Although he barely needed an introduction, here is a quick anyway, because Willem Dafoewhich has always been there, or at least it is this meaning. Dafoe’s ubiquity is largely due to his prolific and having started playing in films in the early 1980s. He never really slowed down, and he also appeared in a wide range of films, being recognizable for superhero films (Spider), a part of Wes AndersonFilms (like The Grand Budapest Hotel And Asteroid city), and some Lars to sort Films too (including Antichrist And Nymphomaniac).
It has been so much, and it is almost always great in everything it is, even if the film is not. But when it is great in a film that is also great, then you have a potential masterpiece on your hands. The following films are only that: Willem Dafoe films which are masterful or otherwise close to the status of masterpieces. The following elements will only include Films where he had large -part nomo roles (sorry, Spider-Man 2), and he will not include vocal roles either (However, on his credit – and in the interest of giving him an honorable mention – Find Nemo is almost perfect).
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“Mississippi Burning” (1988)
Keep yours when sharing the screen with an actor like Gene hackman is not an easy task, but Willem Dafoe does it in Mississippi burning Surprisingly well. Frances McDormand is also in there, and it’s rather great, with her and Hackman, both winning Oscar nominations, but nothing for Dafoe. He was not completely snubbed to the Oscars, since he won four nominations in total, but taking into account the quantity and quality of his work, you are probably expecting that it is higher, in the same way that it is bizarre to think of thinking about In the pacino Having only one Oscar.
Anyway, back to Mississippi burning. It is a very intense crime / mystery film that takes place during the 1960s’ civil rights movement, Hackman and Dafoe both playing FBI agents on the disappearance (and possible murder) of three civil rights workers in a small town. He has a configuration and a story that may seem familiar, but Mississippi burning becomes high Thanks to the game and the way it is constantly propelled, successfully keeping you. He is familiar at the beginning, but he reveals that he has a few tips in his round and finally feels far from conventional. It is not an easy watch, but it is important.
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‘American Psycho’ (2000)
Willem Dafoe appears in American psycho In more than a cameo role, but only just. It is, after all, a film that belongs to ChristianWho tells everything and is in each scene of the film, otherwise all the blows (maybe). Bale plays Patrick Bateman, who is one of the many horrible people who “work” on Wall Street and live an empty, expensive and ultimately tedious life. However, on the credit of some of his colleagues, Bateman is a bit worse than they are due to the fact that he also kills people.
Apparently. American psycho Is the kind of psychological horror / thriller / comedy (?) This does not make you fully know what is real and what is in the head of his central character, and it is all the more effective for that. It is sometimes a film that weighs with mind, and it is also surprisingly funny / satirical too. In addition, each time Willem Dafoe and Christian Bale share the screen, they are quite great, with Dafoe playing a private investigator looking at the disappearance of a man that Bateman could have caused. Again, it is difficult to say it with certainty. But rather than making it frustrating, the non-omnipresent / anxiety is in a way the point.
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‘The Lightothus’ (2019)
Few actors have a skill to drop a line like: “You love me the lobster isn’t it?” And do work, but it’s the Willem Dafoe Magic Touch for you there. In The lighthouseHe plays a ridiculous, hilarious, intense, frightening and strangely pitiful character. He is also flatulent. And he shares a small island with Robert PattinsonThe character of, both playing light guards who are made crazy by the isolation of the place where they remain, and also because of each other.
The lighthouse seems eager to make you feel like you are becoming a little crazy alongside the main characters, and on this forehead, it works strangely well.
It is a film that begins slowly and offbeat, but built very gradually. The lighthouse This seems eager to make yourself feel like you are becoming a little crazy alongside the main characters, and on this forehead, it works strangely well. It is a sometimes rude film that is not without moments of beauty, and Dafoe and Pattinson are so well used hereBoth offering potentially career performance. You may not understand everything The lighthouse Go for (and good luck who takes everything that Dafoe says without subtitles), but you will undoubtedly feel something if you sit down to live this film, and that is essential.
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“Living and dying at the” (1985)
One of the first great Willem Dafoe films was Live and die atWho ended up being released the year he was 30 years old. It fits directly into the filthy world mentioned by William Friedkinwhich took the types of thrills, themes and adjustment parts found in French connection and gave them a varnish of the 1980s. The result was a darker and more intense film than the already low French connectionto the point where Live and die at Maybe would have been a little too horrible, rough and cynical for most people in 1985.
But watching it now, it’s a film that really impresses, because you have to keep remembering that something so relentless, elegantly elegant, authentic and granular is actually 40 years and more. Dafoe also makes a fantastic villain in this It was far from the last time he would play a villain (Duh). Fortunately, this has not resulted in the type-type cutting, however, and as the next entry here, hopefully, will demonstrate it, Dafoe can be at its best when it also plays warmer and more earth-to-earth characters.
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“The Florida Project” (2017)
In Florida’s projectWillem Dafoe can shine as a fairly ordinary guy, and also relatively nice, well considered. It is not a villain, and it is not a weird, and it is wonderful to see Dafoe playing bad guys and crazy people, of course, but it is a demonstration of his range that he is able to do, you know, the opposite. In Florida’s projectHe plays the director of a low -budget hotel which lets some people stay there, even if they are not always able to be financially aware of things.
He indirectly cares about two young girls who are probably the central characters of Florida’s projectWhile time has also passed with their mother and the difficulties she goes through. It is a strange tonally film, and it does not move at a quick pace or anythingBut there is an authenticity and empathy which is inevitably rather striking. This is the kind of film that you appreciate enough while it happens, but it ends up lingering in your mind for a while after the end, in turn, in turn, the more you think (or in you feel). This is a sign of a good drama / slice of life film, really.
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“Plato” (1986)
After The deer hunterThe filmmakers began to kiss Vietnam’s war a little more, with Section have a success in the same way The deer hunterIn terms of recognition of Oscars. But it is also a kind of film very different from the War of Vietnam, focusing entirely on the experience of being a soldier in an unknown country, and also concentrating in a truly compromised manner on the damage that can be caused to innocent and passers -by during the war. Section is dark and unfortunately feels authentic in its most horrible moments.
Elsewhere, Section Can become a little more reinforced and dramatic than real life during this particular war could have been, but these moments always leave an impression and continue to drive an anti-war message to the house. In addition, Willem Dafoe is phenomenal in this area, and it is another of its large non -vigorous roles. The whole film is a difficult watch, but at the end of the day, Few Great War films have the same kind of impact as Section do; It is a real shock for the thing of the senses.
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“The last temptation of Christ” (1988)
Leading an absolutely fantastic (and eclectic) distribution, Willem Dafoe probably gives the best main performance of his entire career in The last temptation of Christ. He plays JesusBut not necessarily the Jesus who appeared in the Gospels, since The last temptation of Christ is a reinterpretation of familiar history concerning the last days of Jesus. This Jesus seems to have doubts, and the possibility of being actually tempted, with the final act of the film (its most controversial) dealing with Jesus who experiences said temptations.
The controversy is confused, however, because it succeeds in not being tempted. Perhaps the idea that Jesus even gets closer is to cross a line for some, but others could find the attempt to humanize Jesus more – or otherwise to explore what he crossed psychologically – interesting. Even especially that, however, The last temptation of Christ is a Magnificent and extremely well directed film, and the score is also one of the biggest of all time. It is long, sometimes slow and stimulating, perhaps, according to what you feel concerning some of the most daring choices made here, but The last temptation of Christ has so much to offer. He deserves to be more than a simple controversial film, because he does not try to be shocking to be shocking. He wants to do something new, moving and even a little difficult, and if you agree with this, then the whole film is quite the monumental success.
