But in point 2 Asuka says:
If I’m not mistaken the Germans made their own version of the Bazooka, the Panzerschreck.
They can correct me, but I think they’re being more strict in the “not every man-portable rocket is an RPG” front.
It’s probably that, but that’s why I asked if a Bazooka (or Panzerschreck) was an RPG.
RPG is the Russian acronym, РПГ (Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт, Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot ), meaning “handheld anti-tank grenade launcher”, which got the common backronym in English of “Rocket Propelled Grenade”. The RPG series of weapons are specifically Soviet/Russian anti-tank weapons (and clones of them produced by China and a few other countries).
The Soviet RPG-1 was designed to mimic the performance of the German panzerfaust, but with the reloadability of the American bazooka. In a retroactive sense, the German panzerfaust might be considered a single-use RPG, but that’s not what anyone called it at the time.
And while bazookas and panzerschrecks are in the same general class of weapons, no one would have ever referred to them at the time as an RPG (especially since that term didn’t even exist until after the bazooka was introduced). And I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the term “RPG” used to refer to a bazooka or panzerschreck or indeed any anti-tank weapon other than actual Soviet/Russian RPGs and their clones.
Yeah calling a Panzerfaust/Bazooka an RPG is like calling King Kong 1933 a “Kaiju” movie. Like you’re TECHNICALLY right but using a term that’s both foreign and anachronistic.
I thought that was the case, thanks.
The best kind of right.
I’ve noticed this a lot in English shows. Even the teeniest tiniest remotest village always has at least one POC person or family … even period shows. I figured there was some kind of unspoken quota.
Or the contemporary pool of British actors, including background extras, includes a lot of folks who aren’t lily-white, and you’d have to deliberately exclude actors on the basis of race to avoid having at least a few non-white characters in any contemporary UK production.
Why would you assume a quota?
I just noticed this while watching a recent episode of All Creatures Great and Small. They show Tristan reading a book with a fairly close-up shot of the book. It looks like a half-decent copy you’d expect find of a book from the 1930s now, but not then. But I know it’s really hard to find old books in fine condition…and they’re very expensive when you do find them.
I was surprised to see in a show set in the 1960s, a Black couple in the background of a scene set at an American travel agency, apparently making their own travel plans with an agent - but the show was made in 1963 and not just set then. Rod Serling was apparently making a point in “A Passage on the Lady Anne”
Because it seemed like very small villages wouldn’t have very many non-lily white people, but I guess I just don’t know who do live there. POC are evenly spread among the general population everywhere? Because that’s what these shows seem to indicate.
You do realize there’s a difference between the actors and the characters, right? Even if you set your production in East-Littlebough-Upon-Bumpcreek in the Year of Our Lord 18–, that’s not when and where the actors will be from. If you put out a casting call in the UK in 2022, you’re going to get a pretty healthy percentage of non-white actors. You’d have to actively reject actors on the basis of race to avoid them. There’s no need for a “quota”.
And it’s not like there were no people of recent African or Asian descent in the UK until the last couple of decades.
And, just by the way, for period pieces, particularly 19th Century or earlier, 21st Century UK actors aren’t going to accurately reflect the physical appearance of the characters they’re portraying in a whole range of ways (they’ll be taller, better built, have better skin, better hair, much better teeth, and so on).
Isn’t Grantchester (the village) right near Cambridge? Which, as a university town would have a more diverse population that the nation as a whole even in the 1950s-60s, I would presume.
The recent remake of All Creatures Great and Small that just had its finale on Sunday on PBS had a few People of Color in it, whereas the original PBS adaptation from 1978-1980 did not, to my recollection.
Practically every show set in Britain in modern times has interracial couples. It’s hard to find a couple who isn’t interracial.
I started watching Dead Still, which is set in 1880s Ireland. The dialog is depressingly modern. So are the attitudes about what young single woman can do. I get that the show is tongue-in-cheek about the subject, but the milieu depends on that world not being like ours.
The second episode was also a total fail. If anyone watched further and it gets better, please let me know.
I went there as a kid that was sooo much fun and my grandfather served on a ship like it in Korea so he filled in all the details … they even let you get locked up in the temp brig …
Or you’re watching Midsomer Murders.