Who are those people?

[ostaralight]

Meh... Me trying to understand, really. Preparing for "Flight of the Hindenburg" larp on Chimera, the larp convention, and so trying to learn more on what I got myself into;-))) Looks like the organizers made a mix of real people, fictional people, and original characters. The full list is:

Al "Scarface" Capone An unbelievably

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[slothphil]

Names I recognise and can say something about without Googling

[ostaralight]

Victor Frankenstein = creator of Frankenstein's monster.

Argh! I should have understood! Was totally confused by the female gender, and forgot that the original doctor's name was Victor! (and this is after seeing Van Hellsing so often, ohh)

Frank Nitti -- real gangster... Bugs Moran = real gangster

Aha, now that you said it I can remember hearing those somewhere, probably in some gangster movies.

Hermann Goering = WWI German ace and WWII head of the Luftwaffe and friend of Hitler

*headbang* Shame on me! I didn't recognize him because of the unfamiliar name spelling, but I certainly know well who he is!

Joseph Kennedy = real US politician, father of President John F Kennedy, Attorney General(?) Robert Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy

I suspected they were somehow related...

Manfred von Richthofen = top WWI German ace - "the Red Baron"

Keeps ringing a bell... Maybe I've heard somewhere...

Orson Welles is a real person -- known for causing some amount of panic in the US via a radio presentation of The War of the WorldsAha!

[slothphil]

Don't try the quiz questions in my LJ, then -- they'll probably reverse that feeling! Going to have to make the next one a little bit easier.

*hugs*

[cat_i_th_adage]

Edith Keeler and Jim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever

[ostaralight]

Aha, Star Trek! That gives some understanding;-)

[cat_i_th_adage]

Annie - there was a comic strip, and later a musical, about Little Orphan Annie

Ardath Bey - I don't recognise the name, but 'Bey' == 'lord' so he's probably high-status

Cane Kameron - might be a reference to Citizen Kane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane)

Carl Denham - the film-maker from King Kong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film))

Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan - the eponymous hero of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a George Lucas retro-pulp-thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Captain_and_the_World_of_Tomorrow)

Professor Trevor Bruttenholm - from the Hellboy comics and movie (I think you'd like 'em). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy)

Polly Perkins - also from Sky Captain

[ostaralight]

Ardath Bey - I don't recognise the name, but 'Bey' == 'lord' so he's probably high-status

And I do recognize - now! *headbang* I can't believe I didn't recognize it immediately, and despite him being called "from the Middle East" I didn't get the bey=lord thing! (thought it's a last name) However, it's kinda funny... The real original thing is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1932_film), the name is the mummy's alias! Omg. Real omg.
But the one I should have thought about is Ardeth Bey, the guy from 1999 "The Mummy" - the most attractive Middle-Eastern warrior ever! *swoon*

The others seem to be from English-language well-know stuff, so I will not blame myself for not knowing them, and will just read your links;-) I actually saw Hellboy movie, but long ago and just once, I didn't like it, so maybe that's why I didn't remember.

[cat_i_th_adage]

I actually saw Hellboy movie, but long ago and just once, I didn't like it, so maybe that's why I didn't remember.

I'd still recommend the comics. The movie tried hard (it was pretty slick, as I recall), but it just didn't get the brooding darkness and macabre humour of the original. I mean, there was a woman who fed herself into an Iron Maiden for power. She had to bleed, you see. Baba Yaga. Jet-pack-flying Nazis. Scary frogs. Baba Yaga. I can lend you the first graphic novel if you'd like to try it out.

Speaking of comic recs, I scratched a handful of Yami no Matsuei episodes out of Youtube, because I remember you said you liked it one time.

It was cool, though the minor characters didn't seem to do a hell of a lot in the anime. Wasn't too fond of Muraki as a villain, alas, but I now have a crush on Tsuzuki. Crushing on one or more characters in a show is a good sign.

Back to the topic at hand - who are you still lost about?

[cat_i_th_adage]

Speaking of comic recs...

By which I meant, "Hey, I really liked the show, thank you for bringing it to my attention."

[chris_san]

Of the names I recognise

[ostaralight]

Al "Scarface" Capone - real person. Not a "used furniture salesman" though. His source of income was slightly more unsavoury than that. He did get sent to prison for a reason, you know.

Yup, I know. They imprisoned him for tax non-payment, as it was the only thing they could prove, right?;-)

Ann Darrow - She done killed King Kong

Heh, I hope our aircraft will not bump into King Kong himself;-)))

Charles Lindbergh - Big star of aviation. Real person.

The name keeps ringing a bell, so I guess he is indeed a big star!

Eleanor Roosevelt - Yep, real person. Played for both teams too.

What means "played for both teams"?

General-major Hermann Goring - Nazi scum. Real person.

Hell yes *nod*

Howard Hughes - A pioneering aviator, engineer, industrialist, movie producer, and ladies man. Real person too and a bit loopy. There was a recent film made about him: "The Aviator" with Leo DiCaprio playing him.

Aha, so that's what that movie was about!

Marion Ravenwood - Actual person.Hold on! This one is NOT real! It's a character from "

[chris_san]

Aargh! CRAP CRAP CRAP! I meant to say "fictional". Damnit!

Anyways, Lindburgh was the first person to cross the Atlantic on a plane.

Eleanor Roosevelt had a long-running affair with another woman, even while she was married to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

[chris_san]

I meant to do this one:
Marion Davies - Actress and long-term live-in girlfriend of William Randolph Hearst. This was the actual person.