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Heath Ledger Research Paper

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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,

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