English accents in American movies?

In most American movies, especially "historical" movies, an English accent always seems to be used when the audience can't understand a foreign language and English is used instead. For instance, everyone in the movie Troy speaks with English accents, even though many of them are American actors and England didn't exist at that time. Why don't they speak in Greek accents? Do all these movie producers figure nobody will be able to tell the difference? Or do we Americans just associate an English accent with foreign languaged? This happens in a lot of movies, so I was just curious.English accents in American movies?Well, to answer that last question first... Remember something in 1776 called the Revolutionary War? Just about all villains in movies have English accents. For example, in The Hunt for Red October, the Russians have English accents and are played by English actors. Interestingly, Sean Connery starts speaking in Russian, the camera goes out of focus and then everyone else has an English accent.



If you go back through the history of movies, there are a LOT of movies where the villains are using English accents when everyone else has an American accent. I think it is something that Hollywood adopted years ago and has continued to use throughout most of their films. It stems back to the time when the English were our enemies. Also, English is much easier to understand than almost any other language, too. At least for American audiences.



When I was in Russia in 2007, this person who I visited had a copy of The Hunt for Red October on DVD. The Russians speak Russian and the Americans also speak Russian, but with a lisp!English accents in American movies?Probably because an English "accent"would be easier to understand than English with a thick Greek accent. I kind of admire peopel that can imitate an english accent without looking ridiculous. I had to do it occasionally (for Shakespeare), and it made me more uncomfortable than alot of the others things I did on stage%26gt; Probably because I'd never met a native English person before that time. I don't know why everyonemakes such a big deal about him, course he was very prolfic in his writing. But ther are other 13 -14 cent poets who were amazing as wellEnglish accents in American movies?Well if it were true to the times, they wouldn't be speaking with Greek accents... they would be speaking Greek. And since sub-titles are out of the question they gave them English accents probably because Greek accents would sound silly and American accents in ancient Greece would be ridiculous.English accents in American movies?
Yeah, they think the every foreign accent is English.