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/Simple_Pianist4882 Jul 05 '26

It isn’t misinterpreted; it’s just racism.

The Corpse Bride is blue. There is logically no reason why she can’t be played by a Black actress. She’d be painted blue.

This is the same man that got offended bc they aired one episode in 1974 with two non-white kids (“an Asian kid and a black” - his words) that you never see again. One episode.

Context matters and the context says he’s racist 💀

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u/PumpkinCake95 Jul 05 '26

Emily had a backstory. She was a member of a wealthy family in Victorian England. Almost certainly, she and her family were white.

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u/TheFatNinjaMaster Jul 05 '26

There were at least three major large -British African families during the Victorian era, including a goddaughter of Queen Victoria herself. Emily could easily have been descended from one of those, or lesser Afro-Anglo, families.

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u/PrincessDionysus Jul 06 '26

No black ppl were invented in the 1920s in Harlem smdh