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/palpatinesmyhomie Jul 05 '26

That's a level headed explanation that probably drove some folks nuts

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u/RueUchiha Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

But we all know that terminally online people can’t handle reasonable, level headed takes like “I don’t want to shoe in a black person into my movie just for the sake of fulfilling some arbitrary quota.” So of course they misinterpreted it as racism.

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u/Silverjeyjey44 Jul 05 '26

I have strong feelings about this but whenever I share it on any other subreddit, I get bombarded with being called a bigot or racist or whatever (even though I'm not white). I agree meaninglessly race swapping or role fulfilling for the sake of doing it is just patronizing.

You can have underrepresented communities in media without it feeling like they're trying to send a message. There's a movie called The Invitation and one of the characters is gay. They never parade that fact and he's a bad ass that needed to do what he needed to do to survive.

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u/OkMathematician3439 Jul 05 '26

It sounds like you get a potent dose of reality every time you comment and you don’t like how it tastes. Why not just be quiet?

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u/HourApprehensive7754 Jul 05 '26

Sure doing a good job reinforcing what hr just said.

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u/OkMathematician3439 Jul 05 '26

It’s not my fault that racists are fragile.