I did a tribute post to Heath in my blog...the pic links are broken now.. I need to fix them, but I felt the same way about him...
I for one, am so looking forward to his performance.. and even bought the action figure!
Here is a copy and paste of my blog posted on Jan 22nd, the evening he died..
Better a silly girl with a flower, than a silly man with a horse and a stick...
It's called a lance... hello...
Heath Ledger died today, at age 28. I don't usually buy into the whole celebrity bull. But this particular celebrity's passing has left me deeply saddened..
I found him mesmerizing, and was anxiously awaiting his turn as the Joker.. yes I even watched him in "Brokeback Mountain".
But he was more than that for me.
No it wasn't an obsession. I do ren faires. When "A Knight's Tale" came out, it totally redid the way alot of us did our characters. I myself spent 4 years announcing the jousts, and just about anything else, with my big mouth, and over the top demeanor, just like Jeffery Chaucer/Paul Bettany did."Yes, behold my lord Ulrich, the rock, the hard place, like a wind from Guilderland he sweeps by blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor, we walk in the garden of his turbulence."
Then I got reassigned as Mad Juana of Spain (yeah I know, go figure)
Alot of us worked quotes from the movie into our characters dialogs...
"And one and two and twirlie twirlie twirlie! And one and two and you're still getting it wrong! And one and two and three and four you can hit me all day cause you punch like a... what?.......A GIRL!!!!"
"He's blond, he's pi**ed, he'll see you in the lists, Lichtenstein! He's blond, he's tanned, he comes from Gelderland, he comes from Gelderland! Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderland... Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderland...He's quick, he's funny, he makes me lots of money, Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein! "
Or the whole troupe's ALL TIME fav..
"You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting."
MOST WANTING!! ..lol... that always gives me a chuckle..
But then The Brother's Grimm came out in August of 2005... I love costume's.. and I love Heath Ledger.
I was kinda disappointed, but Heath Ledger was amusing when he did the little diddy dancing at the end.. and the *witch hunting is quite a lucrative business* drunken speech in the pub..
I grew up reading Grimm's fairy tale's, so I accepted it for what it was, fairy tales, and bought the DVD.
But then... THEN.. Casanova came out...in December of 2005, and it made me forgive him for The Brother's Grimm. As I said, I adore costume movies..
I had to go to Carnivale... HAD TO...
I walked among the same streets seen in the movie, the Doge's Palace, rode in a Gondola...the movie inspired me,much as Heath's effort in a Knight's Tale inspired my whole troupe some 4 years earlier.
I have some pretty remarkable eyes, I am told..
Which is basically the only way you can recognize me in my Carnivale costume..
It was the experience of a lifetime, spurned by seeing one Heath Ledger movie.
I do recall seeing him as the handsome son who tragically died in *The Patriot*, that disturbed me, but also made me pick up a few books about the Revolutionary War.
I just recently, as in a couple of weekends ago saw a movie he was in called *Candy*, the level of depravity and tragedy in that movie just left an indelible imprint on my psyche, and literally put me in awe of his acting range.. well that and Geoffery Rush's as well.
I do read fashion magazine's, and they spent alot of time putting Heath on their worst dressed list, really chiding him. I recall looking at the pics and thinking *grungy Meth/heroin chic.. he needs help.* Perhaps if more people inquired about his well being and critiqued him less about his appearance...
I may be jumping the gun.. it could have been natural causes, it could have been an accident, it could have been complications from his reported bout with pneumonia.. who knows.
I for one will miss his talent, and seeing how bright his star would have shined in the future.
I will close this with a quote from A Knight's Tale, and a thought.
"A man can change his stars"
For Heath I guess we will just never know.
Although when you wrote that post, that was not yet known.
