>
>These aren't major complaints, but when I see someone, like my
>friend Steve at Collider, call the film 'flawless' and 'a
>masterpiece,' I know we're in for a tough couple of weeks. The
>movement to give Heath Ledger his posthumous Oscar, which was
>starting up from about the second he died in January, will
>pick up so much steam that I think he's almost guaranteed a
>nomination based on the hype and nothing else. Between now and
>the film's release I think the hype over this film could build
>to a deafening crescendo, one that will result in an
>inevitable backlash when the movie finally screens for the
>non-junket press in about two weeks. And that backlash could
>easily hit the fanbase as well - when The Dark Knight fails to
>actually change their lives, will the hardcore fans feel a
>touch disappointed?
>
>For the record, Heath Ledger gives a tremendous performance as
>the Joker. He makes the character his own, and I think he
>delivers a Joker so definitive it's going to change the way
>he's written in the comics and will become the touchstone
>version of the character. I also think that if he was alive
>fanboys would be the only people talking about giving him an
>Oscar. Dying is often the best thing that you can do for your
>career (just ask Elvis), and Ledger picked a good role to die
>on, one where he really gets to have some fun and make some
>interesting choices. The Joker is nowhere near the character
>that Ennis Del Mar is, but Ledger brings a similar sort of
>fascinating internal quality to the role. If Ledger gets a
>nomination it surely wouldn't be the most egregious postmortem
>nod ever, but it will still be one based more on what happened
>outside the film than what he did inside of it.
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