Was he the one who was in...?

[caddyman]

Interesting when a BIG STAR dies isn’t it?

When colonel_maxim yelled down the stairs of the Athenaeum Club last night that Heath Ledger had medicated himself to death, I was appropriately sad. Not yet 30 and dead; a waste. I then thought, “He’s the bloke who plays the Joker in the new Batman film”. Then I thought, “Other than that, I have no idea why he’s a star. What’s he been in?”

It turns out that I have actually seen a film of his: he is the one who was not Matt Damon in the bits of Brothers Grimm I didn’t sleep through – though I wasn’t sure if he was from the same clone vats as Josh Hartnett; it’s hard to keep up with the Hollywood look-alikes.

Furtle has a copy of A Knight’s Tale, which I can’t remember ever watching, though I probably shall at some point. I see he was in The Patriot, which I refuse to watch as I do anything involving Mel Gibson’s anti British propaganda movie campaign career¹.

So there we are. An entire career been and gone and the only bit that interests me hasn’t been released yet.

¹Chicken Run and, if I am in the mood, possibly the first couple of Lethal Weapon movies, excepted

Comments

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I found the anachronisms in A Knight's Tale as off-putting as those in Marie Antoinette, such as the spectators at a jousting tournament clapping along with "We Will Rock You" and Queen Marie and her pals dancing to "Hong Kong Garden" (though Mr Ledger wasn't in the latter). But what a silly old purist I am. I'm sure the fellow acted in films more deserving of your attention.

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

I thought the anachronisms were what made the film. The use of footie chants for the knights ("he's blond, be's pissed, he'll see you on the lists") was inspired. And I've got to love a hero called Thatcher...