[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. [3] The actress had been in more than 10 films by the time she did Streets of Fire. I remember, after the first screenings, people told me that I was going to be rich for life. But he was one of Joel's dear friends, and he ended up making a bunch of movies for Disney. It's such a hard-shelled picture that it barely has moods. [106] He also reprised his role again as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 3 (2007) in a brief cameo. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Movies. As the biker gang leader Raven Shaddock in STREETS OF FIRE, costume designer Marilyn Vance put him in black patent leather fisherman's waders. [178], In February 2021, it was announced that Dafoe will be co-starring alongside Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things. The English Patient was filmed in Tuscany, where Dafoe said he particularly enjoyed the "quiet moments in the monastery between shoots". Ellen performs on stage, while Tom rides off with McCoy. I was already worried about whether I should do the sequel or not."[34]. ", "Streets of Fire movie review & film summary (1984) | Roger Ebert", "From The Other World Walter Hills Streets of Fire in 70mm", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Streets_of_Fire&oldid=1151764782, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Worst Supporting Actress: Diane Lane (1984), This page was last edited on 26 April 2023, at 02:41. Rick Moranis, Diane Lane, and Willem Dafoe in the opening - Reddit Streets of Fire | Movies Anywhere He has five sisters and a brother. "[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. Streets of Fire Retrospective: It Rocks! Michael Pare - YouTube "[4], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 68% of 28 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.10/10. [169][170] He later played Nuidis Vulko in a leading role in James Wan's 2018 film Aquaman. I panicked, and Joel Silver, called Walter and somehow persuaded him to come over and direct me through the ADR. News Features Television Interviews Reviews Podcasts Trailers Awards Got a Tip? [156] Dafoe starred in the late Brazilian director's Hctor Babenco's final film My Hindu Friend (2015) as a film director close to death who befriends a Hindu 8-year-old boy while hospitalized. 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). [129], Dafoe's first of two leading roles in 2011 was in Abel Ferrara's apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his third film with Ferrara. Speed 2 was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics,[57] with Dafoe himself receiving a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor. [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. I had never done a love scene beforeI really needed help to get through it. Birds who had nested in the tarp provided their own noisy interruptions.[5]. We sat down, I remember, in a little park. 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. William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Remember: You had John Hughes at the time, and then you had Coppola making two high school movies: The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. [5] At the time he was cast in March 1983, Par had appeared in two films, Eddie and the Cruisers and Undercover, which had not yet been released. The group is joined by "Baby Doll", a fan of Ellen's, who warns them that the police are looking for the people who were behind the attack at Torchies. [46] In his review of the film, Vincent Canby felt that Dafoe lacked sensuality in the role. [126][127] and starred in his wife Giada Colagrande's film A Woman. Dafoe's co-star John Malkovich portrayed the film's director, F. W. Murnau. [99] He starred with Juliette Binoche in a short film directed by Nobuhiro Suwa as part of the 2006 anthology film Paris, je t'aime. Gross says he and Hill were also influenced by the teen films of John Hughes. 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. But our commitment to be stylized was thorough and conscious and maybe too extreme for the mainstream audience. [149], In May 2014, Dafoe served as member of the main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. In the real world, if someone insults you a couple of times, you can smack them. 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. 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". Nowhe neglected to mention that some fairy tales are very violent. I think that bothered Walter. 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. [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. His performance as a hotel manager in the latter film earned Dafoe his third Oscar nomination. Film critic Peter Bradshaw noted the physical similarities between Dafoe and Pasolini, although felt Dafoe had too little screen time in the film. Dafoe also had to wear a prosthetic teeth for his part as Norman whereas the hallucinations of the character had Dafoe in his natural teeth. He used to frequent gun clubs and he wasn't a very delicate guyWe were doing a love scene. "[4], Amy Madigan originally read for Reva, Cody's sister, and told Hill and Silver that she wanted to play the role of McCoy which, she remembers, "was written to be played by an overweight male who was a good soldier and really needed a job. Streets of Fire is a 1984 American neo-noir rock musical film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. Dafoe co-starred in the film as the father of Bryce Dallas Howard's character, a woman who discovers a plantation still thriving as if slavery had never been abolished. 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]. Actually Willem Dafoe. married to Giada Colagrande (2005present), This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-Dafoe, Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Willem Dafoe. 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The first to be released, White Sands, saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. Streets of Fire (1984) 28: Bobby Hicks : The Florida Project (2017) 62: Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys : Cry-Baby (1990) 34: Streets of Fire (1984) - Willem Dafoe as Raven - IMDb Teenage reality. [11], When it came to casting the movie, Hill wanted to go with a young group of relative unknowns. Eliot coping with his wifes emotional disintegration in Tom and Viv (1994) and appeared in The English Patient (1996), an adaptation of the novel by Michael Ondaatje. [39] In the same year, Dafoe co-starred in David Lynch's crime film Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production and was uncredited despite one of his scenes making it into the final cut of the film. The point is that we had in mind one sentence inspired by George Lucas: "in a galaxy long ago", a futuristic past. Streets of Fire (1984) Willem Dafoe: Raven Showing all 18 items Jump to: Photos (13) Quotes (5) Photos Quotes Raven : *I'm* lucky? [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. [56] The film starred Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric as a couple vacationing on a luxury cruise that has been hijacked by Dafoe's character, Geiger, a hacker that has programmed the ship to crash into an oil tanker. . Larry Gross recalls the filmmakers were optimistic prior to release: We all knew in our hearts that Michael was disappointing. 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). [81] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. In 2009 Dafoe starred in von Triers controversial Antichrist, which centres on a couple who struggle to cope with the death of a child. 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. [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. "[5], The character of Ellen Aim was written as a 28-year-old woman. "Walter really liked the idea because it had Tom Cody winning at all costs." 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. In 2021 he was featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. [20], Following a "blink-and-you-miss-it" cameo in The Hunger (1983), Dafoe again played the leader of a biker gang in Walter Hill's 1984 action film Streets of Fire. Price plans on arresting Raven, so he tells Tom to get out of town, so as to avoid any more violence. Dafoe received his second Academy Award nomination for his role as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922; Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror). While Reva and McCoy go to the diner where Reva works, Tom acquires a cache of weapons, including a pump action shotgun, a revolver, and a lever action rifle. [110] Dafoe co-starred as SS Nazi officer in Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008), which starred Jeff Goldblum as a concentration camp internee. 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. 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. Bigelow was dating David Giler, a collaborator and friend of Hill at the time. [4], Streets of Fire fared poorly at the box office, opening in 1,150 theaters on June 1, 1984, and grossing $2.4 million during its first weekend. 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. [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. Later, at a concert, the Sorels open for Ellen and her band. [125] Also in 2010, Dafoe began voicing Clarence, the Birds Eye polar bear mascot in the company's television commercials in the United Kingdom,[128] and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United States. The film delves into fiction when, over the course of Nosferatu's production, the cast and crew come to discover that Schreck is actually a vampire himself. [4], Hill heard about Michael Par from the same agent who recommended Eddie Murphy to him for 48 Hrs (his then-girlfriend and later wife Hildy). [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. [159] He next played the boss of Gerard Butler's character in the drama A Family Man and starred in Loris Graud's arthouse science fiction film Sculpt, which was only screened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for one person at a time. And I felt, as I watched the post-production process going on, I just saw the film getting better and better. That was the first sentence out of his mouth to me in Joel Silver's office. Streets of Fire - Wikipedia And you're dumb. Tom bids farewell to Ellen, promising that hell always be there for her if she needs him. [38], Dafoe made a cameo appearance in John Waters' musical comedy Cry-Baby (1990) as a prison guard who gives a brief lecture on values to the title character, who is played by Johnny Depp. 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. "Were in the world of Cocteau, were in the world of Beauty and the Beast. It's kind of amazing how intimidating Willem Dafoe can look with just the silhouette of his face. [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. I guess maybe I am. After studying at 'Appleton East High School,' he enrolled at the 'University of Wisconsin' in Milwaukee to study drama when he was 17. [191][195] Dafoe acquired Italian citizenship through the marriage. [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. 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. In one of his most complex performances to date, Dafoe embodies the listless John as he reconnects with his old girlfriend, Marianne, who inevitably draws him back into the dangerous underworld. We felt that we had compensated adequately in making a fun, exciting, stylized world. "He wanted to create his own 'comic book movie', without the source material actually being a comic book", said Gross, which led to the creation of Tom Cody.[4]. Willem Dafoe is one of the masters, and its a testament to his power that never every major filmmaker in the world has used him at least once. He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production and was uncredited despite one of his scenes making it into the final cut of the film. [68] His next film of 2000, Steve Buscemi's crime drama Animal Factory, starred as Dafoe an incarcerated veteran con-man who takes a young inmate (played by Edward Furlong) under his wing and introduces to him to his gang. Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group, which he is credited as co-founding in the 1970s. Screenwriter Larry Gross said the film has been influential: Whatever is good, bad or indifferent about Streets of Fire, it had a huge impact on other filmmakers. [3] The studio claimed that they replaced Springsteen's song because it was a "downer". ActorAgeCheck Streets of Fire Release Date : Friday, June 1 1984 38 years ago Results: 47 Michael Par Tom Cody Michael Par was: 25 Thu, Oct 09 1958 Diane Lane Ellen Aim Diane Lane was: 19 Fri, Jan 22 1965 Rick Moranis Billy Fish Rick Moranis was: 31 Sat, Apr 18 1953 Amy Madigan McCoy [5] For Ellen's singing voice, he combined the voices of Laurie Sargent and Holly Sherwood, billing them as Fire Inc. [112], Dafoe appeared in seven films in 2009, the first of which was in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist. [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. I can't put everything together about what didn't work, but the most damaging thing is that we didn't have the right actor for Tom Cody. "He'd say it would be inappropriate to direct this movie if there were any blood", said Gross. Tom and Raven duel using sledgehammers and their fists, with Tom ultimately being victorious. William James Dafoe[2] was born on July 22, 1955, in Appleton, Wisconsin,[3][4][5] the son of Muriel Isabel (ne Sprissler; 19212012) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe (19172014). [124], Dafoe appeared in two films that premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2010,[125] making a brief appearance in Julian Schnabel's political thriller Miral, which some reviewers found to be distracting. The Richlands. 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. 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. "[4], The film went on to make a total of $8 million in North America, compared to a production budget of $14.5 million. So Walter said were going to make a high school movie that's also going to be a comic book and also going to be a musical. Larry Gross later said they were affected "as everyone was at the time" by the success of Flashdance and they decided during writing that the film would be a musical: We said this movie is a stylized movie, it's not so different from the world of a musical. Or punch them. [33] As with The Last Temptation of Christ, the film was the subject of controversy, this time among African-American activists who criticized its fictionalization of events. Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. 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. I blamed you but you can't be upset with me. The ensuing battle against a nocturnal background of industrial blight, chrome . So it was left behind. Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. And Walter has it in his head to create a franchise about himintroducing him as The Stranger. You just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen. AKA: Streets of Fire (eng), Streets of Fire 1984 (eng) Movie Rating:6.7 / 10 (22407) [ Tonight is what it means to be young. ] "[11], Roger Ebert wrote that "the language is strange, too: It's tough, but not with 1984 toughness. Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt there were no great performances in the film, but praised Dafoe's "perfectly villainous" face. Always dark. 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. [87] Dafoe was next seen in the comedy-drama The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), his first of three films with director Wes Anderson.
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