RIP Heath Ledger

I have taken a while to write this blog. I wasn’t sure in what manner would be best to write about the recent tragedy of Heath Ledger’s death. The first blog I wrote was dry and too news like. The second blog was an honest evaluation of his life’s works. The third blog was perhaps too personal an evaluation of how his work affected me personally. None of them seemed to say exactly what it is I wanted to say about him. So let me say this in as simple a way as possible.

Heath Ledger was a great actor. Even, some would say, phenomenal. While he did star in some really silly roles (A Knight’s Tale), he never chose to simply coast through them. After his first few films he decided to stop making teen flicks and make some truly challenging projects. His turn as Ennis Del Mar a cowboy with unrequited love for another cowboy in Brokeback Mountain is legendary. The performance is in the good company of James Dean’s Jim Stark (from Rebel without a Cause,) or anything in the works of River Phoenix. In other words Ledger will be remembered like other stars that died too young. He will become iconic.

People often use elevated words to describe the recently departed. But, there are no other kinds of words to describe his all too short filmography which will live on well beyond his death.

Let’s hope his final film The Dark Knight will see him off on a high note. Heath you be missed by many and we will never ever forget you.

There something more profound about the other blogs I wrote. But this is the only one that feels right.