I guess maybe I am. [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. Remember: You had John Hughes at the time, and then you had Coppola making two high school movies: The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Nishitani said that, at the time, the team were not "aware of Streets of Fire, but I've Googled it and there does indeed seem to be something familiar about it" but that "this style of story was very popular back then" and many "fighting games made use of it" so "I guess we were part of that crowd! Rita Kempley of The Washington Post found the scene to be one of the film's highlights. Streets of Fire 1984 Willem Dafoe ROCK & ROLL FABLE BIKER - YouTube [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. [36][37] Dafoe reunited with Platoon director Oliver Stone for a small appearance in the biographical war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Bigelow was dating David Giler, a collaborator and friend of Hill at the time. [110] Dafoe co-starred as SS Nazi officer in Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008), which starred Jeff Goldblum as a concentration camp internee. [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. ", "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. One was the decision on Universal's part, a crazy decision, to shoot the movie almost entirely in the studio under a tarpaulin. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). I always thought of it as a musical. 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). And I thought that we had done what we set out to do. [96] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. It's kind of amazing how intimidating Willem Dafoe can look with just the silhouette of his face. Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt there were no great performances in the film, but praised Dafoe's "perfectly villainous" face. It follows X (Dafoe) and Fox (Walken), a pair of corporate raiders attempting to lure a Japanese scientist from one megacorporation to another. I had never done a love scene beforeI really needed help to get through it. Dafoe played a criminal who engages in a robbery with Cage's character before demonstrating his dark side. The movie screened very, very well. I just wasn't that sharp. Wolf Totem 1.28K subscribers Streets of Fire is a 1984 film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. [20], Walter Hill had worked with Ry Cooder several times previously but Cooder did not do the original score. He has five sisters and a brother. 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. [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. In 2017 he notably appeared in Murder on the Orient Express and The Florida Project, about a single mother and her young daughter. There's gotta be a next project, and they're sitting there and there's so many lessons I learned during that movie. I did it in two days. I blamed you but you can't be upset with me. [5], According to Gross, Hill wanted to make a film about the hero of the comic book, but since he did not like "any of the comic books" he had read he wanted it to be an original character. And I was like, "Ohthis is not going to go well." Willem Dafoe. [16], Dafoe made his film debut in a supporting role in Michael Cimino's 1980 epic Western film Heaven's Gate.
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