Heath Ledger was an Australian actor who won a posthumous Academy Award for his performance as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight' — a performance of controlled anarchic chaos widely regarded as one of the greatest in cinema history.
Ledger's Joker — drawing on Francis Bacon's distorted figures, punk rock ethos, and A Clockwork Orange — transformed the comic-book villain into a genuine philosophical proposition about the irreducibility of chaos, delivered in a voice and physicality entirely his own invention.
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