Dear America

Dear America,

Please stop casting British people in the roles of your villains/bad guys. We realise we have been a bit mean in the past, we did fight against the your nation's independence, but look on our side..we wanted your money. We realise that your rights were quashed, but again, you did destroy a lot of our tea; many a man had to make do with warm milk with their crumpets that winter..it was a dark time. We ask you however to forget our colonial conflicts, a more serious issue is at hand, some of our finest actors are being type cast in villainous roles. Tim Curry, Alan Rickman, Ian Mckellen to name but a few.

We do have heroes in our country, we aren’t all strutting around in capes with glass eyes, plotting the downfall of the free world. Sean Bean would have made a great hero in 'National Treasure', much more of an action man than Nic Cage..but you would rather see a weasel faced hack take the role than a Brit. Look at Prince Harry, withdrawn from Iraq, now mulling around the Palace with his buzz cut and grenade belt...because you couldn't stand to see and English hero.

Practically every member of the 'Dark Side' was English. I ask you, couldn’t Han have been a cockney? Couldn’t Luke have had a Mancunian twinge? We are your friends now America, we buy McDonalds and have Gaps. We even held out an olive branch and cast an American in every British film for the last 20 years, even Andie MacDowell.. ANDIE MACDOWELL! We may be small, but we're the only country that doesn't want to bomb you. Can't you repay the favour America?...cast a Brit as a hero for once.

Hugs and Kisses,

The U.K

ashley, please consider re-reading GemLil's with your 'sarcasm-filter' glasses on. ;)

Cary Grant is just about the all-time defining example of a Hollywood leading man, and he was British.

Ah those were the days...before British cinema relied exclusively on the rom-com. Ha..I accept the Cary Grant argument...but a bit out of date, have you been living in a nuclear bunker?

I was moved to this subject after watching 'Demolition Man' last night..just another British villain, I thought! What is it about our accent that is just so malevolent?

Otherwise, it seems rather ridiculous that a Brit would give two shits about American propoganda.

Ah, Beany would have been in it for the money of course. And the whole place was full of worly treasures..not just American ones..those mummy's belong in the British Museum I tells ya!

Now, now, now. Ian McKellen played Gandalf. How much more of a hero do you want? I am sorry, but Jude Law, Colin Farrell, or Eric Bana would have never worked playing Frodo.

And are you forgetting Johnny English!? How more heroic can you get than Rowan Atkinson?

I was trying to be funny.

Hollywood will always be pushing it's big American stars, and that's just the way it is. It's shame.

In some respects, I think it comes down to talent. Most British actors are much more talented. And it takes more talent to play a villain as opposed to a hero.

Pretty impossible to imagine Sean Bean becoming America's #1 action hero

Ha..now THATS a world I want to live in.

I am sorry, but Jude Law, Colin Farrell, or Eric Bana would have never worked playing Frodo.

Hahaha!..Scott, if they'd done that, LOTR would have been just 3 hours of Frodo deciding how to have his hair that day.

if they'd done that, LOTR would have been just 3 hours of Frodo deciding how to have his hair that day.

*spills milk out his nose*

damn you brits are born with this kind of humor? :D

Rofl, Gemlil is funny

and I don't really know... I think America just likes getting on everybody's bad side for no reason...

but that definitely is a major point... I'm going to look more into that and see why America chooses the english accent to slander


alright sorry if I'm being stupid here, my head hurts and I a dizzy, but I keep screaming the question in my head

Why don't they use German Accents? everybody blames the Germans practically... and then there was Hitler...

Yup. But those aren't real Hollywood movies, but NZ & UK productions.

With very American financial backing.

what state is Gotham in??

HAHAHAHA. Out doing me at every turn are we RB?

I missed that spider thing, I did see a documentary about a man who was turning into a tree, slowley solidfying....there wasnt anything funny about it though, it was a horribly debilitating disease.