Batman!

In class this week we had to read an essay entitled Holy Homosexuality Batman! This essay discussed how Batman was portrayed as gay in the film Batman Forever. This was shocking to me because since I was a little kid I always watched Batman. I watched the cartoons on Saturday mornings and the movies when they cam out on VHS at the time, but even though I am an adult I still watched the movie Batman Beyond when it came out on DVD. Now I can honestly say that through watching a lot of Batman in my lifetime I still don’t think that Batman and Robin are gay. Different people get different things out of a movie but I never thought that anybody was gay in the movie, but according to Freya Johnson the author of the essay I read, it was not only Batman and Robin the Riddler was also a character that was portrayed with homosexual qualities. I think essays that dig so deep into a movie like Batman put ideas in the viewers head, and changes the way they view the movie. I believe that most people who watch this movie wouldn’t notice any homosexuality, but if they were to read that essay and then watch the movie they would have a very different sense of what orientation Batman is. Even though the author had some good points like Robin was rubbing Batman after he got hurt, I still feel that this movie is being take for more than it was written for, movies like this should just be an enjoyable experience.