Sunday, August 3, 2008

Heath Ledger, his best performance in Joker role

His untimely death(Jan 22, 2008) shocked the fans and people of the movie industry, how could be one of the best actors of his times found dead in his own room? Everybody seemed to have difficulty believing that he already passed away, even up to now he seems to be just busy somewhere, out there giving his bests in his films acting and that we are just waiting for the his movie releases and press con.
Though he left us with forever goodbye, Heath Ledger gave his best performance in every film he had. I myself is very thankful that he was able to finish his role as Joker in the most anticipated film this year, the reason why The Dark Knight is a very huge hit now. When I watched The Dark Knight, I have nothing to remember but the character of Joker (no offense to the rest of the casts, they all did well, Christian Bale and Maggie are also my favorites). He is really 'Fearless' as Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight's Director) said. Who would have thought that Heath evolved from a teen star down to best villain of all time. Yeah , indeed he deserves an acting credit for the role.I like his every scene in the Dark Knight, but what i like the most is when he is attacking someone with his knife and always tell the story about how he got the scars and paint smile on his face with the line "...why too serious.."
Some of his films before Dark Knight were I'm Not There (2007) also with Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Richard Gere and his Oscar nominated performance Brokeback Mountain (2006) with Jake Gyllenhaal and his ex-wife Michelle Williams, Candy with Geoffrey Rush; The Patriot with Mel Gibson; The Brother's Grimm with Matt Damon; and his first known film in 1999, 10 Things I hate about you with Julia Stiles.

Top Films This week

The new Mummy failed to fight Dark Knight in this week battle of the best films. Dark Knight earned 43.8 millions this week now reaching 393 million in 17 days while the new Mummy closed to 42.2 million. The latest Batman is currently no. 8 in all time box office in America, which falls between Spider Man and Star Wars 3 in no. 7 and 9 respectively.

Here is the complete All-time TOP 10 Films (from imdb.com)

1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $423,032,628
7. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
8. The Dark Knight (2008) $394,887,000
9. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $380,262,555
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252


However in World-wide Box Office Record, Dark Knight is still fighting with Iron Man and Indiana Jones 4, but it already surpassed its fellow 2008 hits, Hancock and Kung Fu Panda: So far, it already reached to over 500 million and currently at no. 54.

24. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) $769,146,685

45. Iron Man (2008) $567,125,955

54. The Dark Knight (2008) $521,187,000
57. Hancock (2008) $515,995,000
58. Kung Fu Panda (2008) $513,997,686