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The Dark Knight: News, Reviews, your Views. "SPOILERS" welcome!
Penthesilea:
Crossposted from the HHH thread:
Look at the face of the man in the background:
It's Aaron Eckhardt - with a perfect face! :laugh:. But in this scene, he is supposed to have half his face burned off.
This is either a goof in the movie or a promo still.
Fits to the reports that all the damage on his face was done via CGI.
Oh, and then there's this one:
Different guy (?) in bed, and the Joker doesn't wear a medical mask.
Which one is in the movie?
optom3:
I cannot stand this type of film normally.In fact it is the first one I have seen, since taking the kids to Spiderman. I am obviously a bit biased vis a vis Heath, but I do think for the genre, it is pretty good. I relied on my kids opinions and they are still raving about it now, 2 weeks afterwards. Now here's the interesting bit, apart from the batpod, the thing they are raving about is Heath.!!!
I am now officially cool with my kids as they rate him so highly.In fact I was showing them bits of the HHH thread and even the oldest said "way cool he wears Vanns," a particular kind of very cool shoe I am reliably informed !!!
I do not know about other viewers, but seeing TDK has acted as a catalyst for my kids and also some of my friends to go and see more Heath movies.So that just makes it even better in my book. Anything that encourages people to se more Heath films has to be a good thing.
Back to TDK I can almost see through the film to an uneasy sense of twisted reality. How far are we really from anarchy in some parts of the world. I know no one is running around wearing the jokers costume, acting as a sociopath.But we do have people, who to us wear strange/different garb and who are running around the world blowing up things, with very little regard for anyone or anything, other than their own, some would say twisted view of the world.
Sometimes the truth is not so far removed from fiction.
Mikaela:
I ran into an old and rarely-met friend yesterday. He's very interested in films and generally when we meet, we end up talking about the recent films we've seen. This time was no exception, so eventually the talk turned into this:
Him: ...and I've just been to see TDK. Have you seen it?
Me: Yes, I have. What did you think?
Him: Well... didn't like it all that much, characters were not very interesting, bleak and too long, but OMG - The Joker!! - the film was worth seeing for the Joker alone! He was amazing, what a great role, lit up the screen (etc etc for some time.) What an actor this Heath Ledger was!
Me: Yes, he's my favourite actor. And I very much agree about the Joker.
Him: But apparently, he got so impacted by the darkness of the role that he committed suicide....
Me: (Fuming inside! >:( Suffice it to say, I debunked that whole statement in some detail, but managed to stay calm about it.)
Him: Well, he certainly was an amazing actor. I haven't seen much of his other work, haven't even seen Bloke - uhm - Broke -eh...
Me: (so very helpful! ;D ) Brokeback Mountain?
Him: Yes, that's it!
Me: Oh, you've just got to see it. Heath's amazing in it, it's a wonderful film, one of the very best, story and acting alike entirely remarkable. High quality all the way.
Him: Yes, I think I will give it a try...
I don't know whether he'll actually get around to watching it, of course, but anyway - proof positive was had that the Joker makes people consider watching Heath's earlier roles, and BBM of course is high on the list due to the critical acclaim and the Oscar visibility. :)
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on August 27, 2008, 12:18:00 pm ---I ran into an old and rarely-met friend yesterday. He's very interested in films and generally when we meet, we end up talking about the recent films we've seen. This time was no exception, so eventually the talk turned into this:
Him: ...and I've just been to see TDK. Have you seen it?
Me: Yes, I have. What did you think?
Him: Well... didn't like it all that much, characters were not very interesting, bleak and too long, but OMG - The Joker!! - the film was worth seeing for the Joker alone! He was amazing, what a great role, lit up the screen (etc etc for some time.) What an actor this Heath Ledger was!
Me: Yes, he's my favourite actor. And I very much agree about the Joker.
Him: But apparently, he got so impacted by the darkness of the role that he committed suicide....
Me: (Fuming inside! >:( Suffice it to say, I debunked that whole statement in some detail, but managed to stay calm about it.)
Him: Well, he certainly was an amazing actor. I haven't seen much of his other work, haven't even seen Bloke - uhm - Broke -eh...
Me: (so very helpful! ;D ) Brokeback Mountain?
Him: Yes, that's it!
Me: Oh, you've just got to see it. Heath's amazing in it, it's a wonderful film, one of the very best, story and acting alike entirely remarkable. High quality all the way.
Him: Yes, I think I will give it a try...
I don't know whether he'll actually get around to watching it, of course, but anyway - proof positive was had that the Joker makes people consider watching Heath's earlier roles, and BBM of course is high on the list due to the critical acclaim and the Oscar visibility. :)
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Thanks for that story, Mika. You had the perfect approach. ;)
Yes, we Brokies now have a new mission: setting the world straight about Heath, one potential Brokie at a time. :)
optom3:
--- Quote from: Meryl on August 27, 2008, 05:33:16 pm ---
Thanks for that story, Mika. You had the perfect approach. ;)
Yes, we Brokies now have a new mission: setting the world straight about Heath, one potential Brokie at a time. :)
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That's the way forward.I have converted all my family to either Heath or BBM.My oldest and middle sons both very very surprisingly loved BBM.My oldest has in fact, due to a number of things become a real advocate for gays, and his most recent friend is gay.The younger son has always just accepted everyone in a completely non judgemental way.He thought BBM was very sad.Both the boys thought Heath in TDK was off the scale good.
My daughter thinks he is very cute in AKT an 10 things, and I watched Casanova and Candy with my husband.He struggled to see how both films could be the same actor.He of course loved TDK.
Heath has made a movie for everyone really.So my philosophy, is get people to watch one or two of them and then gently lead them by the nose to BBM !!!!!!
Sort of carrot and stick approach, or is it more Pavlovian ?
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