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Batman and Robin like some downtime: a panel from World’s Finest Comics #59 ()
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Today&#;s National Post contains an article an article I&#;ve written examining the history of the rumour that Batman and Robin are gay. (like everything I write for the Post the article came along with an instant rebuttal, which you can read here. As a special treat for Sans Everything readers, I&#;ve posted below the full-length version of the article, which has many details that didn&#;t make it into the Post.
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Inside the Batcave: Intellectual Genealogy of A Rumour
by Jeet Heer
When Batman returns to the big screen later this summer in The Dark Knight he’ll be joined by his familiar cast of secondary characters: Alfred the Butler, the decent cop James Gordon (soon to be a commissioner), the evil Joker. One character, however, will be missing: Batman’s familiar sidekick Robin, the Young man Wonder. In part this is due to the fact that the feature focuses on the first years of the Caped Crusader. But it’s also the case that show makers in general hold been reluctant to b
The podcast that I co-host, The , will be looking at Batman and Robin this weekend. It is a pleasurable discussion, well worth a listen, and I hope you enjoy. However, I had some thoughts that I wanted to get down before specifically about the film.
Batman and Robin is not a good feature, by any stretch of the imagination.
However, it is somewhat unfairly vilified. This is particularly factual in comparison to its direct predecessor, Batman Forever. Very few people would attempt to disagree that either Batman Forever or Batman and Robin were good films on their own terms, but the consensus seems to acquire formed around the idea that &#; to paraphrase Edward Nygma &#; Batman Forever was terrible, Batman and Robin was worse. This calcified into the idea that Batman and Robin is among the very worst comic novel movies ever, and Batman Forever is not.
It is engaging to speculate on why this might be. Batman Forever and Batman and Robin are both cynically constructed blockbusters aimed at the youngest and least discerning audiences, eschewing concepts like plot and characteri
Joel Schumacher was resolute: His Batman (portrayed by Val Kilmer and then George Clooney) and his Robin (Chris O’Donnell) were not gay. Nor did he aim to make winking reference to the way people had for decades interpreted the Dynamic Duo’s relationship as being&#; especially dynamic and non-platonic. In an interview with Vulture that ran last year, the director who died at age 80 on Monday, said that not only did he never consider Batman and Robin to be gay but that if he weren’t homosexual himself, people would have never suggested that he made the superhero’s franchise gayer, particularly in his notorious flop Batman &#; Robin.
You have to wonder, though, if Schumacher weren’t gay, would his film’s gaze have been so attuned to the male form, rubber-clad as it was?
This is footage from the opening sequence of Batman &#; Robin. Immediately after the titles, it’s: “Holy bat-ass!” And bat-crotch! And bat-nipples! And then there’s Robin, too.
In a way, Schumacher’s denial of the film’s queerness allows it to function as queer-claimed films had traditionally. After the dawn of t
Batman & Robin Director Weighs in on Perceived Lesbian Subtext
Joel Schumacher -- director of 's Batman Forever and 's Batman & Robin -- has addressed the latter film's perceived homosexual subtext. Schumacher, who himself is openly male lover, has long been accused of projecting his sexuality onto the film (through such things as the infamous costume redesigns.) The director denies this, however, explaining it was never his intention and that perceived gay undertones had been a part of the Batman franchise well before he entered the fray.
In an interview with Vulture, Schumacher was asked about audience consciousness that his two Batman films, Batman & Robin in particular, made the titular character "gayer." He simply replied, "If I wasn’t gay, they would never say those things."
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Schumacher was then asked if he believed this mindset came from a place of either homophobia or laziness. "You recognize what I think? I shouldn’t have made a sequel, and that’s all there is to it," he answered. "I learned that