The Brokeback Project

4/29/06- Still battling the mouse, we're thinking about leaving the door to the deck open tonight because it seems to be too smart to enter the trap by itself. We're also trying to court all the homeless cats on our street to at least try to have the little thing scared out of its wits. But enough about that there was Brokeback today. Found this paragraph in the January 9th issue of the New Yorker, the 9th was my grandmother's birthday.

Yet there is humor in Heath Ledger’s performance. After his powerful work in “Brokeback Mountain,” in which he plays a man all tied up inside himself, it was fun to see him leaping out of bedroom windows and prancing around, sword in hand. His Casanova is seductive yet reserved, and Ledger’s extraordinary baritone voice, which registers clearly at the lowest volume, may be the best asset any actor has had in years. Assailed in court for dallying with a novice in a nunnery, he says, sotto voce, “She was hardly a novice,” a line of no great wit that Ledger turns into elegance by seeming to utter it as a form of self-amusement. The movie’s central conceit—that the world’s most famous lover loses his heart to a battling Venetian feminist—is a little hard to take, but the lady in question is played by Sienna Miller, who has a volatile, fast-moving body and genuine fire in her eyes. When the credits were over at last, I sighed, and took away a moviegoer’s fantasy of Ledger and Miller starting work again, far away from Venice and ball gowns, on something that might be worth seeing.-DAVID DENBY

I realize that's not really the best way to site but I'm not claiming it as my own work in any way, shape or form. I think this paragraph is interesting in light of how much Ledger's acting in Brokeback was mentioned again and highlight a higlight of the film. Hollywood is such an interesting beast. You could have never told me that the star of A Knight's Tale and Ten Things I Hate About You would become a respected actor.