Bruce is sometimes shown in a dressing gown. In Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent, he reads into the idyllic life that the two bachelors “They live in sumptuous quarters, with beautiful flowers in large vases, and have a butler Alfred. “irector Joel Schumacher’s tendency towards camp and playfully knowing homoeroticism in Batman Forever and Batman and Robin may have emphasised Robin’s gay associations” (Brooker, page 164, 2000), yet it is not the first time Robin, or for that matter any of his fellow characters have been interpreted as homosexual or homoerotic, the fact that Joel Schumacher is an openly gay director using queer iconography to influence and shape this new interpretation of the characters.
Joel Schumacher embraces this: puns return, the brightly coloured world of Gotham city re-emerges, and tellingly one of the most important characters from Batman’s history gets his big screen make over, Robin. Tim Burton’s films do evoke a sense of the 1960s television show (see the Batman episodes Hizzonner the Penguin and Dizzoner the Penguin), with characteristics in characters and plotlines directly lifted from episodes it is drowned out in Burton’s murky subversive work. Where Joel Schumacher detracts from Tim Burton’s ethic towards the characters of the Batmanuniverse is the use of camp. Batman’s third and fourth cinematic outings are frequently side-lined, and in the case of Batman and Robin is considered, by many poll found online, as the worst film ever made.
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