Word: brokeback
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...think it’s fair to say that many members of my generation who grew up alongside “10 Things I Hate About You,” “A Knight’s Tale,” and “Brokeback Mountain” were thrown into shock. The news spread remarkably fast by text message, email, and Facebook post, and for days the actor’s tragic passing featured prominently in almost all of my conversations with friends...
...That question got me thinking: Ledger only performed a few critically acclaimed roles (“Monster’s Ball,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Candy,” “I’m Not There”), and yet all those who now remember him recall a unique if not unparalleled talent. Rob Reiner’s reflection best captures the feeling of loss: “It’s a real tragedy when someone so talented dies, because you don’t know...
...common thread of these losses is that of potential. We don’t know whether Dean would ever have replicated his early success, or whether Ledger would have turned in another performance like his turn as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain. Early death solidifies an actor’s trajectory at the beginning of its upward arc—we are a culture obsessed with what could have been—and so it is no wonder that James Dean’s face adorns many dorm room walls...
...galvanizing package. Yet Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The Academy went for old style over new, as it did in withholding Oscars from Brando's more sensitive brethren, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Both were multiple nominees; neither won. And like Heath Ledger--who in Brokeback Mountain gave a bold, pioneering performance--neither Clift nor Dean lived long enough to be given an honorary award...
...scholar who has written about Brokeback Mountain, and I remain moved by Ledger's extraordinary portrayal of Ennis. As one who has followed with admiration Ledger's amazing career through the years, I feel he deserved to be on the cover of TIME after his premature death. Clifton Snider, English Dept., California State University, LONG BEACH, CALIF...