History has not shown that Jimi Hendrix benefited from his drug use. Your argument can be used the other way too by saying he could have been even better if drugs were not involved. I don't know this and neither do you. Same goes for Ledger.
OK...if you want to believe that JH could've just as well written Purple Haze or better while sober, then I can see why you might have a tough time with accepting my viewpoint. Meanwhile, the obvious dictates...
Heath Ledger gave the performance of his career, which in some respects could rival that of film making's greatest performances, and it's just a coincidence that he was using heavy opiates at the time?
The best thing I can say about it is that he makes you completely forget about his death, because that's not him on the screen, it's Joker.
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Cool song. Unbelievable riff. Jimi Hendrix. Greatest guitarist ever. enough said....
and on the rest, i'll agree to disagree
anyways, back on topic..
"You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self righteousness and I won't kill you because...You're just too much fun. We are destinated to do this forever"..
Heath Ledger gave the performance of his career, which in some respects could rival that of film making's greatest performances, and it's just a coincidence that he was using heavy opiates at the time?
That's such a tenuous link, nobody can say for sure either way how drugs affected his performance - the fact it was the high point of his career has more to do with the fact that it's the most challenging and interesting character of his career. I think he was every bit as believable in the others roles I've seen him play, it just so happens that they weren't necessarily the most interesting to watch.
not to mention the fact that I don't think it was official that he was talking those drugs while shooting dark knight. he could've been taking them afterwards...
It's well established that he went days on end without sleeping. Anyone who abuses oxycontin knows that if you take enough of it, it actually starts to work like speed and will keep you from sleeping.
As much as you respect and admire Ledger, it's hard to overlook the possibility that the heavy drug use probably allowed him to detach from himself to the point where he could take on a whole new personality. After all, witnesses did say that he "became" the joker when he was off the set. That's probably because he was too high to know the difference.
As much as you respect and admire Ledger, it's hard to overlook the possibility that the heavy drug use probably allowed him to detach from himself to the point where he could take on a whole new personality. After all, witnesses did say that he "became" the joker when he was off the set. That's probably because he was too high to know the difference.
People say the same thing about many actors, like Daniel Day-Lewis. you don't have to be on drugs to be a great actor.
Daniel Day Lewis can make a Jack in the Box commercial mesmerizing. The same can't be said about Ledger.
Or maybe, just maybe, he was THAT good sponger. I can't prove that drugs didn't improve his performance and you can't prove they did. At the end of the day, it was a remarkable performance, ledger was a brilliant joker, and i prefer to believe that his performance was that awesome because he worked so damn hard at it. I also believe in Christoper Nolan....
In the words of Christopher Nolan,
Heath Ledger finished filming this summer’s Batman sequel, The Dark Knight, in which he plays a villain, the Joker. Christopher Nolan, the film’s director, recalls Heath’s charisma and shared these beautiful memories in the latest issue of Newsweek:
“One night, as I’m standing on LaSalle Street in Chicago, trying to line up a shot for The Dark Knight, a production assistant skateboards into my line of sight. Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character makeup. I’d fretted about the reaction of Batman fans to a skateboarding Joker, but the actual result was a proliferation of skateboards among the younger crew members. If you’d asked those kids why they had chosen to bring their boards to work, they would have answered honestly that they didn’t know. That’s real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity. That’s what Heath had.
Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.
One time he and another actor were shooting a complex scene. We had two days to shoot it, and at the end of the first day, they’d really found something and Heath was worried that he might not have it if we stopped. He wanted to carry on and finish. It’s tough to ask the crew to work late when we all know there’s plenty of time to finish the next day. But everyone seemed to understand that Heath had something special and that we had to capture it before it disappeared. Months later, I learned that as Heath left the set that night, he quietly thanked each crew member for working late. Quietly. Not trying to make a point, just grateful for the chance to create that they’d given him.
Those nights on the streets of Chicago were filled with stunts. These can be boring times for an actor, but Heath was fascinated, eagerly accepting our invitation to ride in the camera car as we chased vehicles through movie traffic—not just for the thrill ride, but to be a part of it. Of everything. He’d brought his laptop along in the car, and we had a high-speed screening of two of his works-in-progress: short films he’d made that were exciting and haunting. Their exuberance made me feel jaded and leaden. I’ve never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents. That night I made him an offer—knowing he wouldn’t take me up on it—that he should feel free to come by the set when he had a night off so he could see what we were up to.
When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.
Back on LaSalle Street, I turn to my assistant director and I tell him to clear the skateboarding kid out of my line of sight when I realize—it’s Heath, woolly hat pulled low over his eyes, here on his night off to take me up on my offer. I can’t help but smile.”
Saw the movie a second time today. Heath as the Joker was able to send shivers down my spine at the same moments. I absolutely love that freaky noise he makes when he licks his scars/lips. I imitate it daily, haha.
i went to see it again today for the second time. heath's performance is one of the best ive ever seen. the feeling it gives me in the joker scenes is crazy. i cant stop thinking about how amazing every aspect of this film was.
I have to admit I was very sceptical about all the hype before watching the Dark Knight. But having seen it, I have to say it was pretty awesome.
Like many have said, it wasn't Heath Ledger up there on screen, but The Joker!
Many have said they were worried that Ledger may not have the character to carry off the role, that he wasn't big enough to make it his own.
But I think the fact that he wasn't a big name or a 'superstar' helped him. There comes a point in an actor career when they become bigger than the roles they play. Lets be honest, as great as they are, when you see De Niro or Pacino on screen these days, that's exactly what you do see. De Niro or Pacino, it becomes tougher to see around their own personality and see the character. Maybe Jack's Joker was affected by this.
Very few can carry it off, Hopkins & Day Lewis perhaps. Mainly because they make very few films and you hardly ever see or hear them off screen.
And I think that why Ledger's Joker is so effective. Off screen Ledger was an enigma, somewhat reclusive. He hated the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and we as movie goers never really had a glimpse of what made him tick. So when we see him as The Joker, we see The Joker. Not film star Heath Ledger.
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PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
Got to tip my hat to Christian Bale. Everyone goes on about Ledger as The Joker, but Bale was quite stunning too.
The best part of his peformance for me is the the 'public' Bruce Wayne.
The whole billionnaire playboy image is more of a mask from the real Bruce Wayne than Batman is.
Thanks to Bale I'm actually quite excited at the prospect of Terminator 4 now!!
If he likes the script, then it must be good!
He's saved the Batman franchise, now for the Terminator franchise.
Next stop, Bale for 007 !!
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PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
Or maybe, just maybe, he was THAT good sponger. I can't prove that drugs didn't improve his performance and you can't prove they did. At the end of the day, it was a remarkable performance, ledger was a brilliant joker, and i prefer to believe that his performance was that awesome because he worked so damn hard at it. I also believe in Christoper Nolan....
In the words of Christopher Nolan,
Heath Ledger finished filming this summer’s Batman sequel, The Dark Knight, in which he plays a villain, the Joker. Christopher Nolan, the film’s director, recalls Heath’s charisma and shared these beautiful memories in the latest issue of Newsweek:
“One night, as I’m standing on LaSalle Street in Chicago, trying to line up a shot for The Dark Knight, a production assistant skateboards into my line of sight. Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character makeup. I’d fretted about the reaction of Batman fans to a skateboarding Joker, but the actual result was a proliferation of skateboards among the younger crew members. If you’d asked those kids why they had chosen to bring their boards to work, they would have answered honestly that they didn’t know. That’s real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity. That’s what Heath had.
Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.
One time he and another actor were shooting a complex scene. We had two days to shoot it, and at the end of the first day, they’d really found something and Heath was worried that he might not have it if we stopped. He wanted to carry on and finish. It’s tough to ask the crew to work late when we all know there’s plenty of time to finish the next day. But everyone seemed to understand that Heath had something special and that we had to capture it before it disappeared. Months later, I learned that as Heath left the set that night, he quietly thanked each crew member for working late. Quietly. Not trying to make a point, just grateful for the chance to create that they’d given him.
Those nights on the streets of Chicago were filled with stunts. These can be boring times for an actor, but Heath was fascinated, eagerly accepting our invitation to ride in the camera car as we chased vehicles through movie traffic—not just for the thrill ride, but to be a part of it. Of everything. He’d brought his laptop along in the car, and we had a high-speed screening of two of his works-in-progress: short films he’d made that were exciting and haunting. Their exuberance made me feel jaded and leaden. I’ve never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents. That night I made him an offer—knowing he wouldn’t take me up on it—that he should feel free to come by the set when he had a night off so he could see what we were up to.
When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.
Back on LaSalle Street, I turn to my assistant director and I tell him to clear the skateboarding kid out of my line of sight when I realize—it’s Heath, woolly hat pulled low over his eyes, here on his night off to take me up on my offer. I can’t help but smile.”
and this from michael caine:
"lovely guy, i got to know him a little bit. just on the set a bit. i was so impressed by his performance. and when i saw the movie, i was bowled over. on set we would be chatting about this or that. then the director would say, 'were ready heath' and then he'd go straight into that maniacal thing. i told him, 'im too hold to play a part like that. i dont have the energy to do that, what you do. come to think of it i dont think i had the energy to do it at your age.' it was stunning on the screen. but to be there when he was doing it..." he lets out a long, slow profanity.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I think I had a different experience than most people. for me, when I was watching Heath play The Joker it was this whole surreal moment. my mind couldn't stop thinking about how amazing he was, but also he won't be doing anything more like that again. and although it really was NOT Heath Ledger on the screen but instead The Joker, something inside me was very depressed, very nostalgic almost. his ability to completely transform himself into a character like The Joker was brilliant, yet all I felt was sadness knowing that his talent couldn't be further developed.
I remember there was a part in the movie, when he was in jail, that my mind STOPPED, and I saw HEATH sitting there clapping. and knowing that he was now dead and that I was watching the character role that killed him, was very haunting.
you know, that is weird you said that because I wanted to be like, "kill the joker!!" but knowing the guy who played him is dead made me not be able to.
Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
No. not at all. no where near it. Would never come into the conversation of best in performance in history.
His performace was very good though and he really nailed it.
Edit- also i would add Christian Bale plays Batman/Bruce Wayne perfectly. He plays his charctor probably just as good as Ledger plays the Joker but Bale is not getting any of the love from critics about his job.
No, but I LOVE CHRISTIAN BALE!!
After seeing the whole sexy batman/Bruce Wayne thing, I am a big fan of him as batman again. But I must say that I liked Katy Holmes better as the chick in the movie.
Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
I think a lot of the hype unfortuneately was because he died after. Sorry, but the world LOVES sensationalizing.
he was scary; very scary. And I won't spoil it but at the end he was funny too. (anyone who saw it, am I right?) So, yeah it was a great performance.
This is such BULLSHIT, and I get pissed every time I hear someone say this. The trailer came out BEFORE he died, and it was getting all kinds of rave reviews and amped anticipation. Sure his death added to the mystique, but his performance more than exceeds any and all expectations, REGARDLESS of his death. To attribute any praise or awards he has or may receive to his untimely death is not only disrespectful but an insult to Heath and all of us who have been looking forward to this movie since before his death and who enjoy it for what it is.
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This is such BULLSHIT, and I get pissed every time I hear someone say this. The trailer came out BEFORE he died, and it was getting all kinds of rave reviews and amped anticipation. Sure his death added to the mystique, but his performance more than exceeds any and all expectations, REGARDLESS of his death. To attribute any praise or awards he has or may receive to his untimely death is not only disrespectful but an insult to Heath and all of us who have been looking forward to this movie since before his death and who enjoy it for what it is.
Very true!
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
This is such BULLSHIT, and I get pissed every time I hear someone say this. The trailer came out BEFORE he died, and it was getting all kinds of rave reviews and amped anticipation. Sure his death added to the mystique, but his performance more than exceeds any and all expectations, REGARDLESS of his death. To attribute any praise or awards he has or may receive to his untimely death is not only disrespectful but an insult to Heath and all of us who have been looking forward to this movie since before his death and who enjoy it for what it is.
I am sorry, I wasn't trying to be disrespectful in the least. I was merely alluding to the whole People Magazine thing about his "other" child and all the crap that is printed after someone dies. I did say that I thought that he was very good and very scary.
And I am sorry but no I didn't get to hear a lot until after he died. But that is not to say he was not still great.
I just meant that like princess Di for example. People made her a saint after she died; it was weird. All of the sudden she was all over the place. That, to me, disrespects someone because it takes their actual life and makes it seem nothing compared to their death.
Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
I thought he was brilliant. It seemed like most of the lines they used in the trailers were lines where he sounded kind of like Jack Nicholson's Joker, but in the rest of the movie he was much creepier.
There's a little something about the way he hesitates as he starts to say something, and that hint of condescension in his tone, that reminds me of...
John McCain!
I didn't realize it during the movie, but now whenever I hear McCain quoted on NPR, all I can picture is the Joker about to hurt someone. I've always thought McCain was a loose cannon, and now it's cemented in my mind.
I thought he was brilliant. It seemed like most of the lines they used in the trailers were lines where he sounded kind of like Jack Nicholson's Joker, but in the rest of the movie he was much creepier.
There's a little something about the way he hesitates as he starts to say something, and that hint of condescension in his tone, that reminds me of...
John McCain!
I didn't realize it during the movie, but now whenever I hear McCain quoted on NPR, all I can picture is the Joker about to hurt someone. I've always thought McCain was a loose cannon, and now it's cemented in my mind.
Melissa
I hope it is clear by now that I also agree with all of you. I just think he did it so frightening and that performance alone was enough (like someone said here) to remind me of Hannibal Lector. My son especially liked the pencil part.
ooooooooh!
Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
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OK...if you want to believe that JH could've just as well written Purple Haze or better while sober, then I can see why you might have a tough time with accepting my viewpoint. Meanwhile, the obvious dictates...
Heath Ledger gave the performance of his career, which in some respects could rival that of film making's greatest performances, and it's just a coincidence that he was using heavy opiates at the time?
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
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8-05-07 Grant Park, Chicago
8-21-08 EV, Auditorium Theater, Chicago
8-22-08 EV, Auditorium Theater, Chicago
and on the rest, i'll agree to disagree
anyways, back on topic..
"You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self righteousness and I won't kill you because...You're just too much fun. We are destinated to do this forever"..
pure awesomeness.
i agree. i don't see any heath ledger on his face & aura...it's all joker.
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me rascando pompis...
krap mijn reet...
boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
bahrosh teezy...
That's such a tenuous link, nobody can say for sure either way how drugs affected his performance - the fact it was the high point of his career has more to do with the fact that it's the most challenging and interesting character of his career. I think he was every bit as believable in the others roles I've seen him play, it just so happens that they weren't necessarily the most interesting to watch.
As much as you respect and admire Ledger, it's hard to overlook the possibility that the heavy drug use probably allowed him to detach from himself to the point where he could take on a whole new personality. After all, witnesses did say that he "became" the joker when he was off the set. That's probably because he was too high to know the difference.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
Daniel Day Lewis can make a Jack in the Box commercial mesmerizing. The same can't be said about Ledger.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
In the words of Christopher Nolan,
Heath Ledger finished filming this summer’s Batman sequel, The Dark Knight, in which he plays a villain, the Joker. Christopher Nolan, the film’s director, recalls Heath’s charisma and shared these beautiful memories in the latest issue of Newsweek:
“One night, as I’m standing on LaSalle Street in Chicago, trying to line up a shot for The Dark Knight, a production assistant skateboards into my line of sight. Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character makeup. I’d fretted about the reaction of Batman fans to a skateboarding Joker, but the actual result was a proliferation of skateboards among the younger crew members. If you’d asked those kids why they had chosen to bring their boards to work, they would have answered honestly that they didn’t know. That’s real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity. That’s what Heath had.
Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.
One time he and another actor were shooting a complex scene. We had two days to shoot it, and at the end of the first day, they’d really found something and Heath was worried that he might not have it if we stopped. He wanted to carry on and finish. It’s tough to ask the crew to work late when we all know there’s plenty of time to finish the next day. But everyone seemed to understand that Heath had something special and that we had to capture it before it disappeared. Months later, I learned that as Heath left the set that night, he quietly thanked each crew member for working late. Quietly. Not trying to make a point, just grateful for the chance to create that they’d given him.
Those nights on the streets of Chicago were filled with stunts. These can be boring times for an actor, but Heath was fascinated, eagerly accepting our invitation to ride in the camera car as we chased vehicles through movie traffic—not just for the thrill ride, but to be a part of it. Of everything. He’d brought his laptop along in the car, and we had a high-speed screening of two of his works-in-progress: short films he’d made that were exciting and haunting. Their exuberance made me feel jaded and leaden. I’ve never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents. That night I made him an offer—knowing he wouldn’t take me up on it—that he should feel free to come by the set when he had a night off so he could see what we were up to.
When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.
Back on LaSalle Street, I turn to my assistant director and I tell him to clear the skateboarding kid out of my line of sight when I realize—it’s Heath, woolly hat pulled low over his eyes, here on his night off to take me up on my offer. I can’t help but smile.”
Like many have said, it wasn't Heath Ledger up there on screen, but The Joker!
Many have said they were worried that Ledger may not have the character to carry off the role, that he wasn't big enough to make it his own.
But I think the fact that he wasn't a big name or a 'superstar' helped him. There comes a point in an actor career when they become bigger than the roles they play. Lets be honest, as great as they are, when you see De Niro or Pacino on screen these days, that's exactly what you do see. De Niro or Pacino, it becomes tougher to see around their own personality and see the character. Maybe Jack's Joker was affected by this.
Very few can carry it off, Hopkins & Day Lewis perhaps. Mainly because they make very few films and you hardly ever see or hear them off screen.
And I think that why Ledger's Joker is so effective. Off screen Ledger was an enigma, somewhat reclusive. He hated the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and we as movie goers never really had a glimpse of what made him tick. So when we see him as The Joker, we see The Joker. Not film star Heath Ledger.
PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
The best part of his peformance for me is the the 'public' Bruce Wayne.
The whole billionnaire playboy image is more of a mask from the real Bruce Wayne than Batman is.
Thanks to Bale I'm actually quite excited at the prospect of Terminator 4 now!!
If he likes the script, then it must be good!
He's saved the Batman franchise, now for the Terminator franchise.
Next stop, Bale for 007 !!
PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
and this from michael caine:
"lovely guy, i got to know him a little bit. just on the set a bit. i was so impressed by his performance. and when i saw the movie, i was bowled over. on set we would be chatting about this or that. then the director would say, 'were ready heath' and then he'd go straight into that maniacal thing. i told him, 'im too hold to play a part like that. i dont have the energy to do that, what you do. come to think of it i dont think i had the energy to do it at your age.' it was stunning on the screen. but to be there when he was doing it..." he lets out a long, slow profanity.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
he was scary; very scary. And I won't spoil it but at the end he was funny too. (anyone who saw it, am I right?) So, yeah it was a great performance.
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
you know, that is weird you said that because I wanted to be like, "kill the joker!!" but knowing the guy who played him is dead made me not be able to.
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
No, but I LOVE CHRISTIAN BALE!!
After seeing the whole sexy batman/Bruce Wayne thing, I am a big fan of him as batman again. But I must say that I liked Katy Holmes better as the chick in the movie.
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
Well, now he has that bad boy street cred...........
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
This is such BULLSHIT, and I get pissed every time I hear someone say this. The trailer came out BEFORE he died, and it was getting all kinds of rave reviews and amped anticipation. Sure his death added to the mystique, but his performance more than exceeds any and all expectations, REGARDLESS of his death. To attribute any praise or awards he has or may receive to his untimely death is not only disrespectful but an insult to Heath and all of us who have been looking forward to this movie since before his death and who enjoy it for what it is.
nowadays hits you when you're young
Very true!
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
I am sorry, I wasn't trying to be disrespectful in the least. I was merely alluding to the whole People Magazine thing about his "other" child and all the crap that is printed after someone dies. I did say that I thought that he was very good and very scary.
And I am sorry but no I didn't get to hear a lot until after he died. But that is not to say he was not still great.
I just meant that like princess Di for example. People made her a saint after she died; it was weird. All of the sudden she was all over the place. That, to me, disrespects someone because it takes their actual life and makes it seem nothing compared to their death.
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
That line gave me shivvers. What a chilling, psychotic villain. He nailed the shit out of the role.
There's a little something about the way he hesitates as he starts to say something, and that hint of condescension in his tone, that reminds me of...
John McCain!
I didn't realize it during the movie, but now whenever I hear McCain quoted on NPR, all I can picture is the Joker about to hurt someone. I've always thought McCain was a loose cannon, and now it's cemented in my mind.
Melissa
I hope it is clear by now that I also agree with all of you. I just think he did it so frightening and that performance alone was enough (like someone said here) to remind me of Hannibal Lector. My son especially liked the pencil part.
ooooooooh!
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
Great performance.....
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5/23/2011- An utter embarrassment... ticketing failures too many to list.
That was awesome. It might be my new fav magic trick.
I think I'm going to see it for a second time this Friday at the Imax.
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