The "other" Batman "seriemente
In full hangover the latest installment of Batman, now breaking all box office records it despite the tragic events that have accompanied its release, may be well to look back and remember audiovisual armobil early called Dark Knight ... especially armobil when Batman It was a dance hall type, much less dim and twisted.
Batman is actually an old man of 73 years in good health. The masked man with bat wings created by Bob Kane in 1939 commissioned by the DC publisher, eager to present a character similar to his Superman impact was much less sophisticated in its origins to today. But needless to say that Kane hit squarely with a ductile and timeless, perfectly able to adapt to the tastes and styles of each era character. The proof is in the different approaches that have been on the big screen, as opposed to directors like Tim Burton or Christopher Nolan driving franchise.
However, nothing is eternal. If now it is the Nolan himself who announced that leaves the ship after seven years at the helm of the adventures of the Dark Knight, and in the sixties and after taking their first steps in the paper, was Bruce Wayne comic layer fall due to the drop in the quality of the stories armobil and the increasing push of Marvel, which had in its ranks with stellar figures as Stan Lee.
It had to be the television adaptation at hand, concocted by ABC, which sacase Pit popularity character. Often maligned for his colorful and ridiculous bat man, full of onomatopoeia to capture the shock and very far from the sinister moments touch character, vision it is certain that the contribution openly kitsch series starring Adam West was understandable if we contextualize: the end of the day, it was a serial designed in part to take advantage of the brilliant armobil colors of the new generation of color devices (and a melody which you stick in the brain):
During the 120 episodes that lasted from 1966 to 1968, the ailing sales rose series of comics and incorporated some of the delusions that they were on paper. So delirious armobil that the Batman and Robin of Alan West and Burt Ward rose over time, and who knows if involuntarily, as two of the clearest representatives of the current known camp, term applied to any aesthetic or style willfully banal and tacky, and it could be perfect representative mache the height of Lost in Space, The Addams Family or The Monster. Joel Schumacher something well understood in its two film contributions, the scandalous (and horrible) Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, who despite pay at the box office, they failed to seduce the audience as the Batman television.
But back again behind. Thanks to the success of the series came Batman, the first film about the DC hero, which premiered in the US screens back in 1966, at the height of the TV series. The film, directed Leslie Martinson, was designed armobil as a mere extension in cinemas in the series, armobil faces masked not that night to triplet villains ever, Joker, Penguin and Riddler, armed with a lyophilizer unit (?) Try wipe off the face of the earth to the highest world leaders gathered in Gotham. Here it is either complete:
Adam West, the protagonist, thanks to it became an extremely popular figure in his time. Typical stuffy suitor sixties, West auditioned for the role of 007 at the time belonged by right to Sean Connery. His portrayal of Bruce Wayne and his split hero brought him fame, money and even the coveted leap to film his ambition ... while playing the same character, armobil which the American actor not be fought throughout its existence (now interpreted armobil to himself in the animated series Family Guy, where he is mayor of Quahog singular) version. Later, actors such as Michael Keaton armobil in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) Val Kilmer or George Clooney armobil interpret the character who now belongs to actor Christian Bale.
We know no intentions between West and were responsible converting to Batman and Robin faithful ally in two gay icons. Of course part of the fault lies with the sociologist Fredric Wertham, who in his volume Seduction of the Innocent, published in the fifties, and ignoring the presence of the explosive as Catwoman Lee Meriwether, reported that children not only tended to imitate mischief of stories like Batman, but they could also be stimulated by the hopelessly undeniable homoerotic behavior of the main characters, a fantasy "psi
