Tim Burton seems to have a very clear understanding of cancel culture, a modern form of ostracism which, especially after a series of complaints made through social media, ends up excluding a person from a certain profession, even though they may have been accused of something they were found not guilty in courtrooms.
The director discussed this issue in conversation with The Independent thanks to his collaborations and friendships with two stars who have suffered in certain ways from cancel culture: We’re talking, of course, about Johnny Depp and from Paul Reubensactor who recently passed away.
If, on the one hand, Johnny Depp was the protagonist of a long legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard, Paul ReubensOne of the most famous faces of American children’s television in the 1980s, he faced a sex scandal in 1991 – he was caught masturbating in a red-light cinema – and then was accused of possessing child pornography in early 2000.
When the newspaper asked about the issue of cancel culture and how it affected people close to him like Depp and Reubens, he explained:
I’ll tell you what: When I was a kid, I always had this image of Frankenstein’s angry farmers in my head. I’ve always thought of society that way: as an angry village. I’m seeing this more and more. It’s a very, very strange human dynamic, a human trait that I don’t like and don’t fully understand.
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SOURCE: Independent