Anyone feel just a little uncomfortable that Heath Ledger's last role (the movie he died during the making of) has his character being hanged in his first scene, and then his character just ends up dying by the end?
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It was fine because that wasn't the way he died.
"what's this? A doorknob? Good show!" -- the easily impressed Dr. Bartley
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I have to admit, although this is one of my fav films...
I have a weird feeling watching the hanging scene, especially knowing , from a heath ledger documentary, that he was actually in a really bad state at that point , apparently , not sleeping , and they had him hanging there in the rain for a long time in the cold on the set... so its like you're watching him struggle and unravel in this film , even his body language, hes hunched over, his body is crooked, hes mumbling ... you can even hear part of the joker voice in him at times as if he never really shook it.
That is the aspect of this film i like most , his character and how he inhabits the role , beyond that , the actual plot of this film is very confusing .
I think he literally inhabited the roles of the charaters he played, from the start with Four Feathers, and roles like Brokeback , the Joker, and this, and it killed him in the end, he litearlly lived the characters as he was playing them and i dont think anyone could take that much psychological and emotional torment. Most actors don't do that, they just read lines....