Even before the untimely death of Heath Ledger, people knew that the follow-up to "Batman Begins" was going to be huge. It promised the return of Batman's nemesis, The Joker.

Heath Ledger pulled off something no one had done since Jack Nicholson: Be The Joker. And not only be The Joker but put his own stamp onto the character.

The first part of this song is just so driven. You've got the background that's very hectic and fast-paced and the foreground music that's very slow moving to create a really memorable track for a very memorable movie.

I sometimes wonder what life would be like if Heath Ledger had lived to see his Dark Knight fame. Would he have been typecast as William Shatner was with Captain Kirk? Would he have been a "flash-in-the-pan" like Mark Hamill with Luke Skywalker, never again finding the same level of fame?

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