Arhyalon, in a discussion of “aristocracy”:
So, is it impossible to show noble characters well on film?
Not at all. In fact, it is done very well over and over again today. By the Japanese in Anime.
One also sees it occasionally in British films. The Japanese and the English, both peoples with a long history of a noble class, seem to grok nobility in a way that the Americans and New Zealanders just do not.
Banner of the Stars, for instance.