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William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). Dafoe's early career includes credits for The Loveless (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon (1986), followed by nominations for his roles in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and the Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018). He also gained acclaim and wide recognition for his roles as Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and as the supervillain Norman Osborn in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). His other film appearance include roles in Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Light Sleeper (1992), Body of Evidence (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1996), Affliction (1997), New Rose Hotel(1998), Existenz (1999), The Boondock Saints (1999), American Psycho (2000), Auto Focus (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Inside Man (2006), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), Antichrist (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Nymphomaniac (2013), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Aquaman (2018), The Lighthouse (2019), Nightmare Alley (2021), Poor Things (2023), and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
The movie opens with a car chase between Batman and Robin and the Joker and Harley Quinn after the Joker stole an expensive piece of art from the museum. After a while Joker and Harley get out and Batman chases Harley while telling Robin to go after Joker. Robin manages to catch up to Joker and tells him to hand over the painting Joker steps back and when Robin runs at him Joker puts out a pistol and shoots Robin in the face. Years later in 2014 Bruce is retired and now Gotham is flooded with crime. Meanwhile Jim Gordan is having trouble with a new crime organization calling themselves the League of Assassins that came to Gotham 4 months ago and are already on top of organized crime in Gotham. During Robin's funeral Bruce told Jim that he is Batman and is retiring so knowing that Jim goes to Bruce and asks him to be Batman once again. Bruce says no the first few times but after him home is broken into by an assassin named Deathstroke Bruce decides to become the caped crusader once again. The movie goes on with Batman trying to stop the league while fighting Deathstroke their best trained assassin. Bruce eventually defeats Deathstroke who still gets away and finds the leader of the League Ras Al Ghul and his daughter Talia. Bruce fights Ras in the spirit world and eventually takes him down. Bruce gets the League to leave Gotham but before that Talia spends the night with Bruce.
