Heath Ledger Articles

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Written by Online Film Critics Society members Phil Hall and Rory Leighton Aronsky, What If They Lived? (BearManor Media, 2011) takes a look at the lives and oeuvre of celebrities whose film careers were prematurely curtailed by death. As befitting their book's title, Hall and Aronsky then wonder, "What if they lived?" Encompassing the early days of cinema all the [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part III: Technical Brilliance Now, leaving behind its technical and analytical aspects, I should add that Brokeback Mountain reached me on a deeper level — in a manner that's all but impossible to explain — like no other movie had done before. In high school, I always loved movies; yet, I always [...]

Heath Ledger's Ennis Del Mar, Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part II: Ennis Del Mar – Iconic Film Character Moving on to another area of the film, I must add that Brokeback Mountain works just as beautifully from a purely cinematic standpoint. Let me analyze one short scene as an example of the brilliance of Ang Lee's [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part I: Multilayered Love Story People make fun of Jack Twist's line, "I wish I knew how to quit you", but that line is heartbreaking for the honesty it conveys. He literally does. In many ways, Jack's love for Ennis has done more harm than good to him. And the same goes [...]