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How is it crazy, exactly?
Reading a script and actually pouring your heart into a roll are two entirely different things.
His characteristics and mannerisms are what made the role so unique and brilliant.
You want to know what's crazy? Saying that any actor could have just come in and read the script and been as good. That's actually just downright disrespectful - to downplay such a brilliant and unique performance that is just pitiful.Comment
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Exactly. I mean, I plan to be The Joker for Halloween this year, and aside from probably the faulty appearance I'll have, I won't nail the mannerisms in any way like Heath did. He wasn't just "reading lines" (except one scene when he was literally reading off a piece of paper), but it's the voice, the laugh, the inflection, the eye stares, the licking lips, the walk, the licking lips, the consistency, the believability, and most of all... the ability to do all of these things at once, and intangibly be the Joker.
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Heth Ledger is the Joker. He puts Nicholson to shame. No one has given us the comic version of the Joker on screen the way Ledger did. It's more than just a shame for comic book fans that he can not do the role again.
I wouldn't be surprised if actors in the future decline taking part in auditions for the role. Knowing that you have Ledger's performance to live up to? Nearly impossible to overcome and that actor will forever be compared to the man that did it best."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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Ledger made the Joker actually seem like he was about to jump out of the screen and 'put a smile on that face.'
Whenever the Joker was on the screen I was always interested into what would happen because you wouldn't of been able to expect what he was going to do. Especially the magic trick when he interrupted the mob meeting.
Whenever he was off of the screen and Hale was on it, I wanted his part to get over just to see the Joker create even more mayhem.On ODogg's and Stewaat's insincere laziness.Originally posted by Altimus GTRComment
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The thing is, other actors have tried and they didn't. So why all of a sudden would they now just because you saw Ledger do it?
This is why Ledger's portrayal is amazing. He was the Joker. This is what people are saying. This is how Joker should have always been played. Yet, he never was. Ledger did it. No one else did. There's nothing crazy about that fact."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Just got back from seeing it. Good movie, great follow up to Batman Begins. While I liked Ledger as the Joker I just don't see why everyone makes such a fuss over the acting job he did. I'll put his acting job on par with Jack's but IMO it's not any better. Bale's deep Clint Eastwood like voice as Batman got on my nerves, I hope he tones it down a bit in the next movie. Overall a good movie that lived up to the hype.I've heard this "patience is a virtue" junk all my life. I'm happy to say I have no virtue, no scruples, and no desire to wait too long for anything. In my humble opinion instant gratification takes too long!
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Very good movie that didn't even seem like it was 2 1/2 hours. Ledger was outstanding as many have said on here. The disappearing pencil trick was classic by him.GT: Herkyalert
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Now here we go, you have been called out for your rebelliousness. How dare you?PS: You guys are great.
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just saw on tv that the dark knight broke the record for a weekend that was held by spidey 3
Take that pared
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d@mn !Comment
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Not just that, but it broke the single day sales record on Day-1. It made 66.5 Million
BTW this movie was simply AMAZING & as soon as I can will see this in IMAXComment
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and that's still with about...7 hours worth of showings left across the country?Comment
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