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The Associated Press just released a raving review of Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in the Batman sequel, The Dark Knight. It’s possible he could receive a post-mortem oscar for best supporting actor. The piece compares Ledger to Nicholson’s Joker:
Nicholson’s Joker was campy and clever. Ledger’s Joker is an all-out terror, definitely funny but
with a lunatic moral mission to drag all of Gotham, the city Batman thanklessly protects, down to his own dim assessment of humanity.
The film looks thrilling and Ledger convincing. The Joker is described as “a depraved creature utterly without conscience whom the late actor played with gleeful anarchy.” With the Dark Knight as a savior and the Joker as sinner, it will be interesting to see how Nolan rolls out Batman’s humanity, a strength of this postmodern hero in the previous Batman film.