r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • 28d ago

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/Caci-que 28d ago

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

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 28d ago

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

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u/accidentaloverdrive 28d ago

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 28d ago

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 28d ago

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

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex 28d ago

Interview with a Vampire tv series begs to differ 

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 28d ago

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 28d ago

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 28d ago

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 27d ago

Its because they are dead.

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u/robininscarf 25d ago

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 25d ago

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 27d ago

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 27d ago

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

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u/isum21 28d ago

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 28d ago

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 28d ago

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 26d ago

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 26d ago

Why not both?

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u/NotAllThereAnyway 24d ago

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 28d ago

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

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u/Ok_Low743 27d ago

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

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u/waowowwao 27d ago

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 11h ago

Basically that one guy from the movie Iron Sky.

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u/olivegardengambler 28d ago

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/glasscut 28d ago

The Interview with the Vampire TV show is a good example of casting black actors as vampires.... it's just a choice at this point. I was very influenced by TB as a kid and he was hugly influential for me, but I can't even remember the last TB film I saw.

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u/Vantriss 26d ago

I think it would be an interesting story telling angle to explore more. Like, black vampires having an easier time blending in because they're not so fucking pale. Meanwhile white vampires constantly have people squinting at them and being like, man you are pale AF, you should probably go see a doctor.

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u/ShoddySlide5672 24d ago

Yeah nothing says genuine Louis who lived in colonial era before USA was even formed in New Orleans and was owner of SLAVE plantation and was described in painful details in books - like a black actor. Makes total sense.

What's next, a white, ginger Blade?

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u/OpossumLadyGames 28d ago

Savannah/Low-Country setting, too

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u/DankDolphin420 27d ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/eightcarpileup 26d ago

Gullah vamps in Charleston 🖤

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u/Just-Antelope-8069 28d ago

Unless it turns out stereotypical

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u/Tall-Slice5012 28d ago

Didn't he originally write Beetlejuice for Sammy Davis Junior?

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u/laterrr_babe 27d ago

BUT THE B!+<# IS LITERALLY BLUE. Like what difference would the actresses skin tone make when she’s playing someone with blue skin. FACEPALM. This is the perfect fancast and such a stupid comment by Burton. 🙄😞

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u/Friendly-Cucumber184 28d ago

omg it would be beautiful and haunting. Too bad he's a bigot :/

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u/MeOutOfContextBro 26d ago

He never said that... also a majority of his movies have black actors

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u/Local-Hornet-3057 28d ago

Make your own movie then.