WILLEM DAFOE

yeah i love him and have kind of a crush of shame on him, in fact. this is hard.

had to exclude a few minor roles to fit everything in here

Cry-Baby (1990) .... Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys

looooool. i don't remember this btw.

that is one of the best imdb credits i've ever seen

Light Sleeper, one of his few leading roles, i guess.

# Shadow of the Vampire (2000) .... Schreck
# Animal Factory (2000) .... Earl Copen
# The English Patient (1996) .... David Caravaggio
# Clear and Present Danger (1994) .... John Clark
# Light Sleeper (1992) .... John LeTour
# Wild at Heart (1990) .... Bobby Peru
# The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) .... Jesus
# Platoon (1986) .... Sergeant Elias
# To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) .... Eric 'Rick' Masters
# Streets of Fire (1984) .... Raven Shaddock

^^^he owns in all these, even moreso than he owns in the others

i kind of like english patient to this day because he was so awesome in it

btw, uh, i did not include this credit:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1021002/

he is also really great in auto focus

this guy always elevates whatever he's in, even if its crap. pretty impressive cv, he knows how to pick his roles.

yeah auto focus may get my vote here. kinda dig him more in smaller roles than leads, tbh

i'm picking body of evidence. (i'm on crack)

his Jesus (Last Temp, not Platoon).

Leads boys in prayer in CryBaby: "God bless Roy Cohn..."

haha!

i think i might vote last temptation, too

man Platoon is such a bad movie

not really, it just wasn't anything new

no it's a bad movie

platoon is good but it needed to dispense with the sheen v.o.

Bobby Peru 4 Eva.

Dafoe in Streets of Fire was remarkable - the leather pants - the tormented facial expressions - it was like he was playing Klaus Kinski playing the part of the bad guy in leather pants. And then he went on to reprise Kinski roles: Nosferatu and Jesus. He's one of my favorites, up there w/Dean Stockwell.

last temptation vs. 2 live & die in LA

"Bobby Peru 4 Eva."

otm

i need to see Light Sleeper again, it's been yeaars. voting for it anyway.

also dutch tv once interviewed him for like a 2 or even 3 hour program.. and he was sort of boring. (ok who wouldn't be talking that long)

Where the hell is Go Go Tales, my beloved Abel Ferrara's typically demented, damn near slapstick wet/fever dream??? Dafoe is game throughout, evincing none of the condescension a less adventurous performer would bring to the role. And he's really the glue that holds Ferrara's visions together (or holds them together for Ferrara which is even better).

# eXistenZ (1999) .... Gas

http://www.condomdepot.com/content/product/large/extenze_depot.jpg

voted for american psycho

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in Go Go Tales he's like Ned Sparks or some other '30s character actor. That vision was not held together, however.

Held together FOR Ferrara, it was.

He's in that goth/vampire movie The Hunger for maybe three seconds of screen time. He says something like "Hey, Lady, How 'bout it?" to Susan Sarandon when she is in a phone booth having some kind of reaction to the previous night's vampire freak out or something like that.
Voted TLADILA, but sorta forgot about Bobby Peru.

..but sorta forgot about Bobby Peru.

(btw, I'd forgotten how uncomfortable that scene is until after I posted & then watched it. It's been a long time since I've seen Wild at Heart. So, just a heads up: it is a dark, slimy clip & definitely NSFW)

I saw him walking along Houston St about ten years ago. So exciting!

no fishing with john, no credibility!

Exactly! R.I.P on an icy Maine lake.

Oh man, the cheese crackers bit

Norman Osborne is his best role.

Somebody cast him as this Osborne soon:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9f-5QLXa7_Y/RssA9tKVqTI/AAAAAAAAAeo/1z-A6HcMNCU/s320/Blog+Art+-+Robert+Osborne3.jpg

> no fishing with john, no credibility!

― LaMonte, Saturday, March 7, 2009 12:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Exactly! R.I.P on an icy Maine lake.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, March 7, 2009 1:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh man, the cheese crackers bit

― bear, bear, bear, Saturday, March 7, 2009 7:40 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Yesyesyes.

I saw him play The Hairy Ape in a Wooster Group production

By appearing in Speed 2: Cruise Control, Mr. Dafoe proves to the whole world that he is secure in his art and unafraid to take chances with his reputation. I applaud him for this.

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is there a way to suggest ban whoever voted for boondock saints

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That was me. Why

BECAUUUUUUUUSE IT WAS A FIIIIIIRRRRRREEEEEFFIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

body of evidence robbed here maybe. iirc he throws madonna into a lake from the roof of a house.

im tempted to rent boondock saints just to see why it makes ilxors go crazy.

the only good thing about the boondock saints is that if you find out someone likes that movie, you know all you'll ever need to know about them

he is not good in Life Aquatic. much funnier in Autofocus.

yet another poll where exactly one other person voted for the same thing I did. I'm starting to wonder if it's the same person every time.

what, shadow of the vampire? he's off on another level in that but it's not a very strong movie imo

there was a set of bumpers for IFC a long time ago with hip actors saying who they were and thank you for watching the independent film channel. there was one with denis leary and he goes "hi i'm willem defoe, you're watching the independent film channel." lol.

he's hilarious in life aquatic.

he's the best thing about Life Aquatic

http://www.defendtheprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Fareed_zakaria_2007.jpg

Watching him in "Mr. Bean's Holiday".

One of the things I've always liked about him is his particular accent/way of speaking, which has a vaguely European undertone to me, so I was surprised to learn that he's from...almost exactly where I'm from (SE Wisconsin)?

he looks v danish but wouldnt have said sounds anything but american tbh

"He has German, English, Irish, Northern Irish, Scottish, Swiss-French, and French ancestry."

"Dafoe, in fact, comes from a Midwestern, middle-class family, although his distinctive voice (omnipresent these days on the tube in those Salomon Smith Barney commercials) sounds like working-class Boston. “My mother had a heavy Bostonian accent, and there’s also something of my identification with New York and my romance of being a tough guy mixed in. But I get horrified if someone thinks I’m affected in my speech. My whole family sounds this way. The only difference is they also have a little bit of a Fargo thing going on.” He launches into an imitation of his sister talking to him on the phone. His voice goes up an octave and he looks happier than he has all afternoon."

https://www.villagevoice.com/2000/12/26/willem-dafoe-bares-his-fangs/

I thought y'all revived this because you loved The Florida Project.

seem like an excellent chap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMguaZQREU

He's the best of the acting nominees this year in an otherwise pedantic movie.

Willem Dafoe is awesome, but he's starting to look a lot like the nicer younger brother of Thanos.

you say that like it’s a bad thing

he was great in Streets of Fire -would have voted for that one

the only good thing about the boondock saints is that if you find out someone likes that movie, you know all you'll ever need to know about them

― iatee, Monday, March 16, 2009 7:59 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his leading-role era was pretty interesting, most of those movies were garbage but he was *always* good. even Mississippi Burning is basically trash but he's extremely good as the buttoned-down Fed.

the only good thing about the boondock saints is that if you find out someone likes that movie, you know all you'll ever need to know about them

he sort of alludes to this in the video: "when a certain type of person comes up to me, I know what movie they're going to talk about"

He's always good in everything, isn't he? I haven't seen Body of Evidence or Speed 2, but I assume he's good in those, too. He's great in Auto-Focus.

he’s a utterly unique screen presence, i fuckin’ love him

the only good thing about the boondock saints is that if you find out someone likes that movie, you know all you'll ever need to know about them

he sort of alludes to this in the video: "when a certain type of person comes up to me, I know what movie they're going to talk about"

― Number None, Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:22 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love how... nice he is when he makes this fundamentally withering observation.

that video is way fuller of smart observations than anything published by GQ has any right to be.

Dafoe seems like a particularly nice dude.

Cry-Baby (1990) .... Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys

looooool. i don't remember this btw.

― horseshoe, Friday, March 6, 2009 3:52 PM

How could you not? "God bless Roy Cohn..."

My curiosity is raised:

https://ew.com/nosferatu-willem-dafoe-vampire-hunter-first-look-8412082

He's the "old school" actor my students actively love and whose older movies they seek.

I saw "Poor Things" this weekend.. still not sure what I thought of it, there was a lot going on

Mmm no

I actually watched Platoon when I was like ten - someone had rented it and I had never heard of it, but "Ooh, a Best Picture winner, and it's about Vietnam, which I know nothing of!" Man, was that traumatizing. But I loved Dafoe in it and made what happened to his character all the more horrifying.

I love him in Wes Anderson's movies, he was great with so many non-professionals in The Florida Project. I still need to see New Rose Hotel, but otherwise Last Temptation is probably my favorite lead role from him. I wish he did more with Scorsese - I think his only other appearance in his work was a cameo in The Aviator.

*and he was great with so many non-professionals in Sean Baker's