Ledger: leave it out

My first thought was I hope the new Batman film will still come out. Is this bad?

My first thought was exactly the same - ‘I hope it doesnt affect the Batman release - ive been waiting ages for that.’ No its not bad - its practical.

I was thinking exactly the same. It’s good to see that we focus on the important things rather than pretending to mourn someone we never knew.

I’ve not been particularly anticipating the Batman release; I thought the first one squandered a reasonably great start with a poor third act.

The second one has everything to prove. And now this is gonna be a major distraction when watching it. Of course it will still come out. I’ll do as the article suggests, leave the grieving to Ledger’s actual fans and express a certain regard for everyone who worked on the film; you don’t want people to come into it with unlegislated for baggage, but now they will. It’s a hard one. I wonder if they’re editing it differently now?

From what I have read the film is in the last stages of post production - so all actual filming is done. He plays such a integral part in the film that I would think it would be a nightmare to ‘edit him down’ to a lesser part. It would also water down the whole premise - he is, after all, the baddie in this one - I think fans would be royally pissed off if that were the case, I know I would be.

My worry now is the shine is going to be taken off the whole experience, every time he is on screen the thought in my head (and everybody else watching) will be ‘isnt it a shame he’s gone’ - and not ‘whoa hes great - I wonder what movie he’ll be in next’.

Batman Begins did suffer towards the end - but on the whole I hate the endings of most films - blockbusters especially have too many loose ends to tie up to make a decent denouement.

Being completely honest, if my boss died I wouldn’t give a shit, so I obviously couldn’t care less about some actor. Really, he’s* just a cost. What a waste of an expense account.

Be as macabre as you want, little lady, at the bottom of your blog homepage you still have a lovely set of wet tits. So you can’t bring me down too much.

* Flashing back to my boss.

um… so let’s write a deliberately inflammatory headline, get a nice pic and hammer out a dismissive paragraph that feels like it took about two minutes to write, but of course include the classic “I’m talking about something I hate talking about” line. What absolute rubbish. A piece on Ledger’s death (with room for comments of course) asking Arena readers not to read or talk about it? Do me a favour.

Jody, re: your second paragraph, exactly.

I did doubt they’ll edit him out or down; just whether they’ll consider the public’s new relationship with Ledger’s image?

Don’t speak too soon about him being the main baddie either though; Nolan’s already said this on the matter… “Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film. The Joker, he sort of cuts through the film — he’s got no story arc, he’s just a force of nature tearing through.” Source: The LA Times

I didn’t really care too much for him. His death means nothing to me. Also I’m not surprised how the media tries to makes us feel any kind of sadness that we don’t have.

Oh and nice to see you’re little dare backfired.

I felt a little sad when I was confronted by Ledger’s passing in tens of urgent Facebook status updates, but earlier that day I was bummed out from having run out of Special K.

The loss of Beadle however has had me pissing teary snot from my nose.

How dare you? Maybe your idiot friends can’t mention more than one of his films, but Ledger was by far one of the greatest actors alive. I’m not from Britain, and maybe he wasn’t that famous there-I will check with my friends there-, because his death goes far away from a “celebrity’s death”. We are talking about a GREAT Actor here; capital “A”. A real Artist. What a shame that you get to write for a magazine like Arena. You should know better, since you have the opportunity to be part of the media, whcih is an amazing gift; a great privilege.