Monday, February 18, 2019

Representations of Artists



A card from the To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) trailer. Rick Masters is played by Willem Dafoe, an actor I had not seen, nor was aware of, prior to the film's release, though I had seen an earlier film he was in, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980), in which he had a small (uncredited) part as a cockfighter named Willy. (While re-watching the film I noticed him -- looking on.)


Here is Dafoe playing a larger part as a member of the Wooster Group:



Here he is playing another artist, a non-fictive one, in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate (2018):

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