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Who is the ANTICHRIST? Dafoe, Gainsbourg or Von Trier?

Published at:  Aug 13, 2008 2:33:19 AM CDT

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Lars Von Trier's next project is a psychological thriller that turns into a horror movie, according to Variety. It's called ANTICHRIST and will be headlined by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

The story follows the pair as they retreat to an isolated island following the death of their child.

Count me in. I'm not the world's biggest Lars von Trier fan, but he's got a great cast and his eye for stark atmosphere could really make this something really creepy. And nothing says creepy like Willem Dafoe, am I right?




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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:35:17 AM CDT

    First

    by coolhanderik

  • Aug 13, 2008 2:36:01 AM CDT

    no subject

    by dagonet_

    Dafoe definately is creepy.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:39:40 AM CDT

    loved manderlay

    by s0nicdeathmonkey

    damn good. watching dogville tonight.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:39:57 AM CDT

    Dafoe.....

    by dogma_jedi

    From misguided Christ.. to antichrist.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:41:10 AM CDT

    William

    by a rolling stone

    Dafoe is da bomb. Boondock Saints. Need I say more?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:41:52 AM CDT

    As long as it's not some Dogma 95 BS...

    by spencertrilby

    it could work as a movie, and not some sterile experimentatin. Color me intrigued.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:53:46 AM CDT

    I thought Lucas was the antichrist?

    by xiphos_2

    At least that's what I've learned from Talkbacks.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:57:09 AM CDT

    Old, old, old news...

    by whinynegativebitch

    ...I'm still waiting for the catch. Von Trier is always...Interesting, at least.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:28:34 AM CDT

    dogma jedi

    by joet88

    good one : )

    personally i think von trier is an asshole, and not the good kind. This sounds cool, but he pisses me off. If you've seen his Five Obstructions you'll understand how much of a thoughtless self-righteous jerk he is. But I haven't seen too many of his movies, who knows, maybe he'll grow on me : )

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:57:57 AM CDT

    I feel the same way about Von Trier

    by rain_dog

    as I do about Michael Haneke - while I think they're both capable of producing extremely effective, even compelling work, I'd very much like to punch them both in the cock. They seem to me to embody the kind of sneering, pompous Euro-intelligentsia douchebaggery that some people tend to attribute to all Europeans. Mind you, I'm a firm believer in separating people from their work, and this sounds like it could be very cool. For a skeptical sonofabitch, I loves me some Biblical horror action.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:59:19 AM CDT

    "Action" in the general sense...

    by rain_dog

    It's not like I think this is going to be an action/horror movie genre-wise.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 4:41:06 AM CDT

    a rolling stone...

    by johnnyrandom

    ..."Boondock Saints. Need I say more?"Yes.The Boondock Saints was utter shit.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 4:47:51 AM CDT

    I think Bill Sadler says creepy as good as Dafoe

    by filmcoyote

    Man that dude creeps me out. I saw him in Eagle Eye recently, and he's not even in a creepy role, and he still put me on edge whenever he's on screen. I've found him creepy ever since Die Hard 2.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 5:46:09 AM CDT

    Sadler tramuatized me, as well

    by quandrax

    I grew up a fat kid, because exercising was never the same after that scene in Die Hard II.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 5:46:12 AM CDT

    Filmcoyote

    by midnightxpress

    Have you seen The Mist? Sadler's turn from regular joe to xian Nutjob is as spooky as anything in the film. Thou if I'd almost been eaten alive by interdimensional spiders I'd probably go insane.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 5:58:45 AM CDT

    Midnight

    by filmcoyote

    I have, yeah, he was great in that. I bought it on DVD a while back from the States as it seemed to never be coming to the UK. Then it came out and i was going to go and see it on the big screen but i was in Spain the week it released and the next week my local cinema had already taken it off. No doubt to play some studio crap.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 7:33:57 AM CDT

    Trust me. Roland Emmerich is the Anti-Christ..

    by beefywhore

    and Renny Harlin is the False Prophet...yeah, that makes sense.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 7:41:00 AM CDT

    The Antichrist isn't Obama?

    by eyeofpolyphemus

    I keed, I keed. I'll be Raptured anyway, so it doesn't matter....

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  • Aug 13, 2008 8:49:51 AM CDT

    Yeah.... too soon.

    by dogma_jedi

  • Aug 13, 2008 9:00:03 AM CDT

    Defoe=creepy

    by zombiwolf

    Say 'Fuck me Bobby Peru!'

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  • Aug 13, 2008 9:11:39 AM CDT

    behold, a pale rider approached and his name was Michael Bay

    by guy who got a headache and accidentally

    "Shoot for the edit," he cried and the heavens were torn asunder with quick cuts and avid farts.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 9:24:10 AM CDT

    I like most of Von Trier's work.

    by knuckleduster

    Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville are all great films. Still haven't seen Manderlay. I'll give any movie he makes a shot. And yes, The Boondock Saints is a horrible excuse of a film. Not to mention incredibly lame.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:05:30 AM CDT

    What? Antipope?

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...welcome to...Molvania!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:19:54 AM CDT

    needs some Nicholas Cage

    by spandau belly

    Cage and Dafoe together on screen in a Von Tier movie about the antichrist might be more madness than imaginable.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:32:41 AM CDT

    WHO'LL BE PLAYING GEORGE W. BUSH?

    by bringingsexyback

    Check this out:
    ...

    WASHINGTON DC -- According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, "George W Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations--the anti-Christ."

    Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who often writes for Counterpunch, says that people close to the pope claim that amid these concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in the New Testament.

    Before he became pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel."

    The pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on the UN Security Council to oppose Bush's war resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources claim they had not seen the pope more animated and determined since he fell ill to Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the pope did convince the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution.

    Madsen contends that "Bush is a dangerous right-wing ideologue who couples his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult."

    ...
    Is it any wonder that this Pope died during the reign of the Bush Antichrist, and Joseph Ratzinger both a friend of the Bush Family (he was an organizational colleague of Jeb Bush) was annointed the new Pope? Not to mention their common links to the Nazi regime? Open your eyes people.

    Now is Willem playing a good guy or bad guy?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:52:57 AM CDT

    CORRECTION: THAT WAS NEIL BUSH, NOT JEB

    by bringingsexyback

    who was a friend of Ratzinger's.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:56:36 AM CDT

    none of the above

    by mutant leader

    According to what I have read on the Net, many Bible scholars and historians believe it to have been the Roman emperor Nero, the guy who fiddled while Rome burned. And he's been dead for countless ages, of course. So I think we can all
    relax. :)

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  • Aug 13, 2008 11:11:34 AM CDT

    Hey BSB....

    by the_regular_guy

    You sir, are an idiot.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 11:14:20 AM CDT

    Whatever-ocalypse

    by kenobi-fan

    When is someone going to do a really violent-explosive-judgement day Return-of-Jesus movie with all the trimmings: angels, demons, earthquakes, lightning, swords, sheilds, dogs & cats living together...the works! I'm picturing Michael Bay goofiness to include slo-mo of Jesus' Sword of Truth wacking away at all the unbelievers, people and demons alike. Why are 'the celestial powers' depicted so small scale all the time? Ooooh, they spooke, torture, and kill a few folks - big deal! Our normal world violence level is more horrific than this. I mean, don't these 'powers' run the Universe? ('Left Behind' was dumb...and so was Damien, in all his guises.) Bring it!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 11:29:15 AM CDT

    REGULAR GUY

    by bringingsexyback

    What are you, a Satan lover or something?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 11:34:48 AM CDT

    W is not the antichrist cause all religion is bullshit

    by v'shael

  • Aug 13, 2008 11:41:40 AM CDT

    Lemme Guess

    by malpaso

    The "haunted island" is the good ole USA...and we're gonna get hammered with "America is evil" metaphors for 2 hours on a spare soundstage?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:06:25 PM CDT

    No, I'm a regular guy...

    by the_regular_guy

    Just stop spouting off about shit you know nothing about. I can copy and paste too.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:36:19 PM CDT

    Please to meet you...

    by kenobi-fan

    I don't love Satan but I don't think he's been given his due...cinematically speaking. Given all the trauma he's supposed to have inflicted on our planet, you'd think we could have something decent to waste $10 and 2-hours on. Ha!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:52:40 PM CDT

    Atheist, Shcmatheist

    by kenobi-fan

    Probably true, maybe Mel Gibson could make a 'good' Anti-christ movie. Yeah... Mel is the perfect candidate for that type of pic. I think I'm going to write him right now, mabye send him a bottle of whisky too. I like it!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 1:26:02 PM CDT

    BringingSexyBack...

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...loves his kool aid.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:01:18 PM CDT

    c'mon, folks

    by fivezero

    the REAL reason you click into this thread is because you thought you saw Vern Troyer.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:01:52 PM CDT

    Prosthetics need not apply.

    by halberd

    For Willem Dafoe could possibly be capable of the scariest facial expressions in film history.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:18:55 PM CDT

    BAH!

    by victorvondoom

    No one has the gonads to be the Antichrist, save DOOM!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:55:45 PM CDT

    breaking the waves was pretty good

    by stengah

  • Aug 13, 2008 6:48:15 PM CDT

    FIRST!!!

    by autobot optimus prime

    Damn. Missed it again.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:14:49 PM CDT

    Von Trier should have directed Dark Knight

    by psalmolive

    It would have been better acted, had a better story, better ruthless exploitation and devastated American audiences to commit mass suicide in the theater: that should be the goal of all movies.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:29:36 PM CDT

    A Rolling Stone

    by zorak5

    Agree completely. Dafoe's performance in Boondock Saints is tremendous.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 10:39:42 PM CDT

    Von Trier+those actors+Satan=GOLD

    by reflecto

    Where can that go wrong? WHERE?

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  • Aug 14, 2008 12:01:55 AM CDT

    Dafoe was the only good thing..

    by harold-sherbort

    ..about Boondock Saints. That movie was terrible!! Whatever happened to Norman Rheedus?

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  • Aug 14, 2008 3:06:58 AM CDT

    octagonproplex...

    by dogstardude

    Seriously man, check out Von Trier's "The Element of Crime", "Epidemic", "Europa" or his tv series "The Kingdom". He may be an asshole, but he most certainly does know how to make a gorgeous and amazingly well-made film. And seriously guys, he only made one dogme piece, "Dogville" was pretty much Brecht as film and it was fucking hard to pull off. Just look at the behind the scenes stuff.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 3:07:55 AM CDT

    Obviously "The Idiots" was his dogme movie

    by dogstardude

    Just in case my appalling grammar and syntax made that point confusing.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 9:02:42 AM CDT

    Von

    by drunken rage

  • Aug 14, 2008 9:02:56 AM CDT

    on

    by drunken rage

  • Aug 14, 2008 9:07:29 AM CDT

    Von Trier is one of the truly greats

    by drunken rage

    He elicits amazing performances from his actors, his directing is second-to-none. And yes, Peter Greenaway is another truly great filmmaker. Wish they'd both do more. Sorry about the triple post.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 12:25:26 PM CDT

    i've finally been pulled out...

    by gasolinedrawers

    I've been reading this stuff for years and years. Now I have to speak up. Just made an account so that I can chime in.

    Von Trier is amazing...and hilarious! I admit that he's pushed the "suffering woman" theme further than it needed to go, but he's really funny. The person who mentioned "The Five Obstructions" and said he was a jerk...I just don't get it. It's been years since I watched that movie, but I just remembered being charmed by his overenthusiastic bumbling and early morning drinking. Dogme95 was a big game, not a serious statement. "The Celebration" was the first Dogme95 movie and it was great. Harmony Korine is irritating to me, but his Dogme95 confession for "Julian Donkey-Boy" was comedic gold.

    Even if you hate VonTrier, "The Kingdom" series is about as good as it gets. I saw them in theatres, and recently watched them now that number two is out on dvd. His Rod Serling style closing statements are wonderful (and they didn't play in the theatrical runs...so that was a new experience for me). I can't explain it well enough, but he's way too talented to be blown off because he appears to be pompous.

    With that, maybe I'll jump in on another talkback someday. Nice to meet you folks, finally.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 12:46:36 PM CDT

    for the OCTAGONPROPLEX...

    by gasolinedrawers

    before I bow out of this business, let me take a shot at this jackass. To anyone that read his *(corrected grammer) - sorry. Idiot::: grammer/grammar, shinning/shining, religeous/religious, catholism/catholicism. Good enough. Still, if you're from a non-english speaking country...it's forgiven. Your shit taste is definitely not forgiveeen.

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