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"Rudi" <Rudi@iki.fi> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:19:19 -0500, "Mary" <notvalid@notin.com> wrote:
>
>>> usenet as a whole is pretty much a
>>> relic. I guess suits us :)
>>
>>Speak for yourself :) Hi Rudi, I seem to remember you from quite a while
>>ago.
>
> Hi again, and Good to see You too Mary :) (Us relics, heh heh :)

Relics? well some may think so :)

>>it must be a very nice place to visit in real life. In Singers Hall, the
>>paintings were mostly all real were they not? except for the one that was
>>changed to suit the story -wasn't there a painting in the game of a wolf?.
>
> No- in fact whole Engelhart story is a made-up thing. Wagner didn't
> compose anything to that effect. All other ornaments and decorations
> are true and right there in Neuschwanstein castle.

Yes, I knew the Engelhart story was made up, but what I was asking was in 
Singer's Hall in Ludwig's castle, are the paintings in Singer's Hall the 
paintings that hang in Singer's Hall? one of the pictures was changed to 
look like there was a wolf in the painting, or more than one wolf. I forget 
now. That picture was not real but was created to suit the story in the game 
about wolves.

>>Very interesting. I always wondered if the various locations in 
>>Marienplatz
>>really existed.
>
> Yes they do. Even the sausage stand is there, right next door to the
> Übergrau's doorway :) And that doorway actually belongs to Munich city
> government, IIRC there is City Zoning office behind the doors :)

They look real especially the sausage stand.

>>I found the door man or receptionist in the hunting club to
>>be very pompous and self important and amusing. Were any of the more minor
>>part actors in the game ordinary people or were all actors hired for the
>>game?

> Hmm let me try to recall... At least Wolf Muser (Herr doktor) and
> Andrea Martin (Gerde) were professional German actors, also Harald
> Ûbergrau (well the actor of course) was clearly native German speaker.

Ubergrau the lawyer was obviously German speaking.  I was referring to the 
door man/receptionist at the Hunt club. I think he was German speaking 
too.Most of the actors in GK2 appeared to be German with German accents, 
except for Gabriel (Dean Erickson), who was American actor.

> OTOH some secondary characters were just as obviously American,
> speaking their lines phonetically without understanding anything they
> said :) Police station and Ludwig museum receptionists first come to
> my mind.

I thought the museum receptionists and police station sounded German.

> Don't remember about Xavier, IIRC his accent was of native German.
> BTW Peter Lucas, guy who played the Baron , is really Polish.

Who was Xavier?
I knew Peter Lucas was Polish. He sounded German in the game but was 
probably supposed to. H was on a few American TV shows, but never became 
very successful. I havent heard of him for years. I thought he was a 
handsome fellow.

>>I found Ludwig's castle the most interesting looking through the rooms, 
>>etc.
>
> Neuschwanstein Castle produced a walk-thru DVD about 10 years ago.
> I was quite mad at myself for never getting it. However, today again
> Youtube comes to rescue - there are tons of HD videos about the
> castle on y'tube. DVD has been out of print since many years -I have
> checked it directly from the castle :(

The DVD would have been interesting. Was it in English? I don't go on 
Youtube much. But occasionally I go on it when it's something interesting. 
So I will check.  Thanks.

Mary


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