“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens has been dead for 139 years but that didn’t stop him from having a $132 million film this year. Dickens first wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks back in 1843. The book sold well from the start and also received good reviews from critics. I’m not sure how many versions of A Christmas Carol have been made into feature films and TV programs, but I believe the story first appeared in 1910 during the silent film era.
The Robert Zemeckis animated version featuring the voice of Jim Carrey shows the lasting value (and box office value) of a good story well told.
“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness.”
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Screenwriting from Iowa 
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