[Christian32029]

If the film is an American production, I will venture to say that the villain or antagonist is going to be represented as a foreigner 99 percent of the time, even though some people here are convinced that anyone who speaks proper English can’t be a foreigner. Hollywood offers a very distorted reality. To attempt to answer your question, I can only reason that in the context of a film that takes place in England, made almost exclusively for a U.S. audience, you can be certain that anything American (accent or actor) will never be used to portray ‘the bad guy.’ Conversely, have you ever noticed how in British films, television shows and novels, continental Europeans and other foreigners and their accents are the epitome of evil? Nearly every James Bond movie has a foreigner as the villain; even Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel is meant to represent everything that wasn’t English and Victorian. Look at most historical films about the Romans, Biblical stories, World War II films, etc: the protagonists all use British accents. I suppose it depends on who is directing the film and in which country, which brings up another fact that most movies are not even filmed in the country where they are supposedly taking place. By the way, Alan Rickman played the best villain in Die Hard as Hans Gruber. Remember?

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