DACrowe
Avenger
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What was the point of this vid? At first I agreed with them that the movie is being marketed too heavily on Ledger's death in media circuits not related to WB directly or the marketing team for this movie at least and the hype is too much around his death in the mainstream. But they're saying people who didn't like his casting shouldn't have the right to like his performance? Or people who say he was a great talent are stupid and full of it? I would never say he could've been the next Brando or Pacino as we will never know (albeit both fizzled out. I'd think he'd want to be the next DeNiro over either of them). I will say he can be comparable to James Dean. Ledger has turned in a handful of great performances in his short career and was nominated for an Oscar already. How is it bad to note he was a talented man?
I think he is a very good actor who died way too young and a great rising potential actor was taken from us. It is sad. But what are they doing if the "media is so dangerous" other than perpetuating what they hate. Obsessing over Ledger. They haven't even really talked about the movie, just Ledger's death. If the performance deserves an Oscar nomination, which I think it does, we SHOULDN'T give it to him because "he wasn't good enough when he was alive?!?!" WTF kind of sense does that make? He obviously was good enough with already one Oscar nomination under his belt. Yeah in 1-4 years people won't be waving Heath banners (which is ridiculous, I give them that). They won't be in six months. But life moves on. There is a difference between showing respect and obsessively "mourning." I understand the disdain for the latter but they essientially said you cannot praise the performance without being blinded by the tragedy of it. I disagree.
I think he is a very good actor who died way too young and a great rising potential actor was taken from us. It is sad. But what are they doing if the "media is so dangerous" other than perpetuating what they hate. Obsessing over Ledger. They haven't even really talked about the movie, just Ledger's death. If the performance deserves an Oscar nomination, which I think it does, we SHOULDN'T give it to him because "he wasn't good enough when he was alive?!?!" WTF kind of sense does that make? He obviously was good enough with already one Oscar nomination under his belt. Yeah in 1-4 years people won't be waving Heath banners (which is ridiculous, I give them that). They won't be in six months. But life moves on. There is a difference between showing respect and obsessively "mourning." I understand the disdain for the latter but they essientially said you cannot praise the performance without being blinded by the tragedy of it. I disagree.