SBIFF 2018 - Willem Dafoe Discusses Mississippi Burning & The FBI

[@Gambino_Crime_Family]

Willem Dafoe is one of those actors nobody can hate on

[@servantprince]

freemason

[@niroshanperera6323]

@@servantprince WTF ? he does yoga, and lives in New York.

[@phyllivingston391]

I love Gene and Willem Mississippi Burning was amazing! And changed my life as well as lots of children who saw it in Scotland in the 1992, as our Modern Studies school curriculum xxx

[@mortenhallangen1933]

Changed your life???

[@raymondrossiter5324]

Willem Defoe one of the most ever underrated Actors ever, Superb Actor all of his films were great.

[@MikosVlog]

My favourite movie ever of Willem dafoe : Burning mississipi

[@ankursingh9548]

My current favourite actor talking about my all time favorite actor ( gene hackman

[@mamumaumau7205]

This one of my favorite movies, hands down !!! The cast and crew and all of the other behind the scene
folk did a great job with a serious movie...Flicks like this one can really inspire us to look into our own
hearts and minds...We can learn a lot about our own fears and failings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@victorabac5240]

Great actor, first time I saw him was in Platoon..... Best picture. Also nominated for best supporting actor.

[@patrickcharlton1351]

Willem was great in that movie!!! Sane as platoon

[@factenter6787]

And To Live and Die in L.A.

[@orlandobabe]

Thank you Mr Defoe I have been wondering why Hoover would go after and bring down the Black Panthers but he sent men down to solve the case of three disappearing civil rights worker.

[@unconditionalluv]

From what I heard, he was tired of being pressured by Johnson so he sent some agents down there to just solve the case and be done with it.

[@phyllivingston391]

Political, and Hoover was a twat

[@patrickc3419]

One of my favorite films from the 1980s.

[@jasonphillips6877]

The film has aged well. Nothing 1980s about it.

[@patrickc3419]

@@jasonphillips6877 Oh for sure. That, Chariots of Fire, Hoosiers, and the latter Rocky films are among my favorite from that decade. Hackman and Dafoe are excellent actors.

[@jasonphillips6877]

Platoon

[@patrickc3419]

@@jasonphillips6877 Oh yeah, forgot about Platoon. Another very good one!

[@davidarmitage289]

@@jasonphillips6877 “What’s wrong with these people?”

[@sfjessy1]

The real Mississippi Burning was my dad’s case, along with John Doar. I would LOVE to explain to Mr. Dafoe why the movie was , in my dad’s words, 99% fiction. It’s very important history and any controversy would be understandable. I hope there is a new movie made one day telling the real story. If so, I’ve got the receipts.

[@jamesgordon6483]

Is the documentary “the true story of Mississippi burning” accurate? It’s on the FBI Files channel if you haven’t seen it.

[@September2004]

It's too bad that we don't have a culture of watching the movie and a documentary about the actual event as a double-header.
Film should be entertaining and it helps to simplify sometimes (not that there aren't some bad examples of changing history). As Roger Ebert said, the film was honest about it's 'feelings' about the film, since film is an emotional medium.
A good documentary after (after a break), could let us have it both ways.

[@Capcoor]

Did you ever see this?
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[@sfjessy1]

@@jamesgordon6483 I will look for it.

[@sfjessy1]

@@Capcoor I don’t click on links without context. What is it?

[@agustiniglesias6339]

Mississippi Burning,was the name of the FBI file on the three missing civil rights workers, thou was a fictionalize version Dafoe do have a resemblance with the real life agent,Mr Sullivan

[@officialheathercombseardrp559]

AMEN!!!!

[@dmears238]

Great film

[@bbegins10]

Film valorises fbi which was actively working during civil rights to destroy black liberation movements through cointelpro. That’s the problem with it, not mentioned here

[@rancosteel]

Rick Masters in To Live and Die in L.A.

[@thoughtfinder]

That movie Mississippi Burning would never be able to be made in Hollywood today. It would never get out of Hollywood much less to the theaters for the simple fact America has been taken over by political correctness.

[@dominiccirino2069]

👍😎

[@theviper1999uk]

What does that mean, "find some other colours"?

[@lucybrown1929]

I'm not sure, but I think Hackman was referring to Dafoe's emotional acting range in the film, perhaps implying that his performance was a little bit flat emotionally. I would disagree, by the way.

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

@@lucybrown1929 Very good response. And it's true. Dafoe's role was a reactive one to Hackman who shows a wide range of emotions (rage, sorrow, humor, tenderness) while Dafoe is mostly straightforward or angry. Hackman's suggestion is not out of bounds, and there probably were little things Dafoe could have done to give his character a bit more color.

[@TimothyJonSarris]

@@mandolindleyroadshow706 or maybe Defoe's role was to be a witness to all that was happening around him, in which case Hackman's observation may have missed the point of Defoe's character.

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

@@TimothyJonSarris Almost as if William Shatner complained that Leonard Nimoy's performance of Spock did not give Shatner enough to work with. Lol

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

On the flip side, Hackman is expert in turning a nothing scene into something sublime. In Twice in a Lifetime he is sitting in a bar chatting with his mistress when his daughters burst in and start screaming at the mistress at the top of their lungs. Hackman just sits there quietly until at the height of the argument he points a wagging finger at Brian Dennehy, who Hackman blames for informing his family. The slow silent gesture is clearly not in the script, but it makes an ordinary scene into a memorable one.

[@retronostalgic8515]

Walk on, walk on. Let Jesus, be, your guide. He's able, to carry you and see way down the road. Walk on, by faith, each day. Amen

[@fcsjohnnynips]

"You know, I'm something of an FBI agent myself."