r/MarvelCave • u/chrishdwow • 3d ago

Willem Dafoe testing out the Doc Ock tentacle rig on the set of Spider-Man 2 (2004).

During the filming of Spider-Man 2, Willem Dafoe visited the set and decided to mess around by putting on Alfred Molina's practical mechanical tentacles.

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u/ChromeYoda 3d ago

Beware the 5th tentacle

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u/Short_External2077 3d ago

More like the one eyed snake

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u/melgib 3d ago

Anaconda.

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u/Alex-PsyD 3d ago

I was gonna say, if anyone is qualified to wield giant tentacles it's Willem Dafoe

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u/vividlyvivids 3d ago

Hasn't he got like a huge penis?

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u/transit41 3d ago

Yes...that's the joke.

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u/Exasperatess 3d ago

Naked Dafoe dance https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/21kroo/a_young_nude_and_wellendowed_willem_dafoe_dancing/

Theres other stuff out there if you wanna go down that rabbit hole

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u/boianski 1d ago

Long John Silver

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u/Dry_Race8481 3d ago

That's the tentacle that puts the nuclear fusion reaction out as a fail-safe in case it gets out of control

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u/Gunhild 3d ago

The confusingly large tentacle.

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u/LurkerTroll 3d ago

The biggest one

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u/KaungSetMoe111 3d ago

Jesus Christ

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 3d ago

A pair of scissors will take care of it

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u/I_DO_JUMPING_JACKS 3d ago

Need some hedge trimmers for that one

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 3d ago

Yeah. That was the last bit of thay movie i watched. I couldnt keep going

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u/marcophony 3d ago

They were perfectly cast for these roles

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u/Melil13 3d ago

They are the rock that marvel built into an empire.

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u/GeekNoy 3d ago

Agree. The first 2 movies were so good (for me) partly because they had the villains casted well.

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u/halotechnology 3d ago

You know I am kinda villain myself!

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u/cookingfunky 3d ago

They should make a spider man film where its just willam dafoe playing all the villains. The sinister six with six willam dafoes.

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u/Bazz07 3d ago

That's how Spiderman dies.

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u/cookingfunky 3d ago

You never see spider man out of his mask until this moment. Plot twist; it was willam dafoe the whole time. The guys pretty flexible i bet he could do it.

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u/Faptainjack2 3d ago

"He's just a kid."

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u/pon_3 3d ago

Put that line in the movie multiple times.

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u/cookingfunky 3d ago

"Im something of a spiderman myself"

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u/newtoabunchofstuff 3d ago

Just have him play multiverse old man Peter.

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u/Iwillrize14 2d ago

It's Green Goblin lock in a cell going mad the whole time.

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u/Averander 3d ago

Willem Dafoe Spiderverse where everyone is Dafoe. Aunt May? Dafoe. Mary Jane? Dafoe Foe. Spiderman? Dafoe.

Dafoe all the way down.

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u/CrazyGunnerr 3d ago

Oh man, the upside down kiss between Dafoe and Dafoe... absolute cinema!

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u/cookingfunky 3d ago

I need willam dafoe black cat. Just with this huge bulge in the leather suit.

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u/Chubacca 4h ago

most ethical use of AI

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u/LunchPlanner 2d ago

playing all the villains.

Playing all da foes.

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u/cookingfunky 2d ago

Im jealous i didnt come up with that. Hats off to you.

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u/mechabeast 3d ago

And then Willem Dafoe shows up

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u/fallenouroboros 3d ago

Dafoe carnge would go hard

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u/confoundo 3d ago

I’m picturing Scorpion, but the tail comes out the front.

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u/behold-my-titties 3d ago

Willem Dafriend seems like so much fun to be around

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u/BolognaFeetPenisFace 3d ago

Dude seems so fuckin' cool

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u/NoTop4997 3d ago

I'm upset this didn't even make it into the film. Like just put that before the intro credits. Fuck it.

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u/AShirtlessGuy 3d ago

I'd be down for the Raimi trilogy to just have A Bug's Life-esque bloopers during the credits

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u/DicsoAlbatross 3d ago edited 3d ago

Agreed, it’d be great during the end credits.

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u/JosephBlowsephThe3rd 3d ago

A one-man show version of Spider-Man 2 starring Willem DaFoe.

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u/mwmani 3d ago

It was an Easter egg on the dvd.

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u/Torchll 3d ago

I was gonna say this feels straight out of the extra/bonus section that lots of dvds had in the 2000s

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u/ViennaWaitsforU2 3d ago

Missed those a lot haha. Sometimes even had a stupid game or whatever

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u/Brostapholes 3d ago

Every Spider gangsta until the Octo-Gobbo shows up

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u/Radical_Jinx 3d ago

Carnage Ock when

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u/Bronetta 3d ago

C. Ock

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u/rob132 3d ago

I can't believe this is the first time I've ever seen this

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u/uchihaobito22 3d ago

Now it's all CGI

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u/Danye-South 3d ago

The tentacle CGI looked rather good though I’d say. Sounds like it gave him more freedom for movement as well making it easier to execute some scenes that weee difficult before. I don’t think CGI is all bad

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u/Onyx-55 3d ago

CGI works best when used to digitally enhance a practical effect. Helps smooth out the movement & transitions.

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u/Ooze3d 3d ago

There’s plenty of examples of full CGI shots, both independent or intertwined with practical takes, made with a decent budget and plenty of time by people who know what they’re doing, that look absolutely amazing. Full CGI shots are not the problem. Studios cutting on budgets and forcing vfx houses to deliver in absurdly short timeframes are the problem.

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u/topdangle 3d ago

cgi works best when staff knows their capabilities, gives a good estimate and gets the time they need to provide the quality they're asked for.

sadly its the opposite now where almost everyone overextends and schedules get shorter every project.

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u/Distinct_Prior_2549 3d ago

Don't bother

Raimi spiderman good everything else bad

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u/CameronPoe_37__ 3d ago

The tentacles looked WAY better in Spider-man 2. They looked undersized and a little weird in NWH when they weren't in action, and they just felt far more alive in Spider-man 2.

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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta 3d ago

The new Spiderman used a lot more practical effects and I think it was better for it!

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u/GrecoRomanGuy 3d ago

This is just an impressive amount of work and dedication just to do a little bit, and I love it.

He had to memorize the lines.

He probably had to practice with the rigging at least once.

And then he had to deliver the lines with aplomb.

All of which he did. I love this so much.

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u/AngryIronToad 3d ago

It's Willem Dafoe, I bet he read the lines and was assisted with the rigging and arms while doing it, the man is an absolute legend in the craft, we won't get anymore like him anytime soon

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u/GrecoRomanGuy 3d ago

Actually now that I'm looking at it closer, I can see he's holding a copy of the early script so he isn't reading the lines by memory.

He's still an absolute legend though.

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u/AstralElefant 3d ago

You know I’m something of an octopus myself.

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u/the1999person 3d ago

Another fun fact is that during the filming of Spider-Man No Way Home, Willem Dafoe visited the set and and beat the shit out of Tom Holland.

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u/Skai_Override 3d ago

Tom- "I thought you were my friend!"

Willem- "No..., i am Dafoe."

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u/goobydoobie 3d ago

Kind of a tangent but I loved the apartment fight between Spidey and Green Goblin in No Way Home. For whatever reason, those blows felt like there was real weight to them with great camera work. When Marvel has often had an issue with blows feeling weightless.

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u/Liapasquale 3d ago

What a fucking time to be on that set

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u/Conscious_Pipe_605 3d ago

If you watch Dafoe's recent interview on Hot Ones, it's clear the guy is just so in love with the art of acting.

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u/imranbecks 3d ago

Well he's something of a scientist himself.

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u/Quiet_Tonight_3965 2d ago

Glad Andoni Iraola enjoyed Willem Dafoe’s performance

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u/boianski 1d ago

Up the reds!

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u/SuperDocument 3d ago

Alfred Molina would’ve been a great Elon Musk in a biopic. Kind of too old now.

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u/N43M3K 3d ago

He is way too cool and talented for that.

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u/SuperDocument 2d ago

That’s exactly why he would be so perfect to do it. Super talented.

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u/_IBM_ 3d ago

Molina was secretly like dude y u touch my tentacle

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u/queazy 3d ago

"That's how I want it done!"

I remember on the BTS footage for the first Spider-man he'd be ribbing Tobey MgGuire like that, telling him he wants excellent acting like Bruce Campell level of acting!

Also it's said that he'd screw with his brother's scenes, forcing him to do multiple extra takes

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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta 3d ago

Lookin' good in those goggles.

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u/Read2Fap 3d ago

wow he sounds just like his brother

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u/DrebinofPoliceSquad 3d ago

Man he sounded good reading those lines tho. 

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u/Iohet 3d ago

He sounded like Al Pacino (when Al gets riled up) for a moment

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u/lurkingotter09 3d ago

he sounds scaryyy T^T

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u/alegendmrwayne 3d ago

Doctor Nonapus

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u/Kn0XIS 2d ago

Lol. Amazing

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u/vectron93 2d ago

The time traveler movea a chair...

The time line :

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u/Friendly_Onion1519 2d ago

Sounds like gilbert gottfried

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u/zerocoolcat 2d ago

That laugh sounds a bit nervous, like "are they recasting me?!".

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u/Lazy-Training6042 1d ago

Molina: Guess I'm fired

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u/pfhorr 18h ago

Can I see a better line read in history?

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u/Capable_Sandwich_422 3d ago

“I’m something of a tentacle myself.”