How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, also known as “The Grinch”, is a 2000 family-based, Christmas-themed, comedy film delivered by Universal and Imagine Entertainment and based on the 1957 children’s picture book written by Dr. Seuss of the same name. Directed by Ron Howard (who also directed “Splash”, “Rush”, and “The Dilemma”), “The Grinch” was the first full-length feature film adapted from the series of outstanding and beloved Dr. Seuss tales. Since the film was the first to be based off one of Seuss’s famous children's books, many additions had to be made to the storyline to make the film fit the era’s “standards” by bringing it up to feature-length, leaving the young and older audience intrigued, and most importantly keeping the legacy of Dr. Seuss's works intact. In addition, this included adding some vivid information about the …show more content…
The film leaves a dramatic and humorist appeal behind the film’s characters and aspects in a successful attempt to show a great sense of interesting excitement and comedy for both young and old. Starring Jim Carrey (“Liar Liar”) as the Grinch, Jeffrey Tambor (“The Hangover”) as Mayor Augustus Maywho, Christine Baranski (“Mamma Mia!”) as Martha May Whovier, Bill Irwin (“Rachel Getting Married”) as Lou Lou Who, Molly Shannon (“Bad Teacher”) as Betty Lou Who, and Taylor Momsen (“Gossip Girl”) as Cindy Lou Who, “The Grinch” was successfully took in. People of all ages enjoyed the film’s delivery as it filled their hearts and minds with joy, laughter, and good feelings. Due to its well-received ratings, the film spent four weeks as the number-one film in the United States following its debut with an end result of $345,141,403 worldwide. This allowed “The Grinch” to become the second highest-grossing holiday film of all time just behind the well-known film “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”. It went on to win an Academy Award for Best Makeup and was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture in regards to Jim
Scrooge was also a rude and mean person, who hated Christmas. He was a bad person but when he changed he did not change as much as the Grinch. Scrooge is a rich mean old man, who was given a chance to change, be his nephew inviting him to a Christmas party, or people going around asking for money to donate, but he never did any of that. While the Grinch didn't have an opportunity to change when everyone hated him, and even when he was invited to something, and started to change, they played sick jokes on him. Scrooge could have changed but he didn't, the Grinch only had one chance to change, and he took it.
As an outsider of the society, the Grinch doesn’t understand the celebration and resents it as a result, and it quite peeved by the inescapable uproar that it brings. Christmas
When reading "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" for the first time as a child, I never suspected there to be any underlying messages in the text. However, after a thorough analysis of literary criticism on this children's book, I was able to conclude that this book suggests Marxist criticism. It's clear throughout the story that the Whos are a society of people without class structure. The only exception is the Grinch himself who lives north of Whoville, living in seclusion from their classless society. The fact that the Grinch is habitually ostracized insinuates that he may be of the lower class than the Whos. It is quite obvious that the Grinch hates Christmas, but there is a possibility that he only hates it because he realizes the materialistic
Synopsis: The movie that will be used for this film review is the movie directed by Jon Favreau, Elf (2003). This is a Christmas film which follows a man who was raised by elves to 30 years of age with no human contact who then finds himself traveling to the city of New York in hopes to find his long-lost father. The human elf, Buddy, was accidentally sent to the North Pole as a baby upon crawling into Santa’s Christmas sack while he was delivering presents to the orphanage one year where Buddy once lived. This, in turn, resulted in him being taken to the North Pole where he was then raised amongst Santa and his helpers from an infant.
A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas were two famous Christmas-themed stories. The protagonists, Scrooge and the Grinch, were memorable due to their dynamic nature and how they changed their perspectives. But the Grinch was notably more dynamic for several reasons. Although Scrooge was evil, this was due to his neglect and indifference to human suffering.
The school method of criticism that I will use to analyze the poem "How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is a Marxist critic. It is a theory, the consciousness of a given class at a given historical moment derives from modes of material production that were demonstrated through the relationship between the Grinch and the people of Whoville. The poem is about the Grinch who hates Christmas so he wants to ruin it for people in Whoville, in which he achieved by stealing the presents from them. The Grinch’s hatred towards Christmas was directly shown in the poem, “The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!”
The CGI animated movie The Polar Express (2004), based on Chris Van Allsburgs ' novel that was published in 1985, was directed by Robert Zemeckis and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Polar Express is considered to be a magically haunting Christmas movie, when it was first released on November 10, 2004. The movie gained mixed reviews but was able to rack up $309.8 million in the box office $165 million being their budget, they gained $144.8 million from the movie (IMDB). It tells the classic story of a young boy (Hanks) who is close to losing his faith in Christmas. On one fateful Christmas Eve, the boy awakens in the middle of the night when he hears a loud sound outside.
At the start of the book the Grinch is a grumpy old man that got bullied when he was a child in school around Christmas time and decided to run away and is live up in te h snowy mountains with his dog Max Whoville and despises Christmas and joy. The Grinch decides that on Christmas Eve he will sneak into everybody 's house and steal their Christmas trees and their gifted presents. While hes busy ruining everyone 's holiday he runs into Cindy Lou, the daughter of one the citizens that live in Whoville who makes him figure out that Christmas is something much more important than foiled wrapped gifts and giant trees, and that its about spending time with your family and people you love, and from that day on the Grinch 's tiny heart grew three
The Narrator states, "And what happened then, Well... In Who-Ville they say that the Grinch 's heart grew 3 sizes that day" (Seuss) This shows that the Grinch physically changed through the story and was able to give back the Christmas presents he stole back to all the people from Who-Ville. The narrator states, "The Grinch carved the roast beast" (Seuss) This shows that the Grinch became from going to ruining Christmas for others, to cutting food that describes the Christmas year for people from Who-Ville. Not only has he stopped hating Christmas,
both film and play show scenes with people selling, buying, and trading his old possessions. Scrooge realizes that if he doesn’t change his ways, he is going to end up like his selfish, greedy business partner, Jacob Marley, unloved, uncared for, and forgotten. When Scrooge awakes from his night of horrors, he immediately sends someone to buy the largest turkey for the Cratchit household, gives a hearty donation to a charity, and attends his nephew's Christmas party, in an attempt to reconcile with everybody to save his spirit. Both versions show Scrooge as a heartless man who cannot see his wrongdoings, but after a visit from his old business partner and a couple spirits, he finally learns a valuable lesson that teaches us
Dr. Seuss’ poem, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” can be analyzed using many different schools of criticism, however, the psychoanalytical school of criticism holds allows us to truly understand the “true meaning” behind the poem. The poem begins with a socially isolated character, the Grinch, who loathes Christmas and wishes to completely destroy it. He wants to completely eliminate Christmas from “Whoville.” The Grinch gets irritated whenever when he hears the singing from the children and sees families feasting together in the holiday season. However, as the poem progress, the Grinch starts to feel the love and happiness involved with Christmas and ends up correcting his wrongdoings to ultimately enjoy Christmas with the “Whos.”
A Christmas Carol is a classic novella written by Charles Dickens and is loved by millions of people worldwide. In fact, many people have enjoyed this novella that it has been made into hundreds of films based on the book. One of them (the latest movie remake) is A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey (Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts of Christmas), Gary Oldman (Bob Cratchit), Colin Firth (Fred), and many more. Came out in 2009, this movie is about an old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who does not have the Christmas spirit. One night the ghost of Mr.Scrooge’s friends, Marley, comes up to Ebenezer telling him that he has changed and that three ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Future
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne covers a story about a family life moving to a new area; and a young “explorer” name Bruno who makes an incredible discovery. One day he was coming home to his maid, Maria, packing his things up in his room; Bruno was extremely confused on why she was doing this. So he rushed downstairs to his mother and she explained to him that, their leaving Berlin for the benefit of his father’s job. Bruno was highly upset but he eventually got over it and help finish packing. They move to the countryside, a place called the Out-With.
In Britain, children call him Father Christmas. In Germany, he is Kriss Kringle. And of course, you know him as a Santa Claus. But do you know that hundreds of years ago, Santa Claus was called by the name 'St. Nicholas'? The true story of Santa Claus begins with Saint Nicholas of Myra.