Timothy
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Post by Timothy on Dec 9, 2006 16:49:47 GMT -5
Good stuff, guys. I agree with arkhaminmate- Romero embodies the Joker at the time period quite well (although ironically I find Nicholson physically closer to the way Joker was drawn at the time than Romero). Something interesting is that the age gap between Adam West and Cesar Romero (roughly 21 years) was actually greater than that of Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson (roughly 14 years)! Some say that Nicholson was too old in his early fifties, but Romero was playing Joker into his early sixties! And both worked splendidly (which makes it interesting now that we have a Joker that is under 30 and younger than the actual Batman actor). I was aware of the trouble with the hair, but I was wonderiing if they ever explained why his suit was pinkish in its shade of purple. Perhaps it had to do with clothing dyes. ^ That, and it could have been either a lighting problem (that sort of thing happened on Star Trek all the time), or any other 1960's early color television problem of its day. After all, Batman was in living color, so-to-speak during a time when it was rare to have a series in color, period.
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arkhaminmate
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Post by arkhaminmate on Dec 10, 2006 8:15:09 GMT -5
& speaking of color, I found a pic of Cesar Romero's wig while it was still mostly green. Edited due to hotlinking
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Timothy
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Post by Timothy on Dec 19, 2006 16:55:58 GMT -5
Thanks for posting that! In a way, I kind of liked both yellow and green wigs... I have no idea why, but they both seemed to work in the context of this series, at least in my mind...
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