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Post by erik on Jun 10, 2017 11:25:03 GMT -5
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Post by sliderocker on Jun 10, 2017 17:45:23 GMT -5
I didn't realize that Adam West had the say on who would play Robin. He chose well on his co-star. I watched the show when I was a kid but haven't watched it in the reruns much at all. But, one can't watch it as an adult now and not see how campy and garish it was on the colors, and how it was played more for laughs than anything else. I also remember Adam West and Burt Ward once on a talk show talking about the fact they and the other actors camped it up even more in the outtakes in a very gay way. And the guest star cameos who would appear in the open window segments to see Batman and Robin climbing the outside wall of a building to get to a villain. I know the comic publisher DC Comics probably appreciated the boost in sales of the Batman comic but I also know they didn't like the characters being portrayed in certain ways. I believe there was a Superman movie planned in the mid-60s which DC deep sixed because they didn't want a Superman movie script to be influenced by the Batman series. But, Adam West and Burt Ward did make for a good Batman and Robin, and it's hard to watch later day actors in their Batman and Robin suits and wonder how they can do anything at all in them. They look so uncomfortable.
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Post by erik on Jun 10, 2017 18:08:23 GMT -5
Quote by sliderocker:
Not only is it hard to watch other actors do them (unless you count Michael Keaton in the 1989 Tim Burton film), but the torrent of DC and Marvel-inspired comic-book movies that have come out since then is absolutely mind-numbing.
I do remember watching reruns of the 1960s Batman in syndication during the late 1970s, and realizing how they really didn't take themselves all that seriously, not to mention the frequent over-the-top acting of the villains (Cesar Romero as The Joker; Burgess Meredith as The Penguin). These days, though, it is kind of hard to watch them because they are quite campy, even for that decade.
Re. Superman film in the mid-1960s:
If so, then it's probably a good thing they didn't do it then. Superman was the more revered figure, and his story required a kind of epic quality to it and a more knowing sense of humor, which is what happened when SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE came out at the end of 1978, with Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel; Gene Hackman as a fairly deadpan Lex Luthor; and Richard Donner in the director's chair.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2017 22:58:51 GMT -5
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Post by philly on Jun 11, 2017 11:24:31 GMT -5
Even though he had leukemia, I guess he wasn't expected to pass anytime soon.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 11, 2017 12:36:35 GMT -5
Adam West was one of my FAVORITE babysitters. I couldn't wait to watch Batman every week as a kid and KAPOW! was my favorite word on the show.
TRIVIA
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker is an American romantic comedy-drama film released in 1971, based on a novel of the same title by Charles Webb. It was directed and produced by Lawrence Turman, whose credits most notably include producing 1967's high-grossing hit The Graduate, which also was adapted from a book by Webb.
It stars Richard Benjamin in the title role and Joanna Shimkus as his beleaguered wife, with Adam West, Elizabeth Ashley, Patricia Barry, and Tiffany Bolling in supporting roles.
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Featured in this movie was this song:
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Post by Tex Fan 0 on Jun 11, 2017 18:16:47 GMT -5
I know no one's probably into that whole numerology thing, but this has to be the weirdest scene in the whole TV series. Episode 33 in 1966!
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 11, 2017 20:20:20 GMT -5
Batman was ahead of its time!
Is that the Skipper from Gilligan's Island in that clip?
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Post by Tex Fan 0 on Jun 11, 2017 21:03:20 GMT -5
Not sure Ronstadtfanaz? He looks like the Skipper but much older as this is when Gilligans Island was running also. Don't know where you could find the whole series?
But notice the two beauty pageant girls. The 1st that the skipper wants to recruit as his own personal charity is named "Miss Natural Resources" (ala Green Peace etc) and the second pageant girl who tells Alfred she has to watch her figure is named "Miss Civil Rights", go figure!
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