meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Cine-Files

Scrooged (Revisited)

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

John's favorite Christmas movie (like Steve's) is It's a Wonderful Life, but if you asked him what his second favorite is, the answer might very well be the 1988, reimagining of A Christmas Carol, starring Bill Murray, Scrooged. 

If you haven't seen this incredible film you can buy or stream it right here.

https://amzn.to/34G0cwI

Don’t forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and purchase any film we feature at https://www.cine-files.net

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCineFilesPod/?ref=bookmarks

John @therochasays

Steve @srmorris

The Cine-Files

Twitter @cine_files

Instagram thecinefilespodcast

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey Cinephile fans, we're back with another one of these 2020 intro as for this Christmas day that we're dropping all four previous episodes of the Cinephiles Christmas episodes and we're doing new intro for you all and this one is the one I think I'm most

0:16.3

excited to talk about it real quickly with Steve is Scrooge starring Bill Murray and is it Karen Allen I was getting confused is it

0:24.5

Karen Allen yeah Karen Allen and so many great character actors throughout this movie

0:29.2

Including a Bill Murray's brother in a rare a in a film.

0:34.8

Carol Kane, David Johanson, so many great people

0:38.8

throughout this movie.

0:39.9

And it's the American, it's the modern telling, so to speak, of a Christmas Carol.

0:45.9

And it's very funny.

0:47.1

And Steve, it features one of the most authentic,

0:50.6

moving, genuine monologues ever seen and captured on film and ironically by one of the most

0:58.6

sardonic and sarcastic people ever captured on film, Bill Murray.

1:03.0

I think that monologue, it's so fine.

1:05.4

I remember when we did it and the movie is really funny.

1:08.0

You've got great comedy chops all around.

1:11.4

You've got some scenes that are just really well constructed. There's great jokes.

1:16.0

And you have this character,

1:18.0

and this is the interesting thing about Christmas Carol stories

1:20.0

is I think, you know, because all sorts of TV shows and Simpsons and there's all sorts of versions of the Christmas Carol out there.

1:27.0

I think this might be closest to creating a real Ebenezer Scrooge because Bill Murray is terrible.

1:34.4

He is a horrible, horrible person and the fact that he redeemed himself at the end with that

1:40.0

speech, that speech blew me across the room like what like the honesty and the pain and just it just

1:49.1

feels so real what Bill Murray does at the end of that movie.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Steve Morris & John Rocha, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Steve Morris & John Rocha and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.