Villians..... Why always English? (1 Viewer)

[Keith Mickunas]

Umh, guys, we're just joking. It was over 200 hundred years ago, do you think anyone cares that much? As for the Constitution/Declaration stuff, again, its just jokes, no one believes that making fun of the British is actually going to be in those documents.

 

[John Besse]

Huh, well... All the bad guys in the WWF are American. And what about James Bond? They were mostly Russians. Same with Rocky 4.

 

[Cees Alons]

John,

The Bond films weren't exactly made in Hollywood.

Cees

 

[Steve Christou]

This thread reminds me of the furore in England over Mel Gibson and two of his films "Braveheart" and "The Patriot", where the English were portrayed as being particularly despicably evil and cruel, while the Scots and Americans were sweet and lovable (ok a slight exaggaration), the newspapers really had a go at Mel, wondering if he had an agenda against the English, watching both films I was hissing and spitting whenever the English appeared on screen, aah the power of the movies.
Nice one Mel.

 

[Mark Schermerhorn]

Ok to put this back on track a bit. There seems to be a typical thread in American movies. The bad guy is always smart, well cultured, etc, while the hero is a muscle bound, stupid stereotypical American who probably played football in high school. The villan is ALWAYS smarter than the hero, but the hero always wins because of his old fashioned American grit, or whatever you want to call it.

Since The English fit the traits needed for a villain (to the average American anyway, which is an important point), presto, they're always English. I've actually read several articles on this (about how the villain is always smarter than the hero, they had nothing to do with villains being English). For the life of me can't remember what publications they were from, if I remember them I'll edit the post.

Of course, thats just my opinion, I could be wrong.

 

[Paul_D]

... and the English accent sounds evil when spoken correctly!