Heath Ledger

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q40572: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999); A Knight's Tale (2001); Monster's Ball (2001); Brokeback Mountain (2005); I'm Not There (2007); The Dark Knight (2008).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

James Bond series: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Dark Knight (2008), which they acted in: James Bond series ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read). Nolan's Batman films are read as a commentary on Bond.
    “I think Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight movies are also a commentary on James Bond, if you look at them from one direction”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:41 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (pastiche source) · through I'm Not There (2007), which they acted in: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Haynes styles one segment after Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and another after Pennebaker, so the film is also different period filmmaking.
    “he styles one whole segment after, you know, Pat Garrett and Noie the Kid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:13:32 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor) · through I'm Not There (2007), which they acted in: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Dark Knight (2008), which they acted in: The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read). The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight.
    “Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Silva: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Dark Knight (2008), which they acted in: The Dark Knight ⇒ Silva (the host's read). Silva's plan to be captured and gain M's attention is the Joker plot.
    “essentially the Joker plot from Dark Knight.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:26:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Skyfall (2012): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Dark Knight (2008), which they acted in: The Dark Knight ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read). Mendes openly lifted the Dark Knight aesthetic and the orphan-avenging-sins idea.
    “Mendy's just very openly lifted a lot of the Dark Knight aesthetic for these movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

The Lego Batman Movie (2017): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Dark Knight (2008), which they acted in: The Dark Knight ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Joker's need for Batman to see him as an enemy is read against the post-Dark Knight Joker.
    “It's this thing of like, right, especially post Dark Knight, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:15:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (7) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (people): The Dark Knight → Heath Ledger. Ledger's Joker is the main reason the Nolan trilogy is still discussed positively.
    “Heath Ledger was, is the main reason that we still talk about those movies at all in a positive way.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:37:36 · David Shoemaker (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Chadwick Boseman → Heath Ledger. Sean says the only comparable unexpected Hollywood losses in 20 years were Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
    “the only 2 examples I could think of really in the last 20 years that were even close to this were obviously Heath Ledger and and Philip Seymour Hoffman's deaths”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:07:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): The Dark Knight → Heath Ledger. Ledger's death took the Batman/Joker relationship off the board; what might Nolan's plans have been?
    “what would have happened if Heath Ledger lived, what could their plans have been?”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:38:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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