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

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:53:05 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> In article <mm9ff9-ebk2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:21:28 +0200, MG wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10-8-2012 3:16, David Froble wrote:
>>>> Bad joke.
>>> 
>>> Actually, it was a very truthful one.  Many people didn't care about
>>> the occupation, life went on.
>>> 
>>> Months ago (or a few years possibly by now) a French photo exhibition
>>> was cancelled and 'banned', because it didn't show how "horrible life
>>> was back then", just people smiling and going about their daily lives.
>>> That didn't meet the requirements of what is usually shown in the
>>> novelized lecture, TV series and films, I guess.
>>> 
>>> 
>> In the same vein a French colleague told me about piece of newsreel
>> which was only rarely shown on French TV because it didn't paint the
>> right picture.  It showed large crowds of French welcoming the Germans
>> as they entered Paris.   Life has to go on and I imagine there were
>> plenty of restaurants and hotels who benefited from the trade.
> 
> Have you never seen the famous editorial cartoon from that period (it
> was in some history book I had back in my school days) that shown the
> French lining the streets of Paris waving American flags as the
> Americans drive in while holding Nazi flags behind their backs.  Even as
> a child I got the point.

I don't think I have seen it but I can certainly visualise it.  One of 
the Italian language TV channels here has a cartoon show with Bugs Bunny 
et al and a couple of years ago they showed some really old stuff which 
you are unlikely to see nowadays because it's politically incorrect.  
Some of those were sheer anti-Nazi propaganda and very funny with it. I 
have never seen anything quite like it. There was plenty of chain smoking 
too.

(FWIW Bugs Bunny has a very fine singing voice in Italian :-) )

> And on a more personal note.  One of the parents of a friend of mine
> when I was in Germany in the very early 70's had been part of the German
> Army that occipied France during the war. He was a very low ranking
> soldier and lived pretty much the same way I was living in Germany.  He
> had a French girlfriend and often was invited home for dinner.  History
> is seldom what you see coming out of Hollywood.

Yes I can believe that.  Of course there was the famous football (er, 
soccer) match between opposing sides in WW I, news of which would 
undoubtedly have been suppressed if possible.

In my schooldays I did a student exchange with a German lad.  When he 
came to stay with I took him to the local library and he promptly picked 
a selection of books on WW II because he wanted to see what "our side" 
had to say about it.  My mother was absolutely horrified that I let him, 
but he was an intelligent guy.  Our parents generation really did want to 
forget about it for the most part.

-- 
Paul Sture