Non è raro che molti film d´animazione si siano ispirati ad opere letterarie, romanzi, fiabe di grandi artisti, uno fra questi è il film fantastico “A Christmas Carol” prodotto dalla Disney Pictures nel 2009, con la regia di Robert Zemeckis.
The film “A Christmas Carol” is an animated retelling of the story “A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens from 1843. It was made with computer generated images, or 3D animation, using:
– the Motion Capture technique, which allows you to capture the movements of real actors to apply them to a virtual character;
– and the performance capture technique, which allows you to capture the facial expressions of real actors to apply them to a virtual character.
The plot of the film, which has remained faithful to Dickens’ text, tells of a businessman: Scrooge, miserly and selfish, neglects his family and does not appreciate holidays such as Christmas. The story takes place right on Christmas Eve. Scrooge, like every year, thinks only of his money and his business. Returning home more angry than usual, he meets the three ghosts of Christmas: past, present and future that will lead Scrooge to repent of his selfishness and to change internally.
Charles Dickens is a British journalist and writer of the Victorian era, considered one of the most important and popular novelists of all time. He was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth. In 1836 he began writing humorous works such as Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers.
Over the next twenty years, Charles Dickens published many of his serialized novels with great success. Among the most famous novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol in 1843. He died in 1870 and is buried in the poets’ corner in Westminster Abbey in London.