CSI:NY "Sanguine Love"

[fiat_knox]

I'm just watching the CSI:NY vampire episode.

Oh, boy.

I have a question to my fellow Brits. What's up with the casting of Brits as the villains by Yanks?

I mean, I'm all up for it. I'd love the idea of walking up to some passing American tourists and going "Hi. I'm a Brit," and watch them all scatter to the four winds screaming and peeing themselves in raw, naked fear ... but then where'd be the fun in that?

Also, the vampire stuff is making me cringe just watching it. It's like watching Tom Hanks' Mazes & Monsters for the very first time. They even had the obligatory scene where two of the series stalwarts stand around looking confused. "What happened to playing stickball?" one of them goes.

Seriously."H'mm, what shall we do today. Play stickball, or exsanguinate some pretty blonde? Stickball ... exsanguination ... oh, decisions, decisions ... there's only one way to find out which is better ..."

Comments

Actually...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

If you were to come here and speak to people, no one would run. Most Americans I know of are drawn to people with European and some Asian accents. Really drawn. They'll want to hear you speak more. No villainy there. It's just a movie issue, and you Brits aren't alone in that typecasting. Russians, Germans and other Eastern Europeans are also generally villains, as are Japanese and now, of course, anyone of Middle Eastern descent. Americans are nationalistic and paranoid where their cinema is concerned, but they can't resist the lure of a sexy accent.

Mazes and Monsters is a great movie. I love it. I haven't seen it in yonks though. But I've known people who game who get that into their characters. One friend gets so upset if her characters die that she cries and is inconsolable for days.

Re: Actually...

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

LOL "Blackleaf NOOOO"! XD