Johnny Depp’s Scrooge reimagined as zombies in London
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Business Day (South Africa)
The film Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp, reimagines Ebenezer Scrooge’s childhood by turning Charles Dickens’s ghosts into zombies in a violent London. The adaptation also recalls Dickens’s reformist intent when he published A Christmas Carol in December 1843, according to Business Day.
The film “Ebenezer”, starring Johnny Depp, reimagines “A Christmas Carol” by turning the ghosts in the original story into zombies and portraying a dark and violent London. The film also explores Ebenezer Scrooge’s past, marked by bullying and abuse, according to Business Day.
Dickens’s story, published in December 1843, became associated with Christmas celebrations and launched a series of annual “Christmas books” by the author. Dickens also sought to provoke social change by drawing attention to poverty and the living conditions of disadvantaged children, according to Business Day.
The writer had been shaped by his own experience of poverty after his father was imprisoned for debt and by his work in a boot-blacking factory when he was 12 or 13. In the early 1840s, he also became interested in children’s working conditions in factories and mines and visited a school for poor children, according to Business Day.
