I don’t know about any of you…but, the pictures of Heath Ledger as The Dark Knight creep me out. I remember the days of the old Batman series and the joker was funny and mischievous. With the release date of July 18th, The Dark Knight, which is the latest release in the trail of Batman movies…I feel a bit disturbed.
Heath Ledger is the actor who portrays the Joker in this movie, The Dark Knight. Heath died in January of this year of what is believed to be an accidental drug overdose. In this movie, Heath plays the joker who is seriously disturbed; and, has been described as deranged by others. The visual look of his character is seriously whacked…he is scary to look at. The Joker is evil in this movie and he looks it as well.
The buzz is beginning to build though that Heath deserves an Oscar nomination for his acting in the supporting actor category. I for one however, have a seriously hard time thinking of watching this movie. I know he is dead, I know that he was a good actor; but, I don’t want to feel like a vulture flying over the corpse of Heath Ledger as i watch the big screen…as well as, paying for the priviledge to do so! He has only been dead for 6 months…not enough time for me to watch it; and, not feel guilty for being entertained by the acting. I just can’t get past the knowledge that for a time it was wondered if he died on purpose or accident; he left a grieving family behind and this is the last movie he was in; and, it is such a morbid character. Am I the only one who feels this way?
Write where you are 
I suspect that the “sympathy vote” will win out, and he’ll get a nomination. It seems to be the way things work.
And if you listen to those who were close to Heath at the time, his behavior was intense, and “difficult.” I suspect that the “Joker” role just intensified all the feelings and emotions he had going on inside him, and may have led to his demise.
Of course, all anyone can do is speculate, at this point.
But, it’s been a boon for toy manufacturers. The action figure of the “Joker” is already a collector’s item.
Tragedy always instills commerce, eh?
At first I did not wanted to see this movie because it look so dark. Come to think of it all the Batman movies are dark. But, in the last week or so I change my mind. I had seen all of the Batman movies. I wanted see this one. But, I do agreed with you a 100% it creep me out. I also heard that Heath Ledger may get a Oscars nomination for this movie. They usually don’t give Oscar to this kind of movie. But, who know.