> How say you? You know what i love?
When the hype about an actor actually matches the performance. Forrest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland, every bit worth the hype, there are scenes in that movie where the intensity rivals that of great live theatre, where you can feel the energy flowing off the actor. Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, worth the hype and then some, subtlety and grace facing a graceless and atrocious occurence. There's a few more, but it is a short, short list. And now there's Heath Ledger as The Joker. Now, I know there's a lot of folks that'll say, "it's easy to play crazy." And to an extent they are right. It is easier to play the hooting hollering crazy of what the public accepts as "schizo" or "psychopath" or "loony." It is quite another thing to play sane but outside of the bounds of morality and convention. And The Joker has made the decision to be that way. He's not unhinged because of an external force or some disorder. He's the way he is because he wants to be. Every scene Joker inhabits is absolutely calculated for maximum terror--not the silly blood splattering, cheap shock kind--the Joker is absolutely in control of himself and knows what he's doing the whole time--kind of terror. He wants it to happen this way. A credit to Mr. Ledger's skills. A pity we'll not see more. -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
