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Why do villains in films/tv often have English accents?
Some villains I can name off the top of my head with English accents...
Frollo from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Scar from "The Lion King"
Tai Lung from "Kung Fu Panda"
the bad guys in Star Wars
Hannibal Lecter
etc
Can anyone think of any other villains with English accents?
Kenneth Branagh (Wild, Wild West), Rupert Everett ( Inspector Gadget), Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings), Jeremy Irons ( Die Hard With a Vengeance), Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible II), Gary Oldman (JFK) and Sean Bean (Goldeneye) Alan Rickman (Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and Die Hard). Ian McKellan (X Men), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List), Mark Strong (Robin Hood), Jason Isaacs (The Patriot), Tim Roth (Rob Roy and Pulp Fiction) Peter Cushing (Star Wars), Gary Oldman (Leon), Charles Dance (Last Action Hero), Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) and George Sanders voicing the smoothly vicious tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book etc. etc. etc.
The British villain is a tradition that goes back to Hollywood's golden age, when the role was commanded by Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, George Sanders, Charles Laughton, Sydney Greenstreet, and James Mason.
Film directors as distinguished as Spielberg and Scorsese have spoken of the greater craft employed by British stage-trained actors. In Gangs of New York Scorsese cast Daniel Day-Lewis as the villainous William Cutting, aka Bill the Butcher.
Maybe the reason for Hollywood casting Brits as villains is the historical one dating back to the War of Independence against the British. On top of that, the US population is to a large degree composed of those who fled there to escape English persecution - Scots and Irish immigrants driven off their land by English landlords - and hence Received Pronunciation came to signify a baddie.
This idea was the basis of the heavenly trial scene in Powell and Pressburger's 1946 classic movie, A Matter of Life and Death. "Matter of Life and Death" where David Niven has to defend himself against a charge that by being English he had forfeited any right to the mercy of his divine judges.
A century after the War of Independence, a new ideal of masculine heroism was born on the US frontier. The cowboy defines American heroism just as his ideological opposite, the European-influenced city slicker, defines villainy.
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