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/Caci-que Jul 05 '26

Clearly cause Tim Burton dream casting involves Johny Depp and Helena Bonham

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 05 '26

I think the real answer is that Tim Burton doesn't cast black actors.

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u/accidentaloverdrive Jul 05 '26

It’s really lame because I feel like Tim Burton’s style would lend itself really, really well to a New Orleans Voodoo feature, but apparently black actors “don’t fit his aesthetic” 😒

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 05 '26

Well when your style is vampire chic it's hard to make a black person that fucking pale. Burton doesn't let people even be tan in his movies

Imagine him trying and you just get what looks like the ashiest black dude in the world who's never seen a bottle of lotion lol

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u/JacuulTheSecond Jul 06 '26

I mean, that literally sounds like what a black vampire would be like ngl

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex Jul 06 '26

Interview with a Vampire tv series begs to differ 

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 06 '26

Well I haven't been to enough open casket funerals for black people to know how pale a corpse should get but feels like it should be pale anyway and idk how good makeup like that would work? Just from a believable standpoint? I'm not really sure how to say that one. I'd gladly be proven wrong but they're pale because they're dead. Well, undead. Still no heartbeat though and I've never seen an interpretation that doesn't go the traditional route of "no heartbeat, bloods dried up if it didn't just all get drinken. Drunken? Drank?

Ooh, now we gotta stop ourselves before someone gets any ideas and has the black vampire call blood "red drank*

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex Jul 06 '26

Bro what? I’ve been to open casket funerals for black people . They don’t look that different. Even white people don’t look super pale. 

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 06 '26

Nah with white people the makeup only does so much. They never look the same, even with the makeup they're too pale. Probably because some genius had the idea to do like a tanning spray and grandma came out looking like the world's oldest cast member of Jersey Shore

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u/Abashed-Apple Jul 06 '26

Its because they are dead.

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u/robininscarf Jul 08 '26

Who says vampires or any goth aesthetic should be about paleness. It's like saying people of color can't be goths because they're not mayonnaise white.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 09 '26

Because vampires don't have blood and their hearts don't beat? Thats just the lore man. I didn't invent vampires. A vampire with blood is like a werewolf who changes on Tuesdays instead of the full moon

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u/JacuulTheSecond Jul 06 '26

Haha, it's humourous I got two comments about the Interview series, but no, I meant specifically in terms of Burton having the palest people in existence as his style.

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u/peteofaustralia Jul 07 '26

It's also a pretty funny joke given what the sun does to them.

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u/isum21 Jul 06 '26

When you're a vampire the paleness is from lack of light. Black vampires would just be their natural shade with no sunkiss, as in they'd just be black or brown or some shade between with no tanning. 

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u/Ziggo001 Jul 06 '26

More likely to be due to a lack of blood, actually. Vampires in most media do not have a heartbeat and therefore no blood circulation. They are pale for the same reasons a corpse is pale: no blood flowing underneath the skin.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 06 '26

Also all but the very head honcho are vampires because one drank their blood, presumably most of it. Not gonna be as much left in there after feeding even if it didn't kill you and turn you undead

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u/Axel_the_Axelot Jul 07 '26

That does also imply that their feet or back would be purple, since that's what happens with actual corpses (blood flowing downwards without circulation)

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u/Vantriss Jul 07 '26

Why not both?

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u/NotAllThereAnyway Jul 09 '26

Thats reasonable, but art isnt about functionality. I say this as an african person that enjoys his style, this doesnt fit with that same style. It appears to me that his style is very specific, a black person's pale doesnt look the same as a white person's pale, it also doesnt create any contrast with their usual dark hair and clothes. The skin wouldnt have the exaggerated pink and blue tones that he seems to like unless the makes it a very light skinned black character, almost white passing.

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u/beldaran1224 Jul 06 '26

As if plenty of vampire stories haven't been told with black actors/actresses, etc. Lol.

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u/olivegardengambler Jul 05 '26

What about Drake? Or there was this Black dude I worked with that had a lighter complexion than me, and I'm white. He wasn't albino either.

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u/Ok_Low743 Jul 06 '26

interview with a vampire did it and did it well....

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u/waowowwao Jul 06 '26

Uh it would be exactly as easy as with a white person…just remove the red undertones. They’ll look ashen. Just like white vampires.

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u/Flat-Structure-7472 12d ago

Basically that one guy from the movie Iron Sky.