Camp vs Dark: Batman, Robin, and the Fear of Schumacher

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gartoo

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Aug 13, 2009
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MovieBob's article on the top three reasons for adding Robin in the next Batman movie alot of people having been talking about how Robin's inherit campiness would mesh well with the overbearing darkness of the previous two movies. So I was wondering, is Robin really that campy and are the two incompatible, can you have a campy character in an overwhelmingly dark story? Couldn't the lightheartedness of the camp character provide breathing room for the audience or would their presence damage the intensity that the story is trying to portray?
I'm not just looking at Batman, but also at any piece of fiction with a long and diverse mythology. (James Bond, Star Trek, Terminator, etc.) Does camp kill good narrative storytelling?
 

Ultrajoe

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In the Nolanverse, Robin is an ex-con and uses a sub-machine gun.

He also has a drinking problem.