{"id":12894,"date":"2020-06-22T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joel-schumacher-director-of-batman-films-dies-at-80\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:51:00","slug":"joel-schumacher-director-of-batman-films-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joel-schumacher-director-of-batman-films-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joel Schumacher, director of Batman films, dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joel Schumacher, director of Batman films, dies at 80<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire,\u201d \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d and \u201cFalling Down,\u201d as well as \u201cBatman\u201d films, died in New York City on Monday morning after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 80.<\/p>\n

Schumacher was handed the reins of the \u201cBatman\u201d franchise when Tim Burton exited Warner Bros.\u2019 Caped Crusader series<\/a> after two enormously successful films. The first movie by Schumacher, \u201cBatman Forever,\u201d starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman, grossed more than $300 million worldwide but was criticized by many for an unpleasant manic quality \u2014 the result of having two villains, with one of them played by Jim Carrey.<\/p>\n

Schumacher\u2019s second and certainly last film in the franchise was 1997\u2019s \u201cBatman and Robin,\u201d with George Clooney as Batman and Arnold Schwarzenegger as villain Mr. Freeze; the dark vision that Burton had brought to the first two films in the series had been abandoned for what could only be called camp. The movie still had a worldwide gross of $238 million, but was widely considered a failure both commercially and artistically. Quickly crystallizing into a symbol of all that was wrong with the film was Schumacher\u2019s decision to introduce nipples to the batsuit. The openly gay Schumacher was accused of introducing homoerotic elements to the relationship between Batman and Robin; in 2006 Clooney told Barbara Walters that he had played Batman as gay.<\/p>\n

Several years after the Batman debacle, Schumacher directed the feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s musical \u201cThe Phantom of the Opera.\u201d Despite tepid reviews, it received three Oscar noms.<\/p>\n

In 1985 Schumacher struck gold with his third feature film, \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire,\u201d which he directed and co-wrote. Brat Packers including Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy as well as a young Demi Moore starred in the story of a bunch of Georgetown grads making their way through life and love. Even the theme<\/a> song was a hit and is still played to evoke the era. The film offered a pretty smart take on the complexities of post-college life.<\/p>\n

His next film was a big hit as well: horror comedy \u201cThe Lost Boys,\u201d about a group of young vampires who dominate a small California town, starred Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. It scored with teens but was not a hit with critics: Roger Ebert said, \u201cThere is a moment, early in this film, when it seems to have a handle on its characters and the after-dark teenage world they inhabit. But the ending of the film is just another one of those by-the-numbers action climaxes in which the movie is over when all the bad guys are dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joel Schumacher<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Schumacher had a high-concept screenplay by Peter Filardi and an A-list cast \u2014 Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin \u2014 for the 1990 horror thriller \u201cFlatliners,\u201d about arrogant medical students experimenting with life and death, and the director hit it fairly big again, with a domestic cume of $61 million.<\/p>\n

While those hits captured the era well, others during that period were misfires,\u00a0such as the 1989 remake of the French hit \u201cCousin\/Cousine\u201d called \u201cCousins\u201d and starring Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini and there was the sentimental \u201cDying Young,\u201d starring Roberts and Campbell Scott.<\/p>\n

But in 1993 he showed what he was capable of with perhaps his best film, the critically hailed \u201cFalling Down,\u201d starring Michael Douglas as a defense worker who\u2019s lost it all and decides to take it out on whomever he comes across. While we understand his frustration, he is not a hero, and he does not triumph violently like Charles Bronson in one of the \u201cDeath Wish\u201d movies. The film played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The New York Times said the film \u201cexemplifies a quintessentially American kind of pop movie making that, with skill and wit, sends up stereotypical attitudes while also exploiting them with insidious effect. \u2018Falling Down\u2019 is glitzy, casually cruel, hip and grim. It\u2019s sometimes very funny, and often nasty in the way it manipulates one\u2019s darkest feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumacher\u2019s next film was also a solid hit. \u201cThe Client,\u201d based on a John Grisham novel, was a highly effective legal thriller that also boasted terrific rapport between Susan Sarandon\u2019s lawyer and her 11-year-old client, a boy played by Brad Renfro who has witnessed a murder.<\/p>\n

Intriguingly, between making the two problematic \u201cBatman\u201d films, Schumacher skillfully directed another Grisham adaptation, \u201cA Time to Kill,\u201d which sported a terrific cast (including Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd and a career jump-starting turn by a young Matthew McConaughey) and, while not without its own weaknesses, asked important questions about race.<\/p>\n

After the second \u201cBatman\u201d he made the much darker, smaller-scale thriller \u201c8MM,\u201d which followed a miscast Nicolas Cage as a family-man private detective in pursuit of those who made what appears to be a snuff film.<\/p>\n

His next film, 1999\u2019s \u201cFlawless,\u201d about a homophobic cop who\u2019s suffered a stroke, played by Robert De Niro, and the draq queen, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose helps he needs, was formulaic \u2014 the odd couple who couldn\u2019t be more different find out they have a lot in common \u2014 but it sported excellent performances by the leads and certainly had heart.<\/p>\n

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joel Schumacher and George Clooney.<\/span>Sygma via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Switching gears dramatically, Schumacher made \u201cTigerland,\u201d starring a young Colin\u00a0Farrell in the story of young recruits preparing to go off to Vietnam. It had a gritty look, but while some critics saw an earnest quality, others saw cynicism.<\/p>\n

Schumacher\u2019s 2002 thriller \u201cPhone Booth,\u201d which reunited the director with Colin Farrell and Kiefer Sutherland \u2014 and intriguingly trapped Farrell\u2019s antihero in the title New York City phone booth for almost all of the film\u2019s running time \u2014 had critics and audiences alike talking, even if the ending was a cop-out.<\/p>\n

His other films included actioner \u201cBad Company,\u201d starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock; \u201cVeronica Guerin,\u201d starring Cate Blanchett as a journalist crusading rather recklessly against the Irish drug trade; and Jim Carrey\u00a0thriller \u201cThe Number 23\u201d and \u201cTrespass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumacher started out in showbiz as a costume designer, earning credits on 1972\u2019s \u201cPlay It as It Lays,\u201d Herbert Ross\u2019 \u201cThe Last of Sheila\u201d (1973),\u00a0 Paul Mazursky\u2019s \u201cBlume in Love (1973), Woody Allen\u2019s \u201cSleeper\u201d (1973) and \u201cInteriors\u201d (1978) and 1975 Neil Simon adaptation \u201cThe Prisoner of Second Avenue.\u201d He was also credited as the production designer on the 1974 TV horror film \u201cKiller Bees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joel Schumacher<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He also started to write screenplays: 1976\u2019s \u201cSparkle,\u201d 1978 hit \u201cCar Wash\u201d and the adaptation for 1978 musical \u201cThe Wiz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumacher\u2019s first directing assignments came in television: the 1974 telepic \u201cVirginia Hill,\u201d which he also co-wrote and starred Dyan Cannon, and the 1979 telepic \u201cAmateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill,\u201d which he also penned. He stepped into the feature arena with the 1981 sci-fi comedy \u201cThe Incredible Shrinking Woman,\u201d starring Lily Tomlin, followed in 1983 by \u201cD.C. Cab,\u201d an action-comedy vehicle for Mr. T that Schumacher also wrote.<\/p>\n

Born in New York City, he studied at Parsons the New School for Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology<\/a> in New York. He worked in the fashion industry, but decided to instead pursue a career in filmmaking. After moving to Los Angeles, he quite naturally worked at first as a costume designer and worked in TV while earning an MFA from UCLA.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Schumacher directed a couple of episodes of Netflix hit \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d in 2013, and in 2015 he exec produced for the ID channel the series \u201cDo Not Disturb: Hotel Horrors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, awarded Schumacher a special award in 2010. He also received\u00a0the Distinguished Collaborator Award at the Costume Designers Guild Awards in 2011.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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