10:05AM Defamer Hollywood | The AP’s Dave Germain has quite the
feverish, myth-churning Heath Ledger tribute making the rounds today, positioning the late actor’s final film
The Dark Knight as “arguably the biggest movie featuring a posthumous role in Hollywood history.” But don’t get your hopes up! The A-list parade of Ledger devotees that follows keeps his subtlety and charm as the Joker in ever-modest perspective:
“It was punk, it was
A Clockwork Orange, it was druggie. It was this kind of fantastic, anarchic look to him. This character who had absolutely no rules whatsoever,” said Christian Bale, who returns as rich guy Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman. “That’s not like any Joker I’ve ever seen before, what I saw Heath do.” …
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