[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. stunts (uncredited) Terry Leonard . Roger Ebert praised Dafoe's "gifted" portrayal of LeTour and Owen Gleiberman opined that "even when the film doesn't gel, one is held by Willem Dafoe's grimly compelling performance. I think that's going to be demonstrated even more clearly in his next films. Starring Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, Bill Paxton and Deborah Van. [36] It was filmed on location at Auschwitz, the first major film to do so. Larry Gross recalls the filmmakers were optimistic prior to release: We all knew in our hearts that Michael was disappointing. In the cult film The Boondock Saints (1999), he portrayed a detective tracking down two renegade killers who believe their actions to be righteous. He told me he's going to do this new thing: he's going to put a female character right in the centre of the narrative."[7]. And Walter isn't the kind of guy who works well with kids. [195], Dafoe is a pescetarian, citing his belief that "animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet". Witnessing this is Reva Cody, who telegrams her brother Tom, an ex-soldier and Ellen's ex-boyfriend, asking him to come home. [4], Walter Hill thought "the audience will go with you when you set up an abstract world with teenage values and play out a drama within this. 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. Dafoe recalled in 2010, "We were having lunch and I said, 'Do you want to get married tomorrow?'" 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. "[5][9] Hill liked the idea and cast her. 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. The concept for Streets of Fire came together during the making of 48 Hrs., and reunited director Walter Hill with producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver, and screenwriter Larry Gross, all of whom worked together on that production. And Tom Cody will be the football hero. [86] Dafoe reprised his role as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 2 (2004), appearing to his son Harry in an hallucination. 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. [137] The film was a box office failure and ranks among the biggest box-office bombs of all time. [123] Between October and December 2009, Dafoe appeared in Richard Foreman's surrealist play Idiot Savant at The Public Theater. [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. Steinman has said the filmmakers were convinced they would have the rights to the Bruce Springsteen song "Streets of Fire", and filmed an ending using it. 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). 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]. [158] In the same year, Dafoe reprised his voice role as Gill, a Moorish idol fish, from Finding Nemo in its sequel Finding Dory. Streets of Fire 1984 Willem Dafoe ROCK & ROLL FABLE BIKER GANGS Fights RoughCut RetroSpect 830 subscribers Subscribe 129 Share 17K views 5 years ago This film is one of the greatest Rock movies. The real Hollywood. I'm just not that handy with that. The film and his performance received enormous critical acclaim, with The Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday writing that "Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory, bringing to levelheaded, unsanctimonious life a character who offers a glimmer of hope and caring within a world markedly short on both". "[4], They submitted the script to Universal executive Bob Rehme on a Friday (in January 1983) and by the end of the weekend, the studio had given them the go-ahead to make the film. Didn't know how to shoot music. Nowhe neglected to mention that some fairy tales are very violent. But the moods didn't linger. While there are thus two versions of the song, only Hartman's version was released commercially. He played Christ in Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)a film based on Nkos Kazantzkiss revisionist novel of Christs life and relationship with Mary Magdaleneand starred as an FBI agent investigating the disappearance of civil rights activists in the 1960s in Mississippi Burning (1988). Streets of Fire (1984) 28: Bobby Hicks : The Florida Project (2017) 62: Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys : Cry-Baby (1990) 34: The movie screened very, very well. A world where it's raining all the time. 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. I was already worried about whether I should do the sequel or not."[34]. In 2017 he notably appeared in Murder on the Orient Express and The Florida Project, about a single mother and her young daughter. "[9] His brother, Donald, is a surgeon and research scientist. Dafoe played a paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends the film's subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran. [95] Along with his wife Giada Colagrande, Dafoe co-wrote and starred in Before It Had a Name (2005), which Colagrande directed. "[4], The film went on to make a total of $8 million in North America, compared to a production budget of $14.5 million. His director's chair was made out of leather and on the back of it read "Lone Wolf". 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The production employed 500 extras to play the citizens of the Richmond District. Raven meets with Ed Price, the head of the police department, and promises him no more trouble if he arranges for Tom to meet with him alone. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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. It is described in its opening credits and posters as "A Rock & Roll. . That idea of a totally artificial universe. [147] Dafoe worked with Wes Anderson for a third time with the comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel (also 2014), featuring as the henchman of Adrien Brody's character alongside an ensemble cast led by Ralph Fiennes. [197], On May 22, 2022, Dafoe was invited back to his alma mater the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by Chancellor Mark Mone to serve as the keynote speaker for the university's commencement ceremony and to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree. And I think that if we'd done more gore, our chances of hooking the audience would be greater. 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. [165][166] In 2017, Dafoe also played and voiced the character of Ryuk, a demonic death god from Japanese mythology, in Netflix's Death Note, and adaptation of the Japanese supernatural-thriller manga of the same name. [20], Walter Hill had worked with Ry Cooder several times previously but Cooder did not do the original score. Actually Willem Dafoe. [96] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. News Features Television Interviews Reviews Podcasts Trailers Awards Got a Tip? I said, how, and they, you've gotta understand, they built all, Walter Hill didn't want to go to Chicago. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. He is the recipient of various . Movies. Suits me. [15] He continued his work with the group into the 2000s, well after establishing himself as a Hollywood film star. 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). 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. Through the 80's his prominence rose in films like Streets of Fire and To Live and Die in L.A. Perhaps one of Dafoe's, nay cinema's, most iconic moments (and the subject of countless . He said, Jimmy Iovine. Streets of Fire was a big picture for me, and I was overwhelmed. You just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen. Comedians are a special breed. I already had a great respect for people like Minnelli. [21] Dafoe starred alongside Judge Reinhold in Roadhouse 66 (1985) as a pair of yuppies who become stranded in a town on U.S. Route 66. The film garnered a poor reaction critics, with a reviewer for Paste stating "there's only so much depth [Dafoe] can bring to such a shallow character". They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. We were in the universe of the teenage movie. I guess maybe I am. [15], Par said that the original draft of the script had Tom Cody kill Raven with a knife. Remember: You had John Hughes at the time, and then you had Coppola making two high school movies: The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. [111] In his final release of 2008, Dafoe starred in the Greek drama The Dust of Time as an American film director of Greek descent making a film his mother's (played by Irne Jacob) life. [6][7] He has five sisters and two brothers and is of English, French, German, Irish, and Scottish descent. Streets of Fire (1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Rick Moranis, Diane Lane, and Willem Dafoe in the opening scene to 1984's Streets of Fire. [51], "I really made a conscious effort to mix it up, not because in itself it's not the job of an actor to do all different things, but for me that's what I'm interested in. Raven : I can get guns smart guy, lots of 'em. All projects pushed their release dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[175][176]. "[174] Dafoe portrayed sled dog breeder, trainer, and musher Leonhard Seppala in Togo. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. [55] In 1997, Dafoe returned to playing a villainous role in the action thriller Speed 2: Cruise Control, expressing the necessity of appearing in both independent and blockbuster films. There he met the actress and director Elizabeth LeCompte, who founded the deconstructionist theatre company the Wooster Group, with which Dafoe later performed. [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. [33], They told me that it was going to be a trilogy. 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. [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. [98] Dafoe co-starred as the White House Chief of Staff in American Dreamz, a comedy satirizing both popular entertainment and American politics. I don't think there was any other way to do it given the circumstances.[8]. A guy named Sean Daniels, who was head of production, one day said to me, well there is hostility because we understand you waited about eight months to come up with that final song and you never did it. 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[11][12] Negotiations with Springsteen for rights to the song delayed production several times. The cameo was suggested by Dafoe, comparing it to the ghost of Hamlet's father visiting his son to ask him to avenge his death. Dafoe's co-star John Malkovich portrayed the film's director, F. W. Murnau. 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). [69] Shadow of the Vampire, his final film of the year, saw him portray a fictionalized version of the German actor Max Schreck during the production of the 1922 horror film Nosferatu, in which Schreck starred as the vampire Count Orlok. [40] In 1991, Dafoe starred with Danny Glover and Brad Johnson in the action film Flight of the Intruder. He asks me if I'm interested in writing the script with himI ask him is the Pope Catholic? [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. Willem Dafoe was born in 1955, so he's no longer a young man. [4], Streets of Fire has a number of similarities to Capcom's hit 1989 beat 'em up video game Final Fight. [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. We learned later that, I believe, Eisner rejected it on the grounds that it was too similar to Indiana Jones. "post 4 screen shots of your comfort movie Streets of Fire (1984) Avec Willem Dafoe jeune qui porte une salopette en cuir (oui)" [12] He later took the new interpretation as part of his stage name because he had become more used to it than his birth name. [3] The studio claimed that they replaced Springsteen's song because it was a "downer". That was in our headsthere's the past and there's the future, sort of. We're gonna have to re-build the Wiltern Theater, which they had taken down, it was a million dollars to re-do the ending and I felt all his hostility for Universal. Other Oscar-nominated films include Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and At Eternity's Gate (2018). One was the decision on Universal's part, a crazy decision, to shoot the movie almost entirely in the studio under a tarpaulin. And there were a few other things that contributed to that direction. Tom escapes on the one intact motorcycle and meets up with the others. The film follows a pair of United States Navy pilots, played by Dafoe and Johnson, who scheme and participate in an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi. It was kind of real but it wasn't really. [167] Also that year, he co-starred as Gerhard Hardman in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh;[168] and played Atlantean scientist Nuidis Vulko in a deleted role in Zack Snyder's Justice League. Tom sends Ellen off with McCoy and Billy in the convertible, telling them to meet him at the Grant Street underpass and blows up the gas pumps outside a bar. Two songs written by Jim Steinman were part of the soundtrack: "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" and "Nowhere Fast", both performed by Fire Inc., with Holly Sherwood providing lead vocals on the former and Laurie Sargent on the latter. "[26], Jay Scott wrote in The Globe and Mail that "when Streets of Fire is speeding by like Mercury on methedrine, the rush left in its wake cancels out questions of content. Diane Lane was, I think, eighteen. [19] Dafoe did not receive a credit for his work on the film. The film received mostly negative reviews, although the performances were generally praised. [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. [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. [80], Later in 2002, Dafoe starred with Greg Kinnear in Paul Schrader's biographical film Auto Focus, Dafoe's third collaboration with Schrader. (67 years old) Place of Birth . "[5], The character of Ellen Aim was written as a 28-year-old woman. [160][161] His final film of the year was the monster film The Great Wall, a Chinese-American co-production directed by Zhang Yimou starring Matt Damon as a European mercenary in China defending the Great Wall of China from a horde of monsters, in which Dafoe played a former adventurer working as a teacher in China. Gross later said he thought Dafoe "may have been the best thing about the film. And Willem Dafoe is the greaser. He also portrayed Nuidis Vulko in the DC Extended Universe films including Aquaman (2018), and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). [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". [29][30] His second release of 1988 was Martin Scorsese's epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Dafoe portrayed Jesus. They kind of saw it worked in the world of an MTV video."[8]. [91][92] Dafoe co-starred in XXX: State of the Union (2005), an action film sequel starring Ice Cube in which Dafoe played a US Secretary of Defense attempting a coup d'tat against the President of the United States. It could still be tough and strong and have a woman do it without rewriting the part. The Ardmore Police roadblock was filmed near 6th street in East Los Angeles, near the flood basin. It's such a hard-shelled picture that it barely has moods. They were married on March 25, 2005. [5], Production designer John Vallone and his team constructed an elevated train line on the backlot of Universal Studios that perfectly matched the ones in Chicago. Bigelow was dating David Giler, a collaborator and friend of Hill at the time. [100], In 2007, Dafoe played a pretentious film director in the British comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. Dafoe gained wider attention for his role as the supervillain Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). The star of the film, Tom Holland, said that he got scared after bumping into Dafoe by accident one day on set and only then found out about his role in the film. [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 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. 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. 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. [46] In his review of the film, Vincent Canby felt that Dafoe lacked sensuality in the role. "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. [81] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. I think he thought that I was a needy guy. In the film, Dafoe played a perverse businessman who hires Charlotte Gainsbourg's character to work as a debt collector using sex and sadomasochism. [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. My manager had me hire a limousine to pick me up at home and take me to work. It made a very inefficient shoot. We sat down, I remember, in a little park. In addition, 12 1950 and 1951 model Studebakers were used as police cars. There's this whole wave of insult comedy. The point is that we had in mind one sentence inspired by George Lucas: "in a galaxy long ago", a futuristic past. Throughout the 1990s Dafoe continued to appear in roles that allowed him to explore moral ambiguity in characters. [31] Dafoe's performance in the film was widely praised, however, with Janet Maslin opining that Dafoe brought a "gleaming intensity" to the role. But the minute the momentum slows, it's another storya story about a movie with no story at all. Dafoe played the caretaker of a house that is inherited by the lover of its deceased owner, engaging in a sexual relationship with her. Tom and Raven duel using sledgehammers and their fists, with Tom ultimately being victorious. "[11], Roger Ebert wrote that "the language is strange, too: It's tough, but not with 1984 toughness. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. We don't get that. [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. Gross says they wanted Tom Cruise and made him an offer, but he had already accepted another role. "People think that he doesn't like women and he knows that's not true. [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. The exterior of the Richmond Theater where Ellen Aim sings at the beginning of the film was shot on the backlot, with the interior done in the Wiltern Theater in L.A. for two weeks. His character in the film served as the main antagonist, who captures the ex-girlfriend of a mercenary, played by Diane Lane and Michael Par, respectively. "Walter really liked the idea because it had Tom Cody winning at all costs." Daily, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Willem Dafoe Streets Of Fire animated GIFs to your conversations. [43] In his next starring role, Paul Schrader's drama Light Sleeper, Dafoe played John LeTour, a lonely, insomniac, New Yorker working as a delivery man for a drug supplier, who is played by Susan Sarandon. Reply . Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. It was an enormous Hollywood production. It's not Chicago. 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. In high school, he acquired the nickname Willem,[11] the Dutch version of the name William. I always thought of it as a musical. [5], While shooting in Chicago, the production was plagued by inclement weather that included rain, hail, snow, and a combination of all three. Price, with reinforcements, is just about to arrest Raven, but is ambushed by an overwhelming amount of Bombers. [40] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt the role proved Dafoe as a "master of leering, fish-faced villainy". [126][127] and starred in his wife Giada Colagrande's film A Woman. No director holds a candle to Hill for sheer visceral expertise. Gross would do a draft and Hill would rewrite it. We only get the final song. [190] The psychological horror film Inside had its world premiere at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, and was released in the United States in March by Focus Features.

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