A deleted scene from Christopher Nolan’s iconic 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight has resurfaced and fans think it should have been kept in as it truly portrays how twisted Heath Ledger's Joker was.
The scene shows the Joker blow up the fictional Gotham General Hospital and escape in a school bus.
As the bus drives away, Ledger's character is seen sitting calm with a slight smile on his face as he passes more and more explosions that are causing utter devastation - none of which are phasing him at all. Check it out below:
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Some think the deleted scene captures the Joker’s character perfectly.
One wrote: “The way Ledger SMILES when the hospital is being blown up is definitely disturbing!!
“I like Phoenix, but Ledger STILL takes the top spot for me.
“What a screwed up guy his Joker was! It's a real shame we never got a solo film from Heath.”
Fan Kekoa Eddington wrote: “That should've been in the movie that scene alone was marvellous.
“The way you can see the explosions in the windows of the bus and the way joker isn't even looking at the destruction he has caused is just epic as hell.”
And another commented that the video testified for the performance as ‘the greatest villain ever.’
Ledger’s performance of the DC villain won him an Oscar for ‘best supporting actor’ but he died of an accidental drug overdose before receiving the award.
Theories suggest the 28-year-old’s death on 22 January 2008 was in part the result of his extreme ‘method acting’ process of becoming the Joker.
He told Empire: “I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary, and experimented with voices.”
Ledger’s relationship with his partner Michelle Williams had also ended in September 2007, according to ati.
The pair had a two-year-old daughter, Matilda, and some reports claim Ledger struggled with the separation from her.
The Australian was also suffering from insomnia and told The New York Times he would only sleep two hours each night on occasion.
He said: “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.”
His friend and voice coach Gerry Grennell lived with him in the final weeks of his life and claimed he would wander around the apartment late at night.
All this contributed to the part he became known for: the Joker.
Ledger’s performance captured all the idiosyncrasies of this insane super-villain and convinced viewers to believe in the existence of this manic murderer.
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Charlie Metcalfe