christmas present scene at his nephew's house

The movie(for some reason) made the nephew look bad in this scene. The behavior of the nephew is in direct contrast to his earlier interaction with Scrooge.

It plays out similar in the book, but you get a different feeling.

In the book it begins with the nephew talking well of Scrooge, despite his wife's words. He talks about how Scrooge's actions are self punishing, how he feels pity for him. "I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always."

When they play the game it is more lighthearted. At the end of the game Fred gives a toast to Scrooge, and everyone else does as well. Scrooge leaves feeling good about the party, not saddened.

"Uncle Scrooge had become so imperceptibly gay and light of heart, that he would have pledged the unconscience company in return, and thanked them in an inaudible speech, if the ghost had given him time."

I found the way they played Fred in this version to be quite a bit different than the usual - when he came visiting he seems like he knows that Scrooge hates Christmas (and maybe even why) but is sarcastic about it throughout.

If anything, I wasn't surprised that all he did for them was give them gifts, not actually go to their home and ask to be part of the party as he does in so many others. I was surprised that he was part of the party at the end.

Unlike the others, this Fred doesn't have the sweet heart of his mother...

It's one of the very few things that this version got wrong.

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