[John29260]

In a lot of movies (especially those targeted towards kids, like the Robin Hood films), there is a great deal of concern to not reinforce racist stereotypes. Even in movies made for adults, you will often find scripts that steer away from the obvious choices (e.g., Arab bad guys post 9/11) to find 'safer' ground (e.g., the real villian is some racist white guy.) Hollywood is pretty liberal stuff (whatever these other replies are saying.) English people are the safest group; they are former imperialists who've never been oppressed by anybody (at least in the United States -- they were always the ruling class); it's considered 'safe' to make the English guy hideous and stereotypical because there is not much of a stereotype in American culture that this is related to. It's not like they're going to stir up anti-English-people riots.

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Name : John29260, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, City : New York City, State : NY Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,