A throw back to the great 50s motorcycle movies, this film has Dafoe playing Vance, the restless, rebellious leader of a motorcycle gang who gets mixed up with the wrong girl at the wrong time in the wrong small town. I’ve got an itch between my legs and an afternoon for a heart.ĭafoe got his first leading role at the age of 26 in Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery’s The Loveless. Now well into his 50s, Dafoe shows no signs of slowing down. These early roles gave Dafoe the opportunity to work with auteurs like Kathryn Bigelow, Walter Hill and William Friedkin and no doubt prepared him for his long and varied career.
Elias in Oliver Stone’s Platoon (which we’ve purposefully left off this list) back in 1987 caused Hollywood to take notice, but lesser known roles before and after that career milestone are equally impressive. Arguably one of contemporary cinema’s great treasures, Willem Dafoe has been an on-screen force from the early days of his career.
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