Ya know, usually I am one of those that say the "Awards Season" gets a little ridiculous, what with all the awards shows and what not, and so, I gave up watching most of them a long time back(when MTV got involved it was just too much for me).
Yet, I have noticed that something remarkable happened regarding this year's Golden Globe Awards(one of the few awards that I think should be legit). A lot of times Hollywood Politics seem to rear it's ugly head when it comes to who gets what awards and so on, and there are always actors/directors/moves/etc. that are overlooked for nominations(IMHO). Yet sometimes there is a shinning star that can break it's way through those Politics, and I think that is what happened this year in the Best Supporting Actor category.
Heath Ledger, an actor that showed us he could play versatile roles, an actor that proved he had the ability to bring a character to life, an actor who's life ended tragically young. I look at the roles he played, of which I have been a fan since he was in 'The Patriot', and I wonder, what else could he have done? How bright could this star have shown one day? Sadly we will never know.
I didn't see Dark Knight in the theaters, and for a while I heard people say that everyone was making a 'big deal' about Ledger's role as the Joker just because of the fact that he was gone. Others tole me that wasn't true, that he had earned the acclaim he was getting for it. So, I sat down to watch the long awaited Dark Knight at long last, with my wife at my side, and popcorn in hand. I have one word for the performance that Ledger delivered...stunning! Sometimes an actor will play a part, a part that others have done before, and they will try and replay it as their predecessors did, others try to blend the role, or change it, or in the case of the Joker, make it overly comical. Ledger took the character as we knew it, the crazy clown of the old Batman TV series, Nicolson's demented and scared Joker, and seemed to lift certain things from them, certain qualities, yet not too much, and added to it. The result, a completely unique creation, a character that could entertain and yet scare the socks off you at the same time, a character that he brought to life in that movie oh so well.
I hail Heath Ledger receiving the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award posthumously, not as a memorial for his life or his career, but because he earned it with his performance.
Just my humble opinion,
RD Williams
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