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Old 09-25-2018, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Sculpt View Post
What country are you from, idoneus? Yes, there are a lot prim and proper villains in US films, especially European villains. The Americas were the frontier from the "Old World". Escaping Kings and legal nobility is part of the fabric of the US, so the European villains may have the nobility etiquette, which may include 'good manners' as you say, but not necessarily ultimate morality. There's a subplot of stripping off the 'good mask', but also perhaps just makes a more charismatic character.
I agree. I think Americans at the time were sick and tired of privilaged European nobles and royals being held to a higher regard than the common man who were being abused and exploited as they starved to death and worked their asses off for nothing.

I guess that way of thinking is still expressed in our movies and yet the majority of our movies and TV shows are focused on the lives and adventures of rich white families living in nice big houses.

Ironic isn't it?
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