Heath's JOKER in casket

this is a prop i made for Halloween, it's not a dead heath ledger joke it's a tribute piece to the performance that Heath gave us in DARK KNIGHT, since we will never have any more of this character in this style we laid this particular joker performance to rest.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• joker
• dark
• knight
• heath
• ledger
• batman

[Celestine70]

I am not down with the clown, cause you will only frown, but what I would like to know, is where did the purple suit go?

[DoranArtMedia]

@Celestine70 , shirt is all I had in the closet, no budget for that little gig.

[WorldTributes]

@DoranArtMedia The cinema has plenty of life yet for some time but for me i am long finished with it i am afraid. It is for a newer generation now i think. I cannot get excited about films anymore to bother wasting the time or money going.

[DoranArtMedia]

That is a valid point, it could come across as lifeless, dark, even pretentious. It's a testament to the variety of filmmakers out there that one character can satisfy two different film fans. Try to get back out to the cinema...its last days are close.

[WorldTributes]

@DoranArtMedia Well they were a mix of serious and camp and you can't compare them to the 60's series that is way off the mark.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman as well there were all the elements there i just found the last two films lifeless basically. The scarecrow for instance there was just no performance or mystery element i found those weak films overall. I did not enjoy Terminator 4 either. I stopped going to the cinema 10 years ago anyway.

[DoranArtMedia]

Ooookay...now I get it. You like the more fun almost comedic Batman. it won't be long before nolan is finished with the franchise and some hack is dragged in to grind out a few bad Batman with that quirkiness that the sixties tv show did to the otherwise originally dark character from the books. Don't worry won't be long before the return of cloonys nipples sculptured into the suit and the Batman credit card...you'll be happy soon.

[WorldTributes]

@DoranArtMedia The Joker Blogs - The Dark Knight Before Christmas is the video i was referring to and that is pretty much a identical performance i think. I don't see what is so great about that Joker incarnation compared to Jack Nicholson's performance. I enjoyed all the original Batman releases even the much slated Batman and Robin with George Clooney. The last 2 have lost that fun element to them. Tommy Lee Jones was also brilliant as Two Face he put real fun and life into the character!

[DoranArtMedia]

,@WorldTributes , well I just looked the joker blows that you "promoted" and I find it ironic that you don't recognise what heath did as "special" but you like some guys bad impersonation of what heath created...joker blog is like watching a generic Michael Jackson impersonator doing a shitty moonwalk. Christopher nolan resusateted a damaged franchise and in "my" opinion did a fine job. Can't wait for the third movie.

[WorldTributes]

@DoranArtMedia Actually i diden't even like the film and no there was nothing special about his performance as the joker. Check out the Joker Blogs videos on youtube well worth a watch. I have watched a serious amount of films over the years and the Batman films, Bond films and Terminator films are becoming a very overused and tired formula. But there is a whole new audience out there who haven't watched a lot of films so for them obviously the experience is different.

[DoranArtMedia]

,@WorldTributes , well that's like saying "lets remake BATMAN' without Batman its the re visioning of these classic characters that is the true challenge...don't you think Heaths execution of the joker character was a fresh approch to a comic book icon that has seldom been approached in this way outside of the comic book universe?