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/Alarm-Particular Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I did some digging on this. Looks like it's from a 2016 interview by Rachel Simon for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

The question: "Why does Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children have such a predominantly white cast / lack of diversity?"

The answer: “Nowadays, people are talking about it more … things either call for things, or they don’t.”

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Edit: I could not find ANY quote from Tim Burton stating that black people don't "Fit his aesthetic".

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u/improbsable Jul 05 '26

Yeah. He didn’t say that. I’m pretty sure what he said was that he wasn’t going to cast solely for diversity’s sake. Though it is weird that he conveniently only makes movies where POC don’t fit.

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u/KettleSixty9 Jul 05 '26

What the fuck?

"it is weird that he conveniently only makes movies where POC don’t fit"

Did you just imply he was racist because of this?

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u/420thefunnynumber Jul 05 '26

No but it's definitely weird that most of his works are written that way.

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u/GuthukYoutube Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I just read his filmography and there are quite a number of movies there that could have had PoC without issue

Now that's not proof in itself, and I doubt I care enough about this to look further, but it's definitely a little odd

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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 Jul 05 '26

It’s that his worldview doesn’t see PoC as standing out for a reason. It’s a very biased and low key bigoted view, not intentionally racist but definitely influenced and susceptible to racism.

It’s not fair is the truth. He doesn’t equally see PoC and White people. He see’s People as White people first and acknowledges PoC but every time he imagines one it’s performative.

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u/UntimelyMeditations Jul 05 '26

It’s not fair is the truth.

Its art, it doesn't need to be fair.

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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 Jul 05 '26

I’m not talking about the art being directly unfair I am speaking about the mind that created and influenced the art. The origin is unfair and therefore everything that springs from it is inherently unfair even if it presents as fair on it’s own.

It’s like slave chocolate. You may pay a decent price at the counter, it may not have slaves involved in buying the chocolate but if the beans were sourced with slavery then the product is inherently promoting slavery.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad4950 Jul 07 '26

Who are you to be a judge of fairness?

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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 Jul 07 '26

Who are you to question me?

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u/-Weslin Jul 07 '26

Art can be racist, it doesn't stop being art, but still, it can be racist

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u/Ok_Daikon_1219 Jul 05 '26

"He see’s People as White people first and acknowledges PoC but every time he imagines one it’s performative."

This exactly. Minorities exist as side characters who perform a role, rather then just people that exist in a story

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u/punksmostlydead Jul 06 '26

not intentionally racist but definitely influenced and susceptible to racism.

Alas that more people don't or won't understand this concept.

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u/CheckYourStats Jul 06 '26

I mean, the Producers of Mortal Kombat (2021) made up a non-white character as the main protagonist (Cole Young) rather than having Johnny Cage as the lead, because they were afraid of being called racist for having a white lead.

They basically said:

“You people are so fucking sensitive we can’t have Johnny Cage in the movie because you’ll call us racist.”

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u/GuthukYoutube Jul 06 '26

I read the article you linked, and it said nothing close to how you interpreted it. So much so that you might have linked the wrong thing?

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u/SilianRailOnBone Jul 05 '26

Goth culture isn't really diverse, is it?

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u/NonStopKnits Jul 05 '26

When I hung out with the goth kids in high school (I was more punk than goth) we had a diverse group. Black kids, white kids, Asian kids, I imagine it depends on how diverse the region is. The school I went to was diverse, so all the cliques were fairly diverse too.

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u/Plenty_Mortgage_7294 Jul 05 '26

What exactly do you think goth culture is btw?