The Ageless: Santa has been around for a millennium.A tragic backstory alone is not enough to save you if you take no shame in your mistakes, and take no efforts to make amends for them as the Big Bad Scrooge finds out the hard way. However, redemption is possible only if you are willing to act on your inner humanity and goodness. An Aesop: Anybody, no matter how seemingly horrible, can change and be a better person, even a Big, Screwed-Up Family of materialistic gold diggers who would normally all die at the end of the typical Hollywood film, and even somebody like the bloodthirsty Viking warrior Nicomund became the kind and loving Santa Claus.Adaptational Attractiveness: Instead of being an overweight and old man, Santa is a tall and muscular senior citizen played by David Harbour. Possibly averted though as only moments later he makes the comment that maybe he did push the old man (he honestly can't remember), showing he’s an Unreliable Expositor. Scrooge recounts how in his childhood he broke into a neighbor's house in order to steal their Christmas presents only to accidentally scare the neighbor's grandfather, who fell down the stairs and broke his neck. Gertrude mentions that her own grandfather was a misogynist, forcing her to seize control of the family fortune by force.Ironically, all this does is make her respect him more, as it's exactly what she would have done. It's stated that his part in the family business strained his marriage with his wife and he orchestrates the theft of her vault of blood-money as part of his resignation from her business and the family. Her daughter, grandson and son-in-law will bend over backwards to try (and fail) to win her favor, while her favorite son Jason openly resents her for lording her wealth and power over the rest of them.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |