alex brightman? yes.

studies show our perception about asian americans, and their perceptions of themselves are impacted by media.

there are harmful psychological effects on native americans thanks to sports mascots. 

stereotypes of latino/latina/latines in media have - you guessed it - harmful effects - including political ones 

how about how inaccurate race and poverty images in the news effect our views on welfare?

positive images of disability effect disabled people positively, where as negative images effect them negatively 

the availability of GLB roles on TV positively impacts the gay community

and i honestly i could go on and on and on and on 

i know i know water is wet, all these studies to tell you what common sense could. but like … there is very real research out there that shows fiction has a very real harmful impact on minority communities. and that positive representation has a positive effect on these communities. 

In the film, though Michael Keaton himself isn’t overweight, but he wears a body suit to simulate having a beer gut. Or it could potentially be referencing how stages of decomposition can cause corpses to appear bloated.

Considering his persona is that of a door-to-door (or in this case, grave-to-grave) salesman, the illusion could be a combination of him both being fat because he’s a deadbeat, and fat due to a more subtle reference to decomp. Most of his outfits, with only his striped suit being an exception, fit him snuggly.

In the cartoon, this generally round-around-the-middle illusion is translated to a more aesthetically pleasing and mostly consistent design.

It retains the whole thin-limbs-wide-middle look that Keaton originated, but with a rounder face as well, overall making his silhouette a little less awkward and more endearing. It focused on more round and organic shapes to keep him friendly-looking to mirror his softer, more protagonist part in the show. He’s even shown with a double chin!

I kind of adore this, it might be painted later (so that i can resize their heads...)

Both Will Blum and Alex Brightman (AND ABE TOO) played the same character but in different styles.

If you have no idea what to do with your portrayal for a character, concern the script: read yours and everyone’s lines to get the feel of what reaction the character would do.

GAY THERAPIST!

Alex and Will’s improv skills are vastly different, Alex can do crazy funny stuff that Will hasn’t thought of and Will interprets it and has his own fun at it. It doesn’t mean that Will can’t do improv, improv is very fuggin hard.

Beetlejuice is very manipulative to get what he wants... obviously.

Will (as you know) was Alex’s Alternate for school of rock, and things that Alex does for both characters is something Will can’t do.

Alex’s voice is unique and is healthy for him to do. Will can’t do the voice cause it’ll cause vocal damage. While it will be cool if someone else can do the voice in the future (or you can do it as well healthily) they would have to do it 8 TIMES A WEEK, if they can use their false vocal chords without damaging their vocal folds then AWESOME.

WILL GOT THE MIRROR BIT FROM ALEX DURING A TECH, WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUU

Alex does so many random things that he does in rehearsals that were not kept and Will asks him about it and Alex would be “???”.

“Okay, what’s your name?”

“What’s my nAme!? I’m the best you’ll ever get, girl!”

The little dance he does ;u;

I love the way this was (idk music terms :p) sung and played as well. It make my ears happy.

Ensemble Beej

Emotive Beej

And my absolute favourite:

What is happening Beej

Bonus:

All screenshots were taken from the bootleg (oops)

Cutie Beej

Emotional Beej

“Okay, what’s your name?”

“What’s my nAme!? I’m the best you’ll ever get, girl!”

The little dance he does ;u;

I love the way this was (idk music terms :p) sung and played as well. It make my ears happy.