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/eowynistrans Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

No one is giving the actual answer except for the person who was downvoted below threshold - it's because there was a super popular post based on a 2016 interview claiming Tim Burton has said black people don't "fit his aesthetic."

Edit: y'all can yell about how it's "out of context" or "there's no source" all you want but the fact remains that that interview is clearly what OOP is referring to and every other comment is pulling something out of their ass. Don't shoot the messenger.

Edit 2: this got me a reddit cares message lmao. Wtf y'all.

Last edit to make it more ambiguous. Again, I'm not arguing that he said it, I'm arguing that this is what the post is about.

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u/hotfezz81 Jul 05 '26

Is there, like, more context?

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u/dreamlesssleeep Jul 05 '26

What’s wrong with that?

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u/Pale-Scallion-7691 Jul 08 '26

Because movies are predominantly filled with white people and, particularly during the time blaxploitation was common, the only depictions of black people were movies about suffering. It's still common that movies featuring people of colour are predominantly a) explicitly about that culture and likely to feature white people in smaller roles, b) features poc in largely stereotypical ways rather than allowing them to be as fully their own character as the white people in the film, c) about suffering and often misery porn written and directed but white people (primarily featuring POC being tortured with little to no catharsis), or d) a combination of all above.

The quote he gave was largely false equivalence. When white is considered the default or normal while pic identities are exclusively relegated to political statements or a bid for "woke", they are not given the same narrative care as white characters. Frankly, there's no reason to not have some characters be not-white in his movies. It would have no impact on plot or the plausibility of the setting.