![]() ![]() However, one could argue that the endless improvisations of jazz music make it a perfect fit for the indeterminacies of the Schulz universe. ![]() Incidentally, the innovative soundtrack of Charlie Brown Christmas included a lot of jazz by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. But at the same time, the story ends with the Peanuts coming together to transform a scrawny fir tree into a glorious Christmas tree through friendship. In response, the film manages to pull off a touching reading by Linus from the King James Bible. Charlie is struggling with the meaning of Christmas and wonders if it merely amounts to selfishness and crass commercialism. It exemplifies the bittersweet tension between religious feeling and existentialism, connectedness and alienation in his work. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) is probably Schulz’s masterpiece for television. ![]()
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