Critics Say Heath Ledger’s Joker Performance Is Oscar Worthy
The first reviews of The Dark Knight are in and they are hailing Heath Ledger’s performance of the Joker as Oscar-worthy.
“I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker,” Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers writes.
“It’s typical of Ledger’s total commitment to films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain and I’m Not There that he does nothing out of vanity or the need to be liked,” Travers continues.
“Ledger’s Joker has no gray areas — he’s all rampaging id,” the critic says. “He creates a Joker for the ages”
“No plastic mask for Ledger,” Travers describes. “His face is caked with moldy makeup that highlights the red scar of a grin, the grungy hair and the yellowing teeth of a hound fresh out of hell.”
Travers goes on to say that the performance makes him an instant Oscar contender.
“If there’s a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976’s Network, sign me up,” he writes. source
Can’t wait for this movie to come out!
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