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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).
A few decades after the events of the first film, the opening shows the sun rising and the camera moves around in the forest until we see the Wild Things preparing for Carol and KW’s wedding after Carol and KW get married. Carol implies to KW that he misses Max and wishes he was at here and KW says she misses him too, but they along with their friends still has hope to see Max again someday. Three months in the summer after Carol and KW’s wedding. Max now a teenager returns to the Wild Things island with his girlfriend Shannon after telling her everything about them. Carol and Max hug each other as they’ve finally been reunited after a long time. KW, Ira, Judith, Douglass, Alexander and Daniel the bull, comes to hug Max as well knowing that he’s no longer a kid. Max shows his girlfriend to the wild things and they all together welcome her. A few hours later, after Shannon meets the wild things with her boyfriend Max, they then realize it’s getting late and have to go home but promises that they won’t wait to long to visit the wild things again, however a thunderstorm appears waking up Carol and the others and everything that they’ve built, even their houses are destroyed, so the wild things have no other choice but to leave their island to find a new home as they built a raft to sail on. Songs: Good Morning (Mandisa), Wild Ones (Flo Rida) Glow (Todd Edwards) Real Wild Child (Iggy Pop) Firework (Katy Perry) Dirty Paws (Monsters and Men) Where the Wild Things Are (Luke Combs)
