A Conversation for Why Villains in Movies Have English Accents
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MrBlueSky_UK Started conversation Nov 5, 2002
It's possibly not especially important to mention this in the wider scheme of things, but it appears that usually when an English accent is used in a film, it is more likely to be of the home counties dialect. Perhaps this came about from the widespread use of it in films made regarding the second world war? I can't remember too many films with use of other English regional dialects, with "The Full Monty" being one of the few that springs to mind for its South Yorkshire variations.
A great article though - we Englishmen are not all bad guys! 
MBS 
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