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Normally when your dad picks you up from your karate class and tells you he has some bad news, you assume this bad news will be something along the lines of "you have to pack your lunch tonight" or possibly the ever-horrible "your brother got into yet another car accident" knowing that these car accidents always result in about two scratches on your brother's arm and 3000$ of repair for his car.
Unfortunately as I now know and everyone else knows, my bad news was that Heath Ledger died yesterday. As soon as it was out of my dad's mouth I started laughing, because clearly Heath Ledger CANNOT die. He is invincible because I have a poster of him on my wall, he's in one of my all-time favorite movies, he's still sitting happily in my Brokeback Mountain calendar and we all know Jack died, not Ennis.
Except that life sucks, and then you die. An overdose of sleeping pills and one of my favorite actors has disappeared off of the planet forever. It doesn't even seem real. I'm hoping he'll pop up in a movie after the Dark Knight and yell "SURPRISE! JANUARY FOOLS!" but I know that won't happen and it's awful. I don't even know how to react because obviously I have no personal relationship with him...being that he's famous and has never met me, but being a fan of someone brings you closer to them in a weird long-distance way. There's also the fact that I laughed with him in 10 Things I Hate About You when I was 14 and cried over him at 15 in Brokeback Mountain, I don't even remember how young I was during A Knight's Tale but I sure was hoping to be 16 and seeing The Dark Knight knowing he was off somewhere doing something VERY MUCH ALIVE.
So other than those last pathetic paragraphs, I don't know what to say except that I loved Heath Ledger in all the ways someone who didn't know him could and that I just can't believe it's possible that he's not sharing the planet with me anymore.
*RIP HEATH*
 MrsMajere · Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 08:06pm · 0 Comments |
