Why so many songs and movies portrait England as a tyranny? Like "V" for Vendetta, and the s*x Pistols songs?

Question

Why so many songs and movies portrait England as a tyranny? Like "V" for Vendetta, and the s*x Pistols songs?

Answer 1

It makes for good fiction.

Answer 2

I disagree, what about the bond movies

Answer 3

It comes up a lot in British literature, cinema and TV as well. I think it's something to do with WWII. We were on the very brink of becoming a n**i dictatorship then, and only escaped it through grit and determination. Sometimes, we wonder what would have happened had it gone the other way.

Another possible factor is that fact that the UK is, on the whole, more ready to sharply criticise its governmental system than the US. Satiricical criticism often manifests as the portrayal of the current government as a tyranny. The s*x Pistols perfectly exemplify this.

Answer 4

Perhaps because for a while there, historically, Great Britain was a tyrannical empire. If that were not true, then the founders of the US would never have initiated the Declaration of Independence and, by extension, the American Revolutionary War.

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