WILLEM DAFOE

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