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It's kind of getting old... (imgur.com)

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[–]mequals1m1w 9 points10 points ago

Helena Bonham-Carter as Johnny Depp, and Depp as Bonham-Carter.

[–]Username20x6 20 points21 points ago

You're right, this joke is getting old

[–]CoyoteStark -1 points0 points ago

To be fair, it was funny when 4chan did it.

[–]jakethebastard 5 points6 points ago

And yet reddit creams their collective pants over Wes Anderson.

[–]emperor000 1 point2 points ago

I don't get your comparison. I don't think Wes Anderson reuses the same people every time for basically the same role, or style of role. Maybe I'm missing such an obvious pattern. But the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp/Helena Bonham Carter is a pretty strong pattern.

[–]TheEggAndI 1 point2 points ago

wes anderson uses the same mechanics over and over again though. i have yet to watch moonrise kingdom because it just looks way too much like all of his other movies and i think that style is growing stale for me. a few examples. he always uses a pastel color scheme. the dialogue always has the same type of pacing. and although i havent seen all of his films, the ones i have seen all have the last scene running in slow motion. they all share a similar tone and style.

it just irks me personally because i feel like a good director wouldnt constantly cling to the same aesthetics for every single one of his movies. it shows a serious lack of range, in my opinion. so while he doesnt reuse the same actors, he still reuses the same elements over and over again.

EDIT: although now that i think about it, he does actually reuse actors quite a bit as well. jason schwartzman, bill murray, luke wilson and owen wilson. there might be more...

[–]emperor000 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, that was my first thought watching Moonrise Kingdom. It's probably worth watching anyway, though. I thought it was pretty good otherwise.

I thought you were talking specifically about actors/actresses. I knew that he reused the Wilson brothers, Murray and Schwartzman (who is also in Moonrise Kingdom, but it took me a while to recognize him) a lot, but it's not nearly as bad as the Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter pattern, in my opinion, at least.

[–]Asyra2D -3 points-2 points ago

The difference here is the quality of the movie

[–]PsychedelicAmpersand 0 points1 point ago

Jesus fucking Christ, neither of them were even in Frankenweenie.

[–]JimmyDaGent 0 points1 point ago

joseph gordon-levitt, clearly.

[–]BetweenJobs 3 points4 points ago

Yes, Tim Burton is the only director to collaborate with the same actors across several films. Unless you count Woody Allen, John Ford, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, Sam Raimi, Spike Lee, John Carpenter, Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, and basically 90% of directors with a large filmography.

[–]sjarrel 1 point2 points ago

If he made a movie everybody loved again nobody would bat an eye if it has Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham-Carter.

[–]Dead_Celeb_Quotes 0 points1 point ago

"He should cast white people for a change."

  • Michael Clarke Duncan

[–]apz1 0 points1 point ago

This video is over two and a half years old.

[–]Doylw 0 points1 point ago

The thing is the last film Burton made was Frankenweenie and it didn't have any voice acting from Depp or Bonham Carter and it made a fairly small amount of money as opposed to the films that do have them in. Alice in Wonderland is his most successful film so far.

It kind of bugs me when people criticise him for always using Depp and then when he doesn't nobody goes and sees his movie.

[–]Apocol0id 0 points1 point ago

"I use these people over and over because I'm well aware of their acting capabilities. That is, I know they can play pretty much the same characters over and over in my movies, so why bother getting new people?"

[–]user1811 0 points1 point ago

"who should Johnny Depp play?"

"some whiteass weird fuck"

original.

[–]Nistune -1 points0 points ago

I really dislike it when the same director uses the same actors in every single movie they make. Tim Burton is guilty of this, and its starting to look like Nolan is going to be doing it too. I understand liking working with certain actors/actresses and such, but when the main characters are always the same, it gets old quick.

[–]jakerg23 0 points1 point ago

Tell that to John Ford or Akira Kurosawa or Francois Truffaut. I personally have no problem with it, and if the pair works great together, there's no reason to break it up.

[–]abnerayag -3 points-2 points ago

doesnt matter, still lol'd