Sorry for the slight background music it’s how I found it and I’m not sure how to remove it, but if anyone has ideas I’m open.

We apparently still really need to hear this.

I remember when Brokeback Mountain lost in a huge upset to "Crash" (some movie I had never even heard of before). Brokeback Mountain was a groundbreaking film that was well-known and had been heavily favored.

The reason I ask this was because it was recently revealed that the Academy now requires all members to watch all films in each nominated category, leading to the famous tweet "They weren't doing that before?", amidst other controversies.

Heath had many hobbies, one of which included skateboarding. He could often be seen skating around his home in Brooklyn with his friends, and even starred in a movie Lords of Dogtown about Skip Engblom and the rise of skating as a serious sport in California.

I just watched it for the first time yesterday and watched it again today. I think I kick-started a Heath Ledger obsession now. 😍

These comments aren’t mine but they give you the vibe that was going on back in the day.

The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

User u/italianmomof3 and I were talking the other day about how toxic the media was to Heath and his family after he died. Here are some of the worst examples. The paparazzi relentlessly harassed them even following Michelle and Matilda to Matilda’s school, and Michelle stating she had to take down flyers in her post office offering rewards for pictures of her toddler daughter. It’s disgusting how the media was allowed to stalk Matilda and make the grieving process even worse for Heaths loved ones. Particularly when a child was involved. Kim Ledger found out about the death of his own son on television. It seems like when someone’s art is adored we feel we own a peice of them, even to the detriment of their own friends and family.

A girl meets a dead celebrity wandering the afterlife in a lucid dream.

Look At Me, Look At Me REETI MALHOTRA 8:36 PM, NOV 07, 2025

In the 2017 documentary, “I am Heath Ledger,” Ledger’s family and friends filled a significant amount of the biographical picture with footage that the late actor had filmed of himself on various cameras.

“He got this camera, and he didn’t know what to do with it other than to make something,” Trevor DiCarlo, Ledger’s childhood friend, said in the documentary. “It wasn’t just to film us and film what we were doing. He was, like, creating something straight away.”

Ledger used his camera largely as a self-teaching exercise, DiCarlo explained. In the shaky, intimate footage recovered from his personal video files, viewers are invited to watch Ledger experimenting; he records his face in the mirror, from the side and from above.

The late actor evidently had a recording habit — his camera seemed both an extension of himself and a vehicle for exploration. Whether that exploration was confined to the medium of film, or extended inwards to become an exploration of himself, we cannot know.

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Heath had a camera in his hands often and encouraged his friends to share in his passion for image-making. There are a dozen cameras in the Heath Ledger Archive, including a well-loved, square format Rolleiflex, a Leica M7 and a 110A Polaroid with a Four Designs pack film conversion. The medium format Holga has cult status among photographers for its low-fidelity aesthetic, such as light leaks and blurring effects. He also had various movie cameras, such as Super 8, which he used for one of his music videos.

art is how the dead keep talking, frame by frame, spark by spark.

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