5. Casting in movie is unfortunate because movie about ancient world is opportunity to show that race isn't fixed but changes over time.
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2. They cast a dark-skinned Latino actor as the Joker, but he was covered in so much white makeup as to be unrecognizable.
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3. In addition to disguising his ethnicity, Romero as the Joker acted *very* differently from his usual roles as macho, Latin lover types.
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4. If Cesar Romero’s name hadn’t been there in the credits, viewers might not even necessarily have realized it was him as the campy clown.
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5. This is in turn goes to the real in-joke: Cesar Romero was gay — out to people who knew him, but certainly not to the public back then.
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6. Notably, his usual suave and macho screen persona was actually very close to who he was in real life — just with one key difference.
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7. Cesar Romero covered up his brown skin to play *literally* white role; a traditionally masculine gay man did send-up of campy stereotype.
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@EricKleefeld Really insightful comments. Curiously Frank Miller is dismissive of Batman show but clearly learned from Romero's Joker.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@EricKleefeld I cover some of the gay Batman history here: http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/batman-and-robin-just-friends/ …
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@HeerJeet A big irony is that Wertham started noticing comics — and hating Batman and Robin — years after William Marston died.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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