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Originally posted by Paul Stevens:
It's not so much the English accent as one variety of it: Received Pronunciation. Speakers with other accents from England such as Yorkshire, Somerset or Northumberland don't seem to be evildoers in American films. So perhaps its some notion of sophisticated decadence at work.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/
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--What about Sean Bean? He has a Sheffield accent.
It was seeing him in 'Don't Say a Word' that set me off; also 'Patriot Games' where he does an Irish accent.
I believe you're a South Yorkshireman yourself, Paul, but I'd be the first to say that it doesn't necessarily make you a bad person.