![]() It should be noted, too, that Batman Dracula actually predates the Batman of Adam West, and some critics have suggested that the aesthetic proposed by Warhol for the character significantly permeated the later television version whose impact was worldwide. The premise of Batman Dracula takes us through the skyscrapers of New York to Long Island and to that moment when Bruce Wayne faces his greatest fear: a romantic monster, and the quintessence of vampires, Dracula. Within this creative oeuvre, Warhol decided to approach the Batman story from a perspective that’s exciting even in our own time. Warhol as filmmaker is interesting too, and just as risky: eight-hour films starring the Empire State Building, a ten-hour contemplation of a sleeping poet, not even to mention the party documentaries and the presentations of other artists at Warhol’s operations center, The Factory. We know Warhol for his powerful influence on avant-garde art, for his extravagant lessons in sex and for his paintings of soup cans and celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Muhammad Ali. From Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed Dark Knight Trilogy to Joel Schumacher’s unforgettable Batman & Robin from 1997, the Caped Crusader has had as many remakes as James Bond.īut perhaps none of Batman’s cinematic renditions is as eccentric and difficult to imagine as that of artist, Andy Warhol, from the 1960s. ![]() Superhero movies are one of the milestones of today’s cinema: always major releases, their timelines revisit the stories of characters, and each time, legions of fans will verify just how close each film version was to its comic book original.Īmong all these films, those featuring Batman constitute a genre unto themselves. ![]()
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