In most hollywood action movies, the bad guys are hardly ever Americans. They're mostly Asians, Europeans, Russians, (or someone with non-American accent) etc but rarely Americans.
Why is that? Why does Hollywood always portray USA as the good guys and everyone else as bad guys?
2006-07-24 02:57:30 · 15 answers · asked by vectorx 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I think it depends on the type of movies being made. If you watch older movies, Americans are often the bad guys as well. Nowadays, though, it is popular to have movies based on terrorism, post-cold war problems, and other type of movies that often involve having someone from another country as the bad guy. I think it more has to do with the kind of movie that it popular right now, than that America are the good guys and other people are the bad guys.
If you think about recent popular movies, though, you will see ones where the bad guy was american- Comic action heroes: Fantastic 4, Spiderman 1, 2, Superman Returns, X-men 1, 2, 3; others- Firewall, Flightplan, Mission Impossible 1 & 3, Pirates of the Carribean.... just to name a few...
There are probably more than you realize. It is just post-cold war, and for the last several years since 9-11 especially, it is has been a big emphasis of the hollywood media to present movies that show america overcoming the odds the rest of the world throws at them. It is partly political also, I think. A subversive reasurance that America will come out ok through everything that is thrown at us.
2006-07-24 03:23:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
UMMM if I am not mistaken alot of the Villians in movies are portrayed as americans.
Example of movies:
A Perfect Murder
Fatal Attraction
Se7en
Phone Booth
Taking Lives
Eye for an Eye
The Usual Suspects
Unbreakable
Jagged Edge
These are true villians that could be anyone, any race, any sex, and they all portrayed as americans.
2006-07-24 03:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Imajica 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please do not forget the worst guys in the American movies:
The Germans !!! But I enjoy watching the good boys
fighting the bad boys ... it is fun. It's just entertainment.
That's what movies are made for:
FUN !!!
And don't U ever take anything serious...
( Hollywood is made by Europeans and Russians ... they left
their homes because they were afraid of Hitler and/or Stalin.
Their revenge was to show them as very bad guys in the movies.
This goes esp. for all Jewish guys in film business like
Billy Wilder for example ... )
2006-07-24 03:08:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well duh. Because they're made in America, for Americans, obviously. The upside is that lots of great British character actors like sir Ian McKellen, Brian Cox, Keanu Reeves (oops how did he get in there?) etc get to play really cool villains. Charles Dance commented the trend now seems to have moved toward French villains (congratulations, Vincent Cassel!). Now why would that be?
If you look at domestic movies in other countries, I think you'll find they have a fair share of simple-mindedness as well, with lots of American villains.
2006-07-24 03:05:25 · answer #4 · answered by ThePeter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well some of the worst villains are american. The Joker, Lex Luthor, numerous mob movies (yeah their italian american, but they are american) Hannibal Lecter, buffalo bill, green goblin.
Now a lot of our international man of mystery stuff does use unamerican villains, but that's part of the story. The story is about foreign terrorists.
What about heroes who are not american? Bond, Harry Potter? Jackie chan and Arnold Schwartzenegger?
2006-07-24 03:26:21 · answer #5 · answered by SnakEve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 03:44:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because men with accents are considered more mysterious and clever. Note that Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers has an American accent - with that accent he's doomed to fail.
This is also why we women tend to attracted to accents.
2006-07-24 03:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by Lex 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because americans watching the movie root for the good guy
you ever watch foreign movies, they do the same thing
i seen the same thing when I lived in Japan, all the bad guys were american
2006-07-24 02:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Justin K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it makes the villian more exotic to be from elsewhere....
the movies that do have american villians have to blather on for an hour with plot details about why hes a bad guy...
detracts from all of the spy gadgets and explosions and people croaking in ingenius ways.
2006-07-24 03:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by digital genius 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same as any other country if you chek out foriegn flicks there good and the others are bad,like in this one german movie called
''stalingrad'' none of the main characters are nazis ther just germans who hate communists and only the officers are shown as nazis when according to the history ive read it was really the other way around
2006-07-24 05:31:41 · answer #10 · answered by Dan B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋