On January 22, 2008, the news of Heath Ledger's death caught people off guard. In the blink of an eye for more than ten years, his works before his death still touched countless people, and he never seemed to leave.
One
On 22 January, Heath Ledger made an appointment with the masseuse to come to the treatment at three o'clock in the afternoon, and then his maid, along with the arriving masseuse, found him lying naked in bed, out of breath. Police found sleeping pill bottles next to Ledger, and the scene of death was not chaotic, there was no indication that he had drunk alcohol before his death, and no illegal drugs were found in the apartment. The cause of death was preliminarily determined to be an overdose of sleeping pills. The actor, who walked too early and too hurriedly, was only 28 years old and suffered from pneumonia before his death.
Suddenly, the words and photos about him on the Internet were all over the place, and I saw the slightly mischievous smile on his mouth, and at that time, tears flooded his eyes. The heart keeps saying it all the time, and it's not true.
For more than a decade, the tears have long dried up, but the bits and pieces on the screen are still telling the past. A while ago I watched his youth comedy "Ten Things I Hate You" (1999), which he had just made in Hollywood. There, at the age of 20, he played a rotten boy who didn't like to learn. His hair is so long, his body is tall, he has an indifferent expression, but he recognizes the truth when chasing the girl, and he twists his eyebrows and wonders how good it looks.
Two
Not long ago, I was amused by his portrayal of Jacob Green (Brothers Grimm) and Santa Casanova (Casanova). He is cowardly, neurotic, his face and clothes are strange and dirty, but in the background of the black fairy tale, he reveals a bright color, which looks interesting and weird;
Watch him pretend to be the prodigal son of Venice in the 18th century, "seducing" the pie-filled Sienna Miller. Ledger, who was supposed to be the Italian god of sex and love, still had the honesty and sincerity in his eyes that fascinated women. When Casanova set off fireworks for Francesca, Ledger selflessly sprinkled his love on the hearts of every fan.
Three
For starring in "Brokeback Mountain", Heath Ledger received 32 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, which is also considered the beginning of his acting path.
When he first came into contact with the script for Brokeback Mountain, Ledger was hesitant about whether he would be suitable to play Ennis, but his girlfriend at the time encouraged him to take on the role after reading the script. Not only did Ledger think it was the best screenplay he'd ever seen, but he said he should have flown to Taiwan to beg Ang Lee to let him act in the film.
Later, when someone asked him "not afraid to play a gay person", he said that he was not afraid, but worried about whether his acting skills were mature enough to correctly play a gay person.
During the filming, Ledger immersed himself in the role so deeply that Jack Gyllenhaal's improvisations drove him crazy, and his methodological performances impressed the other actors. This is evident in the autographed novel given to Ledger by the original author, Anne Prue, who signed "Dedicated to Ennis" because Prue felt that Ennis, played by Ledger, completely satisfied all her imaginations of the character in the novel.
Ledger's performance in Brokeback Hill was widely praised, with Rolling Stone magazine commenting: "Ledger's performance is a miracle, not only does he know how to express Ennis's words and deeds, he even knows how Ennis breathes, and he will make you feel that Ennis's heart is in tears." ”
Ledger's performance impressed not only film critics and audiences. In 2008, after Daniel Day-Lewis won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for "Blood Is Coming," he announced in his acceptance speech that the award was dedicated to Ledger, who had just died at the time: "His performances in 'Death Row Dance' and 'Brokeback Mountain' were perfect and unique, and the performance of his shirt in the trailer at the end of Brokeback Mountain moved me beyond compare and inspired me to perform." ”
Four
I'm Not There (2007) has always haunted him. He started having insomnia from the time he made that movie. He plays a cross-section of Bob Dylan's life course, movie star Robbie Clarke. What bothers Ledger is that when six people are all playing the same person, then "who am I and who am I playing"?!
Batman: The Dark Knight was his last film. While a "murderous, dehumanizing character" excites him, it clearly makes him anxious as well. Every time he was serious about the play, he couldn't get quiet every time.
Closing your eyes, the look of "Joker" still lingers. The evil clown sat face to face, the shadow covering the whitewashed face, the red-painted mouth and the corners of the mouth rising, with an evil and fierce ghost smile.
During the filming of Batman: The Dark Knight, Ledger lived in a remote apartment in London. It's late every day to fall asleep, replenish your coffee in the morning, and sleep with troubled eyes. "I sleep up to two hours a night. I've been thinking about it. My strength was exhausted, but the thoughts in my head couldn't stop. ”
"People are always trying to sum up your life, imagining that they not only have you, but also describe you. This is good. But about me, I have many, many stories - these stories, how can I finish them on one page? —Heath Ledger
He hurriedly came, we were very surprised, he hurried away, we looked for more than a dozen spring, summer, autumn and winter, we still look forward to hearing some news about him, to find the beautiful years that we experienced with him, the memory of the past is like an immortal legend, the first sight is amazing, and now it is the same.
For more than ten years, he never seemed to leave.