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Celeb News: Tim Burton slammed for comments about diversity in movies
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Tim Burton slammed for comments about diversity in movies
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The director, known for his offbeat, gothic aesthetic, was slammed on social media Thursday, September 29, after he explained why his latest flick, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, featured a predominantly white cast.
"Nowadays, people are talking about it more," Burton, 58, told Bustle of diversity in films. "Things either call for things, or they don’t. I remember back when I was a child watching The Brady Bunch and they started to get all politically correct. Like, OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black. I used to get more offended by that than just … I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies."
Samuel L. Jackson — the only nonwhite actor in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,and also will be the first black actor to play a leading role in a Burton movie came to Burton’s defense.
"I had to go back in my head and go, how many black characters have been in Tim Burton movies?" Jackson said. "And I may have been the first, I don’t know, or the most prominent in that particular way, but it happens the way it happens. I don’t think it’s any fault of his or his method of storytelling, it’s just how it’s played out. Tim’s a really great guy."
Still, it was too little, too late. Twitter users attacked Burton — known for beloved films including Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Alice Through The Looking Glass — and his views on diversity.
@sakilegrannum
Tim Burton isn't special. He's just one of the many directors who think that for a world to be magical and fantastical it must be white.
@ellisromance
Its fascinating that Tim Burton has a huge imagination in the rendering of his films, but a Asian kid in Miss Peregrine is a stretch for him
@valca85
To be fair, Tim Burton usually only casts the same three people over and over again, so he's not even diverse in the white people he hires.
@OhNoSheTwitnt
Wait, you're saying Tim Burton, who casts the same 2 actors in every movie, doesn't think diversity is necessary?
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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...movies-w442854
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Its the Internets fault really.
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I just wish movies would be more diverse but it seems like we will always have the "too much white,
too much black, too much asian, too much gay, too much women, too much men" comments.
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I...don't even understand what his original statement means. It's very poorly phrased.
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It was like the shittiest response imaginable.  I was so excited for this movie and now I'm just not going to go see it.
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@valca85
To be fair, Tim Burton usually only casts the same three people over and over again, so he's not even diverse in the white people he hires.
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80% america is white... right? it all comes down to profit tbh
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"OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black."
Not a "a black" 
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@sakilegrannum hit the right note with that tweet. Such a shame, Tim Burton canceled.
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"OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black."
Not a "a black" |
ATRL refering to Black folks as "the blacks" teas.
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"I used to get more offended by that than just … I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies."
Huh 
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most of his movies take places where white people are a majority tho, for example Miss peregrine takes place in a Welsh island during the 1940's so naturally there is going to be more white people. There is nothing wrong with this, just like there would be nothing wrong if there were only black people in a movie about Africa.
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@OhNoSheTwitnt
Wait, you're saying Tim Burton, who casts the same 2 actors in every movie, doesn't think diversity is necessary?
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This is kinda tea tho
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that was soooo poorly phrased
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I...don't even understand what his original statement means. It's very poorly phrased.
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I don't get why everyone is advocating to meet arbitrary race quotas in movie.
Focus on interesting characters and then cast whoever is the best for the job.
I don't care if the cast is all white, all black or all purple. As long as the story and characters are good I'll watch 
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80% america is white... right? it all comes down to profit tbh
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Not even close.
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Originally posted by Lucas32
I don't get why everyone is advocating to meet arbitrary race quotas in movie.
Focus on interesting characters and then cast whoever is the best for the job.
I don't care if the cast is all white, all black or all purple. As long as the story and characters are good I'll watch |
Y'all stay inventing skin colors for NEIN reason. Why? 
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Well, here I was getting ready to see his latest film tonight... Now that I know he's racist, I'll watch it illegally online.
#Timburtoncancelled.
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