#deh discourse

"The movie showed connor's bad side but that's what he was like"

No. That is not what he was like, that's not what the original Connor Murphy was like at all.

Now I'm gonna tell you a story and about a man named Mike Faist, the original actor for Connor Murphy.

The suicide attempt of one woman inspired how connor was played in the musical.

"I decided to try and research more about people like Connor, the troubled character I play in the musical." -Mike Faist

What the movie pretends to be is a "troubled" teenage boy, comes off as a raging psychopath with anger issues who's abusive. Not troubled and mostly just deranged.

Take this scene, the original, connor freaks out because he thinks Evan is laughing at him because of what jared said. He says "you think I'm a freak??" Because he's also panicking and put of impulse he pushes Evan

"I'm not the freak, you're the fucking freak!" Connor is panicking because he assumed and felt insecure and at the moment he just reacted. You can hear it in his voice that he sounds hurt. He runs after pushing him because he's scared.

Now in the movie, nothing like that happens. He yells at Evan and tells him to stop laughing. No emotion or nothing just anger and rage then he leaves. There is no insecurity, Evan laughed out of nervousness and connor yelled because he was what? Angry?? That's it

Connor casually walks away, like a bully would after intimidating a victim.

Another scene

Is this supposed to be a horrifying? To show that connor is an angry monster who punches holes in the wall??

As my friend said "this makes Cythina sound delusional" and it does! They're setting connor up to look like a fucking mentally ill crazy person when no, deh movie, THAT'S NOT WHO CONNOR IS!!

on the topic of custom too (yes that's important)

See Con Here? Dirty, absolutely not that well groomed, a mess. He's supposed look rough because he's going through it!

Connor here looks like an edgy white boy

That's it

Also

"Teehee connor is such a problem <3"

so i'm gonna use The Prom as an example here since it's also a broadway musical-turned-movie that also features teenaged characters. Ariana DeBose and Jo Ellen Pellman (28 and 23/24 years old when they filmed the movie) are NOT teenagers and although they look quite young in the movie, I wouldn't really say that they look a lot like teens. But those two still gave outstanding performances as Alyssa Greene and Emma Nolan and them starring as teens still worked! Why? Because even though they don't look like teens, there is still a suspense of disbelief present because of the extravagant tone of the musical and the movie. Is the plot of The Prom at all realistic? I'd argue that it's umm probably not. Are the musical numbers realistic? DEFINITELY NOT. The fact that the setting of the musical and the movie is rather fantastical makes us excuse the teens-thats-don't-look-like-teens because it is clear that the film isn't at all supposed to be realistic.

Does Evan always have to be white??? Can Zoe be cast as a poc not just the swings for Alana/Zoe LITERALLY ANYONE in this show could be poc so???

The Murphy’s are 100000000% okay with their 17 (maybe 16) year old daughter’s  boyfriend spending  the night to the point that he has a toothbrush?? i didn’t date in high school but i can't IMAGINE there are parents so okay with this and that THE MURPHYS OF ALL PEOPLE would be okay with knowing their kid is probably definitely having sex all the time