We all know that Heath Ledger sadly died of an overdose last year when filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
The resulting loss meant that an actor with outstanding potential couldn't use his performance in The Dark Knight as a benchmark to elevate his career.
Ever since then, plenty of people have however decided to jump on the Heath Ledger bandwagon and literally mourned at the poor guy’s feet. Yes we did refer to him as that bummer cowboy, but so what? We had a vague idea of his previous career before his death unlike most people. Still, news continues to leak out about his apparent depressive nature even before The Dark Knight was filmed. Hold on tight for the most pointless thing you\’ll read all day.
As soon as it was sadly announced that Heath Ledger had died, plenty of people decided that The Dark Knight came out, it would be deserving for him to win an Oscar in 2009. Consequently, plenty of people have launched pointless Facebook groups to try and make this happen.
But would this have happened if he had been alive and well? Probably not, we think, as we don't see anyone screaming out for Slumdog Millionaire‘s director Danny Boyle to grab his first Oscar for his recent effort. Probably because he's alive and well and still making films.
The Golden Globes did see Heath clinch an award, which is all good and well, but with Oscar season coming round will he get an award based on performance, or the good old sympathy vote? Because The Golden Globes did so shit in the TV ratings, it would make sense to give him the award to make the network happy for the Oscars, but then again we don't know how the bigwigs of the TV world think.
Despite passing away in 2008, we are now getting some stories from all the way back in? 2005 about the poor guy. Are people that obsessed with the dead? It seems so as the producer of gay cowboy flick Brokeback Mountain has strangely decided to let us know how Heath was feeling during the film.
Do we care? No not particularly as it was during a time when he was just another actor amongst the thousands of people trying to make a name for themselves. Luckily for him, his pansy antics got everyone in Hollywood excited. However, it seems he wasn?t the happiest of bunnies back then when the film was being made. They say that Heath felt:
?Alone and isolated. I think it was his sense of not getting the kind of warm support.?
There you go. He felt a bit lonely and needed a friend. Will we be seeing multiple chain emails and Facebook groups started up now that this fact has been blown wide open to our attention?
Probably not, although maybe it's true what they say about dying and becoming more famous afterwards as more people babble on about your legacy.
Or as in the case of Heath Ledger, film fans who want to look like they supported him from the very beginning of his shitastic debut in Clowning Around.
Go on, think about it?
RMA says
I guess I don’t see why it’s so necessary to rail against the guy getting an award. I think it’s shitty that all you can do is go on and on about how he didn’t earn his Oscar or Golden Globe. Do you expect to be nominated, and you’re afraid he’ll take it away from you? What’s it to you, then? More bitterness, more anger – and it doesn’t matter because he’s still dead, and he’ll still be getting an Oscar. So shut your trap.
dean says
hey buddy, just because you dont care about heath as much as some other people do, doesnt mean that you have to pay out oj the fact that people want to know about how he passed away, and the reasons for him getting to the point of where he did… heath ledger was a huge part of australian cinema, and its natural for people to be curious about how he died
and as far as a post-humous oscar goes, he deserves it juat as much as he would if he was still with us.
i think its more disrespectful to publish an article like this than for his fans to look into how heath spent the last few years of his career.
grow up buddy
Chelsea says
I was never really a heath ledger fan, I must admit. The only movie of his that I had ever seen was A Knight’s Tale, and I didn’t even know that he was the main character lol. I also knew that he was in 10 Things I Hate About You. So, I sort of labeled him as a hollywood pretty boy with no real talent, even if I had never seen that film. But then I saw The Dark Knight…I knew that I would like it because I’ve always liked the batman movies. Also, I knew that heath was in it and the notion of seeing an actor who was now dead perform sort of intriged me. I walked out of that movie theater amazed. Since then I have seen many of his films, and I have become infatuated and saddened that I had never noticed him before, and to be honest, I feel kind of guilty. I don’t think that he deserves and oscar simply because he is dead. He deserves it because when you see him in The Dark Knight, you feel his insanity and you are truely afraid of him and you are mezmorized by his performance. It’s been a long time, if not the only time, that an actor playing a character has made me feel like that. That is was actors are supposed to do. He did his job, and he did it well, so give him the fucking oscar lol…
Joke Police says
yeah fucking lol
Matteo di Magno says
Okay, I admit… alot of people paid attention more closely cause he died, yes…. but you seem overly bitter, actually jealous of these “band wagon” fans” with the way you talk…. and yes..
I agree… I love film, i love watching instinctual actors… and yes… I think he’s gotten more praise cause he’d died, .. but DUHH…..
haven’t you seen history before…?
Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Bruce Lee, JFK, …. Jesse James, Billy the Kid,
fuck, Hitler… come on, duh… duh .. duh…. yes.. he’s deserved, everything his intense acting has received, and anyone jumping on the Heath “wagon” .. is a “normal”human” afraid of DEATH.. and Loves life, like any intense artist…. or actor…
Carolyn says
Oh, and look! people even took time out their day to read your sh*tty article SOLELY because it’s about Heath Ledger. Way to suck off the teet of his good name. They certainly didn’t flock to your sagacious prose because of YOUR name, considering you have yet to make one for yourself with your lame writing talent, Matthew Whatsyerface.
Kathleen says
Heath was an amazing actor like no one else. He deserved an Oscar for his portray as Enis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain. Then he continued on to surprise us with the Joker! He was just brilliant and unique. It is just a tragic that he is not going to make any movies any more. Oscar or not, he was the best.
Anna says
My best friend and I didn’t know Heath Ledger was dead (or even who he was) when we saw the movie. And we thought he was the best acting performance we’d ever seen! No one can act that crazy without looking a bit fake. But Heath Ledger pulled it off. It’s not that he died- it’s that his performance was better than the best. At least in our perspective.