The Dark Knight In Heath We Trust: A Ledgerbration: The TDK Joker Appreciation Thread

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Unused footage of Heath Ledger as The Joker!!!

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JonnyQ said:
Those 2 links were really heartbreaking.
Man. I miss him and I didn't even know him!

All I'll say is that the Joker is one of the best performances I've ever seen in my life.
And as Daniel Day Lewis once said, his performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback was beautiful.
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Yep, his performances in Brokeback and TDK were both great examples of tour de force acting.
 
saw this awesome manip in the tdk manip thread

It definatley belongs in here,:csad::yay:
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thumbs up to the creator :word:
 
New Heath article at EW, with quotes from friends and colleagues:

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html?cnn=yes

Charles Roven, producer, The Dark Knight and Brothers Grimm: After Brokeback, everyone wanted Heath to do everything. His agent heard we were starting to cast the Joker and he said Heath was looking for something that would be the opposite extreme from Brokeback and he'd love to kick around the idea. Chris and producer Emma Thomas and I all thought that was great. We made sure Heath understood this was a huge summer tentpole, where you really need the whole publicity machine working. We laid out right away what you're in for when you do a movie like this. You've got to be prepared to see your image in a store as a doll. We couldn't have a situation where he goes, ''Oh my God, I didn't know I had to do that!'' He got it.

Alexander: When I called Heath and said Chris Nolan is looking for a new style of Joker and really wants somebody to collaborate on the character with — I mean, Heath didn't even pause. It was like ''Yes, I've got to do that! Get me in a room tomorrow!'' He thought, Here's an opportunity to do a big, fun summer tentpole movie, but I get to do it on my own terms, playing a really dark, f---ed up character that you wouldn't in most cases find in a big movie like that.

Pecorini: Heath knew The Dark Knight would take him off the market for a long time and he loved that. He was going back to the mainstream cinema he was trying to escape, but it was giving him a way out from everything else.

Alexander: Heath liked to torture me, in a playful way. He'd say, ''I'm going to disappear after The Dark Knight.'' He knew this movie would bring tremendous opportunity and that I'd want him to go to work with some great filmmaker — and he'd want to disappear.

Gary Oldman, costar, The Dark Knight: I kind of raised my eyebrow at the casting and thought, Oh, I wonder how that will be. But any concerns that one may have had vanished when you got on the set with him. I did a couple of scenes with Heath in the first leg of the shoot in London. I called a friend and he said, ''How's Heath?'' I said, ''He's breathtaking. He's going to be astounding.'' I could tell just working for five minutes with him.

Emma Thomas, producer, The Dark Knight: The minute Heath started doing make-up and wardrobe tests, we realized it was going to be something really special. I remember doing a fitting where he put on that pink nurse's dress and he had the Joker's socks on and it changed the way he moved completely. Right from the beginning, people were talking about this as an Oscar-worthy performance.

Pecorini: When he came to me with the first makeup test of the Joker, I said, ''S---, man, they're going to fire you!'' And he said, ''Maybe, but that's the only way I can play it.'' Movie studios are scared of daring. They're scared of pushing the envelope. And Heath was exactly the opposite. He was always pushing, pushing, pushing. It was in his nature to push the boundaries.

Gilliam: Heath was exhilarated by playing the Joker. He said, ''I'm able to do things I never believed were inside me.'' He's working with great actors, like Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart, and he'd say, ''I go into these scenes, and they can't do anything to me!'' He used to just giggle that he had found a character that was impregnable. They could beat him, hit him, and it wouldn't make a difference because he was so utterly wacko. It freed him up and got him out of that uncertainty after Brokeback. It was just, ''Let's go. Let's fly.'' And he flew.

Roven: I showed Heath the first six minutes of The Dark Knight, the bank heist sequence, on an IMAX screen in London. I said, ''You have to see this. You haven't seen yourself be the Joker!'' He watched it, and it just blew his mind. He was so thrilled, he was just laughing. He said, ''I want to see it again!'' It's not an easy thing to rethread an IMAX, so it took about 15 minutes but we showed it to him again. That was the last time I saw him.
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Hilariously enough, he probably would have hated all of the attention the Joker role has gotten:

Pecorini: Heath was extremely relieved he didn't win the Oscar. I saw him the next day and he was like, ''It's a big, bloody weight off my back.'' I said, ''Don't you have even a little regret?'' He said, ''No. It's over! I'm free now!'' If he had won, he would have had to deal even more with this system that wanted to guide his career and his life. He immediately threw himself back into a project that was really important to him: a movie he wanted to make about ['60s British singer] Nick Drake. That was one of his dream projects. The moment the Oscars were over, he said, ''Now we can do the Nick Drake thing.''

Gilliam: The Oscar nomination wasn't a good thing. I think it's a terrible thing to be nominated. That's a punishment for having been good. There was a period after Brokeback where Heath just didn't know which way to go. He would sign up for this and that and then pull out. That year was confusing for him.

Alexander: I think on a really basic level, Heath thought, 'I'd rather not be the guy who wins the Academy Award really young and then has to live up to that. I want to be a little freer, I don't want to make choices based on something I'm trying to hold onto.' Brokeback was really a charmed experience. He met Michelle and had Matilda, his performance was so revered by all the critics — what do you follow that up with?
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I dunno, after a year....It's a shame that we lost a fine actor, and it's a real damn shame for his daughter that he's gone. But, I also sort of feel that all this was meant to be. Cosmic poetry, if you will. If an actor could choose how to go out with a bang, this was it.
 
LOL just went back a few pages and obviously, I'm late. :o

Whatever, it needed to be reposted! :woot:
 
This thread is not closed yet? It's time to move on and let the man RIP already. :(
 
BatSpider said:
No, were just praising his work and himself

no need to be angry at that.....
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I'm not angry... that was a sad face smilie icon I used.

But I understand, just felt it's time to let him go and move own. People die everyday, famous, well liked people as well. Let him RIP, he will always be remembered.
 
Venom'sDad said:
I'm not angry... that was a sad face smilie icon I used.

But I understand, just felt it's time to let him go and move own. People die everyday, famous, well liked people as well. Let him RIP, he will always be remembered.
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Oh im sorry, I didnt know that was a time limit to enjoy and compliment someones life :whatever::whatever:
 
Yea it's a shame heath isn't alive today to recieve all this praise for his performance

I wonder if he saw the final cut of the film ?
 
He only saw the IMAX bank sequence, unfortunately.
 
ChocheTheHero said:
Unused footage of Heath Ledger as The Joker!!!

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This would be so much better if someone didn't put that wretched music with it. Why does the joker have a mall metal soundtrack, I know hes big at hot topic, but geez.

It's so enjoyable to see more of him though. I really enjoyed the footage.
 
yea you go on youtube and most of the joker tribute vids have heavy metal/rap music

its pretty sad
 
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