[Nerwen]

And I think a lot of Americans (for example) still retain a very strong sense of their heritage which could have been from a number of places - Germany, Norway, Russia, Italy, Ireland...etc... Though with the main language used in the New World being English then if people from all kinds of places did look back to the origins of the English language, that goes to show how powerful an influence language was over a whole culture, even a new one.

Again, I wonder if things are different in say Montreal, New Orleans or Florida, which had other, stronger language influences than English. Would people with a long background in these places automatically think of English if they cast their minds back to the years before the Americas were colonised?

Not necessarily– but we are talking about English-language productions, aren't we?

Originally Posted by Kuruhuran

Film is a visual medium. The more elaborate something is the more visually impressive.

And it helps distinguish it from all those ultra-cheap 80s sword-n-sorcery flicks...