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Dear #TimBurton,
Up Yours. I just went with a friend to see Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and we’d been excited for weeks (it only just came out in Mongolia). I even rushed to finish reading it before the Mongolia release.
Mr. Burton, the protagonist in MSHfPC is #Jewish. His grandfather is a#Jew. It’s a story about Jews and the monsters who chase us. A huge part of the book is questioning whether Grandfather’s “monsters” were supernatural monsters, or the real monsters of Nazis hunting Jews, the Monsters that murdered his entire family. Did he go to the children’s home because he was a peculiar or because of the dangerous peculiarity of being a Jew in Europe in WWII?
Yet in your film, the word “Jew” was spoken exactly zero times. You wiped away the characters’ identities. And don’t you DARE claim that it was an unintentional omission, because you proved that it wasn’t. See, in the book, Grandfather Abe often calls Jake “Yakov,” the Jewish form of Jacob. Yet in the movie, you changed that into a Polish nickname. So you can’t claim this was an omission when you and your team took the time to re-write even his nickname to make it not Jewish.
So Up Yours for your white-bread characters and white-bread movies. Up Yours for making the only POC character in the entire film the bad guy. And finally, Up Yours for taking away, yet again, the chance for us to see one of our own, a Jewish Protagonist promised in the novel, on screen.
Oh man it’s like everything that could have possibly gone wrong with this beautiful story did making this movie. Ugh
This movie is horrible and sad; I’m so disappointed in everyone who was a part of Tim Burton’s ignorant vision.
and seeing this post reminded me, this is not the first time burton has stripped jewish references/characters/elements when adapting a story for film.
remember the corpse bride, the original story was a piece of 16th century jewish folklore, and there were zero elements of any sort of jewish culture or religion in the film that i can recall.
according to the co-screenwriter the change was made because “because Tim gravitates toward universal, fairy-tale qualities in his films.”
because pasty white vaguely christian characters are universal, but no one else is, even when you’re stripping their stories for material.
so casting non white actors for heroic roles doesn’t suit his ‘vision’, and respecting the religion and ethnicity of characters from the source material doesn’t suit his ‘vision’. his vision that mostly seems to be putting johnny depp in weird makeup to diminishing returns.
(i mean, even the movie of his that has stood up best over time, the nightmare before christmas isn’t even close to being completely ‘his’ the way these two movies are, it was directed by henry selick, adapted by michael mcdowel with caroline thompson writing the actual screenplay, and danny elfman did the songs. and frankly that movie was more jewish inclusive with one measly image on a tree than any of the projects where burton was more hands on)
I never knew any of that about Corpse Bride.
Yet somehow, I’m not surprised
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