Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. [98] Dafoe co-starred as the White House Chief of Staff in American Dreamz, a comedy satirizing both popular entertainment and American politics. The Damen Avenue stop (Blue line, at Damen, North, and Milwaukee avenues) was used. [34] Dafoe was briefly considered for the role of the super-villain the Joker in the Tim Burton-directed superhero film Batman (1989), as screenwriter Sam Hamm noticed physical similarities, but was never offered the part that eventually went to Jack Nicholson. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as Independent cinema. Maybe if we'd had Tom Cruise, we might have had a success. Dafoe flourished as an actor in such big-budget mainstream films as Spider-Man (2002) and three of its sequels (2004, 2007, and 2021), in which he played the comic villain the Green Goblin; the animated Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel, Finding Dory (2016), for which he provided the voice of a fish; and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Wes Andersons comedy about an idiosyncratic marine documentary crew. Willem Dafoe in STREETS OF FIRE. [14], E.G. [54] In the period drama Victorywhich was filmed in 1994 and premiered in Europe in 1996, but was not released until 1998Dafoe played a European living on an island in the Southeast Asia who becomes the target of redemption after preventing a woman, played by Irne Jacob, from being raped. [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. Raven confronts Tom and warns him that he will be coming for Ellen and for him, too. He played a tormented T.S. 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. She described her character as "the first glamorous role I've had". That idea of a totally artificial universe. Those are two very successful movies that figured out how to do the stylization with the appropriate amount of gore that they hooked the audience. Corrections? Ellen performs on stage, while Tom rides off with McCoy. [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. That was in our headsthere's the past and there's the future, sort of. I'm not like a writer. The story concerns a lawyer, played by Dafoe, who engages in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with the woman he is representing in a murder case. [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". [164] Dafoe earned his third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, as well as nominations at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and BAFTA Awards. Dafoe played the villainous Raven in Hill's Streets of Fire all the way back in 1984. In 1977, Dafoe began a relationship with director Elizabeth LeCompte. [96] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. Film critic Peter Bradshaw noted the physical similarities between Dafoe and Pasolini, although felt Dafoe had too little screen time in the film. Because I wanted to be on that stage singing with those guysBut back then I always played those quirky characters. ", Dafoe on his avoidance of being typecast as a villain, 1998[52], In his first of three film appearances in 1996, Dafoe made a cameo appearance as an electrician in the biographical drama Basquiat. [5] Dan Hartman's selection "I Can Dream About You" is the most successful song from the movie, and became a Billboard top 10 hit in 1984 (also from his studio album of the same name). My manager had me hire a limousine to pick me up at home and take me to work. I always said whenever someone says fantasy they immediately think of more Disney-esque. Gross says he and Hill were also influenced by the teen films of John Hughes. Always dark. - Michael Par plays a biker who agrees to rescue his ex-girlfriend (a rocker played by Diane Lane) from kidnappers (led by Willem Dafoe). Tom and Raven duel using sledgehammers and their fists, with Tom ultimately being victorious. Streets of Fire was released in the United States on June 1, 1984, by Universal Pictures. [173] Owen Gleiberman of Variety said "Both actors are sensational (and they work together like one), but in terms of sheer showboating power its Dafoes movie. stunt double Willem Dafoe (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) Allan Graf . 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'. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. Action Crime Drama A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang. [70] The Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum opined felt the film's "only redeeming quality" was Dafoe's "enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance". Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. This is Hollywood. [42] Dafoe had two lead roles in 1992. [3] Originally, plans were made for the song to be featured on the film's soundtrack, to be sung by Ellen Aim at the end of the film, but when Springsteen was told that the song would be re-recorded by other vocalists, he withdrew permission for the song to be used. Much of the film's critical praise went to Dafoe; Roger Ebert wrote that Dafoe "embodies the Schreck of Nosferatu so uncannily that when real scenes from the silent classic are slipped into the frame, we don't notice a difference". [4] Diane Lane read for the part when she was 18. 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. Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg played a couple whose relationship becomes increasingly sexually violent and sadomasochistic after retreating to a cabin in the woods following the death of their child. Streets of Fire (1984) 28: Bobby Hicks : The Florida Project (2017) 62: Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys : Cry-Baby (1990) 34: [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. They built this gigantic tarpaulin, and the Battery and all these other places were built as real places. With the assistance of a hard-as-nails woman warrior (Madigan) and manager Billy Fish (Moranis), he enters a shocking world of neon-lit streets, fast cars, and killer assassins lurking around every corner. 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Gross recalls that about five weeks into the 14-week shoot: I turned to Walter and said "This movie is somewhat weirder than we thoughtWe just didn't anticipate what the combination of elements was going to be. Due to the choreography and setups in between takes of every scene, the climactic four-minute showdown between Cody and Raven took a considerable time to shoot. [73] He then starred opposite Haley Joel Osment in Edges of the Lord, playing a compassionate priest helping a young Jewish boy pose as a Catholic to protect him during Nazi Germany's occupation of Poland. Witnessing this is Reva Cody, who telegrams her brother Tom, an ex-soldier and Ellen's ex-boyfriend, asking him to come home. It's kind of amazing how intimidating Willem Dafoe can look with just the silhouette of his face. "[44][45], Dafoe next starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) with Madonna. What happened was that all of the people that made Streets of Fire left Universal Studios and went to 20th Century Fox. ancientdad Additional comment actions. I've gotta make my way with these people. This was the fastest ever greenlight Hill had received and he put it down to the box office success of 48 Hours. He gained prominence for his role in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), in which he played a counterfeiter attempting to elude capture by the police. [23] In an interview, shortly after the film's release, Par said, "Everyone liked it, and then all of a sudden they didn't like it. It will be the first in a series of adventures of an action hero he's had it in his mind to create for a long time. [53] Next, he played a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative in the romantic war drama The English Patient, which starred Ralph Fiennes as desert explorer Count Lszl Almsy. [108] Roger Ebert thought that Dafoe was "fearsome" in the role,[109] while Manohla Dargis felt he and Roberts were "awkwardly matched" as a married couple. [132][133][134] Dafoe starred alongside Marina Abramovi and Gretchen Mol in the play The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi, which premiered at The Lowry in 2011. 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. 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. I always thought of it as a musical. I had to have a scapegoat. I think that bothered Walter. [5] The lighting for these concert scenes were done by Mark Brickman, who also lit concerts for Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd. The website's consensus reads: "Streets of Fire may sometimes buckle under the strain of its ambitious fusion of disparate genres, but Walter Hill's bravura style gives this motorcycle musical fuel to burn. He played an eccentric, gay FBI agent assigned with investigating a series of murders committed by the MacManus twins (played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) who are acting as vigilantes in Boston, Massachusetts after an act of self-defense. [122] His final appearance of the year was in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, another film centring around vampires in which Dafoe played the foppish vampire Gavner Purl. The two didn't work together again for nearly four decades, when Hill wrote a part for Dafoe in his 2022 western Dead for a Dollar, in which he plays opposite Christoph Waltz. Streets of Fire was a big picture for me, and I was overwhelmed. 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). 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. That night, Tom has a change of heart and agrees to talk to Ellen's manager and current boyfriend, Billy Fish, about rescuing her. [81] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. [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. It's not Chicago. Reply . He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). The subway scenes were filmed on location in Chicago at many locations, including LaSalle Street (Blue line), Lake Street (Green line), Sheridan Road (Red, Purple lines), and Belmont Avenue (Red, Brown, and Purple lines). Following tensions between Schechner and other members after they started staging their own productions outside of the group, Schechner left and the remaining members (including LeCompte and her ex-boyfriend Spalding Gray) renamed themselves The Wooster Group. Tom meets Billy at the diner, and Billy agrees to pay him $10,000, but Tom also requires that Billy accompany him into the Battery to get Ellen, since he used to live there. Gross later said he thought Dafoe "may have been the best thing about the film. After having sex, Tom and Ellen discuss the possibility of eloping. I don't know. [169][170] He later played Nuidis Vulko in a leading role in James Wan's 2018 film Aquaman. Tom escapes on the one intact motorcycle and meets up with the others. Dafoe voiced the Australian ABC-television documentary 'River' in 2022,[177] which was written to highlight the precaricity of rivers worldwide. [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. Willem Dafoe is a 67 years old American actor from Appleton, Wisconsin. Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France, "Tonight is What Means To Be Young: "Streets of Fire" at 30", "How Did This Get Made: A Conversation with 'Streets of Fire' Co-Writer Larry Gross", "Tom Cody, Pleased To Meet Ya! And Tom Cody will be the football hero. "[4], Gross and Hill would work out their ideas in detail. [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. In Richmond, a city district in a time period that resembles the 1950s (labelled "another time, another place"), Ellen Aim, lead singer of Ellen Aim and the Attackers, has returned home for a concert. Conceptually. So I wrote this song that I loved and I sent it to them and he and Joel, I remember, left me a great message saying, I hate you, you bastard, I love this song. You just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen. You can't do that on a movie set. Dafoes credits from 2019 included The Lighthouse, about two lighthouse keepers in the 1890s; Motherless Brooklyn, a crime drama adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem; and Togo, a Disney drama about the Great Race of Mercy, in which dog-sled teams were used to distribute medicine during a diphtheria epidemic in Alaska in 1925. Walter Hill later said he felt "humbled" by the shoot: I think I thought I could handle things. The film received mixed reviews, although Peter Travers felt that he added a note of "vulnerability to the menace he has made his stock in trade". *Real* dumb if you think you can pull this off. Notable roles include in The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch (2021), Nightmare Alley (2021), and The Northman (2022). He was the only actor I found who was right for the part a striking combination of toughness and innocence. [18] His role, that of a cockfighter who works for Jeff Bridges' character, was removed from a majority of the film during editing but was visible during a cockfight scene. [27] At the 59th Academy Awards, Dafoe was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but the statuette was awarded to Michael Caine (for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters). The Richlands. His performance as a hotel manager in the latter film earned Dafoe his third Oscar nomination. [72], Dafoe took on two leading roles in 2001, both of which were as priests. "[29], Streets of Fire was intended to be the first in a projected trilogy titled The Adventures of Tom Cody, with Hill's tentatively titling the two sequels The Far City and Cody's Return. It's such a hard-shelled picture that it barely has moods. It is described in the opening credits and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable"[2] and is a mix of various movie genres with elements of retro-1950s woven into then-current 1980s themes. Walter proudly considers himself a capitalist, so he suggested we do the latter. [110] Dafoe co-starred as SS Nazi officer in Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008), which starred Jeff Goldblum as a concentration camp internee. McCoy enters and is led upstairs by one of the Bombers, where she then knocks him out and holds Raven and some of his gang members at gunpoint. Although three districts are seen, the city has a total of five districts: the Richmond, the Strip, the Battery, the Cliffside, and the Bayside. 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). [31] Dafoe's performance in the film was widely praised, however, with Janet Maslin opining that Dafoe brought a "gleaming intensity" to the role. Raven : I can get guns smart guy, lots of 'em. Meanwhile, Ellen is on a train with Tom and McCoy, believing that Tom is leaving with her, but Tom knocks out Ellen and returns to town to confront Raven. In 2009 Dafoe starred in von Triers controversial Antichrist, which centres on a couple who struggle to cope with the death of a child. 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. Omissions? He has five sisters and a brother. It made a very inefficient shoot. . And we didn't fullyI want to say we had too much integrity. This is a fairy tale. [154] His performance in the film was generally well received by critics, including Peter Travers who felt he provided "ample compensation". [191][195] Dafoe acquired Italian citizenship through the marriage. It went $14 million over budget, I think and I kept saying to Joel, how are they allowing this? The defeated gang carries their leader away. [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". Walter knew what he meantthat we were in a great position hereso he said, "We can do this two ways: present an idea now and get a deal done, or write a script on spec and get a lot more money." [71] Dafoe received numerous awards and nominations for his performance, including his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. [121] Dafoe reprised his role from The Boondock Saints in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, making a brief cameo appearance. [3], According to cinematographer Andrew Laszlo, the film's style was dictated by the story. We got the songs a lot of times just a few days before we shoot. [102] Dafoe starred as the owner of a strip club in Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales (2007); Manohla Dargis praised his "twitchy, sympathetic performance" in the film. [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. [4], According to Hill, the film's origins came out of a desire to make what he thought was a perfect film when he was a teenager, and put in all of the things that he thought were "great then and which I still have great affection for: custom cars, kissing in the rain, neon, trains in the night, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, motorcycles, jokes in tough situations, leather jackets and questions of honor". [5], Willem Dafoe was recommended by Kathryn Bigelow, who had just made a film with him. He was surprised with her "total commitment to selling herself as a rock 'n' roll star". [13], After attending Appleton East High School, Dafoe studied drama at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee,[14] but left after 18 months to join the experimental theater company Theatre X in Milwaukee, before moving to New York City in 1976. "Were in the world of Cocteau, were in the world of Beauty and the Beast. [15], Par said that the original draft of the script had Tom Cody kill Raven with a knife. [155] Dafoe made his second guest appearance in the animated sitcom The Simpsons in November 2014, voicing a new school teacher who bullies Bart Simpson profusely. "He did not love creating scripts from scratch; he loved rewriting." [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. After studying at 'Appleton East High School,' he enrolled at the 'University of Wisconsin' in Milwaukee to study drama when he was 17. [4], Gross also wrote that "there was a chance of something great, but early fundamental disappointment with key personnel (in that case the star, Michael Par) steeled all of us to face the chance that it might not turn out that way."[17]. [196] He practices ashtanga vinyasa yoga every day. In 2021 he was featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. [60] Following a villainous supporting role in the romantic mystery drama Lulu on the Bridge,[61] Dafoe starred alongside Christopher Walken and Asia Argento in Abel Ferrara's cyberpunk drama New Rose Hotel in 1998. On January 18, 2022, it was announced that Dafoe would host Saturday Night Live on January 29, 2022, with musical guest singer Katy Perry. He also portrayed Nuidis Vulko in the DC Extended Universe films including Aquaman (2018), and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). We learned later that, I believe, Eisner rejected it on the grounds that it was too similar to Indiana Jones. Hill met Lane in New York City and she auditioned for him in black leather pants, a black mesh top and high-heeled boots. It is described in its opening credits and posters as "A Rock & Roll. The film received a polarized response from critics and audiences,[113] receiving both applause and boos at the Cannes Film Festival and was called the "most shocking movie" to be shown at the festival because of its graphic sex scenes. [6], During 48 Hours Gross said he thought that Hill had received "a bum rap on the woman question" over the years. During an interview, he said that half of his family puts the emphasis on the first syllable of the surname while the other half emphasizes the second syllable. Nishitani said that, at the time, the team were not "aware of Streets of Fire, but I've Googled it and there does indeed seem to be something familiar about it" but that "this style of story was very popular back then" and many "fighting games made use of it" so "I guess we were part of that crowd! [74], Dafoe played the supervillain the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire as the titular Marvel Comics superhero. Gross and Hill met with the editors on the weekends and looked at footage. However, when they realised they would not get it in time, they asked Steinman for a song, which he wrote in two days. [126][127] and starred in his wife Giada Colagrande's film A Woman. The production employed 500 extras to play the citizens of the Richmond District. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Willem Dafoe Streets Of Fire animated GIFs to your conversations. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. You've got to be careful because you've got to work with what you have, not just for vanity's sake, but I think the best part of being an actor sometimes is the opportunity to transform yourself superficially, and deeply. In downtown LA. Nowhe neglected to mention that some fairy tales are very violent. In the drama Pavilion of Women, he played an American priest living in China who falls in love with a local married woman (played by the film's screenwriter Luo Yan) while giving her son a Western education. Osborn is a family friend of Spider-Man's secret identity Peter Parker as Osborn's son, Harry Osborn (played by James Franco), is a close friend of Parker. Dafoe voiced Gill, a moorish idol fish who helps Nemo, a clownfish, in his struggle to return home to the ocean. [28] Dafoe provided his voice to the documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) and, in 1988, Dafoe starred in another film set during the Vietnam War, this time as Criminal Investigation Command Agent Buck McGriff in the action thriller Off Limits. I said, yeah, it's a really bad script Joel's on the other side going, what am I gonna do next? An unofficial sequel titled Road to Hell was made in 2008, directed by Albert Pyun, and with Par playing Tom Cody, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh playing his sister Reva Cody. I got those best friend of the leads, quirky, funny characters. Tom goes to the hotel where Ellen and Billy are staying to collect his reward, but he takes only McCoy's cut and throws the rest back at Billy. "That broke my heartI hoped, by the time the movie finished, that it would be whipped into a shape and design that would have a real impact. [48] Dafoe then co-starred in the spy thriller Clear and Present Danger (1994), an adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel of the name starring Harrison Ford as CIA operative Jack Ryan. [198], List of awards and nominations received by Willem Dafoe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, "William Dafoe's Obituary on Appleton Post-Crescent", "Actor Dafoe's Orlando Parents Support 'Last Temptation' Role", "Pancreas Transplant Director Donald Dafoe Joins Cedars-Sinai", Finally, The Truth Behind Willem Dafoe's First Name, "8 times Appleton native Willem Dafoe appeared in The Post-Crescent before he was famous", "Mr Bean's Holiday Willem Dafoe interview", "Willem Dafoe was fired from 'Heaven's Gate' cock fighting role", "To Live and Die in L.A. Movie Review (1985)", "Reality Of 'Platoon' Is Steeped In Surreality", "Movie Review: 'Platoon': It's War At Ground Zero", "The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners", "Church Declares 'Last Temptation' Morally Offensive", "Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics", "Willem Dafoe: Oscar's Enigmatic Underdog Wants to "Disappear", "How an All-American Boy Went to War and Lost His Faith", "Saturday Night At The Movies: What exactly was 'Arrive Alive,' and what happened? Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group, which he is credited as co-founding in the 1970s. [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. I wasn't ready for that kind of crap. It follows X (Dafoe) and Fox (Walken), a pair of corporate raiders attempting to lure a Japanese scientist from one megacorporation to another. Dafoes subsequent roles included a mercenary in pursuit of a Tasmanian tiger in the Australian thriller The Hunter (2011) and an animated Martian warrior, portrayed through the motion-capture technique, in the sci-fi adventure John Carter (2012). [20], Walter Hill had worked with Ry Cooder several times previously but Cooder did not do the original score. Shooting wrapped on August 18, 1983. 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. [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. Other Oscar-nominated films include Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and At Eternity's Gate (2018).
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