> 00:42:28,434
- - (sighs)
- - Come.
- 714
- 00:42:28,436 --> 00:42:29,668
- Come along.
- 715
- 00:42:29,670 --> 00:42:32,374
- (woman chattering,
- indistinct)
- 716
- 00:42:34,909 --> 00:42:36,809
- Who was that?
- 717
- 00:42:36,811 --> 00:42:38,811
- - Charlotte.
- - Who?
- 718
- 00:42:38,813 --> 00:42:40,778
- My fiancée.
- I told you.
- 719
- 00:42:40,780 --> 00:42:42,947
- (chuckles)
- Fiancée?
- 720
- 00:42:42,949 --> 00:42:46,318
- - She's a canny lass, is she not?
- - Indeed. Most amiable.
- 721
- 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,287
- Amiable?
- 722
- 00:42:48,289 --> 00:42:51,257
- Why, man, she's an
- angel, a sylph.
- 723
- 00:42:51,259 --> 00:42:53,726
- (sobbing)
- She's a goddess on a...
- 724
- 00:42:53,728 --> 00:42:56,528
- Whatever is the matter?
- 725
- 00:42:56,530 --> 00:42:59,597
- Charlotte and I have come
- to a parting of the ways.
- 726
- 00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:02,034
- - I thought you said you were engaged.
- - We were.
- 727
- 00:43:02,036 --> 00:43:05,273
- But then her father had no intention
- for her to marry the son of a butcher.
- 728
- 00:43:07,275 --> 00:43:08,643
- Here.
- 729
- 00:43:09,777 --> 00:43:11,213
- - (sniffs)
- - (sighs)
- 730
- 00:43:12,780 --> 00:43:14,947
- Perhaps
- it's for the best, eh?
- 731
- 00:43:14,949 --> 00:43:17,686
- The life matrimonial, it's
- not for everyone, old stick.
- 732
- 00:43:19,387 --> 00:43:21,222
- Aye. Aye, no doubt.
- 733
- 00:43:22,422 --> 00:43:23,824
- So... Leech.
- 734
- 00:43:24,791 --> 00:43:26,358
- That's the ticket.
- 735
- 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,825
- Four wood cuts,
- four etchings.
- 736
- 00:43:27,827 --> 00:43:29,394
- The cover in red.
- Hand-colored.
- 737
- 00:43:29,396 --> 00:43:32,298
- The title in rustic,
- spectral writing.
- 738
- 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:34,432
- The end papers to be green and
- all three edges to be gilded.
- 739
- 00:43:34,434 --> 00:43:37,536
- Gilded?
- It'll cost you.
- 740
- 00:43:37,538 --> 00:43:40,539
- Well, it must be exquisite.
- That's why we came to you.
- 741
- 00:43:40,541 --> 00:43:43,976
- You'll have to sell every
- copy to make your money back.
- 742
- 00:43:43,978 --> 00:43:46,345
- That is my intention.
- 743
- 00:43:46,347 --> 00:43:48,780
- You brought
- the manuscript?
- 744
- 00:43:48,782 --> 00:43:50,648
- (stammers) I'll have
- something for you in a week.
- 745
- 00:43:50,650 --> 00:43:52,450
- - A week?
- - Mmm.
- 746
- 00:43:52,452 --> 00:43:54,820
- That leaves only four weeks
- to do all the illustrations
- 747
- 00:43:54,822 --> 00:43:56,891
- and get it to the printer
- in time for Christmas.
- 748
- 00:43:59,693 --> 00:44:02,927
- - Can you do it?
- - Mr. Dickens, I'm not a hired hand.
- 749
- 00:44:02,929 --> 00:44:05,466
- I am an artist.
- 750
- 00:44:06,766 --> 00:44:08,602
- What you are asking
- is impossible.
- 751
- 00:44:09,836 --> 00:44:12,338
- Impossible
- for an ordinary man.
- 752
- 00:44:12,340 --> 00:44:14,742
- But you are no ordinary man,
- Mr. Leech.
- 753
- 00:44:15,543 --> 00:44:16,878
- You are a genius.
- 754
- 00:44:20,681 --> 00:44:21,715
- Fifty pounds.
- 755
- 00:44:22,650 --> 00:44:24,483
- Paid in advance.
- 756
- 00:44:24,485 --> 00:44:27,021
- Plus more
- for the plates.
- 757
- 00:44:32,659 --> 00:44:35,062
- Done.
- Thank you, Mr. Leech.
- 758
- 00:44:37,731 --> 00:44:40,566
- Look, Charles, I don't want
- to be the voice of doom,
- 759
- 00:44:40,568 --> 00:44:42,934
- but before we lay out
- money for illustrations,
- 760
- 00:44:42,936 --> 00:44:46,373
- we should consider what happens
- if you don't finish on time.
- 761
- 00:44:47,141 --> 00:44:49,010
- I will finish on time.
- 762
- 00:44:50,378 --> 00:44:51,846
- Quite.
- 763
- 00:44:55,483 --> 00:44:58,516
- Mr. Dickens. I fix the chandelier.
- See?
- 764
- 00:44:58,518 --> 00:45:01,487
- Yes. Good.
- Grazie, Signor Mazzini.
- 765
- 00:45:01,489 --> 00:45:03,021
- Is no problem.
- 766
- 00:45:03,023 --> 00:45:06,023
- Only 12 guineas extra.
- (clears throat)
- 767
- 00:45:06,025 --> 00:45:08,494
- Wh... Tw...
- 768
- 00:45:08,496 --> 00:45:11,829
- - (Mr. Dickens laughing)
- - I thought my father was off to the British Library.
- 769
- 00:45:11,831 --> 00:45:14,833
- Your sister's here, sir. Come from
- Manchester with her little boy.
- 770
- 00:45:14,835 --> 00:45:15,936
- Ah.
- 771
- 00:45:17,405 --> 00:45:19,938
- - My dear sister! Ha-ha!
- - Charley.
- 772
- 00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:22,141
- (both laugh)
- 773
- 00:45:22,143 --> 00:45:23,742
- Henry, how are you?
- 774
- 00:45:23,744 --> 00:45:25,878
- Very well,
- grace be to God.
- 775
- 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,914
- This cannot be young Master Henry.
- I barely recognize you.
- 776
- 00:45:28,916 --> 00:45:31,483
- - How old are you now?
- - Nine, if you please, sir.
- 777
- 00:45:31,485 --> 00:45:33,918
- Nine? I shall soon
- run out of fingers.
- 778
- 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,957
- - (laughs)
- - (Henry coughing)
- 779
- 00:45:39,793 --> 00:45:41,693
- Excuse me, sir.
- 780
- 00:45:41,695 --> 00:45:44,829
- The children are having their
- tea in the dining room.
- 781
- 00:45:44,831 --> 00:45:46,701
- Come on then, young 'un.
- Up!
- 782
- 00:45:52,072 --> 00:45:53,575
- Mind your head.
- 783
- 00:45:54,842 --> 00:45:56,874
- There goes my heart.
- 784
- 00:45:56,876 --> 00:45:59,010
- What did
- the doctor say?
- 785
- 00:45:59,012 --> 00:46:00,848
- He says we have to
- wait and see.
- 786
- 00:46:01,849 --> 00:46:03,715
- Won't you
- let us help?
- 787
- 00:46:03,717 --> 00:46:06,552
- - We'll manage.
- - At least until Henry finds a new position.
- 788
- 00:46:06,554 --> 00:46:08,854
- Something will come up.
- I'm sure of it.
- 789
- 00:46:08,856 --> 00:46:11,190
- You sound
- just like Father.
- 790
- 00:46:11,192 --> 00:46:13,925
- - How is the old reprobate?
- - (sighs)
- 791
- 00:46:13,927 --> 00:46:17,662
- "This morning I had 25 shillings in my
- hand. And now, observe the vacancy."
- 792
- 00:46:17,664 --> 00:46:19,630
- He means no harm.
- 793
- 00:46:19,632 --> 00:46:23,501
- It's not enough. He bobs around
- like a cork on the surface of life.
- 794
- 00:46:23,503 --> 00:46:25,670
- - Not a thought for the future.
- - Oh, Charley.
- 795
- 00:46:25,672 --> 00:46:28,507
- Let it go, can't you?
- 796
- 00:46:28,509 --> 00:46:32,478
- (Mr. Dickens) Come on, me army!
- Me landlubbers, me lovelies!
- 797
- 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,248
- Oh! Up we go.
- Ha-ha! Me landlubbers!
- 798
- 00:46:36,250 --> 00:46:40,586
- Come aboard my ship!
- Here we go! Let's set sail!
- 799
- 00:46:40,588 --> 00:46:43,921
- Brail your capstan bar!
- Come here, Walter.
- 800
- 00:46:43,923 --> 00:46:46,825
- - Brail your capstan bar!
- - No one is useless in this world...
- 801
- 00:46:46,827 --> 00:46:49,961
- Who lightens the burden
- of another. I know.
- 802
- 00:46:49,963 --> 00:46:54,199
- - For all his faults, you won't find a kinder man.
- - (grumbles)
- 803
- 00:46:54,201 --> 00:46:56,934
- How long he is
- growing up to be one.
- 804
- 00:46:56,936 --> 00:47:00,171
- (Mr. Dickens
- continues shouting)
- 805
- 00:47:00,173 --> 00:47:02,811
- Here we go!
- Full sail ahead!
- 806
- 00:47:11,952 --> 00:47:13,719
- (whispering)
- Why are you here?
- 807
- 00:47:13,721 --> 00:47:17,224
- You'd better come and see
- who's just turned up.
- 808
- 00:47:23,597 --> 00:47:24,932
- Charles?
- 809
- 00:47:27,268 --> 00:47:29,967
- Just a bit of indigestion.
- Go back to sleep.
- 810
- 00:47:29,969 --> 00:47:31,472
- Mmm.
- 811
- 00:47:49,722 --> 00:47:52,124
- Tell him who you are.
- 812
- 00:47:52,126 --> 00:47:54,963
- I am the Ghost
- of Christmas Past.
- 813
- 00:47:58,097 --> 00:47:59,831
- Follow.
- 814
- 00:47:59,833 --> 00:48:02,833
- Not bloody likely.
- 815
- 00:48:02,835 --> 00:48:06,137
- - Why not?
- - Mucking around in the past? What's the point?
- 816
- 00:48:06,139 --> 00:48:07,905
- You might learn something.
- 817
- 00:48:07,907 --> 00:48:10,775
- Well, I already know
- everything I need to know.
- 818
- 00:48:10,777 --> 00:48:13,744
- - Uh, take him, why don't you?
- - Me?
- 819
- 00:48:13,746 --> 00:48:16,315
- - Yes, if you're so keen.
- - It's not about me!
- 820
- 00:48:16,317 --> 00:48:19,253
- Well, you're the author,
- aren't you?
- 821
- 00:48:23,657 --> 00:48:24,992
- Follow.
- 822
- 00:48:26,893 --> 00:48:30,996
- Don't cry. We'll be back
- when the debt's paid.
- 823
- 00:48:30,998 --> 00:48:35,099
- - Why can't I stay with you?
- - You're a big boy, Charley.
- 824
- 00:48:35,101 --> 00:48:37,034
- You're the breadwinner now.
- 825
- 00:48:37,036 --> 00:48:40,738
- You'll see.
- It'll be an adventure.
- 826
- 00:48:40,740 --> 00:48:42,911
- - You'll hardly think of us at all.
- - (sobbing quietly)
- 827
- 00:48:44,811 --> 00:48:47,179
- - (banging on wagon)
- - (man) Time to go!
- 828
- 00:48:47,181 --> 00:48:49,213
- Now, sir,
- enough of that.
- 829
- 00:48:49,215 --> 00:48:51,083
- Stand up tall.
- 830
- 00:48:51,085 --> 00:48:53,050
- Blood of iron,
- heart of ice.
- 831
- 00:48:53,052 --> 00:48:55,086
- - Huh?
- - (whip cracks)
- 832
- 00:48:55,088 --> 00:48:57,025
- - (horse whinnies)
- - And remember!
- 833
- 00:48:58,257 --> 00:49:00,358
- You're the son
- of John Dickens!
- 834
- 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,159
- A gentleman!
- 835
- 00:49:02,161 --> 00:49:04,164
- You be sure
- and tell them that!
- 836
- 00:49:15,675 --> 00:49:16,777
- Well, come on then!
- 837
- 00:49:18,846 --> 00:49:20,778
- Blood of iron,
- 838
- 00:49:20,780 --> 00:49:22,182
- heart of ice.
- 839
- 00:49:27,186 --> 00:49:29,420
- (gasps)
- 840
- 00:49:29,422 --> 00:49:32,157
- - Good morning.
- - What? Oh.
- 841
- 00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:34,392
- You were tossing and turning
- all night, you know.
- 842
- 00:49:34,394 --> 00:49:36,130
- Yes. Bad dreams.
- 843
- 00:49:37,030 --> 00:49:39,331
- What about?
- 844
- 00:49:39,333 --> 00:49:42,202
- I don't know. Shadows.
- 845
- 00:49:43,836 --> 00:49:45,269
- Well...
- 846
- 00:49:45,271 --> 00:49:47,371
- a little daylight
- will cure you.
- 847
- 00:49:47,373 --> 00:49:49,206
- (cackling)
- Now, Constable,
- 848
- 00:49:49,208 --> 00:49:52,043
- shall we ask Mr. Punch where
- the baby's daddy's gone?
- 849
- 00:49:52,045 --> 00:49:53,845
- I bet he knows.
- 850
- 00:49:53,847 --> 00:49:57,349
- - Oh! Where's the baby's daddy gone?
- - Where's he gone, Mr. Punch?
- 851
- 00:49:57,351 --> 00:49:59,885
- (Mr. Punch) Daddy's off to prison!
- (cackling)
- 852
- 00:49:59,887 --> 00:50:02,019
- (Judy)
- Off to prison? Oh-ho!
- 853
- 00:50:02,021 --> 00:50:05,057
- Come on. We're wasting time.
- Let's get to work.
- 854
- 00:50:05,059 --> 00:50:06,891
- I am working.
- 855
- 00:50:06,893 --> 00:50:09,927
- - Here?
- - Yes. Gathering inspiration.
- 856
- 00:50:09,929 --> 00:50:12,097
- (chuckling)
- Gathering what?
- 857
- 00:50:12,099 --> 00:50:16,200
- - What do you see when you look around?
- - Well, it's a market, you idiot.
- 858
- 00:50:16,202 --> 00:50:17,969
- What else?
- 859
- 00:50:17,971 --> 00:50:21,238
- Hot pies!
- Eel, beef or mutton pies!
- 860
- 00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:23,378
- - Buyers and sellers.
- - What else?
- 861
- 00:50:25,244 --> 00:50:27,445
- Never say die.
- Have a look, sir.
- 862
- 00:50:27,447 --> 00:50:29,046
- (Scrooge)
- Thieves and ruffians.
- 863
- 00:50:29,048 --> 00:50:31,749
- Highly interesting murder,
- gentlemen!
- 864
- 00:50:31,751 --> 00:50:34,286
- (man) Hold! Hold!
- 865
- 00:50:34,288 --> 00:50:36,987
- Clear the way!
- Clear the way, lads!
- 866
- 00:50:36,989 --> 00:50:38,990
- - (laughing)
- - Mr. Fezziwig!
- 867
- 00:50:38,992 --> 00:50:41,863
- - (laughing)
- - (fiddle playing)
- 868
- 00:50:45,965 --> 00:50:47,798
- Life, Mr. Scrooge.
- 869
- 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,168
- It's London. The great
- theater of the world.
- 870
- 00:50:50,170 --> 00:50:52,436
- - It's all here.
- - Bah. Humbug!
- 871
- 00:50:52,438 --> 00:50:55,507
- I'm a man of facts,
- of calculations.
- 872
- 00:50:55,509 --> 00:50:57,943
- Realities, not fancy.
- 873
- 00:50:57,945 --> 00:50:59,447
- What the devil is that?
- 874
- 00:51:00,748 --> 00:51:02,016
- Here you go, sir.
- 875
- 00:51:11,492 --> 00:51:13,992
- - Must go.
- - Where to?
- 876
- 00:51:13,994 --> 00:51:15,229
- It's time to write.
- 877
- 00:51:16,463 --> 00:51:19,400
- - (laughing)
- - (fiddle continues playing)
- 878
- 00:51:24,204 --> 00:51:26,470
- - Come along.
- - Good night, children!
- 879
- 00:51:26,472 --> 00:51:29,143
- Bye! Shoo!
- (laughs)
- 880
- 00:51:31,478 --> 00:51:33,047
- (exhales)
- 881
- 00:51:34,782 --> 00:51:38,550
- Well, looks as though Charles
- won't be joining us. Again.
- 882
- 00:51:38,552 --> 00:51:40,519
- - We may as well start.
- - Oh.
- 883
- 00:51:40,521 --> 00:51:42,787
- Ah, the parties.
- 884
- 00:51:42,789 --> 00:51:44,923
- We used to keep such hours.
- 885
- 00:51:44,925 --> 00:51:47,858
- Balls, dinners, champagne.
- 886
- 00:51:47,860 --> 00:51:50,028
- First-rate capon,
- Mrs. Fisk.
- 887
- 00:51:50,030 --> 00:51:52,798
- Oh, thank you, sir.
- I'll let the cook know.
- 888
- 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,333
- And the chairs
- had turned legs,
- 889
- 00:51:55,335 --> 00:51:58,135
- with green squabs
- to match the curtains.
- 890
- 00:51:58,137 --> 00:52:00,005
- What was that story,
- Mother?
- 891
- 00:52:00,007 --> 00:52:04,075
- Oh, I was just telling Kate about the
- dining room set we used to have.
- 892
- 00:52:04,077 --> 00:52:07,512
- Rosewood.
- In the most approved taste.
- 893
- 00:52:07,514 --> 00:52:09,914
- You mean the one
- we pawned?
- 894
- 00:52:09,916 --> 00:52:11,449
- Oh! (laughs)
- 895
- 00:52:11,451 --> 00:52:16,086
- Charles! (laughs)
- You are a satirical monster.
- 896
- 00:52:16,088 --> 00:52:18,255
- - Is that a joke, Charles?
- - Not a very amusing one.
- 897
- 00:52:18,257 --> 00:52:20,025
- Is that a new waistcoat,
- Father?
- 898
- 00:52:20,027 --> 00:52:25,229
- What? Oh, yes. It's Persian crimson.
- A little more expensive.
- 899
- 00:52:25,231 --> 00:52:28,532
- But as I always say, people
- will believe anything
- 900
- 00:52:28,534 --> 00:52:30,467
- if you are properly dressed.
- 901
- 00:52:30,469 --> 00:52:33,905
- Kate, will you ask Tara to bring
- a tray up with something on it?
- 902
- 00:52:33,907 --> 00:52:36,842
- - I'll bring it up.
- - No. I need Tara to do it.
- 903
- 00:52:36,844 --> 00:52:39,577
- I'll get her, sir.
- Tara!
- 904
- 00:52:39,579 --> 00:52:42,414
- (Mr. Dickens) That's the
- spirit, my boy. Hmm?
- 905
- 00:52:42,416 --> 00:52:45,983
- Procrastination is the thief of
- time, eh, Charles? (chuckling)
- 906
- 00:52:45,985 --> 00:52:47,954
- Collar him!
- 907
- 00:52:52,458 --> 00:52:54,291
- We must not
- disturb the poet
- 908
- 00:52:54,293 --> 00:52:56,628
- when the divine frenzy
- is upon him.
- 909
- 00:52:56,630 --> 00:52:58,630
- (chuckles)
- 910
- 00:52:58,632 --> 00:53:00,534
- Hmm.
- 911
- 00:53:10,210 --> 00:53:12,146
- Know the place?
- 912
- 00:53:14,981 --> 00:53:17,018
- Was I apprenticed here?
- 913
- 00:53:18,652 --> 00:53:22,519
- Clear the way, lads! Clear the way.
- It's Friday night.
- 914
- 00:53:22,521 --> 00:53:25,990
- - Why, it's old Fezziwig.
- - (fiddle: jig)
- 915
- 00:53:25,992 --> 00:53:27,594
- (laughing)
- 916
- 00:53:31,331 --> 00:53:33,334
- - (knocking)
- - (fiddle stops)
- 917
- 00:53:34,434 --> 00:53:36,070
- (sighs)
- 918
- 00:53:37,271 --> 00:53:39,271
- Who is it?
- 919
- 00:53:39,273 --> 00:53:41,309
- It's Tara, sir,
- with your dinner.
- 920
- 00:53:48,315 --> 00:53:50,050
- Tara.
- Come in. Come in.
- 921
- 00:53:51,918 --> 00:53:53,621
- Close the door.
- 922
- 00:53:56,123 --> 00:53:57,988
- Sit. I want to
- read you something.
- 923
- 00:53:57,990 --> 00:53:59,990
- Oh... Oh, I... I don't think Mrs.
- Fisk would...
- 924
- 00:53:59,992 --> 00:54:02,693
- Ah! Skittleshins
- to Mrs. Fisk.
- 925
- 00:54:02,695 --> 00:54:04,628
- Come. Sit.
- 926
- 00:54:04,630 --> 00:54:07,565
- (humming)
- 927
- 00:54:07,567 --> 00:54:09,700
- Now, since you
- like ghost stories,
- 928
- 00:54:09,702 --> 00:54:12,505
- see if this can rival
- Varney the Vampire.
- 929
- 00:54:15,275 --> 00:54:17,409
- (Charles)
- "With cherry-cheeked apples,
- 930
- 00:54:17,411 --> 00:54:20,679
- juicy oranges,
- luscious pears,
- 931
- 00:54:20,681 --> 00:54:23,715
- immense Twelfth cakes
- and seething bowls of punch
- 932
- 00:54:23,717 --> 00:54:27,184
- that made the chamber dim
- with their delicious steam.
- 933
- 00:54:27,186 --> 00:54:31,322
- In easy state, upon this couch,
- there sat a jolly giant..."
- 934
- 00:54:31,324 --> 00:54:33,590
- - The second ghost.
- - The second ghost.
- 935
- 00:54:33,592 --> 00:54:36,529
- (laughter)
- 936
- 00:54:39,132 --> 00:54:42,032
- I am the Ghost
- of Christmas Present.
- 937
- 00:54:42,034 --> 00:54:46,737
- These are the gifts
- of abundance, goodwill,
- 938
- 00:54:46,739 --> 00:54:48,405
- and of generosity.
- 939
- 00:54:48,407 --> 00:54:50,240
- Uh-huh.
- 940
- 00:54:50,242 --> 00:54:53,345
- Of course, you wouldn't understand
- much about that, would you?
- 941
- 00:54:53,347 --> 00:54:55,082
- Unlike these good people.
- 942
- 00:54:57,617 --> 00:55:00,719
- My dear Mrs. Cratchit, you have
- outdone yourself this year.
- 943
- 00:55:00,721 --> 00:55:03,054
- Oh, everyone pitched in.
- Even Tim.
- 944
- 00:55:03,056 --> 00:55:05,358
- - I set the table.
- - (laughing) Yes, you did.
- 945
- 00:55:08,027 --> 00:55:10,662
- I didn't know Cratchit
- had a crippled son.
- 946
- 00:55:10,664 --> 00:55:12,363
- Didn't you ever think
- to ask?
- 947
- 00:55:12,365 --> 00:55:15,266
- A merry Christmas
- to us all, my dears.
- 948
- 00:55:15,268 --> 00:55:18,139
- - And may God bless us.
- - God bless us, every one.
- 949
- 00:55:20,039 --> 00:55:23,240
- He's my clerk. I don't pay him to
- tell me about his personal life.
- 950
- 00:55:23,242 --> 00:55:25,642
- - You hardly pay him at all.
- - Fifteen shillings a week.
- 951
- 00:55:25,644 --> 00:55:28,545
- For a man with a family,
- not to mention a sick child?
- 952
- 00:55:28,547 --> 00:55:31,017
- (coughing)
- 953
- 00:55:32,485 --> 00:55:34,454
- That's the market rate.
- 954
- 00:55:36,123 --> 00:55:39,090
- Do you really believe
- that every inch of existence
- 955
- 00:55:39,092 --> 00:55:41,492
- is a bargain
- across the counter?
- 956
- 00:55:41,494 --> 00:55:43,494
- Observe this family.
- 957
- 00:55:43,496 --> 00:55:48,099
- They don't have much, but they're happy,
- grateful, contented with their lot.
- 958
- 00:55:48,101 --> 00:55:52,237
- Whereas you are miserable
- and content with nothing.
- 959
- 00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,738
- Never heard such folly.
- 960
- 00:55:54,740 --> 00:55:57,677
- (bell tolls)
- 961
- 00:55:58,811 --> 00:56:01,315
- Heed well what I've said.
- 962
- 00:56:02,416 --> 00:56:04,182
- Farewell.
- 963
- 00:56:04,184 --> 00:56:06,187
- (Charles)
- And... intermission!
- 964
- 00:56:07,820 --> 00:56:10,789
- - Thrilling performance.
- - That's very kind. Thank you.
- 965
- 00:56:10,791 --> 00:56:13,995
- And that is as far
- as I've got.
- 966
- 00:56:19,365 --> 00:56:20,831
- - Tara.
- - Hmm?
- 967
- 00:56:20,833 --> 00:56:22,666
- (chuckles)
- 968
- 00:56:22,668 --> 00:56:25,403
- - How do you do that, sir?
- - Do what?
- 969
- 00:56:25,405 --> 00:56:27,572
- Make a world come alive.
- 970
- 00:56:27,574 --> 00:56:30,211
- I could almost see
- and hear them people.
- 971
- 00:56:31,844 --> 00:56:34,311
- Especially that Tiny Tim.
- 972
- 00:56:34,313 --> 00:56:35,782
- Poor mite.
- 973
- 00:56:45,759 --> 00:56:48,492
- Um... (clears throat)
- A word in your ear.
- 974
- 00:56:48,494 --> 00:56:52,130
- - About what?
- - The scene.
- 975
- 00:56:52,132 --> 00:56:55,867
- - It's very one-sided.
- - What? One-sided?
- 976
- 00:56:55,869 --> 00:56:58,506
- Well, my character doesn't get
- to explain his side of things.
- 977
- 00:57:00,773 --> 00:57:03,708
- - So I've taken the liberty of writing a short speech.
- - No.
- 978
- 00:57:03,710 --> 00:57:06,778
- - Something about the rational self-interest...
- - (sighs)
- 979
- 00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:08,780
- and the natural tendencies
- of free markets...
- 980
- 00:57:08,782 --> 00:57:11,318
- No. No. And no.
- 981
- 00:57:13,286 --> 00:57:15,153
- Well, what sort of book
- is this anyway?
- 982
- 00:57:15,155 --> 00:57:16,487
- (angry grunt)
- 983
- 00:57:16,489 --> 00:57:19,624
- No! It's too... Ew.
- It's too gloomy.
- 984
- 00:57:19,626 --> 00:57:21,793
- The Ghost of Christmas
- Present should be wonderful.
- 985
- 00:57:21,795 --> 00:57:23,862
- Warm, jolly!
- 986
- 00:57:23,864 --> 00:57:25,796
- - Jolly?
- - Yes!
- 987
- 00:57:25,798 --> 00:57:27,632
- A jolly ghost?
- 988
- 00:57:27,634 --> 00:57:29,135
- That's it.
- 989
- 00:57:39,846 --> 00:57:42,313
- - What's this?
- - Find another artist.
- 990
- 00:57:42,315 --> 00:57:44,315
- We don't want
- another artist.
- 991
- 00:57:44,317 --> 00:57:48,586
- A jolly Christmas ghost?
- What's that mean?
- 992
- 00:57:48,588 --> 00:57:52,490
- I can't draw
- what I don't understand.
- 993
- 00:57:52,492 --> 00:57:56,360
- Well, it is everything
- that's best about Christmas.
- 994
- 00:57:56,362 --> 00:58:01,167
- He's the soul of kindness
- and generosity. He's...
- 995
- 00:58:02,434 --> 00:58:04,369
- Well, he's Forster.
- 996
- 00:58:04,371 --> 00:58:05,936
- Eh?
- 997
- 00:58:05,938 --> 00:58:08,208
- With a beard.
- 998
- 00:58:12,512 --> 00:58:13,847
- Come on. Jolly.
- 999
- 00:58:41,942 --> 00:58:44,878
- (women shouting)
- 1000
- 00:58:55,922 --> 00:58:58,856
- In shops by Christmas?
- 1001
- 00:58:58,858 --> 00:59:00,657
- That'll be a miracle.
- 1002
- 00:59:00,659 --> 00:59:02,594
- Go away.
- 1003
- 00:59:02,596 --> 00:59:06,766
- Three flops in a row.
- Up to your eyeballs in debt.
- 1004
- 00:59:08,268 --> 00:59:10,534
- I'd think you'd be glad
- of some advice.
- 1005
- 00:59:10,536 --> 00:59:13,237
- So, you've had a few flops.
- What of it?
- 1006
- 00:59:13,239 --> 00:59:16,340
- You're still young. It's not
- as if you're an old man.
- 1007
- 00:59:16,342 --> 00:59:18,378
- - (groans)
- - You've still got lots of time to be...
- 1008
- 00:59:35,527 --> 00:59:37,297
- (bell tolls)
- 1009
- 00:59:39,532 --> 00:59:41,268
- (bell tolls)
- 1010
- 00:59:43,637 --> 00:59:45,403
- (bell tolls)
- 1011
- 00:59:45,405 --> 00:59:48,539
- Are we in the presence of the
- Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?
- 1012
- 00:59:48,541 --> 00:59:51,409
- (rumbling)
- 1013
- 00:59:51,411 --> 00:59:53,280
- - Why doesn't he speak?
- - Shh!
- 1014
- 00:59:57,583 --> 01:00:01,985
- You are here to show us the shadows
- of the things that have not been,
- 1015
- 01:00:01,987 --> 01:00:04,389
- but will happen,
- in the time before us.
- 1016
- 01:00:04,391 --> 01:00:05,693
- Is that so?
- 1017
- 01:00:17,603 --> 01:00:19,336
- (Scrooge) Where does
- it want us to go?
- 1018
- 01:00:19,338 --> 01:00:21,241
- I think I know.
- 1019
- 01:00:25,311 --> 01:00:27,981
- I have a bad feeling
- about this. I...
- 1020
- 01:00:34,788 --> 01:00:38,389
- (Charles) And then they entered
- poor Bob Cratchit's house
- 1021
- 01:00:38,391 --> 01:00:40,791
- and found the mother and the
- children round the fire.
- 1022
- 01:00:40,793 --> 01:00:43,864
- (quiet sobbing)
- 1023
- 01:00:45,532 --> 01:00:46,831
- It's okay.
- It's okay.
- 1024
- 01:00:46,833 --> 01:00:48,735
- Then Bob came in the door.
- 1025
- 01:00:51,471 --> 01:00:52,706
- (door closes)
- 1026
- 01:00:57,110 --> 01:00:58,809
- You went today then,
- Robert?
- 1027
- 01:00:58,811 --> 01:01:01,047
- To the cemetery?
- 1028
- 01:01:02,414 --> 01:01:04,449
- Yes, my dear.
- 1029
- 01:01:04,451 --> 01:01:09,820
- I wish you could have gone
- to see how green a place it is.
- 1030
- 01:01:09,822 --> 01:01:11,988
- But you'll see it often.
- 1031
- 01:01:11,990 --> 01:01:16,764
- I promised him that I would
- take a walk there on a Sunday.
- 1032
- 01:01:18,998 --> 01:01:20,567
- (sobbing resumes)
- 1033
- 01:01:22,469 --> 01:01:24,371
- My little child.
- 1034
- 01:01:28,474 --> 01:01:30,007
- - My little, little child.
- - "...little child."
- 1035
- 01:01:30,009 --> 01:01:32,008
- - No!
- - Uh, rude!
- 1036
- 01:01:32,010 --> 01:01:34,748
- - Is Tiny Tim dead?
- - Well, of course he is. Imbecile.
- 1037
- 01:01:36,583 --> 01:01:38,115
- He was very ill.
- 1038
- 01:01:38,117 --> 01:01:39,883
- You can't save
- every child in London.
- 1039
- 01:01:39,885 --> 01:01:42,519
- And the family
- has no money for a doctor.
- 1040
- 01:01:42,521 --> 01:01:44,554
- Then Scrooge must save him!
- 1041
- 01:01:44,556 --> 01:01:45,591
- Me?
- 1042
- 01:01:47,059 --> 01:01:48,793
- - But he wouldn't...
- - Why?
- 1043
- 01:01:48,795 --> 01:01:51,461
- - Well, he's too selfish.
- - He can change.
- 1044
- 01:01:51,463 --> 01:01:53,530
- There's good in him somewhere,
- I know it!
- 1045
- 01:01:53,532 --> 01:01:55,768
- People don't change.
- 1046
- 01:01:57,737 --> 01:02:00,104
- He's been this way
- for a long time.
- 1047
- 01:02:00,106 --> 01:02:02,407
- I'm not sure
- he can change.
- 1048
- 01:02:02,409 --> 01:02:05,112
- Of course he can.
- He's not a monster.
- 1049
- 01:02:07,012 --> 01:02:09,479
- I thought this was a ghost
- story, not a fairy tale.
- 1050
- 01:02:09,481 --> 01:02:13,016
- He wouldn't let Tiny Tim die,
- Mr. Dickens.
- 1051
- 01:02:13,018 --> 01:02:15,853
- He has a heart,
- doesn't he?
- 1052
- 01:02:15,855 --> 01:02:18,057
- It would be
- too wicked...
- 1053
- 01:02:20,025 --> 01:02:21,961
- even for him.
- 1054
- 01:02:44,083 --> 01:02:46,987
- (pen tapping on inkwell)
- 1055
- 01:03:05,170 --> 01:03:09,740
- (Mr. Dickens) 'Tis now the
- very witching time of night...
- 1056
- 01:03:09,742 --> 01:03:10,941
- (Mrs. Dickens) Hush!
- 1057
- 01:03:10,943 --> 01:03:13,144
- when graveyards
- yawn and hell...
- 1058
- 01:03:13,146 --> 01:03:15,947
- Aha, Shakespeare.
- (chuckles)
- 1059
- 01:03:15,949 --> 01:03:18,081
- There's a man
- who could write.
- 1060
- 01:03:18,083 --> 01:03:21,651
- I doubt he ever
- had a blockage.
- 1061
- 01:03:21,653 --> 01:03:24,722
- Self-preservation...
- first law of nature.
- 1062
- 01:03:24,724 --> 01:03:26,026
- And that's
- just a fact.
- 1063
- 01:03:27,260 --> 01:03:28,925
- (laughing)
- 1064
- 01:03:28,927 --> 01:03:30,728
- Oh, hush.
- 1065
- 01:03:30,730 --> 01:03:33,164
- Oh, Charles! Good evening.
- 1066
- 01:03:33,166 --> 01:03:35,199
- We'll get him straight
- into bed, Charles.
- 1067
- 01:03:35,201 --> 01:03:39,036
- We were up the river to Kew, and I
- think perhaps it was too long a day.
- 1068
- 01:03:39,038 --> 01:03:42,005
- - Kew.
- - Kew?
- 1069
- 01:03:42,007 --> 01:03:44,608
- - What about your newspaper article?
- - Article?
- 1070
- 01:03:44,610 --> 01:03:47,177
- Yes, the one you're writing.
- It's been over a month.
- 1071
- 01:03:47,179 --> 01:03:49,579
- Oh! (laughs)
- 1072
- 01:03:49,581 --> 01:03:51,516
- Oh, ho! Oh!
- 1073
- 01:03:51,518 --> 01:03:53,818
- No, the, um...
- 1074
- 01:03:53,820 --> 01:03:58,588
- The editor felt that due
- to pecuniary complications
- 1075
- 01:03:58,590 --> 01:04:00,791
- of a most complicated
- nature,
- 1076
- 01:04:00,793 --> 01:04:03,793
- he felt he could not proceed
- with the commission.
- 1077
- 01:04:03,795 --> 01:04:05,595
- So, no newspaper article.
- 1078
- 01:04:05,597 --> 01:04:09,233
- No. However,
- I rejoice in saying
- 1079
- 01:04:09,235 --> 01:04:12,637
- I have every hope
- something will turn up.
- 1080
- 01:04:12,639 --> 01:04:15,541
- I think it's time you went
- back to Devon, Father.
- 1081
- 01:04:16,876 --> 01:04:19,213
- - Indeed.
- - As soon as possible.
- 1082
- 01:04:23,181 --> 01:04:25,749
- Of course, dear boy.
- 1083
- 01:04:25,751 --> 01:04:28,188
- We shall catch the
- afternoon train tomorrow.
- 1084
- 01:04:31,791 --> 01:04:33,624
- No, sweet.
- 1085
- 01:04:33,626 --> 01:04:35,496
- I can manage
- from here.
- 1086
- 01:04:36,329 --> 01:04:37,865
- Thank you.
- 1087
- 01:04:39,231 --> 01:04:41,201
- Good night, Charles.
- 1088
- 01:04:44,804 --> 01:04:48,204
- Ride on, ride on,
- 1089
- 01:04:48,206 --> 01:04:50,575
- over all obstacles
- 1090
- 01:04:50,577 --> 01:04:52,842
- and win the race.
- 1091
- 01:04:52,844 --> 01:04:55,211
- Don't be unkind,
- Charley.
- 1092
- 01:04:55,213 --> 01:04:57,280
- You don't know
- what he's been through.
- 1093
- 01:04:57,282 --> 01:05:00,184
- He feels it all,
- you know.
- 1094
- 01:05:00,186 --> 01:05:04,124
- He would never tell you,
- but he feels it all.
- 1095
- 01:05:12,331 --> 01:05:14,268
- (door closes)
- 1096
- 01:05:23,742 --> 01:05:28,179
- That's it. Blood of
- iron, heart of ice.
- 1097
- 01:05:28,181 --> 01:05:30,717
- Now perhaps we can finish
- this little book.
- 1098
- 01:05:35,855 --> 01:05:39,289
- "Are these the shadows
- of the things that will be,
- 1099
- 01:05:39,291 --> 01:05:42,328
- or are they shadows of the
- things that may be only?"
- 1100
- 01:05:46,032 --> 01:05:47,901
- That is as far
- as I've got.
- 1101
- 01:05:49,702 --> 01:05:52,003
- It's brilliant.
- 1102
- 01:05:52,005 --> 01:05:54,738
- - Are you pulling my leg?
- - No. No, of course not.
- 1103
- 01:05:54,740 --> 01:05:58,177
- Well, now...
- that's encouraging.
- 1104
- 01:06:00,179 --> 01:06:02,880
- My... My one criticism...
- 1105
- 01:06:02,882 --> 01:06:04,414
- Yes?
- 1106
- 01:06:04,416 --> 01:06:07,150
- - Tiny Tim.
- - Go on.
- 1107
- 01:06:07,152 --> 01:06:10,021
- - Are you really going to let him die?
- - Aw, not you as well.
- 1108
- 01:06:10,023 --> 01:06:13,190
- It's a Christmas book.
- Shouldn't it be hopeful?
- 1109
- 01:06:13,192 --> 01:06:15,325
- I mean, isn't that what... what...
- what Christmas is all about?
- 1110
- 01:06:15,327 --> 01:06:19,429
- The hope that in the end, our
- better natures will prevail?
- 1111
- 01:06:19,431 --> 01:06:22,133
- You were the one who persuaded
- me to kill off Little Nell.
- 1112
- 01:06:22,135 --> 01:06:23,767
- Yeah. Well, I stand by
- that decision.
- 1113
- 01:06:23,769 --> 01:06:25,369
- John, my readers
- implored me...
- 1114
- 01:06:25,371 --> 01:06:29,242
- But this is different. If Tiny
- Tim dies, then what's the point?
- 1115
- 01:06:31,210 --> 01:06:32,842
- - Thank you, John.
- - You're welcome.
- 1116
- 01:06:32,844 --> 01:06:35,679
- For reminding me why I never
- ask your opinion on my work.
- 1117
- 01:06:35,681 --> 01:06:38,014
- Your services
- are no longer required.
- 1118
- 01:06:38,016 --> 01:06:39,950
- - You cannot sack me.
- - Why not?
- 1119
- 01:06:39,952 --> 01:06:43,019
- Because I don't work for you.
- I do what I do as a friend.
- 1120
- 01:06:43,021 --> 01:06:44,822
- (door opens)
- 1121
- 01:06:44,824 --> 01:06:47,124
- John, please leave.
- 1122
- 01:06:47,126 --> 01:06:50,760
- (sighs)
- See you on Friday.
- 1123
- 01:06:50,762 --> 01:06:53,366
- Last chapter's due
- at the printers.
- 1124
- 01:07:03,009 --> 01:07:05,976
- Right. Let's run it again from the
- scene with Scrooge's debtors.
- 1125
- 01:07:05,978 --> 01:07:07,878
- - Oh, what's the point?
- - The point?
- 1126
- 01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:09,713
- We keep stopping
- at the same place.
- 1127
- 01:07:09,715 --> 01:07:12,182
- Yes, because
- I'm working out the ending.
- 1128
- 01:07:12,184 --> 01:07:14,851
- - Admit it, you're blocked!
- - I'm not blocked.
- 1129
- 01:07:14,853 --> 01:07:16,122
- Now, if you take
- my advice...
- 1130
- 01:07:17,824 --> 01:07:19,990
- - I'm the author here.
- - Allegedly.
- 1131
- 01:07:19,992 --> 01:07:22,492
- (all chuckling)
- 1132
- 01:07:22,494 --> 01:07:24,197
- I'm going out.
- 1133
- 01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:30,103
- - Alone!
- - (woman) Aw.
- 1134
- 01:07:31,771 --> 01:07:34,840
- (chattering, laughing)
- 1135
- 01:07:38,911 --> 01:07:40,744
- Forster.
- I need your help.
- 1136
- 01:07:40,746 --> 01:07:43,416
- - What is it? The children?
- - No. The children are fine.
- 1137
- 01:07:44,449 --> 01:07:46,249
- What's this?
- 1138
- 01:07:46,251 --> 01:07:50,186
- "Candle-scandal, flirt-hurt,
- Charlotte-poor heart."
- 1139
- 01:07:50,188 --> 01:07:53,025
- Is that a poem? That's atrocious.
- What has got into you?
- 1140
- 01:07:54,827 --> 01:07:57,327
- You look terrible.
- What's the matter?
- 1141
- 01:07:57,329 --> 01:07:59,829
- It's the book. I'm struggling
- with one of the characters.
- 1142
- 01:07:59,831 --> 01:08:02,768
- Whoo-hoo! Ah!
- 1143
- 01:08:06,873 --> 01:08:09,773
- - Quite a few of them, actually.
- - What exactly is the problem?
- 1144
- 01:08:09,775 --> 01:08:15,146
- The problem is, could a man as mean-spirited
- as Scrooge, as evil as Scrooge...
- 1145
- 01:08:15,148 --> 01:08:18,348
- Could he become a different
- person overnight?
- 1146
- 01:08:18,350 --> 01:08:21,152
- What is so evil about him?
- 1147
- 01:08:21,154 --> 01:08:23,254
- - Well, he's a miser.
- - Well, that doesn't make him evil.
- 1148
- 01:08:23,256 --> 01:08:25,790
- - It just makes him cheap.
- - He worships money.
- 1149
- 01:08:25,792 --> 01:08:27,894
- - It's the only thing that matters to him.
- - Why?
- 1150
- 01:08:30,328 --> 01:08:32,897
- He has nothing else.
- 1151
- 01:08:32,899 --> 01:08:34,801
- No friends? No family?
- 1152
- 01:08:37,837 --> 01:08:39,870
- No one he trusts.
- 1153
- 01:08:39,872 --> 01:08:41,472
- Why?
- 1154
- 01:08:41,474 --> 01:08:44,211
- Because he's afraid.
- 1155
- 01:08:45,511 --> 01:08:47,010
- Of?
- 1156
- 01:08:47,012 --> 01:08:48,347
- (sighs)
- 1157
- 01:08:51,384 --> 01:08:53,217
- Being found out.
- 1158
- 01:08:53,219 --> 01:08:57,254
- - Hello, chaps.
- - Thackeray.
- 1159
- 01:08:57,256 --> 01:09:01,357
- Charles, I haven't seen anything
- of yours in print for ages.
- 1160
- 01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:03,593
- Don't tell me
- you've had a blockage.
- 1161
- 01:09:03,595 --> 01:09:06,996
- Not in the least. I'm neck and
- heels into a Christmas book.
- 1162
- 01:09:06,998 --> 01:09:10,968
- - What the deuce is that?
- - A story about Christmas.
- 1163
- 01:09:10,970 --> 01:09:12,570
- For Christmas.
- 1164
- 01:09:12,572 --> 01:09:15,873
- A story... about...?
- (wheezing laugh)
- 1165
- 01:09:15,875 --> 01:09:18,008
- (chuckling)
- How amusing.
- 1166
- 01:09:18,010 --> 01:09:20,343
- Well, best of luck with it.
- 1167
- 01:09:20,345 --> 01:09:25,148
- Oh, dear, my last book has
- come out in a Railway edition.
- 1168
- 01:09:25,150 --> 01:09:27,483
- Sold 10,000 copies,
- in a week.
- 1169
- 01:09:27,485 --> 01:09:30,019
- "There's gold
- in them thar hills,"
- 1170
- 01:09:30,021 --> 01:09:31,524
- as your American friends
- would say.
- 1171
- 01:09:36,362 --> 01:09:39,865
- Come on. Let's go somewhere
- else, get a real drink.
- 1172
- 01:09:45,904 --> 01:09:48,004
- (men laughing)
- 1173
- 01:09:48,006 --> 01:09:52,409
- She's a big lass, and a bonny
- lass, and she likes her beer.
- 1174
- 01:09:52,411 --> 01:09:57,647
- And I call her Cushie Butterfield,
- and I wish she was here.
- 1175
- 01:09:57,649 --> 01:09:59,950
- (laughs)
- What language is that?
- 1176
- 01:09:59,952 --> 01:10:02,055
- That's Geordie, man.
- We're gods.
- 1177
- 01:10:05,091 --> 01:10:07,391
- - Where are we?
- - Oh, it's Hungerford Stairs.
- 1178
- 01:10:07,393 --> 01:10:08,895
- Oi, I smell the river.
- 1179
- 01:10:12,899 --> 01:10:14,932
- What's that?
- 1180
- 01:10:14,934 --> 01:10:16,599
- It's a graveyard.
- 1181
- 01:10:16,601 --> 01:10:20,336
- Ah, it's the old Warren's Factory.
- They moved from there years ago.
- 1182
- 01:10:20,338 --> 01:10:22,339
- I wonder they've not
- pulled it down yet.
- 1183
- 01:10:22,341 --> 01:10:25,142
- Yeah.
- Or burnt it down.
- 1184
- 01:10:25,144 --> 01:10:27,111
- Might do it myself
- one day.
- 1185
- 01:10:27,113 --> 01:10:29,382
- Why? What have you got
- against boot blacking?
- 1186
- 01:10:30,115 --> 01:10:31,451
- Charles.
- 1187
- 01:10:32,284 --> 01:10:33,586
- What is it?
- 1188
- 01:10:35,154 --> 01:10:37,588
- I just have
- this recurring nightmare.
- 1189
- 01:10:37,590 --> 01:10:40,089
- Oh, nightmares, aye.
- 1190
- 01:10:40,091 --> 01:10:42,660
- I've got one where I'm being
- chased by a giant badger.
- 1191
- 01:10:42,662 --> 01:10:44,364
- (snorts, laughs)
- 1192
- 01:10:45,430 --> 01:10:46,932
- What's yours?
- 1193
- 01:10:49,601 --> 01:10:52,001
- Never mind.
- 1194
- 01:10:52,003 --> 01:10:54,338
- Well, come on.
- It's time to go home.
- 1195
- 01:10:54,340 --> 01:10:56,540
- I'll see you at the printers.
- Friday morning, nine o'clock.
- 1196
- 01:10:56,542 --> 01:10:58,411
- - I can't.
- - Well, why not?
- 1197
- 01:11:00,947 --> 01:11:04,214
- It's the book.
- 1198
- 01:11:04,216 --> 01:11:07,253
- I can't... The characters
- won't do what I want.
- 1199
- 01:11:11,056 --> 01:11:12,690
- And I'm afraid.
- 1200
- 01:11:12,692 --> 01:11:15,159
- Of what?
- 1201
- 01:11:15,161 --> 01:11:18,361
- If I can't finish it,
- I'll never write again.
- 1202
- 01:11:18,363 --> 01:11:21,598
- Oh, come on, man, come on.
- Have some sleep, hear?
- 1203
- 01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:23,136
- I can't.
- 1204
- 01:11:24,670 --> 01:11:28,272
- The wrong fire
- is burning in my head.
- 1205
- 01:11:28,274 --> 01:11:31,040
- Oh, don't be daft. Now, come on,
- your wife will be worried sick.
- 1206
- 01:11:31,042 --> 01:11:32,977
- Who? Kate?
- She doesn't understand me.
- 1207
- 01:11:32,979 --> 01:11:36,245
- I've got news for you, Charles.
- None of us understand you.
- 1208
- 01:11:36,247 --> 01:11:38,549
- You're...
- You're a freak of nature.
- 1209
- 01:11:38,551 --> 01:11:41,652
- I'm exhausted spending
- two hours in your company.
- 1210
- 01:11:41,654 --> 01:11:44,220
- Come on, go home.
- It's cold tonight, yeah?
- 1211
- 01:11:44,222 --> 01:11:47,057
- I'll see you Friday.
- 1212
- 01:11:47,059 --> 01:11:50,760
- ♫.. Oh, she's a big lass And a bonny
- lass And she likes her beer ..♫
- 1213
- 01:11:50,762 --> 01:11:53,097
- (singing continues, faint)
- 1214
- 01:11:53,099 --> 01:11:57,003
- (horn blows)
- 1215
- 01:12:03,175 --> 01:12:05,278
- Here. Bye.
- 1216
- 01:12:12,551 --> 01:12:14,454
- Put that one over there!
- 1217
- 01:12:21,092 --> 01:12:23,160
- Boys!
- 1218
- 01:12:23,162 --> 01:12:26,562
- This here
- is Charley Dickens.
- 1219
- 01:12:26,564 --> 01:12:29,201
- And what was you just telling me, lad?
- About your dad?
- 1220
- 01:12:36,341 --> 01:12:38,107
- My father
- is a gentleman.
- 1221
- 01:12:38,109 --> 01:12:41,178
- - (laughing)
- - Where is he then?
- 1222
- 01:12:41,180 --> 01:12:44,380
- - Dining with the queen?
- - I heard he's been sent to prison.
- 1223
- 01:12:44,382 --> 01:12:46,383
- Hush, you lot.
- Get back to work!
- 1224
- 01:12:46,385 --> 01:12:47,385
- Master Dickens.
- 1225
- 01:12:48,820 --> 01:12:50,756
- No shirkin' here.
- 1226
- 01:12:54,159 --> 01:12:57,229
- You're no better than us, cocker,
- and you'd best learn that.
- 1227
- 01:13:31,162 --> 01:13:33,563
- You.
- What are you doing?
- 1228
- 01:13:33,565 --> 01:13:35,799
- Hello, Charley, old boy.
- 1229
- 01:13:35,801 --> 01:13:38,201
- Father?
- What are you doing here?
- 1230
- 01:13:38,203 --> 01:13:41,871
- Oh, I had some business that I had
- to attend to, so I thought...
- 1231
- 01:13:41,873 --> 01:13:44,741
- You just left town. What business
- could you possibly have?
- 1232
- 01:13:44,743 --> 01:13:46,579
- - Oh, I... (chuckles)
- - What's that?
- 1233
- 01:13:49,614 --> 01:13:51,117
- You're going
- to sell this?
- 1234
- 01:13:52,451 --> 01:13:54,518
- Well, it's no good to you,
- is it?
- 1235
- 01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:56,820
- Is that what
- you've been doing?
- 1236
- 01:13:56,822 --> 01:13:59,755
- Going through the rubbish like a
- tramp, selling bits and pieces of me.
- 1237
- 01:13:59,757 --> 01:14:02,692
- Is this your business?
- 1238
- 01:14:02,694 --> 01:14:06,196
- - Aren't you ashamed?
- - What?
- 1239
- 01:14:06,198 --> 01:14:09,732
- I bought you a house.
- I gave you an allowance.
- 1240
- 01:14:09,734 --> 01:14:11,835
- What more can you
- possibly need?
- 1241
- 01:14:11,837 --> 01:14:16,240
- Need?
- Oh, reason not the need.
- 1242
- 01:14:16,242 --> 01:14:19,175
- - (shouting) You see me here, you gods?
- - No. No. Shh. No.
- 1243
- 01:14:19,177 --> 01:14:21,711
- - A poor old man!
- - No! Shh! Stop it.
- 1244
- 01:14:21,713 --> 01:14:27,617
- Charley, you don't know what it's
- like to be poor, to be nothing.
- 1245
- 01:14:27,619 --> 01:14:30,320
- At 11 years old
- I was made to know.
- 1246
- 01:14:30,322 --> 01:14:32,889
- Working 12 hours a day,
- 1247
- 01:14:32,891 --> 01:14:37,427
- going hungry,
- alone and afraid
- 1248
- 01:14:37,429 --> 01:14:40,464
- because your father, who is
- supposed to care for you,
- 1249
- 01:14:40,466 --> 01:14:42,532
- is so utterly
- thriftless!
- 1250
- 01:14:42,534 --> 01:14:44,634
- No, please. (crying)
- I beg you.
- 1251
- 01:14:44,636 --> 01:14:46,702
- No, you are not
- the victim here.
- 1252
- 01:14:46,704 --> 01:14:48,738
- This is about me and your
- family and all of us
- 1253
- 01:14:48,740 --> 01:14:52,209
- who've lived our whole lives in
- the shadow of your recklessness.
- 1254
- 01:14:52,211 --> 01:14:55,312
- Charley...
- (crying continues)
- 1255
- 01:14:55,314 --> 01:14:59,549
- Go away. I am sickened
- at the sight of you.
- 1256
- 01:14:59,551 --> 01:15:03,219
- You are nothing but a drag
- and chain upon my life.
- 1257
- 01:15:03,221 --> 01:15:05,589
- I owe you nothing. Go!
- 1258
- 01:15:05,591 --> 01:15:06,893
- Ah, Charley.
- 1259
- 01:15:13,399 --> 01:15:14,734
- (sobs)
- 1260
- 01:15:32,952 --> 01:15:34,487
- (door closes)
- 1261
- 01:15:36,689 --> 01:15:38,455
- - (woman) Who's that then?
- - (Scrooge) Nobody.
- 1262
- 01:15:38,457 --> 01:15:40,257
- - The author.
- - Huh.
- 1263
- 01:15:40,259 --> 01:15:42,261
- No wonder he looks
- so depressed.
- 1264
- 01:15:47,699 --> 01:15:49,900
- Right. That's enough.
- Back to work.
- 1265
- 01:15:49,902 --> 01:15:52,001
- God bless us,
- every one.
- 1266
- 01:15:52,003 --> 01:15:54,338
- Why are you so miserable?
- 1267
- 01:15:54,340 --> 01:15:57,273
- What else can I be, when I live
- in such a world of fools as this?
- 1268
- 01:15:57,275 --> 01:15:59,543
- - You mean-spirited, cynical...
- - Oh, yes?
- 1269
- 01:15:59,545 --> 01:16:01,544
- Well, you look
- in the mirror sometime.
- 1270
- 01:16:01,546 --> 01:16:03,379
- "Is that a new candle, Kate?"
- 1271
- 01:16:03,381 --> 01:16:05,415
- "Your services
- are no longer required."
- 1272
- 01:16:05,417 --> 01:16:08,684
- - Ah, a hypocrite.
- - (knocking)
- 1273
- 01:16:08,686 --> 01:16:10,620
- (grunts)
- 1274
- 01:16:10,622 --> 01:16:12,421
- - What?
- - Pardon me, sir.
- 1275
- 01:16:12,423 --> 01:16:14,391
- - Mrs. Dickens just wanted me to ask...
- - This is intolerable.
- 1276
- 01:16:14,393 --> 01:16:18,894
- - Mrs. Fisk! Mrs. Fisk!
- - Yes, sir?
- 1277
- 01:16:18,896 --> 01:16:22,734
- Take this child away from here and see that she
- never disturbs me ever again. Do you hear?
- 1278
- 01:16:23,969 --> 01:16:26,471
- Yes, sir.
- Come with me, girl.
- 1279
- 01:16:27,905 --> 01:16:30,906
- Oh, yes. Banish her.
- Banish them all.
- 1280
- 01:16:30,908 --> 01:16:33,643
- - Quiet!
- - Humanity's great benefactor.
- 1281
- 01:16:33,645 --> 01:16:35,379
- - Humbug!
- - Shut it.
- 1282
- 01:16:35,381 --> 01:16:37,848
- Or I'll make you bald,
- with bad teeth.
- 1283
- 01:16:37,850 --> 01:16:40,616
- Oh, yeah, go ahead.
- It won't change a thing.
- 1284
- 01:16:40,618 --> 01:16:42,688
- You still won't have an ending.
- 1285
- 01:16:48,426 --> 01:16:50,693
- This is ridiculous.
- 1286
- 01:16:50,695 --> 01:16:52,966
- You're all being ridiculous.
- 1287
- 01:16:57,302 --> 01:16:59,238
- (shouting)
- 1288
- 01:17:00,506 --> 01:17:03,973
- (angry shout)
- If you be a man!
- 1289
- 01:17:03,975 --> 01:17:06,677
- Come on then, coward!
- 1290
- 01:17:06,679 --> 01:17:08,512
- Fight me!
- 1291
- 01:17:08,514 --> 01:17:10,714
- You miserable old fool!
- 1292
- 01:17:10,716 --> 01:17:13,620
- Fight me! Come on!
- 1293
- 01:18:01,699 --> 01:18:03,099
- Tara.
- 1294
- 01:18:03,101 --> 01:18:05,305
- - (door closes)
- - Tara!
- 1295
- 01:18:07,939 --> 01:18:09,805
- Has anybody seen Tara?
- 1296
- 01:18:09,807 --> 01:18:12,808
- - She's gone.
- - You asked Mrs. Fisk to send her away.
- 1297
- 01:18:12,810 --> 01:18:15,911
- Well, go and search for her.
- Find her.
- 1298
- 01:18:15,913 --> 01:18:18,482
- Rehire her at once.
- 1299
- 01:18:18,484 --> 01:18:23,786
- An Irish orphan in London? That would be
- like looking for a needle in a haystack.
- 1300
- 01:18:23,788 --> 01:18:27,523
- Come on, out. Come on,
- children, off you go.
- 1301
- 01:18:27,525 --> 01:18:29,561
- Quick sticks.
- That's it.
- 1302
- 01:18:31,462 --> 01:18:33,129
- Why didn't you
- stop her?
- 1303
- 01:18:33,131 --> 01:18:35,766
- How was I to know you didn't mean it?
- You said...
- 1304
- 01:18:35,768 --> 01:18:39,402
- I say a lot of things that are
- nonsense when I'm working.
- 1305
- 01:18:39,404 --> 01:18:43,173
- - Charles...
- - You know how ideas take possession of me.
- 1306
- 01:18:43,175 --> 01:18:47,579
- - You knew what I was like when you married me.
- - Yes. I did.
- 1307
- 01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:52,818
- But you have no idea
- what it's like to live with you.
- 1308
- 01:18:54,118 --> 01:18:55,951
- Always walking
- on eggshells,
- 1309
- 01:18:55,953 --> 01:18:57,853
- trying to guess your mood,
- 1310
- 01:18:57,855 --> 01:19:00,859
- to know which of your commands are
- a whim and which are in earnest.
- 1311
- 01:19:02,860 --> 01:19:04,730
- You know, sometimes I...
- 1312
- 01:19:06,564 --> 01:19:09,598
- I feel your characters
- matter more to you
- 1313
- 01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,703
- than your own flesh and blood.
- 1314
- 01:19:19,778 --> 01:19:21,114
- I am who I am.
- 1315
- 01:19:23,047 --> 01:19:25,581
- And who is that?
- 1316
- 01:19:25,583 --> 01:19:28,018
- It's as if
- there are two of you.
- 1317
- 01:19:28,020 --> 01:19:30,920
- One who's kind and gentle,
- 1318
- 01:19:30,922 --> 01:19:33,190
- and a secret self
- 1319
- 01:19:33,192 --> 01:19:35,927
- that no one is allowed
- to know or question.
- 1320
- 01:20:54,273 --> 01:20:56,039
- (coughing)
- 1321
- 01:20:56,041 --> 01:20:58,141
- (man) This here
- is Charley Dickens.
- 1322
- 01:20:58,143 --> 01:21:01,680
- What was it you was telling me,
- lad, about your dad?
- 1323
- 01:21:03,681 --> 01:21:06,016
- (young Charles)
- My father is a gentleman.
- 1324
- 01:21:06,018 --> 01:21:07,918
- (boys laughing)
- 1325
- 01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,620
- (boy) Where is he then?
- Dining with the queen?
- 1326
- 01:21:10,622 --> 01:21:12,621
- (boy 2) I heard he's
- been sent to prison!
- 1327
- 01:21:12,623 --> 01:21:15,825
- (man) Hush, you lot! Where's your manners?
- Get back to work.
- 1328
- 01:21:15,827 --> 01:21:17,760
- Master Dickens.
- 1329
- 01:21:17,762 --> 01:21:20,229
- (boy 3) Got a present
- for the young gentleman,
- 1330
- 01:21:20,231 --> 01:21:22,935
- seeing as it's Christmas.
- 1331
- 01:21:24,036 --> 01:21:27,840
- (boys laughing)
- 1332
- 01:21:28,774 --> 01:21:30,977
- (young Charles crying)
- 1333
- 01:21:33,145 --> 01:21:35,678
- Blood of iron,
- heart of ice.
- 1334
- 01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:37,282
- (boy) You're no better
- than us, cocker!
- 1335
- 01:21:44,221 --> 01:21:46,889
- Hello, Charley.
- 1336
- 01:21:46,891 --> 01:21:51,061
- So, this is
- your miserable secret.
- 1337
- 01:21:51,063 --> 01:21:55,365
- The famous author,
- the inimitable Charles Dickens,
- 1338
- 01:21:55,367 --> 01:21:59,969
- was once a scabby
- little factory boy.
- 1339
- 01:21:59,971 --> 01:22:01,705
- Leave me be.
- 1340
- 01:22:01,707 --> 01:22:05,642
- A common bit of riffraff,
- a squalid wretch.
- 1341
- 01:22:05,644 --> 01:22:08,247
- No use to anyone!
- 1342
- 01:22:09,847 --> 01:22:11,050
- (angry shouting)
- 1343
- 01:22:14,252 --> 01:22:15,955
- (angry shout)
- 1344
- 01:22:20,024 --> 01:22:23,893
- (chuckling) Look for yourself.
- What do you see, huh?
- 1345
- 01:22:23,895 --> 01:22:27,964
- A nothing. A nobody.
- A debtor's son.
- 1346
- 01:22:27,966 --> 01:22:30,202
- Who could ever care
- for you?
- 1347
- 01:22:32,871 --> 01:22:36,805
- Certainly not your father.
- He abandoned you. (laughing)
- 1348
- 01:22:36,807 --> 01:22:39,776
- Enough of that.
- Stand up tall.
- 1349
- 01:22:39,778 --> 01:22:41,314
- Blood of iron,
- heart of ice.
- 1350
- 01:22:42,847 --> 01:22:44,750
- (Scrooge)
- He failed you again and again.
- 1351
- 01:22:47,019 --> 01:22:48,019
- Oh!
- 1352
- 01:22:51,055 --> 01:22:52,888
- You said so yourself.
- 1353
- 01:22:52,890 --> 01:22:56,795
- Nothing but a drag and chain
- upon your life.
- 1354
- 01:22:58,162 --> 01:22:59,764
- Who are you? Huh?
- 1355
- 01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:03,336
- You know me, Charley.
- 1356
- 01:23:04,770 --> 01:23:08,838
- I'm hunger. I'm cold.
- 1357
- 01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:10,775
- I'm darkness.
- 1358
- 01:23:12,444 --> 01:23:17,350
- I'm the shadow on your thoughts,
- the crack in your heart,
- 1359
- 01:23:18,850 --> 01:23:22,154
- and the stain upon your soul.
- 1360
- 01:23:23,755 --> 01:23:26,891
- And I will never,
- ever leave you.
- 1361
- 01:23:29,293 --> 01:23:30,860
- Go away.
- 1362
- 01:23:30,862 --> 01:23:32,965
- Why? We're having such fun.
- 1363
- 01:23:33,998 --> 01:23:35,831
- People don't change, Charley.
- 1364
- 01:23:35,833 --> 01:23:40,035
- Look around you. You're
- still the same scabby boy.
- 1365
- 01:23:40,037 --> 01:23:42,707
- Useless,
- just like your father.
- 1366
- 01:23:45,342 --> 01:23:46,878
- No.
- 1367
- 01:23:49,146 --> 01:23:52,851
- "No one is useless in this world who
- lightens the burden of another."
- 1368
- 01:23:54,786 --> 01:23:57,155
- My father
- taught me that.
- 1369
- 01:23:58,957 --> 01:24:01,861
- - (rumbling)
- - (laughing)
- 1370
- 01:24:08,265 --> 01:24:10,135
- Which grave is that?
- 1371
- 01:24:12,970 --> 01:24:15,273
- - There's no name on it.
- - Well, why should there be?
- 1372
- 01:24:17,175 --> 01:24:19,308
- The man to whom
- this grave belongs
- 1373
- 01:24:19,310 --> 01:24:21,279
- never made himself useful
- to anyone but himself.
- 1374
- 01:24:22,747 --> 01:24:24,513
- No friends.
- 1375
- 01:24:24,515 --> 01:24:26,051
- No family.
- 1376
- 01:24:27,752 --> 01:24:30,689
- Never felt love or joy.
- 1377
- 01:24:32,224 --> 01:24:34,694
- Never took any kind
- of pleasure in life.
- 1378
- 01:24:43,033 --> 01:24:45,304
- And now it's too late.
- 1379
- 01:24:46,771 --> 01:24:49,207
- It's time, Mr. Scrooge.
- 1380
- 01:24:50,307 --> 01:24:52,310
- We've come to the end.
- 1381
- 01:25:20,372 --> 01:25:23,109
- I don't want to die.
- 1382
- 01:25:24,376 --> 01:25:26,375
- Not like this...
- 1383
- 01:25:26,377 --> 01:25:29,178
- alone,
- 1384
- 01:25:29,180 --> 01:25:31,082
- unloved, forgotten.
- 1385
- 01:25:32,050 --> 01:25:34,349
- It's too late.
- 1386
- 01:25:34,351 --> 01:25:36,419
- No, it's never too late.
- 1387
- 01:25:36,421 --> 01:25:39,291
- It's never...
- It's never too late.
- 1388
- 01:25:41,259 --> 01:25:43,863
- (rumbling)
- 1389
- 01:25:46,264 --> 01:25:49,464
- I will honor Christmas
- in my heart
- 1390
- 01:25:49,466 --> 01:25:51,934
- and try to keep it
- all the year.
- 1391
- 01:25:51,936 --> 01:25:55,205
- I will live in the past,
- the present, and the future.
- 1392
- 01:25:55,207 --> 01:25:58,974
- The spirits of all three
- will strive within me.
- 1393
- 01:25:58,976 --> 01:26:03,248
- I will not shut out
- the lessons that they teach.
- 1394
- 01:26:04,882 --> 01:26:07,485
- Oh, please. I beg you.
- 1395
- 01:26:10,855 --> 01:26:13,958
- Let me do some good...
- 1396
- 01:26:15,961 --> 01:26:18,361
- before I die.
- 1397
- 01:26:18,363 --> 01:26:19,865
- (rumbling stops)
- 1398
- 01:26:24,402 --> 01:26:26,538
- So we come
- to the final chapter.
- 1399
- 01:26:30,942 --> 01:26:33,912
- Oh, I told you we'd do great
- things together, Mr. Scrooge.
- 1400
- 01:26:35,546 --> 01:26:39,449
- (bell tolling)
- 1401
- 01:26:39,451 --> 01:26:42,354
- (gasping, laughing)
- 1402
- 01:26:45,623 --> 01:26:47,926
- (laughing continues)
- 1403
- 01:26:56,333 --> 01:26:58,103
- (pen tapping on inkwell)
- 1404
- 01:26:59,970 --> 01:27:02,006
- Stave five.
- 1405
- 01:27:03,408 --> 01:27:05,211
- "The End of It."
- 1406
- 01:27:08,212 --> 01:27:10,679
- Yes. And the bedpost
- was his own,
- 1407
- 01:27:10,681 --> 01:27:15,117
- the bed was his own,
- the room was his own.
- 1408
- 01:27:15,119 --> 01:27:18,858
- Best and happiest of all, the time before
- him was his own to make amends in.
- 1409
- 01:27:20,926 --> 01:27:22,558
- Scrooge was better
- than his word.
- 1410
- 01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,294
- He did it all
- and infinitely more.
- 1411
- 01:27:25,296 --> 01:27:28,263
- And to Tiny Tim,
- who did not die,
- 1412
- 01:27:28,265 --> 01:27:30,666
- he was a second father.
- 1413
- 01:27:30,668 --> 01:27:33,436
- And so,
- as Tiny Tim observed,
- 1414
- 01:27:33,438 --> 01:27:36,208
- "God bless us, every one."
- 1415
- 01:27:39,411 --> 01:27:40,945
- The end.
- 1416
- 01:27:43,480 --> 01:27:44,617
- The end.
- 1417
- 01:27:52,524 --> 01:27:54,389
- - Charles?
- - What?
- 1418
- 01:27:54,391 --> 01:27:56,558
- - There is someone here to see you.
- - Not now, Kate, please.
- 1419
- 01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:59,230
- I have to get this to the
- printer by nine o'clock.
- 1420
- 01:28:07,706 --> 01:28:09,240
- Tara.
- 1421
- 01:28:10,274 --> 01:28:11,643
- Thank you for the loan.
- 1422
- 01:28:15,180 --> 01:28:16,548
- Well, thank you.
- 1423
- 01:28:18,716 --> 01:28:20,184
- It's good, isn't it?
- 1424
- 01:28:22,052 --> 01:28:26,522
- Oh, yes, sir.
- It was fizzing.
- 1425
- 01:28:26,524 --> 01:28:29,662
- Fizzing? (laughs)
- That's delightful.
- 1426
- 01:28:32,262 --> 01:28:33,631
- Tara.
- 1427
- 01:28:36,667 --> 01:28:39,535
- I am very sorry that I sent you away.
- That was a mistake.
- 1428
- 01:28:39,537 --> 01:28:41,106
- And I was...
- 1429
- 01:28:44,309 --> 01:28:46,209
- And you were right
- about Tiny Tim.
- 1430
- 01:28:46,211 --> 01:28:48,076
- He doesn't die.
- 1431
- 01:28:48,078 --> 01:28:50,679
- Scrooge helps him
- to get better.
- 1432
- 01:28:50,681 --> 01:28:53,318
- And does he help Scrooge
- get better too?
- 1433
- 01:28:56,453 --> 01:28:58,620
- Yes.
- 1434
- 01:28:58,622 --> 01:29:01,326
- Yes, he does.
- (chuckling)
- 1435
- 01:29:06,030 --> 01:29:08,563
- - Where did that come from?
- - A gift.
- 1436
- 01:29:08,565 --> 01:29:11,701
- For the children.
- From your father.
- 1437
- 01:29:11,703 --> 01:29:13,635
- My father was here?
- 1438
- 01:29:13,637 --> 01:29:17,173
- You can still catch him, if...
- 1439
- 01:29:17,175 --> 01:29:18,510
- Oh!
- 1440
- 01:29:21,345 --> 01:29:23,147
- Kate.
- 1441
- 01:29:26,384 --> 01:29:28,683
- I know.
- You don't deserve me.
- 1442
- 01:29:28,685 --> 01:29:31,055
- Go. Go.
- (chuckling)
- 1443
- 01:29:36,261 --> 01:29:38,197
- - Cab!
- - Whoa!
- 1444
- 01:29:39,663 --> 01:29:41,630
- - Paddington Station!
- - Right-o, governor.
- 1445
- 01:29:41,632 --> 01:29:44,002
- - As fast as you can!
- - Oi! Oi!
- 1446
- 01:29:48,105 --> 01:29:49,504
- - Whoa!
- - (whinnying)
- 1447
- 01:29:49,506 --> 01:29:52,375
- Turn it around.
- And wait for me here!
- 1448
- 01:29:52,377 --> 01:29:54,343
- - Oi! Stop!
- - (whistle blows)
- 1449
- 01:29:54,345 --> 01:29:56,144
- - Hey!
- - Stop! Police!
- 1450
- 01:29:56,146 --> 01:29:58,080
- Wait!
- 1451
- 01:29:58,082 --> 01:30:00,482
- Wait, wait, please! Where
- do you think you're going?
- 1452
- 01:30:00,484 --> 01:30:02,652
- - What?
- - Oh, please, dear.
- 1453
- 01:30:02,654 --> 01:30:06,822
- - Don't make a scene. We're going away.
- - No, you're not. Please.
- 1454
- 01:30:06,824 --> 01:30:09,692
- Police! Get out of my way! Clear the way!
- Let me through!
- 1455
- 01:30:09,694 --> 01:30:12,160
- Oh.
- What have I done now?
- 1456
- 01:30:12,162 --> 01:30:14,597
- No, it's...
- it's what you haven't done.
- 1457
- 01:30:14,599 --> 01:30:18,701
- - What do you mean?
- - Well, who's going to carve the turkey?
- 1458
- 01:30:18,703 --> 01:30:21,403
- And who's going to make
- the Christmas pudding?
- 1459
- 01:30:21,405 --> 01:30:23,438
- It won't be the same
- without you.
- 1460
- 01:30:23,440 --> 01:30:27,643
- The pudding! The secret is
- to warm the treacle first.
- 1461
- 01:30:27,645 --> 01:30:29,812
- There, you...
- You see, my dear?
- 1462
- 01:30:29,814 --> 01:30:32,581
- I told you something
- would turn up.
- 1463
- 01:30:32,583 --> 01:30:35,119
- Oh, my son. Oh.
- 1464
- 01:30:36,453 --> 01:30:37,789
- Gotcha!
- 1465
- 01:30:39,323 --> 01:30:41,257
- You're that Charles
- Dickens, aren't you?
- 1466
- 01:30:41,259 --> 01:30:42,458
- Uh, guilty.
- 1467
- 01:30:42,460 --> 01:30:45,160
- That last one.
- Chuzzlewit.
- 1468
- 01:30:45,162 --> 01:30:47,796
- Wept like a baby, I did.
- 1469
- 01:30:47,798 --> 01:30:50,433
- Well, that's... That's very kind.
- What's your name, Constable?
- 1470
- 01:30:50,435 --> 01:30:52,805
- My name?
- Copperfield, sir.
- 1471
- 01:30:53,837 --> 01:30:55,737
- Copperfield.
- 1472
- 01:30:55,739 --> 01:30:57,807
- Any chance
- of a new book soon?
- 1473
- 01:30:57,809 --> 01:30:59,677
- New book. New book!
- 1474
- 01:31:00,878 --> 01:31:03,812
- Wait. New book.
- 1475
- 01:31:03,814 --> 01:31:05,317
- Merry Christmas!
- 1476
- 01:31:06,751 --> 01:31:09,188
- I'm his father.
- 1477
- 01:31:10,622 --> 01:31:12,354
- (man)
- Santa bells for sale!
- 1478
- 01:31:12,356 --> 01:31:15,327
- Shoe Lane!
- As fast as you can go.
- 1479
- 01:31:22,533 --> 01:31:24,634
- - Charles, where have you been?
- - It's all right. I've got it!
- 1480
- 01:31:24,636 --> 01:31:28,403
- Mr. Grub!
- Mr. Grub. We're here.
- 1481
- 01:31:28,405 --> 01:31:31,810
- I have it. I have the ending.
- You can finish it now.
- 1482
- 01:31:33,444 --> 01:31:35,577
- - It's too late.
- - What?
- 1483
- 01:31:35,579 --> 01:31:38,748
- Oh, come on. You've already printed the other
- four chapters, and it's just one more.
- 1484
- 01:31:38,750 --> 01:31:41,185
- Get the whole book
- finished today.
- 1485
- 01:31:46,256 --> 01:31:49,491
- - I can't guarantee anything.
- - Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Grub!
- 1486
- 01:31:49,493 --> 01:31:51,295
- (laughs) Thank you.
- 1487
- 01:31:52,462 --> 01:31:54,233
- I didn't say
- I could do it.
- 1488
- 01:32:08,246 --> 01:32:10,582
- Well, I'll see
- what I can do.
- 1489
- 01:32:14,886 --> 01:32:16,488
- (chattering)
- 1490
- 01:32:21,359 --> 01:32:23,629
- Oh, come on, man.
- Don't prolong the agony.
- 1491
- 01:32:48,386 --> 01:32:50,522
- (chuckling)
- 1492
- 01:32:54,626 --> 01:32:56,528
- (spine cracking)
- 1493
- 01:33:13,011 --> 01:33:14,713
- It's exactly
- as I'd imagined it.
- 1494
- 01:33:16,780 --> 01:33:18,583
- (sighs)
- 1495
- 01:33:20,417 --> 01:33:23,652
- Hello, gents. Extraordinary
- weather, isn't it?
- 1496
- 01:33:23,654 --> 01:33:25,588
- Looks like snow.
- 1497
- 01:33:25,590 --> 01:33:28,958
- - Hello, Thackeray.
- - Oh, what's this I have?
- 1498
- 01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:31,861
- Yes. It's a proof copy
- of your new book.
- 1499
- 01:33:31,863 --> 01:33:35,498
- I'm going to review it
- for The Spectator.
- 1500
- 01:33:35,500 --> 01:33:38,834
- I'm told you wrote it
- in only six weeks, Charles.
- 1501
- 01:33:38,836 --> 01:33:40,838
- What a prodigy you are.
- 1502
- 01:33:46,377 --> 01:33:48,643
- Did you bring that
- all the way from Italy?
- 1503
- 01:33:48,645 --> 01:33:49,981
- Sì. Venezia.
- 1504
- 01:33:51,048 --> 01:33:52,947
- And now...
- 1505
- 01:33:52,949 --> 01:33:58,086
- And now the beautiful mermaid
- floats through the sea.
- 1506
- 01:33:58,088 --> 01:34:01,859
- - Wooo!
- - (singing, faint)
- 1507
- 01:34:11,469 --> 01:34:13,639
- Hello, old girl!
- (squawks)
- 1508
- 01:34:15,372 --> 01:34:17,940
- Oh, my goodness.
- That is beautiful.
- 1509
- 01:34:17,942 --> 01:34:20,576
- Isn't it? The Germans
- call it a Tannenbaum.
- 1510
- 01:34:20,578 --> 01:34:23,446
- It's a tree for Christmas.
- A Christmas tree, I suppose.
- 1511
- 01:34:23,448 --> 01:34:26,081
- Now the royal family have got
- one, it'll be all the rage.
- 1512
- 01:34:26,083 --> 01:34:27,618
- (door closes)
- 1513
- 01:34:28,953 --> 01:34:31,387
- - Hello.
- - Miss Wigmore!
- 1514
- 01:34:31,389 --> 01:34:32,990
- Papa had
- a change of heart.
- 1515
- 01:34:34,591 --> 01:34:37,893
- So he did. Oh, I'm so pleased!
- Congratulations.
- 1516
- 01:34:37,895 --> 01:34:40,396
- Charles, uh, I think you're
- going to want to hear this.
- 1517
- 01:34:40,398 --> 01:34:41,897
- - It's by Thackeray.
- - Not now.
- 1518
- 01:34:41,899 --> 01:34:44,036
- No, please.
- Everyone, gather round.
- 1519
- 01:34:53,677 --> 01:34:56,010
- "It was a blessed inspiration
- 1520
- 01:34:56,012 --> 01:35:00,915
- that put such a book into
- the head of Charles Dickens.
- 1521
- 01:35:00,917 --> 01:35:04,387
- A happy inspiration
- of the heart
- 1522
- 01:35:04,389 --> 01:35:07,889
- that warms every page.
- 1523
- 01:35:07,891 --> 01:35:13,728
- It is impossible to read without a
- glowing bosom and burning cheeks,
- 1524
- 01:35:13,730 --> 01:35:18,701
- between love and shame
- of our kind."
- 1525
- 01:35:18,703 --> 01:35:20,463
- - (woman) Aw.
- - (Mr. Dickens) Bravo, Charles.
- 1526
- 01:35:23,841 --> 01:35:25,775
- Well, uh... (chuckles)
- 1527
- 01:35:25,777 --> 01:35:29,081
- - Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
- - (laughing)
- 1528
- 01:35:31,716 --> 01:35:33,952
- And those on the way.
- 1529
- 01:35:35,752 --> 01:35:37,553
- A toast.
- 1530
- 01:35:37,555 --> 01:35:42,525
- I wish you all many,
- many happy Christmases
- 1531
- 01:35:42,527 --> 01:35:47,862
- and friendships, and great
- accumulation of cheerful recollections
- 1532
- 01:35:47,864 --> 01:35:50,499
- and heaven at last
- for all of us.
- 1533
- 01:35:50,501 --> 01:35:54,573
- In the season of hope, we will shut
- out nothing from our firesides
- 1534
- 01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:57,843
- and everyone
- will be welcome.
- 1535
- 01:36:00,211 --> 01:36:01,713
- (squawks)
- 1536
- 01:36:04,815 --> 01:36:06,449
- (squawks)
- 1537
- 01:36:06,451 --> 01:36:10,154
- Welcome what has been
- and what is
- 1538
- 01:36:11,756 --> 01:36:13,923
- and what we hope may be,
- 1539
- 01:36:13,925 --> 01:36:15,924
- to this shelter
- underneath the holly.
- 1540
- 01:36:15,926 --> 01:36:18,660
- (laughing)
- 1541
- 01:36:18,662 --> 01:36:19,997
- (squawking)
- 1542
- 01:36:22,934 --> 01:36:26,235
- Merry, merry Christmas
- to one and all.
- 1543
- 01:36:26,237 --> 01:36:28,739
- (all) Merry Christmas!
- 1544
- 01:36:38,748 --> 01:36:40,749
- (squawking)
- 1545
- 01:36:40,751 --> 01:36:44,122
- (chattering)
- 1546
- 01:36:53,997 --> 01:36:55,900
- (giggling)
- 1547
- 01:36:57,268 --> 01:36:58,804
- Thank you.
- 1548
- 01:37:20,024 --> 01:37:21,793
- (horse whinnies)
- 1549
- 01:37:54,246 --> 01:38:02,246
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