Reminds me of how Bruce Lee died from taking headache tablets or something

What's even more shocking is how Dark Knight reminds me The Crow in some ways
  - Heath's Joker in some way reminds me Brendan Lee's Eric Draven character
  - A stunt man had died filming TDK and a whole gang of mishaps happened during The Crow (not many similarities there, but yeah, cursed film set).

I'm glad that he finished his scenes for the Joker in TDK, because looking at his prescence in the trailers I knew he was going to be the highlight of the film. It's just an unexpected shock that he died, and his career was so promising.

I've never understood why people put so much emotional investment into celebrities. From reading the posts in this topic, it seems like there are people who are genuinely upset about his passing beyond the simple tragedy of young death.

It isn't as if this person was some sort of savior or saint. He was simply an entertainer. It would be more understandable if he was a musician or an artist whose unique perspective and method were forever lost, but he was simply a screen actor. He was notable for performing the plays of others in one of the more base and simple mediums available. So, what I'm seeing here is people grieving over the fact that they won't be able to see his mildly attractive mug on the silver screen anymore, since I can't imagine that he had any sort of particularly profound impact on the "art" of acting.

actually actors ARE artists with unique methods, believe it or not.  maybe less so in recent hollywood movies, but there is as much art behind acting as there is music.

alright wackfiend is megagay and we all know this so


MOVING ON

alright wackfiend is megagay and we all know this so


MOVING ON

Yeah, emotions and feelings are queer and stuff. Let's go bang some chicks.

I'm gonna miss Ledger, despite my not liking him as the Joker.

I was the ONLY person to know who he was at work today (lol greasemonkeys), and after explaining to everyone what he's been involved in, the general opinion was that god had struck him down for "doing bubbleboy in the ass."


It's really gonna suck watching Batman knowing that the best actor in the movie (save morgan freeman) is no more.

yeah i think maybe you are confusing a lack of feelings (although really this does not bother me any more than any other random stranger's death that i hear about on an almost daily basis.  what kind of reaction do you expect?  SUCKS but i did not know him and thousands of people die every day so what am i supposed to say when he was mostly an average actor?) with our amusement over wackfiend being "d... distraught" and wandering listlessly around his hometown at the news of heath ledger's death until finally, finding that his feet had carried him home of their own volition, he came inside and put up a joker avatar as a symbol of the undying respect he feels for the actor and the goofy comic book characters he portrayed so well


although honestly i am kind of bothered a little bit by quotes like "a great man, loved by everyone" and "so speechless it hurts."  REALLY dudes?  it's heath ledger guys, not henry fonda.  he did a knight's tale.  it just strikes me as odd how random okay actor overdosing on sleeping pills is somehow being received as "tragic......" when even by the standards of cinema this isn't an especially big loss, let alone by the standards of ACTUAL TRAGEDY (ie things that matter (FUCK CELEB WORSHIP FUCK HOLLYWOOD FUCK THE MEDIA (ALSO CORPORATIONS))).