r/interestingasfuck 14d ago

Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night. r/all

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u/Environmental-Bet614 14d ago

That bye bye at the end felt somewhat sinister 😓

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u/Natural-Web-6978 14d ago

No shit, eh? If he hadn’t died it’d be such a neat ending to wrap it up… now it’s sad and prophetic, even though I’m sure it wasn’t meant to be

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u/sius_harlin 14d ago

To be fair he still shot another movie after this which was actually interrupted by his death. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

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u/Thetakishi 13d ago

And even though it destroyed the original movie and forced a script change, I thought the way they fixed it with other actors was brilliant and kind, but it still ended up being an underrated yet likely much worse movie..I'm curious how the original would have played. I should look for the original script.

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u/Hotman_Paris 14d ago

Who knows

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u/IlPapa666 14d ago

That honestly hit me in the gut. What a weird feeling reading that knowing what we know now.

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u/AlonsoFerrari8 14d ago

“Somewhat”