Simon Callow on Charles Dickens // Hibrow Literature

Simon Callow CBE, the English actor know for roles in films such as known for Amadeus (1984), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), talks about the great British author Charles Dickens. Recorded in Highgate Cemetery on the 200th anniversary of the writer's death.

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic living in Victorian London and the surrounding area. He wrote such enduringly celebrated works as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

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[jsmith]

Thank you Simon, eloquently put and your love of Dickens is fabulous.

[petercofrancesco]

Very Well Short Documentry, Great Video ! 🇬🇧

[preggioperson]

Simon did an excellent job of explaining why Dickens remains an relevant today. Dickens work both entertains and educates.

[jasonregina]

Callow is on to something here, there should be an animated film version of A Christmas Carol that's intended for grown ups. Most if not all the animated versions were family pictures/kids films, and most vary in quality of course.

But yeah an animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol could very well do justice to the book's "fluidity" as Callow has put it.

[bolajiraufu]

I wish i had the opportunity to know him

[stormhawk]

Simon’s reinvented himself as an actor as the default Charles Dickens.

[DFermain]

Outside of his work, Dickens is sadly not man to be revered. A great man does not do to his wife what Dickens did to his. I am a huge Dickens fan, but the man was i think on the whole probably loathsome.