[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:04:43 +0200, Dirk Munk wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:38:27 +0200, Dirk Munk wrote:
>>
>>> You'll be amazed when you learn how many people can't distinguish tv
>>> 'reality' from real life. Just ask actors who play a 'bad' role in a
>>> film or tv series.
>>
>> This is very true.  My first student holiday job was in a textile mill
>> and I was amazed to discover that the workers would talk about soap
>> characters as if they were real.
>>
> There was a BBC sitcom called "Allo Allo". It is situated in France
> during WWII. It is pure 100% comedy, no one in his right mind can think
> it has anything to do with reality. Never the less the actor who played
> Herr Flick of the Gestapo was once slapped in his face for being a
> Gestapo officer when he was walking the street.

Sad, but I can believe it, and it proves the point.

FWIW when I was in Holland in 1981/2 I was often bought beers by total 
strangers who on learning that I was English wanted to thank me for 
rescuing them or a relative from a German PoW camp. "But I wasn't born 
then" was met with "Well your father rescued us/them then".

It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied 
don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.

-- 
Paul Sture