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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Janos on January 22, 2008, 04:15:29 pm
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... Heath Ledger is dead. (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.html)
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just read the article about it. really tragic becasue he was really an talented actor. and he looked really good as joker in the upcoming batman movie
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I hope this isn't truly inappropriate, but I couldn't help but think...
What better way to promote the new Batman than to publicise the death of the Joker...
Of course, assuming he really is dead, that sucks.
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I hope this isn't truly inappropriate, but I couldn't help but think...
What better way to promote the new Batman than to publicise the death of the Joker...
Of course, assuming he really is dead, that sucks.
that would be, like, the most amazingly tasteless viral marketing campaign ever, dude
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Why so serious?
Sorry.
I'm really sorry.
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that would be, like, the most amazingly tasteless viral marketing campaign ever, dude
But it'd work.
****ing Batman.
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It's a real shame that he died, quite young and alot of potential.
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****ing Batman.
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Not to sound like a callous douche, but did he finish filming Batman?
Anyway, he was a good actor. It's quite sad that I remember him for Knight's Tale and not some of his more serious work.
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According to the news he just wrapped up work on the new Batman movie. Which is good for the movie assuming they go ahead and show it...I imagine they would but I don't know if something like this has happened in recent memory. I guess the best thing to do to honour the actors memory is to get the movie out and show them doing what they presumably loved to do.
Its a shame...a promising career cut short. Rest in peace.
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The Wikipedia entry said that his role as the Joker was causing him some kind of sleep trouble, maybe due to the stress.
I know that sleep trouble leads to depression. I wonder if there was a link?
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Ledger told The New York Times in a November interview that he "stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film, and had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy."
"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told the newspaper. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which only worked for an hour, the paper said.
Either a suicide or he was so desperate for a good night's sleep that took one sleeping pill too many.
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that officially sucks arse... he was a good actor
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Ah yes, method acting... it's how to get paid for being bat**** insane.
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According to the news he just wrapped up work on the new Batman movie. Which is good for the movie assuming they go ahead and show it...I imagine they would but I don't know if something like this has happened in recent memory. I guess the best thing to do to honour the actors memory is to get the movie out and show them doing what they presumably loved to do.
Its a shame...a promising career cut short. Rest in peace.
Brandon Lee treatment, also, TDK is in post-production phase so we'll see Heath in his final role (as a killer clown fighting against a superhero who dresses as a bat, THAT should convince everyone).
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Am I the only one who never was impress with him as an actor?
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Am I the only one who never was impress with him as an actor?
How come you disagree on everything with everybody?
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I don't know. I'm more bothered by the fact that he seems to think whether he liked the man's acting is at all significant.
It's a damn shame no matter how you look at it.
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Pity his last movie had to be his only good one. Assuming The Dark Knight is good.
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Pity his last movie had to be his only good one. Assuming The Dark Knight is good.
You have seen Brokeback Mountain, right?
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Am I the only one who never was impress with him as an actor?
Yes.
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Am I the only one who never was impress with him as an actor?
How come you disagree on everything with everybody?
Because I hate you all?
I'm more bothered by the fact that he seems to think whether he liked the man's acting is at all significant.
I never said that. Nothing significant has been said in this whole thread at all. And very little in the whole forums. It's all a cacaphony of our thought and opinions - ergo, not significant to anyone except for maybe the person posting the said thoughts.
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Here comes the philosopher king to teach us in his infinite wisdom what life is. We thank you.
On topic:
It is really a shame. He was only six years older than I, never seems to have pissed off anyone, and he ends up dead. I read on another forum people posting that it bugged them but they didn't know why.
I think it paints a bleak picture for all of us remaining really. If he couldn't make it, a good looking talented father like him, what kind of a chance do the rest of us have. I mean it really bugs me, and I didn't even know the man, and have only seen like two of his movies.
Sad day.
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I saw on one board someone suggest it was 'Gods Punishment' to him for portraying a homosexual. I'm pleased to say that person got flamed into insensibility.
I never really saw much of his work, but it is a sad story nonetheless, especially if it was by accident.
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Yeah, I saw the posters the insane church groups have put up on their sites, they will (providing its public) picket his burial with the anti homosexual messages and how he deserved it blah blah blah.
Those people are just sad.
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Am I the only one who never was impress with him as an actor?
How come you disagree on everything with everybody?
Because I hate you all?
Now, now! Be a good christian, love thy neighbour and all that! :lol:
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I'm going to return to the cause of his death, and wager that in the next few months we'll hear a lot of stories from those close to him about how poorly he was sleeping, how exhausted he was, how he seemed to be running himself into the ground.
I've had some personal experience with sleep issues and stress, and read a few journal articles on the side. It's going to color my view of The Dark Knight (not in a negative way, but in a melancholy way), knowing that his role, or something close to it, probably killed him.
I'm not arguing that the insanity and depravity of the Joker character drove him to suicide, which would be mildly ridiculous. But if he already had a disposition towards depression, the sleep issues he'd been reporting are probably directly responsible for mental collapse and suicide.
...unless it was something totally different. My speculation is getting a bit overheated.
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Am I the only one who never was impress with him as an actor?
How come you disagree on everything with everybody?
Because I hate you all?
That's Goober's job. :nervous:
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That's Goober's job. :nervous:
Obviously, he isn't hating you buggers enough. I'm taking over.
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That's Goober's job. :nervous:
Obviously, he isn't hating you buggers enough. I'm taking over.
But serious hating requires administrative capabilities.
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Hi!
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/me waves
<--- Not an admin, but that just means I try harder :p
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/me waves at Thunder
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Hi!
quick
hate something
anything
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/me reconsiders his statement carefully while slowly backing away
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quick
hate something
anything
**** you!
;)
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quick
hate something
anything
**** you!
;)
That's racist
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Oh honestly, In thread lamenting someone's death?
Oh, HLP... :rolleyes:
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Oh honestly, In thread lamenting someone's death?
Oh, HLP... :rolleyes:
A thread named 'GOD DAMNED BATMAN'? I'm as sad to hear of it as anyone, but humans will be humans, and, quite frankly, as long as no-one insults the man, there's no law about mourning threads having to be morbid.
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Oh redsniper...
...why so serious?
(sorry sorry sorry, I'm sick.. I have a horrible cold and I can't think straight... sorry...)
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I totally made that joke already! I am so the Mr. Cellophane of this board!
*overdoses on pills*
Sorry again.
God damn I can't stop.
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You two are soooo going to Hell. :p
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In all seriousness (I know, right?!), this does seem to be the stuff legends are made of in the acting world. I mean, there seems to be a good chance that his performance as the Joker will be one of the greats of movie history. Combine that with the public perception that he literally died for this role, and you have a story that will be used to emotionally manipulate the masses for generations to come. (And I mean that in the best way possible).
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Oh honestly, In thread lamenting someone's death?
Oh, HLP... :rolleyes:
Death is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Not to mention natural. And let's not forget that it's quite common. People die all the time. Even now. And right now. If we stop to mourn and pity every foddamn people that die, it takes time. Let's move on.
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And I don't think anyone even knew the guy.