When you find yourself in the public eye and you are a well-known individual, you can expect that there are going to be times when not everybody is happy with you. It seems as if that is now happening to Tim Burton.
Some people have recently come forward to complain that Tim Burton only makes movies that are very white. It is true that his movies are full of white people, but does he deserve to have his sequel to Beetlejuice branded as being ‘racist’?
Tim Burton has been responsible for many famous movies over the years. These include everything from Batman, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland.
He is also famously known for his animated works, including Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride. Despite being one of the most successful directors in the world, he also gets criticized because of a lack of representation in his films.
This includes a lack of black actors in his movies. It has been noted a number of times and is becoming a recurring issue, with one of the earliest dating back to 1993.
The Nightmare Before Christmas was conceived by Tim Burton, and four years after it was on the screen, people would discuss an issue associated with the villain, Oogie Boogie. Despite being voiced by a black actor, Ken Page, it was noted that the name is a ‘derogatory term for African Americans in the American South.’
In the 2016 film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, there was a black actor, Samuel L Jackson. He played the part of the villain, and he said in an interview: “I had to go back in my head and go, how many Black characters have been in Tim Burton movies? And I may have been the first, I don’t know, or the most