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You lost me at Shark Repellent..Marcel Gioberti wrote:I'm more interested in seeing a feature length version of this material than Nolan's hoe-hum Batman as rubber-suited ninja routines.
I've now seen the Dark Knight trailer three times and I'm already retching at Ledger's performance.
Between Bale's growling through latex and Ledger's strained conniptions, the vocal chords of the leads alone might ruin the next installment.
Jack Nicholson has hinted he warned tragic Heath Ledger against taking on the role of The Joker in the new Batman film. Ledger, 28 - who was declared dead at 3:30pm at his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday - publicly declared himself exhausted and sleep deprived in November following the grueling shoot for The Dark Knight. He also revealed in an interview with the New York Times he'd resorted to taking sleeping pills - an overdose of which is believed to be the cause of his death - in a desperate bid to catch up on rest. And Nicholson, who famously portrayed the menacing Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 movie Batman, implied to the waiting crowd outside plush London restaurant The Wolesley on Tuesday night he spoke to Ledger about his role in The Dark Knight - and warned him about the pitfalls of taking on such a demanding challenge. When asked by the London crowds for his reaction to Ledger's untimely demise, a defeated Nicholson simply replied, "I told him so." Batman Begins prequel The Dark Knight is due to be released in July.
Oddly enough, so is Nicholson's character in the Bucket List.domino harvey wrote:It's a cartoon character
That's a pretty hasty assessment, isn't it? Isn't all acting just *pretend* anyway then? I can believe it thoroughly exhausted the actor to live in that frame of mind all day long. I can understand by doing it the method way, you're asking for a lot more trouble... Perhaps it was Nicholson who thought just what you wrote, and still delivered a memorable performance... But still, what a shit thing to say. I know we're months from the film's release so I can't really judge, but I'm guessing it will blow us all away - he was that kind of actor. It will be tremendous to see his final bow on Imax, for sure...domino harvey wrote:It's a cartoon character from a comic book, give me a fucking break
So is insinuating that acting in a movie role led to an actor to his death. I don't think you can get any more cavalier or reductive than that. I think Nicholson was an asshole for saying what he did.exte wrote:That's a pretty hasty assessment, isn't it?domino harvey wrote:It's a cartoon character from a comic book, give me a fucking break
flyonthewall2983 wrote:From imdb.com
Jack Nicholson has hinted he warned tragic Heath Ledger against taking on the role of The Joker in the new Batman film. Ledger, 28 - who was declared dead at 3:30pm at his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday - publicly declared himself exhausted and sleep deprived in November following the grueling shoot for The Dark Knight. He also revealed in an interview with the New York Times he'd resorted to taking sleeping pills - an overdose of which is believed to be the cause of his death - in a desperate bid to catch up on rest. And Nicholson, who famously portrayed the menacing Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 movie Batman, implied to the waiting crowd outside plush London restaurant The Wolesley on Tuesday night he spoke to Ledger about his role in The Dark Knight - and warned him about the pitfalls of taking on such a demanding challenge. When asked by the London crowds for his reaction to Ledger's untimely demise, a defeated Nicholson simply replied, "I told him so." Batman Begins prequel The Dark Knight is due to be released in July.
exte wrote: ... But still, what a shit thing to say...
Antoine Doinel wrote:I think Nicholson was an asshole for saying what he did.
Here's the video footage itself. As you can see this is mostly just a prime example of how bad reporting has gotten lately. Jack makes the statement, but I have no idea how anyone can say that Jack is making some claim about the toll that the role of the Joker takes on any actor. It just sounds like Jack warned Ledger about something. For all we know their conversation could have been about avoiding drugs or staying away from untalented actresses.chaddoli wrote:Yeah, it seems pretty ridiculous. I have trouble believing he actually said, or actually meant that. IMDb is about as bad as Page 6. Did you notice how that entire paragraph was telling us what Nicholson implied, closing limply with the actual, one-line quote.
well, ledger said being the joker was taking a toll on his well being and he hasn't been able to sleep well at all as a result of playing the joker. so it's not that far off.Antoine Doinel wrote:So is insinuating that acting in a movie role led to an actor to his death. I don't think you can get any more cavalier or reductive than that. I think Nicholson was an asshole for saying what he did.
Indeed.exte wrote:That's a pretty hasty assessment, isn't it? Isn't all acting just *pretend* anyway then?
I was about to say "that's a really terrible example"...Antoine Doinel wrote:There are many method actors who undertake the same grueling work (Daniel Day Lewis for example) and are able to step out of their character when the film is finished.
He talks about this in more detail in his Charlie Rose interview. I don't remember exactly what he says about it here, but it was less than a nervous breakdown, yet more than just being tired.MichaelB wrote:...but it seems that the famous story of Day Lewis having a near-nervous breakdown after playing Hamlet and becoming convinced that the ghost was that of his real father was largely a myth.