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When we saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it didn't register that the movie's Golden Ticket-winning kids were a tad...monochromatic. While we can just shrug this off with a simple, "Isn't everybody white like us?" Newsweek, asks director Tim Burton why his child actors are pastier than a Kentucky high school basketball team from 1947:

But the movie's five main children are still white. Just before the movie opened, NEWSWEEK asked Burton if he'd considered diversifying the cast. "We did, actually, but if you start to do it, it's like what they would do at the end of certain sitcoms—they would suddenly try to make them interracial, and it was, I found, more offensive," Burton said. "It was the politically correct thing to do and it rang false."...From his reading of the book, Burton says, he saw Charlie as an "ordinary" kid.

Now that the issue's been raised, we can't help but notice a disturbing pattern emerging. Beetlejuice? White. Edward Scissorhands? Uh huh. Ed Wood? Yup. And we think you already know what Caucasian horror to expect from Corpse Bride.