Question marks in the headline can mean only one thing: it’s time to prognosticate! Will humans land on Mars? Is purple the new pink? Would this monkey let me squeeze her tits for a banana? No one knows for sure, and that means we’re free to speculate wildly! Yee haw!
Today’s spoilerish rumor comes from CinemaBlend, who claims (based on a tipster) that execs are considering cutting a scene from The Dark Knight involving Heath Ledger.
The scene involves Ledger’s Joker character pretending to be dead and being pictured in a body bag. Apparently the aftershock of Ledger’s unfortunate death are such that many in the [test] screening reacted rather badly to this moment and now execs are considering excising the scene altogether.
God, I hate when people kowtow to idiots and squeamish pussies. Holy crap, a guy in a body bag onscreen was in a body bag in real life! OH THE HORROR! Let’s cancel every SNL sketch in which Chris Farley fakes a heart attack!
It’s like when you’re at a ball game and you think of a really good heckle like, "Hey, Robinson! Your mom has cancer!" and some douche turns around all serious and is all like, "Hey, buddy, I’m trying to watch the game with my kid – his mother died of cancer." Gee, thanks for sharing there, Debbie Downer – where I come from that’s called a party foul.
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Where I come from, breaking your chip off in the salsa is a party foul.
Sloppy Dice! Chug a beer!
Serious Cat in the movie, sweet I might see it now. Is Serious Cat a good or bad guy?
This is ridiculous, it would be like cutting Christian Slater out of Interview with a Vampire just because he bites people…
My grandpa used to use verbs, too, Lance.
HE’S DEAD NOW YOU INCONSIDERATE BASTARD! NO ONE CAN USE OR EVEN THINK ABOUT VERBS UNTIL MY RECREATION GRIEVING BECOMES BORING TO ME! EXCEPT FOR ME. I CAN STILL USE VERBS.
Does Serious Cat get rolled around in a chair while holding a small human and stroking its head?
Dumbass! Serious cat is neither good nor bad. Serious cat is above such human pre-conceptions. Serious cat is only . . . serious.
Maybe if he popped a bunch of pills and then layed in the body bag it would be offensive. As it is i’m ok with it.
Why does so many person has trouble with subject/verb agreement?
They should cut out the scenes where Bale is in his bat-suit for me. I was playing around like I was batman with a blanket around my neck last week, and slipped off a chair. I tried to break my fall with my hard-on. Unsuccessfully. I don’t like to think about it.
i bet you if ledger/joker got rickrolled they wouldnt be so dead
…on screen i mean.
where i come from leaving ‘evidence’ on the panties and or person is a party foul
That’s a party foul everywhere dubby. Especially when you’re in college. I think it was covered on page 215 of the LSU Academic Orientation Handbook.
Section 3, page 215, paragraph 2: Don’t leave your "stuff" where it’s accessible to others and can be taken by persons other than yourselves.
They might have just been talking about laptops, bookbags and shit. But I like to think they were referring to my man-milk. And I heeded that advice.
Serious Cat should play Dr. Manhattan
That movie where John Wayne played the guy dying of cancer? They’re going to CGI the shit out of that and make him have a stubbed toe instead.
So, by this logic, The Crow should haven’t even been released? What a bunch of spineless pussies.
so i heard ledgers next flick is going to be cgi and dubbed. itll be an underground release though. so, lance keep your ear towards the ground for us!
Apparently the aftershock of Ledger’s unfortunate death are such that many in the [test] screening reacted rather badly
Who the fuck was at this test screening? His kids, wife, and parents? A bunch of hyper-sensitive emo fuckheads? Christians?
I’ll go ahead and take the unpopular pussy vote by saying I agree with removing the scene, and I am "none of the above", Fek.
Where the fuck did my funny go today? Fuck it, I’ll just work instead.
Seriously, I can’t fucking get over this. People fucking die all the time. It’s not like Heath Ledger was your brother, best friend, saved you from drowning, or otherwise. You are a fucking movie-goer, not a goddam saint. Go fuck yourselves, you self-righteous fucks!
OH NO! OH NO! SOMETHING IN A MOVIE MIGHT UPSET MY SENSIBILITIES! GOD FORBID MY BRAIN HAS TO DO SOMETHING!
Can the Olsen Twins be added in as Harley Quinn?
(BTW, Al, I wrote that before I saw your post, so it isn’t an attack on you, but the following is.)
Al-Take the scene out? Just close your eyes and cover your ears until your mommy says, "The scary part is over, sweetie-pie!"
Listen Fek, the day you make something that has even 1/10th the cultural significance of A Knight’s Tale, then I’ll let you decide who can be dead in a movie and who can’t.
Apropos of nothing, it’s funny story time. I just got done teaching a class (and yes, earlier when I was posting, it was during class, so what) and had to keep a kid (who is a total douche) after and tell him that he’s failing so miserably that there is no mathematical chance that he will pass (which you may infer has something to do with the fact that I post on Filmdrunk when I should be teaching, in which case I would invite you take a long, hard stare at my taint and see if there is even the slightest trace of me giving a shit) so he might as well stop coming to class and spend his time trying to pass his other ones. No sooner had I crushed his spirit, than I open the door to leave and immediately find a $20 bill on the ground. I turn, gleefully say "Everything’s coming up Millhouse" and leave him choking in a cloud of disdain (which was also a McDonald’s breakfast burrito fart).
My karma is so fucked up.
I agree. When Raul Julia died they removed the scene from Street Fighter where he clutches his chest and a PA yells, "call 911!".
They should have used actual footage of Ledger in his body bag. Just like they used actual footage of Bruce Lee’s funeral in Game of Death.
Rot, what age are your students? There may be more $20 bills in your future.
Burnsy, I’m at a university and this was a freshman intro class so none of them care enough to bribe me. That’s why I like to point out that blowjobs are free.
They must be in Durst grade.
Here’s how you deal with this – Batman producers listen up:
Leave the scene in. As they’re zipping Ledger up in the body bag, pause the film. Bring in Jack Nicholson to step in front of the still image of the closed body bag. Have Nicholson look into the camera, lift off his sunglasses, and say:
"Too soon? Get over it, Nancy"
Resume film.
turn, gleefully say "Everything’s coming up Millhouse" and leave him choking in a cloud of disdain (which was also a McDonald’s breakfast burrito fart).
Professor Chung? Is that you?
You can call me "Wang."
Listen Fek, the day you make something that has even 1/10th the cultural significance of A Knight’s Tale
Well, I did take a pretty big shit earlier AND I leveled up my Paladin to 13 last night, so I think I got you beat.
Rot, are you still a prof. or was that back in the dance hall days?
But you must be of noble birth to compete.
I think that scene would be creepy and awesome. Test audiences are always pussies, thats why in America there is a happy ending to the Descent.
I would totally think that Jake G avatar was flirting with me, if he wasnt a flaming Mo. No, not the drink, silly
Damn, Fek. That’s some serious Palladining.
Eib- Was the Descent worth watching?
Luch, I find that trying to "take your baby by the heel and do the next thing that you feel" is much easier with a roofie.
SMB, I think so.
Bottom line: The only scenes they should cut out of movies are shitty ones that bore people to death. That would be about 3 hours of cutting for Titanic, I realize, but fuck it!
If they remove scenes for any other reason, it is a travest of fucking justice. At this point, not only do I feel they need to leave the body-bag scene in, I want them to add a scene where they exhume Ledger and use his corpse hand to touch girls in a Latter Day Saints compound inappropriately.
Anything else is just wussing out.
Its hard to articulate what I liked about it. But the cave exploring was enough to give me nightmares.
+y
Hey, Terry Gilliam can still use Heath, if he was cremated. He could do a scene in the ashtray, the vacuum, he could fall out of the closet and scare children
I usually take her by the ears and play upon her darkest fears.
LUch, are you Chung or Wang?
I’m all wang baby!
Duh!
Where the fuck is Chod and Erswi, they would back me up on this one!!!
I’m with Fek on this one, but execs dont care about art or telling a story they just want their $$, so batman needs to be pg-13 so there can be happy meals and a toy line to sell
LUCH!! I was watching that movie last night!
VATOS LOCOS FOR EVER!
Luch, vatos locos forever homes!!
I’m with ya Fek, I am.
This may be considered an exten-u-ate-ing
circumcisioncircumstance though.(hehe cum stance)
SANGRE POR SANGRE!
VL4E!
What execs don’t understand is the eventually, people die.
Let me put it this way, I was younger than I am now when I saw Prince of Tides and the scene where them kids get raped. My knee jerk reaction wasn’t, "That should have enver been put in a movie!", I fucking THOUGHT about it instead. Sure, it surfaced some unpleasant imagery, but I had thought about shit I had never thought about before.
You can’t be afraid of what you might think or feel, and that is all there is to it. No one will ever fucking learn or evolve if they spend their whole life avoiding unpleasant thoughts and feelings.
New post. But be forewarned, it’s not pretty.
Luch, I don’t want his pork chop.
[grabs apple from Luch's tray]
I want his life.
Avoiding clowns and robots on the other hand…
Damn Pauly, that was my next post!
I understand the objections, but like Fek, I think good film (art) should make people uncomfortable. Just like how I only consider certain rap good if it scares the shit out of white people.
But when the sole purpose of the scene is to make us uncomfortable, and not in a way that will make us "think", other than be disturbed for no reason, it’s unnecessary. I’m no big fan of Ledger and couldn’t really give a shit that he’s dead other than "that’s too bad, he was a young guy and a father", but I don’t think it’s appropriate.
And let’s face it, this is a damn Batman movie, not some profound work of cinematic genius.
This whole thread sucked the funny right out of me for the rest of the morning probably. Thanks a lot, guys.
But when the sole purpose of the scene is to make us uncomfortable, and not in a way that will make us "think", other than be disturbed for no reason, it’s unnecessary.
Al, if I felt and believed as you did about the part of your comment that you underlined, I would agree with you. However, I am not convinced the body-bag scene was filmed in hopes that Ledger would die and it would be a real mindfuck for people.
Now, if it was a scene that had been cut originally and put back in AFTER Ledger’s death, THAT would be distasteful, but if it conforms to what the original intent of the movie was, I wouldn’t see it as inappropriate.
Fek, thank you for inadvertently making me laugh – yes, if you "felt and believed" as I do, then naturally that would indeed, yes, mean you "agree with" me ;) Hello, stater of the obvious.
Of course the scene wasn’t filmed in hopes of anything, but tragically life imitated art in a way here, and I still don’t like it. Evidently I’m in the minority. And if that makes me a wuss, come on over here and I’ll arm-wrestle you.
Al-I hope you don’t feel like i was trying to brow-beat you, and I *DON’T* think you are a wuss.
We have this thing in America that goes (roughly) Majority Rules, With the Rights of The Minority Portected. Even though we don’t see eye to eye, I am glad you have your point of view. If YOU didn’t challenge ME, I would be in the same kind of evolutionary stalemate I described earlier.
BTW, I have seen the pipes on you, I don’t stand a chance in arm-wrestling. How big is your thumb?
Fuck! Sorry I’m late to the party Fek! Not only should the scene be left in, but they should put a bottle of Ambien in his breast pocket, a noose around his fuckin neck, a gun in his hand and a note that says "I’m a douche that doesn’t deserve to live" pinned to his shirt like a kindergardener. Fuck pussy ass, feel good, squeamish little fucks. Fuck em all. And fuck you, you fuckin fuck.
My lunch was not very good.
I can’t believe you made that joke about cancer at the baseball game. My mom died just last week from cancer at a baseball game, you inconsiderate fuck.
Wait. If they want to cut the scense where he PRTENDS to be dead because he is dead in reality, why then didn’t they cut all his PRETEND homo assbanging scenes from Brokenback Mountatin?
If it disturbs you then they are doing their job. Last time I checked the Joker was a disturbing villain who is insane. Anyway your story at the end reminded me when I was in high school I was at a football game and noticed this 10 year old drinking a diet coke. I felt necessary to point out "What is this world coming to where a 10 year old needs to go on a diet?" To which his sister sitting behind me tapped me on the shoulder and said "Some people have diabetes and can’t drink regular soda." Party foul indeed.
Everyone knows that 70% of America has been intellectually castrated and can’t handle things like "death", so obviously they got upset with Heath Ledger died on screen. Apparently coincidences are now distasteful.
"Maggot" you are missing my point entirely, but I see little reason to explain it further.