turak
Yet the storyline of the whole series is placed during the 1950's and the beginning of the 1960's.
It goes 40 years back into the past. Where did they find the buildings, the manor houses, the pubs, the army surplus truck, the army surplus goods, the clothes, the old TV's, the furniture, circa 1950?
Try finding anything that was made in the 1950's in America: you can't. It's all gone, disappeared.
They had everything so historically and culturally accurate: the attitudes of the people: the post war attitude in England with still the leftover culture of the war era, the different class dialects of the upper crust, and the lower classes, the vintage cars, the gypsie wagons, the old fashioned carnival machines, the old buses: especially the old wood-burning stove and oven of the Beau Rivage hotel kitchen in Brittany as a working kitchen! And the food and drink historically accurate also.
Try finding anything 40 years old anywhere else in the world and you can't do it... how did they do it? This is what puzzles me. Who was the mastermind behind coordinating this series, and who were the writers? The storylines and writing is superior to H.E. Bates. For once the TV series is better than the book it is based upon.
I don't live in England: my question is to anyone who does live there. Is England still like this? Are there still out-of-the-way places where time stands still and nothing changes for 40 years?
Everything is so historically perfect, it is awesome...
except for one thing: The motorcycles of the hooligans are not circa 1950: they're modern motorbikes. It stands out as a glaring error. Their 1950's biker outfits are spot-on, but their bikes aren't. How country folk regarded the rockn'roll bike gangs is also historically accurate. But not their bikes. Did anyone else notice this?
It goes 40 years back into the past. Where did they find the buildings, the manor houses, the pubs, the army surplus truck, the army surplus goods, the clothes, the old TV's, the furniture, circa 1950?
Try finding anything that was made in the 1950's in America: you can't. It's all gone, disappeared.
They had everything so historically and culturally accurate: the attitudes of the people: the post war attitude in England with still the leftover culture of the war era, the different class dialects of the upper crust, and the lower classes, the vintage cars, the gypsie wagons, the old fashioned carnival machines, the old buses: especially the old wood-burning stove and oven of the Beau Rivage hotel kitchen in Brittany as a working kitchen! And the food and drink historically accurate also.
Try finding anything 40 years old anywhere else in the world and you can't do it... how did they do it? This is what puzzles me. Who was the mastermind behind coordinating this series, and who were the writers? The storylines and writing is superior to H.E. Bates. For once the TV series is better than the book it is based upon.
I don't live in England: my question is to anyone who does live there. Is England still like this? Are there still out-of-the-way places where time stands still and nothing changes for 40 years?
Everything is so historically perfect, it is awesome...
except for one thing: The motorcycles of the hooligans are not circa 1950: they're modern motorbikes. It stands out as a glaring error. Their 1950's biker outfits are spot-on, but their bikes aren't. How country folk regarded the rockn'roll bike gangs is also historically accurate. But not their bikes. Did anyone else notice this?