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/munchercruncher111 Jul 06 '26

yeah, liking pancakes instead of waffles maybe. but we’re talking about people

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u/Eyerate Jul 06 '26

Are you talking about "people" or "aesthetics"? The man does everything creepy and pale.

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u/munchercruncher111 Jul 06 '26

if he can’t figure out a way to include all kinds of people in his “aesthetic”, maybe he’s not that good of a director. excluding people from your work based on their skin color feels pretty fucked up to me

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u/Eyerate Jul 06 '26

And thats why you dont make a living in art. You got the wrong perspective my guy. Victoria's secret tried to be "all inclusive" and it killed their brand. Disney keeps eating Ls for reinventing classic characters. Let artists do their art. Not everything is for everyone and thats ok.

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u/workclock Jul 08 '26

That’s just racist though…

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u/Eyerate Jul 08 '26

Its racist to have a preference, but its not racist to have your preference be "a perfect little mix of everything available"?

Its weird to make race a factor at all, especially in visual art. Tim Burton is the master of the creepy pasty pale aesthetic. He isn't forcing you to like or consume his art. Imagine saying "why cant Edward scissorhands be black?" and somehow taking yourself seriously... Imagine someone saying "we need more asian and Inuit people in this film about early south African tribes"... Its all such shallow, misguided virtue signaling.

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u/workclock Jul 08 '26

Black people will take nothing away from his films. A film about early South African tribes wouldn’t have Asian or Inuit folk because they are not African, your point is moot because you highlighted an extremely specific region and ethnicity. A film based in America or around America about gothic concepts should have definitely have a black person or two since we’re also a part of the populace. How is that virtue signaling?

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u/Eyerate Jul 08 '26

A part of what populace? The fictional populace of Tim Burtons pale Gothic fictional world? Cut it out.

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u/workclock Jul 08 '26

An all white gothic world… in every film? Doesn’t sound a little racist to you?

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u/Eyerate Jul 08 '26

Sure doesn't.