macktan

Careful. We wouldn't want you to go over the edge....Actually, I would have thought that Ed Norton might have done something with this role...but I hear he is redoing the Hulk.

That was totally well said. Totally.

I had never been a huge Ledger fan, although I loved him in The Order, a film vastly underrated, and you should see his performance in Brokeback. It is heartbreakingly sublime. You would never have guessed that this man was an Australian, a testament to how deeply he got into his roles.

I didn't know what the heck I was watching when I went to the Imax theatre to see Legend. Clowns terrify many people, and these clowns were horrifying. I honestly thought that I was seeing a short film spoofing Heat (the first robbery is done with strange masks and is messed up by a psycho the crew picked up as a freelance, Waingro, who later works for the bank guy with the shotgun in this preview). Even when the clown removed his mask, I did not know it was Ledger. Not until they showed Batman on the building did I put it together and later told a friend who actually went to the movie not to see Legend as to see the preview.

This film will not be viewed as just another batman film. From what I've seen, it will be one of the best of the year. I only wish Ledger was around to do more.

I just read an interview with Nolan in which he credits the film Heat for inspiring his take on dark knight. Heat--DeNiro, Val Kilmer in the gang--Pacino, the detective--is one of my favorite crime action films. Very intense. This movie will not only be best batman film, but probably one of the best films of the year. If Ledger had lived, he would have been playing the Joker like Damon plays Jason Bourne. Perhaps they would have even brought in Harley Quinn.

yes, phatlightning--I get you. I'm not one for cartoony movies; I too like them when they are converted to a more realistic perspective. I could understand and accept batman in begins--i could see this happening in a decaying, futuristic urban city. This is why I liked V for Vendetta, too. Nolan figured it out and Ledger certainly delivered. Nicholson's Joker was a cartoon; Ledger's is all too believable, like a son of sam, zodiac, kacynski, boston strangler.... If you're going to do this kind of stuff, might as well be theatrical about it.

I watch this and I regret that Ledger will not be around to do more fantastic stuff. His joker is fierce, eerie, terrifying, insane...and dedicated.

realistic? Excuse me! bin laden? Red Guardians? There are real life corollaries for this stuff. Consider the movie Heat.

Remember the first armored car robbery in Heat, when the guys put on their masks? The robbery went haywire because they had picked up a 5th man, Wayne Groh--who was a nut, a sociopath. In fact, the bank officer in this short played a crooked investor in that movie. And this robbery is scored in much the same way the big bank robbery in Heat was scored (the pulsating percussive tones) and scripted similarly: "Get down!"

I had no idea what I was looking at when I went to see Legend on Imax. I thought it was some sick spoof of Heat. When my son told me afterwards that Heath Ledger was playig the Joker--I couldn't believe it. This disturbing short looks nothing like it did on a giant screen.