![]() “To me, it was like a stage musical, but without the music, more than it was a Batman movie. I was at the screening, but I was thinking to myself, ‘This is not good,'” he said. ![]() “I don’t even know that I finished the film, to be honest. It was a bit obscene, so we took the nipples off.”Īnd Fernandez doesn’t consider himself a fan of the finished product anyways. “After I sculpted it though, everybody realized, maybe not. “They said, ‘If the guys have nipples, the girls should have nipples, too,'” Fernandez remembered. While the suits for Clooney’s Batman and O’Donnell’s Robin both featured the design, production passed on adding nipples to Alicia Silverstone’s Batgirl costume. I had no idea there was going to end up being all this buzz about it.” I didn’t want to do it, but he’s the boss, so we sharpened them, circled them and it all became kind of ridiculous.”įernandez added, “I don’t know exactly where my head was at back in the day, but that’s what I remember. They were also circled, both outer and inner - it was all made into a feature of the batsuit. “But for ‘Batman & Robin’, Joel Schumacher loved the nipples, so he said, ‘Let’s showcase them,'” Fernandez continued, “Schumacher wanted them sharpened, like, with points. The Best International Series on Netflix to Watch Right NowĤ5 Great Films Booed at Cannes, from 'L'Avventura' to 'Okja' John Oliver on Earning Our Attention, 'Last Week Tonight' Plans, and Landing George Clooney - Q&A 'Ticket to Paradise' Trailer: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Are Divorcées with a Spark And while the nipple-forward “Batman Forever” suit started with “just a little blob of clay” on the chest, Fernandez called the “subtle” styling decision a “blip” at first. “And, in the comic books, the characters always looked like they were naked with spray paint on them - it was all about anatomy, and I like to push anatomy.”įernandez previously worked with Tim Burton on “Batman Returns” crafting the Catwoman suit prototype. ![]() “It wasn’t fetish to me, it was more informed by Roman armor - like Centurions,” Fernandez told MEL Magazine. “Batman & Robin” costume designer Jose Fernandez detailed the strong design decision to “showcase” Batman’s nipples, first in the 1995 film “Batman Forever” starring Val Kilmer, and even further (and infamously) accentuated for 1997 follow-up “Batman & Robin” with George Clooney and Chris O’Donnell as the titular Gotham heroes. And there is perhaps no Batman that needs a sidekick more than the one Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson brought to the big screen this year.Joel Schumacher’s “Batman” films are famous not just for the set design and campy aesthetic, but for the “sharpened” nipples visible on the superhero suits. Robin is a key part of the Batman mythos, a beloved protagonist of most of his best stories, and a crucial aspect of Bruce Wayne's journey as a man and as a hero. The problem is, Robin isn't just a silly side-character to provide comic relief or a second pair of fists to keep action scenes interesting. Batman & Robin was something of a turning point for the franchise because the fan backlash was so intense that it motivated the studio to take their character in more "adult" directions. It's no coincidence that the brief period of comic book camp was also the last time Robin made it to the big screen. But, this singular focus of tone has been slightly stifling for the franchise, and it has excised some of the best parts of the source material. This is not to say the films are bad, or that an edgy film is worse than one with some light to it, some of them are excellent. He succeeded by turning Riddler into the Zodiac killer and Bruce Wayne into a depressed insomniac. After Zack Snyder filled the franchise with gloomy hyper-masculine shouting and murder, Matt Reeves had a fairly high bar to clear.
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