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ON HIS OWN: Macaulay Culkin is separated from his family again at Christmastime
in Chris Columbus' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). A snow machine
was used for some scenes, but a blizzard engulfed the set before the shoot,
making this the only Home Alone film to feature real snow.
SPIRITED AWAY: Ronald Neame's Scrooge (1970), starring Albert Finney, was a
musical version of the Dickens tale featuring 11 original songs. Neame transformed
the Ghost of Christmas Past into a female role, played by Dame Edith Evans. The
film was nominated for four Academy Awards.
STANDING TALL: Jon Favreau used forced perspective for many of the shots in Elf (2003) rather than CGI to make Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell) appear much larger than
the others. "We set out to make something that we knew, if we did our job right, could turn into a movie people would see year after year."
PHOTOS:
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COURTESY
NEW
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CINEMA/PHOTOFEST;
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20TH
CENTURY
FOX;
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BFI
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