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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 3855702" data-attributes="member: 40177">I don't know about RPGs, but one thing that always bothers me is in movies.  Because we're so close to the states, a lot of "canadian" subjects get ruled over by Hollywood, and the BBC recognizes Canada even less (the only thing I can think of is the Monty Python Lumberjack song).  If you see movies, for example, The Great Escape (based off a true story) - the Canadians that were ACTUALLY THERE were replaced by Australians or Brits.  Now, the movie was written by a Canuck, and I buy his reasoning - that too many nationalities would dilute the actual story - but this sort of thing happens to us far too often.I think we were simply "Brits" in Band of Brothers (I forget the actual scene, so I could be wrong on that one;  the movie is usually pretty accurate about the facts).  And everyone's made movies about D-Day - how many times have the Canadians been mentioned on Juno Beach?And has there ever been a movie about Dieppe?But I gripe, and since this isn't really the point of the OP...Canada being portrayed as an "Iceland" is something that really bothers me, especially since I live in Victoria, which *may* see a few inches of snow for a week or so each year.  We're a warmer version of Seattle, pretty much.  And my memories of Ontario (even Northern Ontario) are centred more around insanely hot and muggy summers over the six feet of snow we occasionally got.Anyways, don't know I started typing.  I guess it just bugs me how things that are "canadian" often get overruled by Hollywood, who feels they have to cater to their american audience.  Hollywood can make British Movies, Russian Movies, or whatever else, but the second they want to tell a Canadian story, it has to be transplanted somehow into an American setting.  I guess you see something similar in RPGs, although not to the same degree at all.</blockquote>

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