HEATH LEDGER JOKER
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HEATH LEDGER JOKER
Joker Actor
2008 The Dark Knight film
by Andrew Kosarko
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“And here…we….GO!”
It really doesn’t get any more perfect than this. While Mark Hamill and Jack Nicholson had their days with the Joker, Heath Ledger made it look like kids play – and for the most part, it really was.
This is the Joker on the far end of the spectrum. The complete and total oppisate of Romero or any other. This type of humor isn’t funny, it’s almost morbid. Yes, he has some quick quips and one liners – but overall this is one dangerous man. The other Jokers I could see robbing a bank with me in it and my heart wouldn’t skip a beat.
This portrayl, however, would have me pissing my pants. Ledger brought the fluctuating voice tone to the utmost theatrical execution – making every audience participant stand on their tippy toes. His posture, his eye squints, his lip curling and tongue licking. It was all new and defined – and yet, should have always been there. But what works best here most of all is the boiling down to the simplest element of the Joker that had oddly never really been addressed. He doesn’t care.
And I don’t mean that in an evil “I want to destroy the world” kind of way. I mean that in a do whatever the hell he feels like it kind of way. He is, as he states – an agent of chaos. The ying to Batman’s yang of order and justice. It really doesn’t get any more black and white than that. The performance is so complicated that it’s simple. Heath Ledger *became* the Joker.
He lifted his strongest aspects from the mythology off the comic book pages and interpreted them on his own. A completely original take on the character that made him what so many writers and performances danced around for decades – but never quite nailed down. It was simply the greatest performance of the character to date.
Many had highly doubted the ability of Ledger before the film, saying there would be a “Brokeback Joker.” Referencing of course Ledger’s role as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. Many dismissed him as “never coming close to Jack Nicholson.” Some still don’t admit it.
But the truth remains, Ledger discovered more about the character than anyone had ever before and presented it to us flawlessly. And while I would love to sit here and say his performance will never be beaten, I can’t honestly say that. For as you’ve read here – almost (and yes, I mean almost) every interpretation of the Joker has been better and better as the years go on.
I can only wait until the next person tackles the role and brings out something we haven’t seen before. With a character as loose and broad as this – the possibilities are endless. It’s the role of a lifetime.
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