6 posts and columns on Heath Ledger

Viral Video: “The Dark Knight Rises”

in Media on July 20, 2011 at 12:07 am PT

In honor of Comic-Con International, the huge and nerd-tastic comic book convention, opening tonight, here’s the new teaser trailer for the latest Batman movie.

"The Dark Knight": Joker Impressions Abound Online

in News on August 8, 2008 at 6:09 am PT

Here’s a curious trend I’ve noticed developing quickly on YouTube, probably because of the acclaim that the late actor Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker in “The Dark Knight” has garnered. His memorably malevolent turn in the latest Batman movie is likely to result in a posthumous Oscar for Ledger. But perhaps more interesting is the number of fans who are doing video impressions of his performance, acting out various scenes from the movie, and posting them online in tribute.

Batman Trailer Mashup Lookalike

in News on May 2, 2008 at 12:56 am PT

One of my favorite things about the Web is how quickly and effectively you can take media and mash it up into all sorts of new forms. Case in point, this comparison of scenes from a trailer from the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight” and that of 1989′s original “Batman.” Incredibly, many of the [...]

The Web as Memorial

in News on January 28, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Until the writers’ strike in Hollywood is over–who knew it would go on this long?–BoomTown has decided to offer suggestions about stuff to watch. One of the most interesting wrinkles on the Web over the last several years has been the near instant ability to create tribute videos for all sorts of reasons, most of [...]

The Very Dark Knight

in News on January 25, 2008 at 12:04 am PT

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive. Along with an explosion of Web stories and video about the late actor–unfortunately too, please-don’t videos from outside the home of his family seem particularly appalling–there has also been controversy around a very prominent online marketing campaign that has been going on related to the next in the blockbuster Batman series, “The Dark Knight.”