Suddenly, the Joker's tagline from the next Batman film takes on an eerie, otherwordly, even spectral quality . . .
... like Heath himself, his ghost haunting our world. Is he looking back from beyond the grave, with wonder--maybe even hope (or just derision)--assessing and confronting the grief he's left behind?
"Why so serious?"
* * *
No doubt, he was a tremendous talent. He very well should have won Best Actor for Brokeback (apologies to a well-deserved Philip Seymour Hoffman)--it was a masterpiece of underacting. People often reference the film's final moments, or his scene with Jake Gyllenhaal by the campfire, but the scene that gets me the most is when he rebuffs Linda Cardellini in the diner late in the film, but can't even find the words:
I'm sorry. [. . .] Was probably no fun anyway, was I?
Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun.
Devastating.
... like Heath himself, his ghost haunting our world. Is he looking back from beyond the grave, with wonder--maybe even hope (or just derision)--assessing and confronting the grief he's left behind?
"Why so serious?"
* * *
No doubt, he was a tremendous talent. He very well should have won Best Actor for Brokeback (apologies to a well-deserved Philip Seymour Hoffman)--it was a masterpiece of underacting. People often reference the film's final moments, or his scene with Jake Gyllenhaal by the campfire, but the scene that gets me the most is when he rebuffs Linda Cardellini in the diner late in the film, but can't even find the words:
I don't get you, Ennis del Mar.
I'm sorry. [. . .] Was probably no fun anyway, was I?
Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun.
Devastating.
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