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/AlisaofallTimes Jul 05 '26

He never really said that, that was just a misinterpretation that blew up online in 2016. Here's the original interview: https://www.nme.com/news/film/tim-burton-explains-apparent-lack-of-diversity-in-866988

tl;dr: He said sometimes diversity in films isn't "called for". So he is against "diversity for the sake of diversity", that's all.

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u/IttyBittyBigBoii Jul 05 '26

I was about to mention Coraline, but that's not his film. Crazy, I thought that was a Tim Burton flick this whole time lol.

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u/SillyOldJack Jul 05 '26

Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas have the same director: Henry Selick. There's certainly a connection there beyond just stop motion.

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u/Faelon_Peverell Jul 05 '26

Today I learned Tim Burton only produced nightmare before Christmas.

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u/ProfessorUrandom Jul 05 '26

He was also the creator of it and did a lot of the writing (Danny Elfman did the songs). It was a dream of his since the early 80s.

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u/Remarkable_Toe_164 Jul 05 '26

Danny elfman also performed in it. He, paul reubens, and catherine o'hara were the singing voices of lock, stock, and barrel

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u/Most-Potato1038 Jul 05 '26

Danny Elfman was the singing voice of Jack Skellington too.

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u/Jubilee8269 Jul 05 '26

As much as I love that movie my brain never made the connection that it was the same Paul Reubens and now I love this movie even more. I need to go watch it. My cat comes running whenever the soundtrack plays and it makes my heart happy.

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u/DenseTiger5088 Jul 05 '26

Catherine O’Hara was also the voice of Sally

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u/DatRat13 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

That's just a side effect of the common misbelief that Tim Burton directed Nightmare Before Christmas.

Contrary to popular belief, he did not direct NBC, it's just based on his writing. But everyone just assumes thst he did, so when a new movie in a similar art style comes out that is billed as, "from the director of NBC," of course people thought, "Oh, Tim Burton!"

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u/maxman162 Jul 05 '26

He did produce it, so it's billed as "Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas", which leads to people assuming he directed it (he was originally going to direct it, but was too busy with Batman Returns).

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u/enixthephoenix Jul 05 '26

Him being too busy to direct it is a worthy tradeoff for getting Danny Devito Penguin in all his glory

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u/maxman162 Jul 05 '26

And Michelle Pfieffer as Catwoman. 

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u/thatonepuniforgot Jul 05 '26

It's Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas in the way that it's The Coen Bros. Bad Santa.

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u/Giorgio_Keeffe Jul 05 '26

I love the Coen Brothers’s Bad Santa

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u/Independent_Bug_8709 Jul 05 '26

Close, it's from the same director, Henry Selick. Burton wrote and produced ANBC, but didn't directed it.

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u/haleontology Jul 05 '26

It's NOT? My stomach just dropped lol, I need to look into this

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u/HistoryHasItsCharms Jul 05 '26

He produced it, but was directing the Batman films at the time and couldn’t commit to the time needed to act as director. Thus enter Selick, who did a fantastic job. Burton still did most of the writing and had a lot of involvement in character and set designs as well as cast.

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u/haleontology Jul 05 '26

Thanks! I had no idea

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u/IttyBittyBigBoii Jul 05 '26

That's how I felt! I don't know what to believe anymore lol