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re: Heath Ledger interview about The Dark Knight, shows his state of mind
Posted on 9/5/19 at 8:51 am to dawgfan24348
Posted on 9/5/19 at 8:51 am to dawgfan24348
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Probably I mean Leto just created a cult so the track record of Jokers isn't great
And, oddly enough, so did that one guy that played in "10 Things I Hate About You" with Heath Ledger...and Joseph Gordon-Levitt...double Batman whammy.
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Posted on 9/5/19 at 8:53 am to BearCrocs
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shite is old
It's tough to get interviews with him nowadays
Posted on 9/5/19 at 9:30 am to Parmen
Or, as others have said, he is just one of many Hollywood actors who look like they are trying to pass a porcupine through their digestive track when they give interviews.
Not everyone is going to be as relaxed as Samuel Jackson and Kiera Knightley when they were discussing bad sex scene faces.
And I seem to recall that Heath wasn't in character the whole time. When the cameras weren't rolling he was a nice guy who went out of his way to hug and joke around with the crew. He rode his skateboard around on the set between takes.
In short, he was a nice guy who played a great villain and who doesn't like giving interviews. Sometimes, most times, it really is just acting.
Not everyone is going to be as relaxed as Samuel Jackson and Kiera Knightley when they were discussing bad sex scene faces.
And I seem to recall that Heath wasn't in character the whole time. When the cameras weren't rolling he was a nice guy who went out of his way to hug and joke around with the crew. He rode his skateboard around on the set between takes.
In short, he was a nice guy who played a great villain and who doesn't like giving interviews. Sometimes, most times, it really is just acting.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 9:54 am to DJ3K
quote:Ledger's Joker was perfect mimicry of singer Tom Waits. Period. They are indistinguishable.
Ledger’s Joker needed to be adapted for Nolan's Batman vision. Heath did not fit into this world nor did his adaptation of movie characters.
Joker/Heath was not eccentric, wild, nor misunderstood like the comic book Joker.
He needed to be certifiably and clinically insane. Joker is the exact opposite of Batman, but Heath's vision was anything but.
Ledger's Joker was the guy who wore white face which bore a resemblance to The Joker in some ways, but that was not him
Many actors get way too much reverence for "crafting" their roles, which most often is undeserved.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 10:47 am to DJ3K
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He needed to be certifiably and clinically insane. Joker is the exact opposite of Batman, but Heath's vision was anything but
I’m speaking about the short interview posted, not the movie. The one where people think Heath says “uh” just like the Joker, not vice versa.
This post was edited on 9/5/19 at 10:48 am
Posted on 9/5/19 at 11:13 am to iwyLSUiwy
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Blowing up a hospital (dressed as a nurse), killing killing a ton of people just to get Batmans attention, actually burning a boatload of money, planting a cell phone inside someones stomach, making two people fight to the death with a pool stick. Those are just a few of the insane things he did along with the way he acted in his normal state, driving with his head out of the window smiling, crazy laughter, grabbing a wine glass and emptying it just to pretend to drink an empty glass, made up story telling, laughing while falling to your death (just a few things off the top of my head). Those things make you certifiable.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 6:17 pm to Ed Osteen
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Ledger's Joker was perfect mimicry of singer Tom Waits.
Impersonating Uncle Tom for awhile would make you go crazy, smoke cigarettes, and drink a lot of coffee late at night.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 6:45 pm to blueboy
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Ledger's Joker was perfect mimicry of singer Tom Waits. Period. They are indistinguishable. Many actors get way too much reverence for "crafting" their roles, which most often is undeserved.
I was waiting for someone to post this horse shite. Dismissing Ledger’s creation of his character based on his similarity to a Tom Waits video is fricking ridiculous. Let me know when Frank Caliendo gives an Oscar worthy performance.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 9:05 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Dismissing Ledger’s creation of his character based on his similarity to a Tom Waits video is fricking ridiculous.
Why? He stole someone else's shtick and you guys give him credit for being so original in his joker performance.
Tom Waits interview
Jared Leto's version sucked arse, but at least it his take on the character.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 9:08 pm to Parmen
Man hearing him talk again in his normal Aussie accent got me thinking about a potential Chris Hemsworth team up we never got to see
Posted on 9/5/19 at 9:11 pm to DJ3K
Amazing how you frickers trot out that one interview, instead of the hundred other Wait interviews that are out there.
If you think that Ledger stole that entire character and performance from an interview, you’re just reaching to piss on someone’s success.
If you think that Ledger stole that entire character and performance from an interview, you’re just reaching to piss on someone’s success.
Posted on 9/6/19 at 4:46 am to Fewer Kilometers
Yeah, that's the only time Tom Waits sounded like that. He was frickin Edward R Murrow the rest of the time.
Posted on 9/6/19 at 9:31 am to PowerTool
quote:Here are his appearances on Letterman over a twelve year period. He sounds like Tom Waits in all of them, but he's not doing the "Joker" voice and cadence that you hear in that one Australian interview.
Yeah, that's the only time Tom Waits sounded like that. He was frickin Edward R Murrow the rest of the time.
With all of the Tom Waits fans that saw Dark Knight, not one walked out saying, "Wow, the Joker did a Tom Waits voice the entire film."
And if Ledger based his American accent for the film off of that one interview, how is that in any way lazy or a slight on his work creating a character? Actors pick regions or specific people as a template for their accent all the time. When Charlie Cox got the role of Daredevil he had an American actor friend record his entire script so that he could get the accent and cadence down. Jason Alexander admits that George Costanza was a take on Woody Allen, then switched to Larry David.
It's not like they could've hired Tom Waits to play the Joker and we'd have gotten the same performance.
Posted on 9/6/19 at 11:10 am to Fewer Kilometers
Yeah you didn't watch any of the video you linked.
I clicked and skipped around the 1:46 video and everytime Tom Waits began talk it was clearly where HL got his joker inspiration
I clicked and skipped around the 1:46 video and everytime Tom Waits began talk it was clearly where HL got his joker inspiration
This post was edited on 9/6/19 at 11:13 am
Posted on 9/6/19 at 11:31 am to Michael T. Tiger
quote:What the heck was that about?
Jack warned him...
That video was dark.
This post was edited on 9/6/19 at 11:32 am
Posted on 9/6/19 at 12:09 pm to DJ3K
Did you watch the interview Will Munny posted? Here, I'll save you some time by starting at the key point: YouTube interview with Michael Jai White
Posted on 9/6/19 at 1:37 pm to PowerTool
quote:So White referred to Ledger doing a Tom Waitshish line (Seven years after the news stories came out about Ledger possibly basing his accent on Tom Waits?)
Did you watch the interview Will Munny posted?
It's not like White said this when the movie came out or was recent. His interview is from this year.
Posted on 9/6/19 at 1:41 pm to DJ3K
it's comments like this that make me sad. because i read this, and i know you truly believe it, like it's a passion of yours, and you are so confident. but you're so terribly wrong, and just don't know it.
Posted on 9/6/19 at 4:27 pm to donRANDOMnumbers
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but you're so terribly wrong, and just don't know it.
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