Although he doesn't do all that much killing, at least not compared with the title character played by Keanu Reeves – who guns down Russian gangsters like a politician shakes hands – he is nonetheless a murderer for hire: another assassin to add to Dafoe's collection of maniacs, vampires, super-villains and creeps.
The thing is, in his latest movie, John Wick, Dafoe does play a contract killer. Tell it to Clarence, the talking polar bear.
Tell it to Nemo's friend Gill, the Moorish idol with the broken fin. Tell it to Pier Paolo Pasolini, or Special Agent Alan Ward from Mississippi Burning. Tell it to Jesus, or Sergeant Elias, the conscience of Bravo Company in Platoon. To observe that Willem Dafoe plays a lot of bad guys is the most overused conceit a writer who meets him can opt for.
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