Oscars 2023: Best Visual Effects Predictions Val Kilmer 'Willow' Cameo Scrapped Due to 'Insurmountable' COVID Protocols The Art of Rom-Com Cinematography: 4 Ways 'Ticket to Paradise' Revived It There’s always been this thing about Batman and Robin being gay.” And Batman and Robin are two homosexual men living in a cave, living together. Snow White was all about having bad stepmothers. Long before I came along, someone wrote a whole thing about what the real message of fairy tales and children’s stories are. “If I wasn’t gay, they would never say those things,” Schumacher said in a sweeping and somewhat shocking interview with Vulture. Sorry, gay Batman fans, Schumacher is here to rain on your parade. action flick starred George Clooney as Bruce Wayne and Chris O’Donnell as Robin, and theories have long persisted that Schumacher, who is gay, intentionally added campy elements to the movie in order to play up the gay subtext.

Which is exactly what happens in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman and Robin,” the 1997 flop that is as critically derided as it is held up as a shining example of a gay-coded movie that’s not actually gay. Give Batman an eager young sidekick and you’ve practically got a rom-com. The tights, the hulking muscles, the secret powers always threatening to come to light - it’s a veritable field day for queer academics. It’s no secret that superheroes have always been a little gay.

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