Our BetterMost Community > Chez Tremblay

Heath Heath Heath

<< < (1124/1792) > >>

optom3:
Mr Bale can now do no wrong in my eyes after all the lovely things he said about Heath !!!

I love that he wants to talk about Heath because he misses him.What a truly honest thing to say.

Mikaela:
Letterman has seen TDK, and comments on it in the below linked clip.

It's a pretty boring and shallow "review", though very positive -  he doesn't exactly seem to have known much if anything about the film before going in to see it.

But wow! does he have positive things to say about Heath - he basically says Heath Ledger *is* the movie (apart from Batman's motorcycle), and they could just have made a separate film with Batman and his friends and let the Joker rule this one alone... he says that as the film goes by whenever the Joker re-appears, there's just this tremendous "thank goodness!" feeling because Heath's so incredibly good.

This praise of Heath and the Joker starts at 2:25 in the following YouTube clip:

Mikaela:
Clarissa, thank you so much for the lengthy interview with Heath.  :-*

Very interesting and *very* Heath - they've pretty much written what he said verbatim, it seems - so it's easy to hear him talking.

The only thing that confused me, was that early on he says he hasn't seen anything of the film, hasn't seen himself as the Joker - actually acting him, that is.... and later on he says: ""But yeah it’s a different ballgame, it’s quite amazing, it’s quite jaw dropping, yeah. It’s fun. It’s been a lot of fun watching it."

Hunh?  ???


I see this one interview is (one of the) sources where he says that "it’s the most fun I’ve had, playing a role."

I know around the net there's been a lot of discussion about whether Heath actually had fun with the role or whether the Joker role's requirements and state of mind actually contributed to driving him to a dark place of depression, anxiety and sleeplessness. In my mind, there need not be an either/or about that question. A person can enjoy an activity, task, or job fiercly and completely and therefore gladly spend a lot of time, resources and energy on it - to the point where it becomes severely taxing and draining on mental and physical resources, - and then still keep going while supppressing the stress indicators, because it's all so much fun and so rewarding. I bet that was what happened - Heath enjoyed himself tremendously with the role, but overtaxed his strength and resources while doing so, leading to the troubles that plagued him and probably became more noticable once the role was finished and left a legacy of tension and immense fatigue.... more than just a little recuperation would set right.  :-\

Mikaela:
I am not one for speculating much on this, and the above was the first time I've ever voiced my view on this online. 
In general -  if you are completely drained and have spent all your resources down to the very last drop, it sure takes more than a few weeks to get back to where you were, and to truly "bounce back" - even when spending some relaxing days or weeks back home with the folks. I'm speaking from personal experience here as well as that of people close to  me. So jumping right into the "Imaginarium" filming probably wasn't by any means the best thing for Heath to do, under the circumstances.  :-\ Not that pondering this makes any difference now...

Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: SunShadow on June 26, 2008, 01:06:51 pm ---I think it's important to remember that Heath was actually working on Imaginarium when the unthinkable happened, and TDK had already wrapped a while back.  Whatever he experienced while filming TDK, he had probably gotten past it.

These were at the movie theater on June 21st.



--- End quote ---

Maybe I'm wrong in remembering all the details and timeline, etc.... but, weren't they still in post-production for TDK at the time of Heath's death?  I seem to recall concern about some of the final touch-up recordings especially for vocals that under normal circumstances Heath would be called in to re-record. 

For big, loud movies like this one I know studios often do a lot of post-production audio work to make lines more understandable, expressive, etc.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page