What ever happened to Belle?
Does anyone know?
High summer holds the earth
On this shining night
It is never touched upon in the Muppet movie, but in the book Ebenezer is taken to see her(by the ghost), and see how her life turned out. In the book she is happily married with children, and for a moment Scrooge is saddened that he never had any children of his own. Her husband comes home and mentions that he saw Scrooge, says some things about him, and that is when Scrooge asks for the ghost to take him back home.
shareOh, that's so sad! :( I was kind of hoping he'd try to find her.
High summer holds the earth
On this shining night
That is very sad. I prefer in Bill Murray's 'Scrooged', Frank Cross (Scrooge) is reunited with Claire (Belle). I like the idea of getting a second chance, and that it's never too late to change.
"She flattened a Dear John with a John Deere." - Douglas Wambaugh
In the Disney version it fleshes out a bit more. Scrooge holds the mortgage on her cottage and forcloses, he's bitter and greedy for some reason.
Obi-Wan is my hero!
i would have loved to have seen more of belle in this version though
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'Little monkey down! LITTLE MONKEY DOWN!' (Julia Murney in Wicked)
In the Disney version it fleshes out a bit more. Scrooge holds the mortgage on her cottage and forcloses, he's bitter and greedy for some reason.
the foreclosure on the honeymoon cottage is a detail exclusive to the disney version - never in the original book or in any other version do they include scrooge actually forclosing on belle!! i think they added it in disney to add some humor and shock to scrooge's greed and how it had overcome him.
usually belle's fate is never touched after she leaves scrooge in most of the movies and whatnot, but yes as mentioned previously in the book scrooge does see that belle found another, married and had children - had the life she wanted to have w/ scrooge.
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them. share
I felt that since Scrooge's old headmaster and Fozziwig were shown to be still alive at the end of the film, Belle should make an appearance at the end too. I was disappointed that she didn't.
shareHopefully there will be a future version of the story, animated or live action that includes this scene, it's always been a dangling thread in my opinion. But I took that to be a peice of real life, sometimes people leave and we never know what happened to them, we can only hope and assume....
But it would have been nice if they used some of the time wasted on flying around in the Jim Carrey version to show this scene.
That's true. There are all sorts of people in our lives we meet at some point then never hear from them again.
Now I'll have to read the book to find out what she had to say to her husband about Scrooge?
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Curious from your post, I checked out my own version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and I don't see any mention of this scene. The only time I've seen one similar is in the version with George C. Scott. I have a friend who has many different versions of "A Christmas Carol" on DVD. One Christmas we had fun deciding who was our favorite Scrooge, Belle, Cratchit, Mrs. Cratchit, etc. and then wrote it all out as "A Christmas Carol-Movie Style" (we used all of Gonzo's narrations and *had* to have Miss Piggy as Emily!) Here's what we wrote about that scene--all of the quotes come from the captions:
Scrooge cried out, "Spirit, show me no more. Conduct me home."
"Not yet. Look and see what you have lost!"
This time when the fog dissipated, they saw an older woman, smiling happily, a baby in her arms.
"Why," cried Scrooge. "It's Belle!"
"Yes. Belle."
Now they could see that she was surrounded by young children, the older ones finishing making a snowman.
"And those are her children?" asked Scrooge, wonder in his voice.
"Oh, darlings!" cried Belle, as the children ran from the snowman to surround her. "He is wonderful, isn't he?"
Scrooge shook his head in undisguised delight. "Lord, what a brood!"
At that moment a smallish coach drove into the courtyard. Through the window, they could see a handsome, smiling man. Belle and the children ran to the coach, Belle still holding the baby in one arm, while leading her next-youngest by the other hand.
The man leaped out of the carriage. "Hello, hello! Merry Christmas!" He kissed Belle. "Hello, my dear!" and taking the baby from her, he kissed it on the forehead.
"Hello, Papa!" cried the older children. "Merry Christmas!"
"Where is my present, Papa?" asked the next-to-the-youngest, a cute little girl who looked a lot like Belle.
"You will have to wait until tonight," her father told her. "All of you. Presents on Christmas Eve, as usual," and the children ran towards the small, modest home.
"Fancy," mused Scrooge. "They might have been mine."
The Ghost nodded. "The same thought has occurred to me."
They watched as Belle and her husband began walking arm-in-arm towards the house. "I saw an old friend of yours in the city this afternoon."
"Who was it?" Belle asked.
"Guess."
Belle thought for a moment, then shook her head. "I can not," she laughed. "I do not know." She laughed again before naming the last possible choice. "Oh, Ebenezer Scrooge!"
"Mr. Scrooge, it was. I passed his office window, and it was not shuttered. He had a single candle lit upon his desk. His partner, Jacob Marley, lies on the point of death, I hear, and there he sat--Ebenezer Scrooge--all alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe."
"Poor Ebenezer," and sympathy oozed from her voice. "Poor wretched man."
"Spare me your pity!" demanded Scrooge. "I have no need of it."
The Spirit smiled. "They can not hear you," he reminded.
"And as for you, I have had enough of your pictures from the past. Leave me! Haunt me no longer! Why do you delight in torturing me?"
"I told you. These were but shadows of the things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me."
"Take me away from this place!"
I would've liked to have seen this scene done in Muppets Christmas Carol, especially if they don't have "When Love Is Gone".
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In the Lifetime Susan Lucci version called "Ebbie" where women play a lot of the rolls (She plays Ebbie Scrooge and her assistant is Roberta Cratchet who is a single mother) they show that scene. She sees the man she ditched for her job and power married to another woman in a very nice home. He is shown thinking about her and wishing her well, but he's moved on.
shareI sometimes felt a tinge of sadness at the end of 'Muppet Christmas Carol,' because of that end song, it makes one think of all the people that left Scrooge's life.
"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."
- Toy Story 3 (9/10)