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…

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There are strange decisions, there are odd choices and there are some things that just make you go ‘whubluh?!’ before falling on the floor and vomiting through sheer insanity.

Then there are things that initially confuse, but soon reveal themselves to be not that stupid an idea after all – like making a TV show (and latterly a movie) about shallow, image-obsessed bints with too much money and free time on their hands. Some things in the world are just meant to be.

So why not combine the homoeroticism of a popular movie with the gay-friendly world of theatre? Or to put it another way: why not remake Brokeback Mountain as an opera? Genius. This thing writes itself, seriously. Having said that, there is still going to be a writer involved in the shape of 70-year-old Charles Wuorinen. The aged scribe said:

“Ever since encountering Annie Proulx’s extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so.”

See – it all falls into place now, doesn’t it? By 2013 we can be sat at New York City Opera enjoying the wonder of two men discovering what love truly is, retreating to their mountainous hideaway to explore their new-found take on humanity, all while they bellow incomprehensible garbage at us with all the subtlety of a large, clumsy warthog wearing heavy boots. Walking on eggshells. In a library. We can safely say the operatic production of this is going to be ‘interesting’.

The original movie of Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005 to much critical acclaim and starred Jake “then secretly gay, now just a prettyboy actor” Gylglylglllenhall and Heath “then secretly gay, now dead” Ledger. It got some awards, did some things, made some people think a bit, made some people forgive Ang Lee for his version of The Incredible Hulk and… look: they’re making an operatic version of the film. This strikes hecklerspray as pretty bloody weird.

What are the sex scenes going to be like? We’ll go with intense, for one. Maybe this version will prove more popular in prison though.