Ledger was good, I'll give you that, but the things you are crediting him with, actually go to the writer. Everything I like about this Joker came from the writing. His utter fearlessness, his great quotes, his psychology all come from Chris and Nathan Nolan.
I think it's grandly ironic that you are accusing me, in my own journal, of having not given the screenwriters due credit. It was never my intention to imply they were not important to the creation of the role. But, you're awfully naive regarding the process of film making if you think that they were somehow solely responsible for what we saw of the character on the screen. A huge part of that goes to Ledger. Many actors would never have been able to pull that off, just as the character was also the product of collaboration between Ledger and the director, and folks like the art director/s and make-up team. I suppose I could have said all this to start with, but assumed it was unnecessary.
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Ledger was good, I'll give you that, but the things you are crediting him with, actually go to the writer. Everything I like about this Joker came from the writing. His utter fearlessness, his great quotes, his psychology all come from Chris and Nathan Nolan.
I think it's grandly ironic that you are accusing me, in my own journal, of having not given the screenwriters due credit. It was never my intention to imply they were not important to the creation of the role. But, you're awfully naive regarding the process of film making if you think that they were somehow solely responsible for what we saw of the character on the screen. A huge part of that goes to Ledger. Many actors would never have been able to pull that off, just as the character was also the product of collaboration between Ledger and the director, and folks like the art director/s and make-up team. I suppose I could have said all this to start with, but assumed it was unnecessary.