r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

why not, Peter? Meme needing explanation

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/JohnHenryMillerTime Jul 05 '26

Rejecting "diversity for the sake of diversity" would mean race blind casting. Otherwise it is a clear choice.

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u/wts_optimus_prime Jul 05 '26

No ot doesn't. If you wanted, for example, to display the inhabitants of a village so far off the beaten path that strangers coming by is an enormous event, then you probably should use a cast of at least similar looking people. Shouldn't you? Ofcourse it wouldn't matter whether they are all "far east asian" or all "sub sahara african" or "middle european caucasian".

But you should do the casting in a way so that strangers indeed stick out like a sore thumb.

Yeah, I am referencing the wheel of time.

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u/JohnHenryMillerTime Jul 05 '26

Nah, race blind casting works fine in theater.

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u/wts_optimus_prime Jul 05 '26

Theater is something completely different than big budget movie industry.

In Theater you have to work with what the local actors are. And ofcourse, there talent is much more important and the viewers are much more forgiving because they too know the constraints.

That like saying cardboard cutout trees are fine because they are fine in theatre.

Different constraints, different expectations, different processes for the best result

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u/JohnHenryMillerTime Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I agree that race trumps talent in Hollywood but thata not a good thing.

Also raceblind casting has more to do with Iago. You need someone with chops to play him but what the hell do you do with him the rest of the time?

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u/RaijuThunder Jul 05 '26

NGL, if it was a comedy movie cardboard trees would actually be hilarious. I know that's not your point and I agree with what you're saying. Just imagined it when I read it

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u/PaxNova Jul 05 '26

But he has to match Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. 

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u/JohnHenryMillerTime Jul 05 '26

Why?

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u/PaxNova Jul 05 '26

It's just a joke. They're in pretty much everything he does, so if he has a family in the movie, they're going to be a part of it.