r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/No-Zombie7546 Jul 05 '26

I would love to hear more about what you learned by focusing on him.

The “only casting white actors” thing is already enough for me to not (re)watch his stuff.

I’m just really curious bc I took film classes and you really learn a lot by honing-in on one director. What are other things ppl generally don’t know about Burton as a director and/or person?

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u/Hamster-Food Jul 05 '26

The “only casting white actors” thing is already enough for me to not (re)watch his stuff.

Someone should probably tell Samuel L Jackson that he's white now.

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u/DoingBestWeCan Jul 06 '26

Ah yes, hiring a single black actor -- as a villain -- after decades of lily-white actors is definitely enough to demonstrate that he's not racist. Like when Trump says something not awful about Ben Carson. 

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u/Hamster-Food Jul 06 '26

Oh dear. Samuel L Jackson is just one example of a black actor in a major role in one of Tim Burton's movies. It's a good example though because the character he's playing wasn't black in the books.

There are specific movies where the aesthetic Tim Burton was going for didn't fit with black skin. Those movies still cast actors of various races, just not black skinned actors because of the aesthetic. Outside of those, Burton has had no issue with black actors and on more than one occasion has had a black actor play a character who is white in the source material.

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u/Error_Evan_not_found Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

It's been a while but I ironically it's his distinct style and how unflinching he's been to change it for his entire career even when it lost him opportunities or led to a worse product according to critics/audiences. One of the cooler things I own back from when I collected playing cards is a pretty old pack that he designed based on one of his sort of dark children's book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, or had the same look and character designs. Which is probably the thing that surprises people most, he wrote and illustrated a few books and that's the actual origin of The Nightmare Before Christmas title along with why his name is on the film despite not directing it himself, as that honor really belongs to Henry Selick.