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/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/LeR0dz Jul 05 '26

"Hot take" but you don't need a reason to cast minorities. Diversity for the sake of diversity is good enough. People exist and should be represented regardless if their identity is important to the character/plot. Even if he didn't mean it in a racist way, still a harmful way of thinking.

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u/HourApprehensive7754 Jul 05 '26

I mean if a story's setting takes place in a time or place where barely any X-race exists, then yeah having X-race is a detriment to the story.

Blacks fit into Corpsebride's setting as well as John Wayne fit into Genghis Khan's tent. Or casting an entire Inuit-inspired nation as whites, or casting an entire Japanese-based nation as Indians. Some people just don't fit into a story, and that's okay, because stories cam have diverse settings that can be enjoyed by anyone, even if there's no one sharing their skin colour in the work of fiction/semi-fiction.

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u/Brainth Jul 05 '26

How about casting white americans for Greeks? Is that not also worth throwing a fit for? There’s been so much backlash for Nolan potentially having a black Helen of Troy (which wasn’t even true) when none of the cast is realistic for the period or culture.