[pcottraux]

Hope no one minds me posting this, but it's helped me deal with my own feelings on Heath Ledger's death. There's nothing like seeing someone so young and full of promise go like this to remind us of our own mortality.

But Ledger played a character that's near and dear to any Batman fan, and from what we've all read and heard, he treated the Joker role with respect. He could have done what any Hollywood actor would have done and said "Oh, hey! I get to be like Jack Nicholson and put on clown clothes and shoot at Batman!" Instead, he actually delved into the mythos, studied and read the comic books, and from everything we've heard, delivered a stellar performance that made the character his own. For this, I salute him!

We'll have to wait till July 18 to see The Dark Knight's Joker on-screen, but till then, I created this little memorial/tribute to the character and the man who played him.

R.I.P., Heath Ledger!

[Mr. Blonde]

It is truly a shame to see someone who had so much talent go so soon. Especially when he had just reached the point to really show us what he had. He had come a long way from 10 Things I Hate About You. It would have been nice to see where he was headed after this.

[Fledermaus]

Thanks for the post. I’ve been out of the loop for a while. I was stunned. It’s always hard to hear of someone so young dying a needless death.

I hope Nolan now thinks differently about the film as he edits the final cut. I think he’ll have a lot of fans of Batman and Ledger wanting more and plenty of others that will watch for the first time. No reason to let studio execs make time decisions for more screens and money and then give us a “directors cut” on DVD.