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Weāve had a lot of Batman movies in the past 20 years, and theyāve all avoided putting Robin onscreen. Maybe itās time to reconsider?
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,,My name is Richard Grayson, but all the kids in the orphanage call me Dick''
,,Well, children can be cruel''
Lego Batman is an underrated masterpiece
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I remember the anti-Robin sentiment after Batman Begins and there was absolutely nothing behind it. "Robin makes the movies campy!" No, those movies were campy and happened to have Robin in them. They also had the Riddler and Two-Face and Mr Freeze and nobody ever said they never wanted to see those characters again. Nobody blamed them for the tone of the film.
I felt vindicated when they included him in the Arkham games and he fit right in to this grimey horror universe without compromising it. But it was still frustrating that fans couldn't see it and didn't have the imagination for it before.
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I think Batman with and without Robin are almost two completely different characters, and you almost need a trilogy for each era of his life to do it justice. A trilogy focusing on a younger Batmanās struggle to make a difference, then a trilogy focusing on Batman and Robin in a much more hopeful era where it finally feels like his actions are starting to make a real impact.
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I think the end of āThe Batmanā really felt different. He wasnāt isolated, he was surrounded by the community of people he was trying to help. It felt so refreshing seeing Batman actually interact with the people he cares about rather than just fight bad guys and be angry. I hope itās a sign of them returning to a more well rounded Bruce Wayne fighting crime because he loves his community and family, not just hating bad guys.
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I saw a tweet recently that said 'Dick Grayson is what all parents imagine they'll accomplish with their children.' I don't think anything sums up the importance of Robin in the Batman mythos better than that.
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I think people forget that the only one Bruce ever really "recruited" was Jason (and look how that turned out). All the others were either were born into it, already fighting crime or were going to anyways, so Bruce decides to train them so that they wouldn't get themselves killed.
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Robin is absolutely bursting with potential for a gritty film adaptation. The parallels to Batman's own tragedy, the strained surrogate father-son relationship, it's all got massive potential.
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The fact that Robin WASN'T dark is what I loved about him. He brought life back to Batman and was a ray of hope in dark Gothem. And, as you said, it forced Bruce to grow in order to raise and train him.
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I think the whole "child soldier" aspect could be remedied by Dick Grayson deciding on his own to pick fights with criminals to find his parents' killer and Batman realizes that he can't stop him from getting into trouble, so he might as well teach him how to be smart about it.
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8:31 and Iām just sitting here waiting for these people to realize that Batmanās worst enemy is freaking CLOWN.
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I had a professor in film school who told us about how his goal is to create a screenplay for a Robin movie. He wanted it to be a coming of age character study that addresses concepts like how messed up it was for Batman to allow him to fight crime, but at the same time shows how he was generally better off for it.
I still think about this concept every now and then. In fact I think most characters from the Batman mythos can be literal gold mines for Hollywood if they just took them seriously.
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"without Robin, Batman never becomes a Father so he never has to grow up" well put!! i believe most edge lords love the dark side of Batman bc they can see themselves in him but...that's the worst part of Batman, the best part of the character is overcoming the grief and without Robin he's just...stuck in there, in the pain in the loss, people who dislike Robin bc he means hope for Batman are weak, the best part of everything is character development without that you're basically telling a story for...nothing
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I've literally been wanting a GOOD Batman and Robin movie for so fucking long. I think people who hated on Robin weren't really into the comics imo
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One thing you haven't really mentioned: not so much age, but aging.
Given that it takes a minimum of 2-3 years to make a live-action from concept to premiering on-screen, hiring an actor in their early teens to play Robin for one movie means you have to figure out how to deal with how much that actor has aged in appearing as that same character in the next movie. Physiognomy changes, voice changes, and (in an acting agent's view) legal status changes. I don't imagine there are that many producers who want to deal with those extra problems, but would prefer to have a character post-puberty for a movie franchise.
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Hypothesis: robin was a self-insert character for kids, but with a father-son dynamic between Batman and Robin, the modern male audience is faced with a character that grows into fatherhood, while comic books used to be an escape from that sort of mundane, but at the same time life-changing event. Ie Batman is not an easy self-insert character, but growing into fatherhood is a struggle the audience knows, so there's a dissonance.
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I absolutely love Dick Grayson as a character. The fact that a person so bright and optimistic came from such a dark background and city is commendable. And I love how so many other superheroes in DC respect Dick Grayson so much.
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I've believed for a while now that when people say they want to be Batman, they actually want to be Nightwing. All the coolness, far less of the crushing emotional weight
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I think a really great example of how robin could work is actually in the show Gotham. You see in that show that there is absolutely nothing that could stop young master Wayne from going down that path. Alfred had a choice either train him and guide him to be proficient in his skills, or watch him self destruct. Seeing that play out on Gotham it became very clear to me why Batman would train a robin!
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No joke, I'd pay good money to see an Alfred movie. He's low key the best character in the franchise. That man has some savage comebacks to everything anyone throws at him.
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@seank.2589
2 years ago
The films: Avoid Robin. The comics: Aquire all the Robins.
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