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Friday, March 23, 2012

Willem Dafoe appears in three films in this spring. Here he is filmed with motion capture technology on the set of the sci-fi epic John Carter

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Willem Dafoe appears in three films this spring, including the sci-fi epic John Carter. To create the nine-foot Martian warrior king Tars Tarkas, he wore stilts and was filmed with motion capture technology.

With CGI, Dafoe is transformed into the nine-foot Martian warrior Tars Tarkas

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With CGI, Dafoe is transformed into Tars Tarkas.

In 4:44 Last Day on Earth Dafoe plays an artist coping with the imminent end of the world.

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In 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Dafoe plays an artist coping with the imminent end of the world.

Dafoe plays a hunter tracking a rare tiger in the Tasmanian outback in <em>The Hunter</em>.

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Dafoe plays a hunter tracking a rare tiger in the Tasmanian outback in The Hunter.

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