06-12-2017, 12:53 AM
(06-11-2017, 11:21 PM)Galen Wrote:(06-11-2017, 11:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: My favorite Batman (Adam West):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_West
The case: he wasn't as full of himself as the later versions.
He was a Batman for a different era even so I rather enjoyed the over the top campiness of the show. Hard to believe that he was offered the role of James Bond and then turned it down.
Adam West played the role for camp, which is not how James Bond was intended to be. For that there was Casino Royale, one of the few bombs in the James Bond series. Woody Allen, which had to be a huge mistake in casting, was in that one James Bond disaster. Woody Allen can do camp, too.
But now that I think of it I can see some similarities between James Bond movies and the 'Sixties Batman. Both James Bond and Batman had their fancy cars and gadgets... and unrealistic villains. The crime did not have to make sense. Of course, the 'Sixties Batman was made for more of a child audience because it was on the air in early evening and the James Bond flicks had more allusions to sex.
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