Rob Reiner after Ledger's death said, "It's a real tragedy when someone talented dies, because you don't know on the early part of their career what more they could have offered us." It's about us, is it not?
The post-death immortalizing is aweless when viewed through gossip magazines. Let's take it back from the voyeur trash and re-align some meaning. Because, it's ultimately about us and we are respectful.
James Dean and Heath Ledger were better than most. Their early deaths were intensely felt. Their stardom was on an incline and with death, came megastardom. To us they were phenoms pre-death and post-death. We were devastated when Ledger died. His family and friends were wrecked. It's because it is about us and what actors do to us.
When a young physician dies are we devastated because of how many lives she could have saved?
Movies can be more meaningful than physical health and wellness.
Immortalization is a testament to how necessary movies and the actors really are. We're super bummed because we don't get to see them in movies anymore. In reality, we're all just waiting for the next great movie that features the next great actor. Their movies did something to us and we want them to do it to us again. We immortalize and write biographies because we want to know how they did what they did. Most of all, we want to know why they are not going to be doing it anymore. East of Eden and The Black Knight were really freaking good the year of their release. They're still really good movies now. They're good because Ledger and Dean do something to us that only the best can do to us. Dean and Ledger are humans that were actors that pushed on culture. Here's to them being badasses. I feel like the Greeks knew where to situate their artists, do we?
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