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“The film feels more like a crime drama in a grand city scape than a typical comic book movie. It feels like Heat except Batman is Al Pacino and The Joker is Robert De Niro and just like in that film we have a great scene between Heath Ledger and Christian Bale across a table. There is also an element of a Greek Tragedy.. There is a vast sense of morality at play within the film.”
“The Joker is almost more of a terrorist than criminal. He is not motivated by money. He wants to see people suffer.”
“The run time is two and a half hours. It doesn’t feel that long as there is so much going on within the film.”
“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.” One night he took an Ambien, which failed to work. He took a second one and fell into a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing.
Even as he spoke, Mr. Ledger was hard-pressed to keep still. He got up and poured more coffee. He stepped outside into the courtyard and smoked a cigarette. He shook his hair out from under its hood, put a rubber band around it, took out the rubber band, put on a hat, took off the hat, put the hood back up. He went outside and had another cigarette. Polite and charming, he nonetheless gave off the sense that the last thing he wanted to do was delve deep into himself for public consumption. “It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself,” is how he put it, a little apologetically.
"It's made up of three pieces. It's a new technology. It's not a prosthetic. This guy created these silicone pieces and they stamp them on. It's a lot quicker and super flexible. You hardly even know it's on your face. If it were a prosthethic, I'd have to have my whole neck and jaw done."
As regards to how Heath Ledger *seemed* as the Joker, he seemedlike he WAS the Joker, and didn't need to let anyone know it - rather contained, but ready to explode at any moment in an unexpected fashion. Menacing, but more because he seemed like he was probably crazy, and maybe violent, rather than that he was TRYING to scare you. (and by the way, all he did during the scenes I was in was sit in his holding cell, reacting and listening...so, he's a very fine actor if I imbibed all this from just watching him sit there...) He didn't talk a lot between takes, but he also wasn't "Don't approach me!" in his manner - a real pro, in other words.
In short, he seemed just like the Joker SHOULD seem.
Ladies and gents, I give you ... Joker. --- The new Joker that is.
Actually, it's a preliminary shot of actor Heath Ledger in his garb for Warner Bros.' next Batman film, entitled "Batman: The Dark Knight."
Thank the heavens for online film news sites like Harry Knowles' Ain't It Cool News and Garth Franklin's Dark Horizons. AICN is where the original scooper dumped the Ledger pic for all of the web and blogospehere to see. My opinion? Ain't half bad...
A blurry cell phone distance shot was leaked last week and the web was swirling with chatter about Ledger's appearance. Did it look good? Was it real? Was it a stuntman?
Perhaps in an effort to squash some of the pic's initial negative reaction comes the above "newly leaked" photo, courtesy of AICN. On the whole, this new Joker's overall design seems to match the early concept sketches that've been circulating online. And for the most part, pretty good.
But let's be honest. The Joker is a hard villain to pull off. In concept, the clown-like criminal mastermind can be presented on film quite easily. All you need is a purple suit, green hair dye, red lipstick and proverbial clown face. You don't need much. That's as easy as it gets, though. The true effectiveness of any incarnation of The Joker lies with actor. He has to become Joker. I'll go on record - Jack Nicholson made a shitty Joker. Ask any real comic book fan. He sucked. What's more he was FAT. Joker is a lanky, skinny, bony mess. And evil.
In this legendary seven-minute short "Batman: Dead End," two visitors just happen to stop by - one Alien and one Predator. Genius. But even more genius is the depiction of Joker. Check it...As for this newest Heath Ledger-as-Joker shot? Fanboys have to realize that this pic is completely out of context. Christ, it looks like a simple makeup test via a Polaroid or whatever. Please remember that The Joker in Christopher Nolan's final film will be complemented by proper makeup, lighting, effects, score, the whole nine.
And for more Bat Gossip, pages on the script were leaked online. Enjoy.
Until next time,
-- Alfred
