MySpace Shows One Of Heath Ledger’s Last Works
By: John Vinson
While Heath Ledger’s last performance will mostly be known for The Dark Knight, the now dead actor/director had a few smaller projects which have yet been released. First, is a fantasy movie in which Ledger died halfway through production and is called ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’. His second project was his directorial debut and was for a music video for the band, Modest Mouse.
The song is called King Rat, and concerns the the modern whaling practices in Australia. Like his movie, Ledger died while in the middle of his directorial duties for the video. The production company stepped in and finished the video, with a new director.
MySpace is the first to release the music video, and in a good move hasn’t used Ledger’s name as a way to increase traffic. In fact if you don’t know going into watching the video, you’ll more than likely never know that Ledger was the director for the music video. As word catches on there’s no doubt that the page views for the video will continue to rise. And there’s no doubt that this is significant for MySpace, as they’re the sole distributors of the video at this point.
[via: TechCrunch]