The Ranking: A Christmas Carol Adaptations
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas, listeners! Here, as a special Christmas Eve present, is an episode of The Ranking, the show in which four Empire writers get together and argue the toss over a whole bunch of themed films. (And yes, we know this is the first one in ages. We promise to do better in 2025!) Anyway, it's Christmas Eve, the time when Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by three ghosts and shown the error of his ways in Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol. It's a timeless story, and one beloved of the movies and the telly, which has adapted it in dozens of ways over the years. And for this special episode, Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, Neel Bhatt, and Jamie Graham immersed themselves in Dickens for what seemed like weeks on end, all with a view to finding the greatest Christmas Carol of them all. Will it be the Finney? The Sim? The Carrey? The Caine? The Murray? Or The Complete Surprise? Listen on to find out in this fun episode that is not — we repeat, not — sponsored by Spirited, in any way. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Empire podcast is sponsored by Netflix. If you've not yet seen it, |
| 0:04.6 | or indeed heard about it on this very podcast, Netflix's Emilia Perez is an audacious film |
| 0:09.0 | from Jacques Audiard, who brought us the likes of Rustin Bone, the sisters brothers, and a prophet. |
| 0:13.7 | It stars Zoe Saldania as Rita Moracastro, a hardworking lawyer in Mexico City, who takes on an |
| 0:18.8 | unexpected client with an even more unexpected case. |
| 0:22.1 | Specifically, that of a cartel kingpin, played by Carla Sophia Gascon, who wants Rita to help |
| 0:27.0 | her fake her own death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self, Emilia Perez. |
| 0:32.4 | Part thriller, part comedy, part musical, this genre-defying film features original songs by |
| 0:37.0 | French artist Camille, |
| 0:38.2 | and composer Clement Ducol, as well as dazzling dance choreography, holding absolutely nothing back |
| 0:43.3 | in a film that it's safe to say is quite unlike anything you'll have seen before. |
| 0:47.8 | Zoe Saladanya, Carla Sophia Gascon, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz collectively scooped the |
| 0:52.6 | Best Actress Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where the film also received the jury prize. The film has received |
| 0:58.2 | critical acclaim and is being hailed as a miraculous movie and a work of brilliance and a |
| 1:03.1 | gloriously original tribute to anyone who truly dares to go their own way. You can watch |
| 1:07.8 | Amelia Perez now on Netflix. |
| 1:27.9 | What the Dickens is happening? Well, I'll tell you what the Dickens is happening. |
| 1:30.2 | I'll tell you what the Dickens is happening, folks. |
| 1:32.0 | This is the latest episode of the ranking, |
| 1:36.0 | and this time Team Empire is going to be discussing the various adaptations, |
| 1:39.1 | animated, live action, big screen, small screen, |
| 1:41.8 | of Charles Dickens' classic festive tale, |
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