whether or not Heath Ledger wins the Oscar Best Supporting Actor award on February 22, would you join this petition to retire the Joker character from future Bat-movies out of respect to Ledger's dead-on performance?
i won't.
with all due respect to these Ledger fans, and to the man himself, may he rest in peace, the Joker is a rich character integral to the Batman lore (and whether we see it that way or not, is the polar opposite of Batman). the comics will never run out of Joker stories, but denying that character to potentially-good Dark Knight sequels will do a disservice to the Bat-fans, and the moviegoing public in general.
i myself would rather have Ledger be alive today and stand onstage at the Kodak Theatre for a marvelous evening holding that trophy aloft, and reprise the role in a year or two or whenever, and topping himself. i'm sure, being an actor who never sits on his laurels, given the global reaction to his performance, Ledger would drive himself further to equal or surpass this performance.
or he may chose to decline the role (if he feels he can't do justice to it), in which case then, we may put the unlucky bastard who takes the role under such intense pressure that he effs up.
or that unlucky bastard, mindful of what the role means and the brief legacy that comes with it, plumbs the depths of his soul and rises with a spectacular Joker performance that even Heath would stand up and applaud.
all i'm saying is, why deny us the Joker?
Mr. Ledger would not approve.
i won't.
with all due respect to these Ledger fans, and to the man himself, may he rest in peace, the Joker is a rich character integral to the Batman lore (and whether we see it that way or not, is the polar opposite of Batman). the comics will never run out of Joker stories, but denying that character to potentially-good Dark Knight sequels will do a disservice to the Bat-fans, and the moviegoing public in general.
i myself would rather have Ledger be alive today and stand onstage at the Kodak Theatre for a marvelous evening holding that trophy aloft, and reprise the role in a year or two or whenever, and topping himself. i'm sure, being an actor who never sits on his laurels, given the global reaction to his performance, Ledger would drive himself further to equal or surpass this performance.
or he may chose to decline the role (if he feels he can't do justice to it), in which case then, we may put the unlucky bastard who takes the role under such intense pressure that he effs up.
or that unlucky bastard, mindful of what the role means and the brief legacy that comes with it, plumbs the depths of his soul and rises with a spectacular Joker performance that even Heath would stand up and applaud.
all i'm saying is, why deny us the Joker?
Mr. Ledger would not approve.
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