I've seen this musical at least 15 times in my life and I still cry at this part of the movie. Scrooge deserved a chance to redeem his soul. He was a very sad and lonely man.
Don’t mind me, I’m just...crying in the corner😭. This was the first version of A Christmas Carol where I actually felt incredibly sorry for Scrooge. I watched this movie for the first time when I was 8, and I automatically fell in love with it. I’m 16 now, and I still watch this film more than once every Christmas (it’s bad luck if I don’t). It’s my favourite Christmas film, and my favourite musical (which isn’t a Disney film😂).
This song, along with the song Happiness, always makes me sad and enables my habit of living in the past way too much. It's always been a major obstacle of mine to overcome.
This is a very mature and wise comment, I think quite a few of us suffer from that sad habit. It’s a hard one to get over and concentrate on the importance of the hear and now.
I first saw this at around age 9/10. It made me 😢cry then and even today. Particularly as I once a special person in my life but she preferred another.
That's part of the lesson. Scrooge had to learn that the past is the past and his dwelling on it wouldn't change it. He had to move on. SOmething he had been unwilling to do until now.
This is the best Scrooge and music. I think about this movie beyond Christmas time. I think it's just that great of a movie. Really did an outstanding version with all the actors and æsthetic.
6:14 This right here breaks my heart. He still loves her even into his old age. So sad. Scrooge was really a good man down deep. He was just lonely and broken.
I feel like this about my husband. Been together fourteen years, got a baby almost a year old. Now he doesn't want me anymore. I've always felt this way about him, those lyrics in both songs Happiness and You. He was my happiness, and he was my spring and my day. I also feel he is a dream gone by. I love him so deeply it is hard to explain, but this song does a decent job of it.
…….”spirit remove me from this place I can bear it no longer!” Imagine being a fly on the wall witnessing that terrible moment in your past when your heart broke. 😔
this song and scene always makes me tear up...every single time. i love you albert finney. the perfect man to play this role. all perfectly cast! dickens, leslie bricusse and anthony newley are geniuses! ronald neame's direction is perfection! thank you so much for sharing this story and music with the world!
Isabel hit the bull's eye that Ebenezer missed until late in life about what makes for our happiness. It's what he had to do. Was it just money? Ebenezer was a workaholic because he couldn't deal with the pain of being abandoned by his father and then losing his sister. Life had treated him badly. How could he trust Isabel or anyone? She did what she could to help him, even telling him how scared he was. We all are. It's why we're mostly focused on money like Ebenezer, or some other form of escape. My ex-wife left because I couldn't give her the financial security she wanted. Painful as that was, I was able to let her go as Isabel did with Scrooge. There is more to life than money. Few are able to find it. Even Charles Dickens who left his first wife for another for no apparent reason other than he wanted someone else. One can imagine what ghost might haunt him for the pain he caused her. I know my own. They are very real, like Dame Judith Evans. This is the best scene in the movie, heartbreaking as it is.
To me the most touching part of the movie Boy I loved one Liked that Many years ago, a lifetime really for I was just a boy And she a girl of 16, She is 54 now And I 62. I know that I will grieve for the rest of my days For a letting her slip away. I have never nor will Love as I loved her. . I have a great pain Physically Since I fail 7 years ago Having hydrocephalus and Nystagmus Is all my life. And with family great misery in my soul. Why must life be so long
The ONLY "A Christmas Carol" movie version that I recognize!😉 And I can never get enough of hearing Isabel sing "Happiness," regardless of how many times I have heard it!💕💕💕
My favorite scrooge movie, you, is sad when you go through a breakup after being together for many years to never see each other again or your other half dies you never see them again
I love this song. It just makes me so happy. So much joy can be felt in this song. The strongest happy song in the movie paired with saddest (you...you). Such power of music. My favorite Scrooge movie.
December the 25th and YOU are the best songs of this movie. His boss showed him how to work and still have fun. The bosses daughter showed him that someone DID love him. The ring on the money scale showed him how HE CHOOSE MONEY over ppl and love AND LIVING A LIFE!
The heartbreaking part is that had Scrooge simply took a minute and reasoned with her and simply apologized and made slight an effort to include Isabel in his life. He could have saved his relationship with her. She never asked him to give up his business and successes. She just wanted him to include her in his life. Shows us just how much a minute or two can alter an entire future for someone.
The best Dickens Musical ! This is the most beautiful Song & Scene ! Thank you Leslie Bricusse, Albert Finney & Company, Ronald Neame AND Anthony Newley !! ❤
My favorite movies of all time but this scene always brings back memories of a girl I thought I was going to marry one day. I’ve long since moved on but this scene brings it back for about 5 minutes each year
As an old man, Scrooge realizes that she was a good woman who was in love with him, but he regrets that as a young man he was just toying with her affection to look good in front of her father and gain money & power. She finally saw through him after her father passed away.
I think he really did love her. He was afraid to be happy with her. I think Scrooge never felt like he deserved happiness. That he wasn't worth it. A childhood of neglect will do that to a person.
In less than ten minutes of storytelling the scene encompasses the happy beginning of a relationship, through engagement, to its sad and bitter resolution, all seen through the prism of a memory decades old. Finally the resolution and sad acceptance of Scrooge calling her a dream and memory. It’s truly a great scene.
I don't belive that Scrooge was inherently an evil person. He was a miserable old miser who believed having money was more important than having friends and family for him to care about and care about him in return. And all because of the way he was abused and neglected by his own family throughout his childhood. He was a man whose moral compass got screwed up from having a lousy childhood or as Isabel puts it, he "feared the world too much".
My Dad loves Christmas to his soul and my Mom is gone now an Angel I know he feels this way about her I just can’t imagine what a marriage they had so beautiful so perfect so sweet Happiness was each to each other . It’s Ethereal this song in my soul of all the great innocent times I so miss and treasure they taught me what Love is. He never released her still has not he didn’t make the same mistake as Scrooge
All he had to do was chase her down...tell her he was going to change and mean it. But he didn't do it. His love for money ruined his life. A lesson to us all
The part wjhere hes watching himself and Isabel dance while singing to her and then it flashes back to them on their honeymoon on the boat and stuff with that music.....fucking ouch....and im STILL yet to experience that
The scene where Belle dumps Scrooge was well directed. Belle actually gives Scrooge a secret test of character. Firstly after saying Scrooge's name, Scrooge simply mutters yes, causing Belle after a brief awkward silence to announce she is leaving him. However Belle pretends she is going away in an attempt to make Scrooge see the error of his ways. When we see young Scrooge call out for Belle, it seems at first glance he wants to apologise and resume their relationship. Then we see Belle look towards the window, it symbolises she hoped Scrooge goes after her but instead he stands his ground, ruining his one chance of happiness.
I've seen this musical at least 15 times in my life and I still cry at this part of the movie. Scrooge deserved a chance to redeem his soul. He was a very sad and lonely man.
I still say this is the best film adaptation of. A Christmas Carol ever made
David F Couldn’t agree more. It is the best version, so much power in music.
The best, Albert Finney could sing
@@doctorpeter9792 My Favorite!
I Agree!!
Without a doubt.
Best movie ever, Albert Finney did an awesome job portraying Scooge.
"Spirit, remove me from this place...... I can bear it no more."
Love that line.
Listening to it all these times (52 years since 1970), it still hurts.
I wish a spirit would remove me from my life 😪
@@SamuelBlack84 . Keep the faith and look to better and join it. Drive to it and You will have it.
@@SamuelBlack84 Turn to the Lord who has eternal life for all those who turn to Him/
Absolutely heartbreaking. Finney should've won an award for his role in this movie.
It's the legend that is really of importance.
I completely agree.
We watch this every Christmas it’s our favorite. I almost let my Isabel walk away now we’ve been married for 34 years.
RIP Albert Finney...How marvelous you were.
Don’t mind me, I’m just...crying in the corner😭. This was the first version of A Christmas Carol where I actually felt incredibly sorry for Scrooge. I watched this movie for the first time when I was 8, and I automatically fell in love with it. I’m 16 now, and I still watch this film more than once every Christmas (it’s bad luck if I don’t). It’s my favourite Christmas film, and my favourite musical (which isn’t a Disney film😂).
I watched at 40 years ago. Like you I was 10 and it never left me since so I was never the same. Fenny is amazing in all his movies too.
This song, along with the song Happiness, always makes me sad and enables my habit of living in the past way too much. It's always been a major obstacle of mine to overcome.
There is much truth in your comment for me as well......
This is a very mature and wise comment, I think quite a few of us suffer from that sad habit. It’s a hard one to get over and concentrate on the importance of the hear and now.
How many of us would shout at our former selves if we could? Beautiful song by Leslie Bricusse OBE who died in 2021 aged 90
What a devastating scene... there's never been a time when I haven't been overtaken with tears of sorrow.
I first saw this at around age 9/10. It made me 😢cry then and even today. Particularly as I once a special person in my life but she preferred another.
I love the detail of him yelling “You fool” at his past self and then saying it softer with realization to himself
It's so sad that even though Scrooge learned from his mistakes and changed, that change came far too late to save his relationship with Isabel
That's part of the lesson. Scrooge had to learn that the past is the past and his dwelling on it wouldn't change it. He had to move on. SOmething he had been unwilling to do until now.
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
The ones that got away will forever haunt us
@@lolitahansen1682 amen.
I've read of one version where Isobel finds out he's changed and gors back to him
"I who must travel on
What hope for me?
Dream where my past has gone,
Live with the memory." 😭😭😭😭
This is the best Scrooge and music.
I think about this movie beyond Christmas time. I think it's just that great of a movie.
Really did an outstanding version with all the actors and æsthetic.
Very well said.
Pure genius, both in score and in acting.
I saw this the other day and sobbed my eyes out for a man I loved and lost. He was a good man who lost me through neglect and absence.
So if he learned from his mistakes like Scrooge, would you take him back?
Same thing happened to me
6:14 This right here breaks my heart. He still loves her even into his old age. So sad. Scrooge was really a good man down deep. He was just lonely and broken.
His own father was the reason for most of his pain, left unchecked. If only Gwen had not died, Ebe might have been different from a much younger age.
i cried so much over these seen
Me also ! xx
Same
Me too
When I watch this part, I now 😢 cry. I feel the pain of lost love 💔
A wonderful childhood reminiscence, from a bygone England.
God the music in this movie is so damn beautiful
I feel like this about my husband. Been together fourteen years, got a baby almost a year old. Now he doesn't want me anymore. I've always felt this way about him, those lyrics in both songs Happiness and You. He was my happiness, and he was my spring and my day. I also feel he is a dream gone by. I love him so deeply it is hard to explain, but this song does a decent job of it.
Saw this just now, one year later. I pray that your marriage is improved and he loved you for the good wife and mother you are. ❤️ 🙏
…….”spirit remove me from this place I can bear it no longer!” Imagine being a fly on the wall witnessing that terrible moment in your past when your heart broke. 😔
God there's no music as beautiful as this.😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lifes opportunities lost...so very sad.
I cannot tell how many times that I have watched this scene and every time I fall re in love with their chemistry and their love.
my eyes always get watery ..heartbreaking
this song and scene always makes me tear up...every single time.
i love you albert finney. the perfect man to play this role. all perfectly cast!
dickens, leslie bricusse and anthony newley are geniuses!
ronald neame's direction is perfection!
thank you so much for sharing this story and music with the world!
Isabel hit the bull's eye that Ebenezer missed until late in life about what makes for our happiness. It's what he had to do.
Was it just money? Ebenezer was a workaholic because he couldn't deal with the pain of being abandoned by his father and then losing his sister. Life had treated him badly. How could he trust Isabel or anyone? She did what she could to help him, even telling him how scared he was. We all are. It's why we're mostly focused on money like Ebenezer, or some other form of escape.
My ex-wife left because I couldn't give her the financial security she wanted. Painful as that was, I was able to let her go as Isabel did with Scrooge.
There is more to life than money. Few are able to find it. Even Charles Dickens who left his first wife for another for no apparent reason other than he wanted someone else. One can imagine what ghost might haunt him for the pain he caused her. I know my own. They are very real, like Dame Judith Evans.
This is the best scene in the movie, heartbreaking as it is.
I cry my eyes out every time I watch this..MY Isobel chose another nearly 20 years ago....but in our time I think SHE was Good to me and vice versa.
Makes me cry every time
"Happiness is whatever you want it to be"......most true words to live by, wishes you find whatever that may be for you.
Happiness is very difficult to find
Old Ebenzer’s parts in the song broke my heart. I’ll never watch this again. Too painful.
I know what you mean
To me the most touching part of the movie Boy I loved one Liked that Many years ago, a lifetime really for I was just a boy And she a girl of 16, She is 54 now And I 62.
I know that I will grieve for the rest of my days For a letting her slip away.
I have never nor will Love as I loved her.
. I have a great pain Physically Since I fail 7 years ago Having hydrocephalus and Nystagmus Is all my life.
And with family great misery in my soul.
Why must life be so long
This Happiness song hits different as an adult.
RIP Albert Finney, wonderful actor
I watch the scene every year during Christmas, and it gets me every time.
Oh, how could there be such a fool...
as i ?
:'''(
Oh there are way too many of us. Fools.
The ONLY "A Christmas Carol" movie version that I recognize!😉 And I can never get enough of hearing Isabel sing "Happiness," regardless of how many times I have heard it!💕💕💕
Haunting
Ebenezer Scrooge: YOU FOOL, SAY SOMETHING
My favorite scrooge movie, you, is sad when you go through a breakup after being together for many years to never see each other again or your other half dies you never see them again
Most heartbreaking scene- still brings me to tears.remembering.
You....my only hope...you my only love...you...you......YOU....😥
Beautiful song...She has a beautiful voice!
I love this song. It just makes me so happy. So much joy can be felt in this song. The strongest happy song in the movie paired with saddest (you...you). Such power of music. My favorite Scrooge movie.
03:57 to the end, my heart breaks for him...
08:28-8:58 so achingly beautiful, mr. finney...
yes it is
@@doctorpeter9792 💗
I love this movie so much! Best musical ever made IMO
December the 25th and YOU are the best songs of this movie.
His boss showed him how to work and still have fun.
The bosses daughter showed him that someone DID love him.
The ring on the money scale showed him how HE CHOOSE MONEY over ppl and love AND LIVING A LIFE!
The heartbreaking part is that had Scrooge simply took a minute and reasoned with her and simply apologized and made slight an effort to include Isabel in his life. He could have saved his relationship with her. She never asked him to give up his business and successes. She just wanted him to include her in his life. Shows us just how much a minute or two can alter an entire future for someone.
How many of us wish a sequel could have been made where Scrooge as a reformed man tracks Isobel down and gives us a happy ending?
The best Dickens Musical ! This is the most beautiful Song & Scene ! Thank you Leslie Bricusse, Albert Finney & Company, Ronald Neame AND Anthony Newley !! ❤
My favorite movies of all time but this scene always brings back memories of a girl I thought I was going to marry one day. I’ve long since moved on but this scene brings it back for about 5 minutes each year
5:20 I love this line it's one of my favourite from the movie
For Fiona. Lost too son. Gone before I could ever truly know you. Never forgotten. R. I. P. Sweetheart.
As an old man, Scrooge realizes that she was a good woman who was in love with him, but he regrets that as a young man he was just toying with her affection to look good in front of her father and gain money & power. She finally saw through him after her father passed away.
Yep
I think he really did love her. He was afraid to be happy with her. I think Scrooge never felt like he deserved happiness. That he wasn't worth it. A childhood of neglect will do that to a person.
"Be happy in the life you have chosen." (07:01)
😔😔😔😔
In less than ten minutes of storytelling the scene encompasses the happy beginning of a relationship, through engagement, to its sad and bitter resolution, all seen through the prism of a memory decades old. Finally the resolution and sad acceptance of Scrooge calling her a dream and memory. It’s truly a great scene.
A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite stories, and this is THE best adaptation. And this scene…🥲
I don't belive that Scrooge was inherently an evil person. He was a miserable old miser who believed having money was more important than having friends and family for him to care about and care about him in return. And all because of the way he was abused and neglected by his own family throughout his childhood. He was a man whose moral compass got screwed up from having a lousy childhood or as Isabel puts it, he "feared the world too much".
A lesson to be learned about the real values of life. Appreciate!
"I who must travel on, what hope for me? Dream where my past has gone, live with a memory..." There is hope for all who turn to the Lord.
Rip Albert Finney
Amazing how Dickens made himself immortal through this story for millions of people and multiple generations
My Dad loves Christmas to his soul and my Mom is gone now an Angel I know he feels this way about her I just can’t imagine what a marriage they had so beautiful so perfect so sweet Happiness was each to each other . It’s Ethereal this song in my soul of all the great innocent times I so miss and treasure they taught me what Love is. He never released her still has not he didn’t make the same mistake as Scrooge
My favorite forever. Rest In peace Mr. Finney.
They've taken out the 70s white van in the background ! I love that bit !!
This is one that I've never seen, I wish I had it looks wonderful 💜💛💙🌹💯
The old Scrooge yelling at his younger self, calling him a fool. One of the saddest scenes in any movie ever.
I still believe his break up with her was a step down the PATH that led him into becoming a bitter old man
Yep
All he had to do was chase her down...tell her he was going to change and mean it. But he didn't do it. His love for money ruined his life. A lesson to us all
There is never love without pain. -Neil Peart-Secret Touch...
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Whilst Alastair Sim’s version is the gold standard , this is the most enjoyable
The part wjhere hes watching himself and Isabel dance while singing to her and then it flashes back to them on their honeymoon on the boat and stuff with that music.....fucking ouch....and im STILL yet to experience that
they weren't married yet. she breaks up with him before their wedding. ? .
@@blewis8326 Whatever
The scene where Belle dumps Scrooge was well directed.
Belle actually gives Scrooge a secret test of character.
Firstly after saying Scrooge's name, Scrooge simply mutters yes, causing Belle after a brief awkward silence to announce she is leaving him.
However Belle pretends she is going away in an attempt to make Scrooge see the error of his ways.
When we see young Scrooge call out for Belle, it seems at first glance he wants to apologise and resume their relationship.
Then we see Belle look towards the window, it symbolises she hoped Scrooge goes after her but instead he stands his ground, ruining his one chance of happiness.
Isabel
8:29....💔
Anyone up for a Christmas Carol sequel where the new, changed Scrooge meets Isabelle again and they live happily ever after?
Dang the new Scrooge movie just reused all of the old Christmas Carol songs.
anyone knows the lyrics?
was this sped up a tiny amount?
No I don't think so
But he never let her go her time came and they were together the day she left going to a picnic much like the one on the boat. It was how it should be
2:48 Scrooge is like "Damn! I can't even beat a girl!".
In reality she'd have took him to the cleaners
Oh yes im sorry..
This is one that I've never seen, I wish I had it looks wonderful 💜💛💙🌹💯
This is one that I've never seen, I wish I had it looks wonderful 💜💛💙🌹💯
This is one that I've never seen, I wish I had it looks wonderful 💜💛💙🌹💯
Look it up. U should watch it. Best Scrooge out there. It's great