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<blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 4396578" data-attributes="member: 39532">It probably played a role given all the hype about how awesome Ledger's performance was and his death back in January.&nbsp; There are folks in the place I work that are interested in seeing a Batman movie just to see of Heath's last role was as good as the buzz is saying it is, and these are folks that couldn't care less about comic-book movies.I'll admit that Dark Knight is such a great movie in addition to the ghoul factor is what's really pushing the numbers.&nbsp; But neither can the ghoul factor be dismissed out of hand.&nbsp; Due to Ledger's popularity upswing in the wake of his Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, he was in the public eye as a &quot;big time actor&quot; and his playing a demented clown drew a lot of interest to a comic book movie, especially in the wake of his passing.After all, there were people who willingly subjected themselves to the horror that was Street Fighter just to see Raul Julia's final performance as an actor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Donovan Morningfire, post: 4396578, member: 39532"] It probably played a role given all the hype about how awesome Ledger's performance was and his death back in January. There are folks in the place I work that are interested in seeing a Batman movie just to see of Heath's last role was as good as the buzz is saying it is, and these are folks that couldn't care less about comic-book movies. I'll admit that Dark Knight is such a great movie in addition to the ghoul factor is what's really pushing the numbers. But neither can the ghoul factor be dismissed out of hand. Due to Ledger's popularity upswing in the wake of his Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, he was in the public eye as a "big time actor" and his playing a demented clown drew a lot of interest to a comic book movie, especially in the wake of his passing. After all, there were people who willingly subjected themselves to the horror that was Street Fighter just to see Raul Julia's final performance as an actor. [/QUOTE]

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