Heath Ledger’s Chilling Final Bow In ‘The Dark Knight’
So how’s The Dark Knight for goodbyes? Give us anything – Brokeback Mountain’s heartache, Candy’s cautionary tale of – gulp – heroin addiction, even Casanova (OK, not Casanova) – but not the The Dark Knight. Not that disfigured creep in the trenchcoat. Heath’s last words to us can’t be a menacingly growled, “It’s all…part of the plan”. His last note, not “Why so serious?” scrawled across a theatrical one-sheet in fingerpainted blood. Warner Bros. has issued this statement in response to his death:
“The studio is stunned and devastated by this tragic news. The entertainment community has lost an enormous talent. Heath was a brilliant actor and an exceptional person. Our hearts go out to his family and friends.”
The irony, of course, is that The Joker will be one of Heath’s greatest, destined to be referenced first, along with Brokeback, as his legend grows. Still–if the performance wasn’t nightmare-fuel before… (And it was. Just watch that trailer.) Expect an immediate repositioning in the Knight campaign, with Bale’s Cowled Crusader ushered back to front and center, for the time being at least. We need heroes right now.
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All I can think of is, how unfair and heartbreaking. Why is it mostly the good ones?
I personally think this would have been the role that really shot him into the lime light, after hearing he was to play the joker i was a bit optimistic but after seeing the trailer which i downloaded i have watched it nearly 30 times (and that is just today).
I offer my condolences to Michelle and his daughter, i know how they must be feeling as i have a 2 year old daughter and i hate to think of her life without me, Matilda might be a bit young at the moment to understand what is happening at the minute but when she is old enough she will want to know what happened and i feel for the person who has to tell her.
Please keep them all in you prayers
when the dark knight comes out i will be in line to see it and when it is done i will stand up and applaude the efforts of Heath not just for this film but for everything..
R.I.P. Heath Ledger
It’s sad, and I was happy about what he’d accomplished – a bad accident destroyed my acting career, and I’m always pleased when someone who can Method Act be so brilliant, instead of simply reading lines.
I do wonder, about the snoring…if he had Sleep Apnea, you don’t give someone with it sleeping pills, it can stop their breathing! A friend of mine has it, and I caught him not breathing once, and scared me half to death. He now has an C-pap machine I think you call it, to make sure he’s always breathing. It took the doctor a few years to figure it out, and only after a sleep study.
That, or perhaps walking pneumonia, because of the set he had just left in England. But in no circumstance do I think it was drugs. Just sometimes, something happens – I lost 8 friends and family members last year, and it varied from cancer, bloodclot, to a heart attack to a young one riding his bicycle up a hill. You never know when your card is punched.
But what a legacy Heath! I’m sure you’re watching over your daughter from above. Be at peace.