Monday, June 7

reading with batman and robin

Steered the boy to the 1966 Batman movie for some old fashioned good times. No guns in evidence, just some fisticuffs/poison umbrella smoke, torpedoes, bat-a-rangs etc. (Plus I really wanted to hear Adam West's fantastic line delivery after seeing Nic Cage ramp it up in Kick-Ass. Genius.) Batman was a total hit.

It didn't quite work out like this but you could use these as a fun reading quiz; the movie is littered with these little signs (shark repellent batspray, good thing they had that...) You could really push it and use this as a moment to explain who Shakepeare was. Too much?













3 comments:

michael said...

That's some quality father/son time right there. When I was a kid I had a Batman A to Z book that my pops would read to me and make up scary voices at the appropriate times. Don't remember much from it, but I do remember the letter A.
"A is for Alfred the Wayne Manor butler who's never been known to complain. He answers the Batphone in courteous tones and summons his master Bruce Wayne"

james at 10engines said...

@michael just found the whole thing. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/244644.html?thread=5343140

michael said...

Amazing...I had also remembered the "Penguin, Mad Hatter and Freeze" line from the letter "J" 'cause the old man would say each name more dastardly than the one before it.

Good lesson at the end too.

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!