Heath Ledger was highly sought-after by many, arguably most, millennials. Seven years after his death, he maintains a cult following that keeps his life’s work relevant. Late Sunday night, the Reddit community resurfaced a video from Too Young to Die (2012), a German documentary about Ledger’s life and subsequent death. In the clip, we see Kim Ledger thumbing through his late son’s capricious notebook created in preparation for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight. Comprised of dark humor, brutal imagery, and generally erratic content, his notebook gives the viewer an idea of where Ledger may have drawn inspiration for the spine-tingling Joker. We see stills taken from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, clippings from Batman comics,
Martin Shkreli a young entrepreneur born in Brooklyn, N.Y., who at in early age skipped several grades in school and received a degree in business from New York’s Baruch College in 2004. Began his first internship at the age of 17 at Cramer Berkowitz & Co, the hedge fund founded by television personality Jim Cramer. In 2006 Martin Shkreli started his own hedge fund through Elea Capital Management. Martin Shkreli has a history of jumping from one employer to the other, such as Elea Capital Management, MSMB Capital Management, and Retrophin which ran out of MSMB. All of these companies have law suits against Martin Shkreli due to allegations of indecently handling of funds. In 2011, he founded the biotech firm Retrophin, with the goal of focusing
On the September 7th, 1996 a famous rapper of Death Row Records, named Tupac Shakur was killed after attending a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. After the match, hotel surveillance video captured Tupac Shakur and entourage attacking Orlando Anderson in the MGM Grand lobby. Anderson was a member of the South side Crips who had robbed a member of Death Row Records earlier that year. Following the assault on Anderson, shots were fired into the vehicle Tupac and Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight were traveling in while sitting at a stoplight a block away from the crowded Las Vegas Strip. A white Cadillac pulled up to the right side of Knight’s BMW and fired multiple rounds into the vehicle. Tupac Shakur was hit in the chest, pelvis and his right hand
Tupac and Biggie’s relationship began as friends, but ended in death due to Biggie’s ego and Tupac’s pride. Tupac and Biggie met at a club in New York, they were very good friends and hung out a lot. One day at a studio in a hotel in New York, Tupac was recording a song and Biggie was about to show up before Tupac went down stairs and got shot and mugged. Tupac got paranoid and thought the thugs that mugged him were sent by Biggie, that’s when the beef started between them both and where arch rivals since, until Tupac’s death in 1996. Their music told their stories and really impacted every rap artist today.
I would like to be Angle from the Maximum Ride books made by James Patterson.I would like to be her because she has a free mind and love to go on adventures. I love being outside and i’m a very active person. She give this all to you in the story she is only a seven year old girl but she is so full of life. She inspired me to not give up on my dreams. She also has a mind of her own and doesn’t let anyone control her mind or her decisions. I do not like giving up on myself let alone other people it is the worst feeling ever and she does not give up on anyone not even herself.
Denzel Washington of Mount Vernon, New York was born on December 28, 1954 who is known today as a famous actor because of all the big movies he has taken part of and the big roles he has played which have turned out to be hits all over the country. But before he made it big time he had to make his way up in the movie industry and he did this in 1981 when he made his first movie appearance in “Carbon Copy” (1981) with George Segal who was already had a name for himself and was an established actor at the time. Throughout the 1980’s Denzel had been a part of not only movies but also a television show called “St. Elsewhere” (1982), where he played an important role of a Doctor for six years.
Charlie Manson, as a child, lived a broken life. His mother did not want anything to do with him. She was a prostitute and an alcoholic that tried to escape Charlie by throwing him in schools and tossing him on the street. He ended up getting put behind bars for a great fraction of his life. He never really ended up having a childhood. All it consisted of was hate and refusal. This taught him wrong and put him in a state of psychic trauma which craved love and attention. This attention he got was from negative doing, such as stealing a car and going to jail.
In a movie where good and evil are divided by a very thin line, the Dark Knight rises up to fight against injustice and corruption in Gotham City. An action sequel to the original Batman Begins, this installment is a lot darker filled with more explosion, twists, and suspense. For the first time, a comic has been integrated into the issues of the real world. With the help of District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining mob members and clean the streets of Gotham for good. Their success is only short-lived when they encounter the Joker, a mysterious mastermind who is out to prove that nobility cannot hold in a world of anarchy.
“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talent. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” One of Dr. Ben’s famous quotes. Born September 18, 1951, in Detroit, MI; Benjamin Carson was born into the world. Benjamin’s background is very interesting, because to come from the so called, “projects” and still become successful is something to be proud of. Ben and his older brother (Curtis Carson) had a very rough childhood, their mother (Sonya Carson) raised them as a single parent. Though Sonya Carson had a 3rd grade education, she still promoted the importance of education in her household. If ever in trouble, Ben and Curtis Carson were forced handle there situations with each other, because there mother worked so late. Through the hard times in his struggles, Ben Carson still found success in his life.
The Joker was once seen as a comical criminal who committed ridiculously silly crimes, such as spreading laughing gas throughout Gotham City. However, after the reinvention of Batman, The Joker was transformed into a grave and terrorizing character. Continuing the course of the new personality given to The Joker, writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland created a graphic novel called The Killing Joke, “a much more complex, darker, and ultimately, frightening story” (Wooldridge) which tells one of the origins of The Joker since The Joker himself is unsure of his true inception. However, this particular graphic novel “isn’t about how the Joker came to be, it’s an examination of
Biography: The native Australian had his whole career ahead of him and what it takes to become one of the greats. After an Oscar nomination for 'Brokeback Mountain' was actor Batman' trilogy by Christopher Nolan cast as Joker in the second part of '- much to the dismay of die-hard comic book fans. That he was able to convince them with his portrayal of the villain yet and even inspire, Heath Ledger did not live with, unfortunately: The exceptional talent was discovered at the age of only 28 years in January 2008, dead in his apartment. Start as a teen heartthrob
Another work by Crutcher emphasizes that ‘Many Lives of the Batman’ and ‘Batman Unmasked’ are bought in three areas: popular culture studies, popular culture as it relates to marketing and consumerism, and the nature of the comic publishing industry. Most writers have examined the impact of Dark Knight Returns on cultural consciousness, politics, and so on. This antihero construction sparks centuries old dialogues on ethics, the kind of business that comprises the bulk of Batman. “The complexities and graphics in the novel and comic of Batman have been defined as his duality with his villains” (Crutcher 66). Due to popularity and the existence of Batman, people began using the Batman symbol as paraphernalia on personal belongings such as clothing, equipment, and supplies.
Batman: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan is non-stop action thriller that continually did the unexpected. The film is based off of the original Batman comic book but additionally changes the perception of the everyday world as good to naturally bad. Throughout the movie, Batman stands for honesty and goodness while the Joker is a symbolism of chaos and evil. Both sides are forced to make quick-witted decisions in order to stop the opposing vigilante from doing his desired work. The citizens of Gotham are put in the heart of this circumstance and feel obligated to go against their values to stop the chaos. Numerous people habitually pursue their dreams and values but often become blinded from their
In the film, The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan, The Joker, one of Batman's most dangerous enemies whose aim is too push Batman to his ultimate limits, to break his personal rules and strict moral code. This, being the Jokers only reason to live, he has no fear of death and pain. The Joker is characterised as a calculating and logical criminal, a rebel with minimal empathy or moral and a nemesis who commits purposeless crime. Together these characteristics are developed through specific and appropriate use of technical aspects, such as, camera movement, camera angles, props and dialogue. Together these techniques create a character who is an extraordinary to watch, as he causes chaos in Gotham City, all to get
It's not quite fair to say that the late Heath Ledger steals "The Dark Knight" from Christian Bale and the forces of (problematic) good, but, as the Joker, he is the movie's animating principle and anarchic spark - an unstoppable force colliding with the immovable objects of Batman and director
The Joker’s constant twitching and licking of his lips as possible evidence of an oral fixation and would want to ask the Joker about his relationship with his mother. If we go ahead and believe that the Joker really did have and hate his abusive alcoholic father, then we would explore the conflict between the Joker and his father and as a result, the underdevelopment of a superego. In the second narration of the origins of his scars, the Joker tells Rachel that he once had a wife that was cut up by mobsters and that in an effort to make her feel better, he carves his own face and was devastated when she leaves him. If we believe this version of the story, then his anger from his father