[184], Upon release of No Way Home, Dafoe's reprisal was met with universal acclaim. He played an actor spending his last hours on Earth before the end of the world with his much-younger lover (played by Shanyn Leigh). [146] In 2014, Dafoe portrayed a wealthy private banker with connections to the Russia mafia opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in Anton Corbijn's espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man. You just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen. The Hollywood Reporter thought that Dafoe appeared to think he was "in a pantomime",[101] while a New York Times reviewer felt he was "amusing" in the role. [148] Dafoe next starred alongside Matt Dillon as a detective in the crime thriller Bad Country, which critic Justin Chang dismissed as being "blandly constructed". They kind of saw it worked in the world of an MTV video."[8]. [4], Streets of Fire has a number of similarities to Capcom's hit 1989 beat 'em up video game Final Fight. Although three districts are seen, the city has a total of five districts: the Richmond, the Strip, the Battery, the Cliffside, and the Bayside. [5][9][10], The film's title came from a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen on his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Dafoes other credits that year included Guillermo del Toros film noir Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter, a crime drama directed by Paul Schrader. [144] Also in 2013, Dafoe played the devil in a Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl commercial[145] and starred in three short student films as part of a competition sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey. [22] Later in 1985, Dafoe starred with William Petersen and John Pankow in William Friedkin's thriller To Live and Die in L.A., in which Dafoe portrays a counterfeiter named Rick Masters who is being tracked by two Secret Service agents. Like the novel, the film sparked controversy for departing from the biblical portrayal of Jesus and was branded as being blasphemous. [3], The Streets of Fire script concluded with the expectation that Streets of Fire will be followed by The Long Night, Book Two in The Adventures of Tom Cody. [20], Following a "blink-and-you-miss-it" cameo in The Hunger (1983), Dafoe again played the leader of a biker gang in Walter Hill's 1984 action film Streets of Fire. The title of the former was used as the tagline on some promotional materials for the film. Perhaps his best-known role was as Sgt. I said, yeah, it's a really bad script Joel's on the other side going, what am I gonna do next? I was already worried about whether I should do the sequel or not."[34]. Hill was unhappy with that score and liked music Cooder had written for Stroker Ace which the director of that film had not wanted to use.[21]. The Richlands. It was so frustrating for me. [182][183] Also, like Alfred Molina (who reprised his role as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in the film), Dafoe was digitally de-aged for the character's 2002 self. Tom escapes on the one intact motorcycle and meets up with the others. I guess maybe I am. After studying at 'Appleton East High School,' he enrolled at the 'University of Wisconsin' in Milwaukee to study drama when he was 17. [12] He then apprenticed under Richard Schechner, the director of the avant-garde theater troupe The Performance Group, where he met and became romantically involved with director Elizabeth LeCompte. However, by this stage Gross and Hill had worked together so closely Gross says "I began to develop a strong sense for knowing how to sound like he did. [31] Dafoe's performance in the film was widely praised, however, with Janet Maslin opining that Dafoe brought a "gleaming intensity" to the role. [19] In 1982, Dafoe starred as the leader of an outlaw motorcycle club in the drama The Loveless, his first role as a leading man. He played an underground fight promoter in Out of the Furnace (2013), the menacing employer of the sex-addicted main character in Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013) and Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013), a German banker in A Most Wanted Man (2014), a henchman in Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and an assassin in John Wick (2014). In high school, he acquired the nickname Willem,[11] the Dutch version of the name William. In the film, Dafoe played a perverse businessman who hires Charlotte Gainsbourg's character to work as a debt collector using sex and sadomasochism. Always night, just about. Streets of Fire was a big picture for me, and I was overwhelmed. [79] Steven Scaife at Vice wrote that Dafoe's Goblin "represents everything thats fun about superhero villains, as well as everything thats great about Raimi's campy films", also commending Dafoe's voice and body language, which helped overcome the bulky Green Goblin costume that he compared to that of a Power Rangers villain. Actor: Spider-Man. [5] The factory scenes that take place in the Battery were filmed at a rotting soap factory in Wilmington, California, for ten nights. And I remember, in the park, Joel saying, 'Today Is What It Means to be Dead'. [194], In March 2004, Dafoe met Italian actress Giada Colagrande in Rome at the premiere of one of her films. It's a very real-world film, in some respects, but it's very artificial at the same time We did that again, but we put the emphasis on the artifice. This tarp measured 1,240 feet long by 220 feet wide over both sets, and cost $1.2 million to construct. Diane Lane was, I think, eighteen. [162] Also in 2016, Dafoe appeared in another Super Bowl commercial, this time for Snickers, recreating Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress scene from the film The Seven Year Itch. Dafoe also had to wear a prosthetic teeth for his part as Norman whereas the hallucinations of the character had Dafoe in his natural teeth. [29][30] His second release of 1988 was Martin Scorsese's epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Dafoe portrayed Jesus. [96] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. His character was described as a "diminutive version of Dick Cheney, with wire-rimmed glasses and a fringe of white hair" by The Times writer Caryn James. Willem Dafoe. He studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin but left school to join Theater X, an experimental Wisconsin-based theatre troupe with which Dafoe toured for four years. [149], In May 2014, Dafoe served as member of the main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. [40] In 1991, Dafoe starred with Danny Glover and Brad Johnson in the action film Flight of the Intruder. In a way, I think Streets of Fire was about expanding The Warriors concept to a bigger stage. On a smaller scale, he portrayed stern fathers in Lars von Triers historical allegory Manderlay (2005) and in the family drama Fireflies in the Garden (2008). The Damen Avenue stop (Blue line, at Damen, North, and Milwaukee avenues) was used. "[4], Among the actors they saw for the role of Tom Cody were Eric Roberts, Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze. The Boondock Saints was negatively received by film critics, largely for its extreme violence and lack of emotional depth, though some critics praised Dafoe's role in the film. [5], "We were very excited about Diane Lane because she was starring in two excitedly hyped Francis Ford Coppola pictures that were being done in Oklahoma", says Gross. The choreography for the two songs Ellen Aim sings and the one by the Sorels was done by Jeffrey Hornaday. Walter proudly considers himself a capitalist, so he suggested we do the latter. Starring Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, Bill Paxton and Deborah Van. [3] The film crew tarped-in the New Street and Brownstone street sets to double for the Richmond District setting, completely covering them so that night scenes could be filmed during the day. Willem Dafoe is one of the masters, and its a testament to his power that never every major filmmaker in the world has used him at least once. The critic Peter Brunette felt the cast's performances, especially Dafoe's, were unconvincing. However, when they realised they would not get it in time, they asked Steinman for a song, which he wrote in two days. The Bombers, a biker gang from another part of town called the Battery, led by Raven Shaddock, crash the concert and kidnap Ellen. [130] Dafoe then starred in the Australian drama The Hunter, playing a professional hunter who travels to Tasmania to hunt down the world's only remaining thylacine. That was the first sentence out of his mouth to me in Joel Silver's office. This cult favorite features a razor-sharp cast and original songs written by Jim Steinman, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Ry Cooder and performed by The Blasters and The Fixx. [196] He practices ashtanga vinyasa yoga every day. The group is joined by "Baby Doll", a fan of Ellen's, who warns them that the police are looking for the people who were behind the attack at Torchies. stunt double Willem Dafoe (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) Allan Graf . The Ardmore Police roadblock was filmed near 6th street in East Los Angeles, near the flood basin. [116] During an interview with L Magazine, it was revealed Dafoe had a stand in for scenes where his character's penis was on screen as his own was too big. He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played supporting roles in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), before his breakthrough roles in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Mississippi Burning (1988). Streets of Fire is a 1984 American neo-noir rock musical film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It went $14 million over budget, I think and I kept saying to Joel, how are they allowing this? I already had a great respect for people like Minnelli. The film was co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery and paid homage to 1953 film The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando in a similar role. [32], In his final release of 1988, Dafoe starred opposite Gene Hackman in the crime thriller Mississippi Burning as a pair of FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi during the civil rights movement. [86] Dafoe reprised his role as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 2 (2004), appearing to his son Harry in an hallucination. I think that's going to be demonstrated even more clearly in his next films. I had never done a love scene beforeI really needed help to get through it. [141] The game polarized reviewers, although Dafoe and Page's performance were widely praised. It could still be tough and strong and have a woman do it without rewriting the part. [19] Dafoe did not receive a credit for his work on the film. Updates? [12] Dafoe soon joined the new company and is credited as one of its co-founders. And we started giggling, in that way people do when things are terriblethere's the song in the movie called 'Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young'. [125] Also in 2010, Dafoe began voicing Clarence, the Birds Eye polar bear mascot in the company's television commercials in the United Kingdom,[128] and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United States. [39] In the same year, Dafoe co-starred in David Lynch's crime film Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. [59] Also in 1997, Dafoe took on a voice acting role in an episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons titled "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", voicing the commandant of a military academy that Bart and Lisa Simpson are attending. [56] The film starred Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric as a couple vacationing on a luxury cruise that has been hijacked by Dafoe's character, Geiger, a hacker that has programmed the ship to crash into an oil tanker. We had a very conscious design concept of the movie, but I think we didn't fully grasp how strong it would be, in terms of the combination of elements. [3] The Richmond's look was very soft and the colors did not call attention to themselves. [185] Peter Travers of Good Morning America and Jade King at The Gamer praised Dafoe and Molina, with King asserting that the two "stole the show as Green Goblin and Doc Ock" and described the depictions as brilliant. He later appeared in The Last Thing He Wanted (2020), an adaptation of a Joan Didion novel. [15] He continued his work with the group into the 2000s, well after establishing himself as a Hollywood film star. He's like John Ford. [11] Jim Steinman was brought in to write the opening and closing songs, and "Streets of Fire" was replaced by "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young". His performance as a hotel manager in the latter film earned Dafoe his third Oscar nomination. It was made at Universal, so they owned the rights to the story. Rita Kempley of The Washington Post found the scene to be one of the film's highlights. [98] Dafoe co-starred as the White House Chief of Staff in American Dreamz, a comedy satirizing both popular entertainment and American politics. Music had been important in my films, it was usually post production. [139], In 2013, Dafoe played a police officer in the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas, starring Anton Yelchin as the titular character that possesses supernatural powers to see the dead. [42] Dafoe had two lead roles in 1992. [95] Along with his wife Giada Colagrande, Dafoe co-wrote and starred in Before It Had a Name (2005), which Colagrande directed. The point is that we had in mind one sentence inspired by George Lucas: "in a galaxy long ago", a futuristic past. I don't know. In the Battery, they go to Torchie's, a club that Billy used to book bands at and where Raven has Ellen tied up in an upstairs bedroom. [6], During 48 Hours Gross said he thought that Hill had received "a bum rap on the woman question" over the years. The character's name is Tom Cody. Actor Age Check - How old was Willem Dafoe in Streets of Fire? Steinman later recalled thinking the script was 'terrible', but he thought the film was going to be a big hit, in part because of the enthusiasm of Joel Silver: [He said] this movie is about visuals. ancientdad Additional comment actions. [117] Dafoe next had a small role in the French thriller Farewell as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and co-starred opposite Michael Shannon in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, in which he played a detective attempting to figure out why a troubled man killed his own mother. His nickname is Dafoe William (birth name). Par did not always work well with Walter Hill: I think Walter is a writer at heart. [36] While the film was negatively received, Dafoe's performance was lauded by some critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt he gave a "disciplined performance" and Janet Maslin thought he was "harrowingly good". It's such a hard-shelled picture that it barely has moods. [163], In 2017, Dafoe co-starred in Sean Baker's drama The Florida Project as the manager of a motel in Kissimmee, Florida who houses a toxic mother and her six-year-old daughter. [3], According to cinematographer Andrew Laszlo, the film's style was dictated by the story. Didn't know how to shoot music. Dafoe played the Norman Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin, the billionaire founder and owner of the corporation Oscorp, becoming the Green Goblin after testing an unstable strength enhancer on himself, turning him insane and making him extremely powerful. The same year, Dafoe played Vincent van Gogh in the biographical drama At Eternity's Gate, for which he received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination among other awards and accolades. He was the only actor I found who was right for the part a striking combination of toughness and innocence. [3] Gross later recalled: Streets of Fire began in the euphoria of knowing that Paramount really liked 48 and wanted to be in business with us if they could. [41] He was due to star opposite Joan Cusack in the comedy Arrive Alive in 1991, but the film was canceled during production. [5] Cinematographer Andrew Laszlo shot the film with very low light, giving the images a stark, "low-tech" quality.
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