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.

Dude, don't come into the topic to post shit like this. I'm genuinely upset about his death both as a fan of his and as an Australian in general. You have every right to not understand how people feel about it but to come in here and post that is bullshit.

Jeebus, I'm Australian and this hits fairly hard in terms of our acting scene in Hollywood. He was a pretty great actor - I really liked him in Brokeback Mountain, Blackrock and 10 Things I Hate About You (hey, it was decent for a romantic comedy) and I heard he was also great in Candy. The saddest thing is how young he was, and how little of his potential he'd realised in the time he was alive. The film world will miss him.

It's just a pretty shocking death - one that actually hits home. Piss off and go be an elitist somewhere else PandaBear. He hardly had any of the celebrity 'drama' which seems to personify many of them so it's not like anyone worshipped him like that. A good member of any medium should be grieved, especially one with a lot of potential that died young.

why aren't you upset about the thousands of aborigines forced to live in poverty by your govt

That's so unrelated it's retarded.

Also does anyone know what type of pills killed him? 'Sleeping pills' is pretty damn vague.

The thing about Heath Ledger was that he was beginning to emerge as a serious actor - even hints of it showed back with his supporting role in Monster's Ball and up to his last performance (other than Joker) as Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There". But he really did have the potential to pull off daring performances - all the acclaim and accolades he got for Brokeback Mountain alone could show that - and I really thought he should won the Best Actor Oscar that year instead of just being nominated. To PandaBear, I do believe it takes an artist to form a poignant, full-fleshed character out of a 20-page source material as Ledger did in BBM. He really did pull that role off, man, and moved a lot of people with it - how is that not being an artist? And it's a shame we cannot see him do it again in the future.

So I'd put him above 'average actor' and it's always sad when talent like this is lost.

That's so unrelated it's retarded.

no it isn't

some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day

Holy fucking shit, I remember reading about him yesterday and now HOLYSHIT, A FEW HOURS AFTER THAT HE'S DEAD



ghhghggh adsgasdfasgdfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh


Rest in peace, Heath Ledger......

no it isn't

some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day

Oh -please- stop acting like -you- do.

This topic is about heath, if we wanted to talk about 80% of the worlds population then we would make a topic and then by all means spill your heart out, but its not.

Ledger's probably done alot more things to do with charity then you mate anyway.

some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day

Who are you to make that judgment? What a fucking presumptuous generalisation. You have no idea how anyone here feels about that issue, so to bring it up like that is so fucking incorrect that I honestly don't know what to say to you.

you know, it'd be nice to have one death topic where this didnt happen.

I can't decide who needs to shut up more, so uh....

Don't talk about aborigines..... and if you don't want to write your own poetic representation of your love for Heath Ledger in this topic, then please don't post or you'll incite VIOLENCE.

I saw this on the news last night, this is incredibly sad. I really respected Ledger as an actor and a person, and for him to go so young is a real tragedy. =(

no it isn't

some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day

When did I ever say I didn't give a shit?

The thread is about Heath Ledger dying, not about the state of aboriginal affairs in Australia. It's dismal, I know, but bringing it up as some kind of defense for a stupid comment is totally out of place in this context.

The aborigine issue is something a hell of a lot deeper than Heath Ledger dying - don't put words in my mouth (or on my screen).

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))).

I see what you mean. But I think many of us are sad about his death because he was (in our opinion, and at least mines) a promising actor and many of us were looking forward to his upcoming performance as the Joker, and what else he was capable of. Of course when a celebrity dies you'll have people shuffling around all teary eyed like their dog just got ran over, but many people I've spoken to are disappointed because he died before his acting talent could be realized one way or the other.

hahah all the ads are for grief counseling.



w00t

I still think it's sad in the sense that he was a dude who was achieving his life's goal of becoming a famous actor and even if we don't want to become actors I'm sure there's things we all aspire to and meanwhile shitty people like the producers of Epic Movie are unharmed

so it's more like HOPES AND DREAMS have died a little

oh please, not them again, I can't believe these people are still able to do shit like that.
I?m really sad the Heath, I liked his role on brokeback, and was looking to his role as the joker...

Fucking american hick ass sons of fuking inbred bitch ass mutha fucks.

What a bunch of jesus dicksuckers.

I hear they "picket" soldiers funerals too.

yeah, I can't believe they still allow them to do that.

oh shit, it's those people again



seriously now what

Jesus fucking Christ, they have fucking crossed the line time and time again, and yet....
I don't get it. You Americans can buy guns right? I mean, you can LEGALLY PURCHASE THINGS THAT CAN KILL,
yet you use them on 1000-pound hogs instead of these guys? Fuck. Ffffffuck.

EDIT:

yeah, I can't believe they still allow them to do that.

EXACTLY MY POINT


EDIT2:
Wikipedia links this image to an article on freedom of speech. This is a pretty fucking serious issue!

EDIT3:
After long hours of meditating I have concluded that the best way to deal with them is to refrain from paying any attention to them

or just beat the shit out of them, that would probably work also.

I know violence doesn't solve anything, but when someone is showing that much disrespect and hate at someone else's funreal, mocking the death of that human being and stating that the person is now "roting in hell" and "defying gods word" with surviving family members and friends present, for Christ sake they deserve to get a good beating.