Ti West, director of the upcoming Ebenezer, tells Entertainment Weekly :
“In other adaptations, Scrooge is kind of an asshole, and then the rest of the characters are benevolent, perfect people. And it was really our goal to try to balance that out to say that there’s much more of a gray area in the story,. … We want to give Scrooge logic and a good argument, so when he is making an argument about something, he’s not wrong.”
I could not say whether this is standard PR hyperbole to try to keep things interesting, or West and Johnny Depp really plan to convey the idea that pre-reformation Scrooge had a point. If it’s the latter, I don’t see this movie going in a good direction. As I’ve had occasion to observe before, nothing good ever comes of arguments that Scrooge had a point. You usually get them from people who promote being selfish at the expense of others — you know, like Scrooge.
(Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures.)
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