Fandom number 18 -- Dickens
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rabidsamfanThe Charwoman
There'd been a time when she would have taken the silken shirt off his back, and left him to be buried in calico, but he'd been kinder of late. There'd been a rise in her pay, and best of all a bottle of Christmas cheer each year that she could ease along till nearly Easter. Still, she was who she was, and with him gone there was no guarantee that the next master would want, or even need, the services of an old woman whose knees no longer bent to let her scrub the floors.
She took the bedcurtains anyway.
There'd been a time when she would have taken the silken shirt off his back, and left him to be buried in calico, but he'd been kinder of late. There'd been a rise in her pay, and best of all a bottle of Christmas cheer each year that she could ease along till nearly Easter. Still, she was who she was, and with him gone there was no guarantee that the next master would want, or even need, the services of an old woman whose knees no longer bent to let her scrub the floors.
She took the bedcurtains anyway.
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Date: 2007-12-13 01:33 am (UTC)Of course, her reasons for taking the bedcurtains here are better ones than in the book - and you're left with the impression that post-reformation Scrooge might well have understood.
Very nicely done!
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Date: 2007-12-13 03:16 am (UTC)Have you ever seen George C. Scott's performance of Scrooge? He really picked up on the snarkiness of the character, something I haven't seen in other portrayals.
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Date: 2007-12-13 07:31 am (UTC)Marvelous. *blows a kiss*
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Date: 2007-12-13 10:45 am (UTC)You realize you are the very best drabble writer on the planet, right?
Wow...
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Date: 2007-12-13 11:15 am (UTC)The first thing that charmed me about his portrayal was his laugh. Scrooge tends to be acted as a very frowny guy, but Scott had these half-smiles and under-breath chuckles showed us a man who had a sense of humor. Just not a nice one. I find that kind of new angle on a classic character a real delight.
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Date: 2007-12-13 03:07 pm (UTC)If she can't do it, nobody can!
*crowd goes wild*
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Date: 2007-12-15 06:22 am (UTC)I'm also very fond of the musical "Scrooge!" with Albert Finney -- and the Muppet version makes me cry every time Kermit makes the speech about death (they made the film right after Jim Henson's and Brian Hunt's deaths).
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Date: 2007-12-15 09:22 am (UTC)Anne Elizabeth Baldwin