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Was Michael Keaton's performance influenced by Randy "Macho Man" Savage?

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (19408)
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Or was it just a coincidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrBB3KA1Ky0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GM2KMnEYm0

If you ever watched some of Randy Savage's promos, he had this very eccentric, unhinged intensity and energy. The same could be said with the way that Michael Keaton acted in Beetlejuice with the gruff speaking voice, vocal tics, and general unpredictable, uncontained nature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz15PudXkXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0PZTAcBes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDm4L7gjYNs

Clearly Beetlejuice was a rip off of the Juicer Art Barr

apparently not.
He ripped off Beetlejuice.