Known for his portrayal of the Green Goblin in the MCU, Willem Dafoe's new quiet thriller Inside is the story Marvel couldn't let him do.
No matter his attempt to shake it, the Green Goblin is a character that's become synonymous with Willem Dafoe, and his new movie Inside tells the Green Goblin story that Marvel couldn't do. Inside features Dafoe as an art thief named Nemo who gets unexpectedly trapped in the home of his latest vacationing mark, with no one aware that he is locked for days in the penthouse of a posh New York City abode.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dafoe returned as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in a much different capacity than he'd ever been seen before, imbuing the comic book villain with a newfound sense of ambiguity and compassion. Inside's confined plot is perfect for Green Goblin fans because it takes the introspection further, highlighting a Green Goblin story Marvel couldn't showcase without taking the attention away from Spider-Man.
With his kaleidoscopic hallucinations, creepy smiles, and bizarre moments speaking to himself in mirrors during his imprisonment in the penthouse, Inside recalls moments of Dafoe's tour-de-force performance throughout Raimi's Spider-Man. Marvel didn't make an origin story about Norman Osborn's full descent into madness and becoming the Green Goblin, but Inside offers a glimpse into how Osborn might have lost himself in the psyche of the supervillain and questioned reality.
Inside Proves That Dafoe Was The Perfect Green Goblin Dafoe is unsettling in movies like American Psycho, so it's not surprising why he was given the Green Goblin role, but Inside proves why he was perfect for it. Ordinarily, no one would empathize with a thief, but his harrowing journey to not just stay alive, but confront himself after being trapped in a penthouse garners sympathy.
Few actors could go to the depths of vulnerability Dafoe does in Inside, particularly as the will to survive overshadows egoism. If the MCU ever approached its villains' origin story the way Todd Phillips did with Joker in the DCEU, Green Goblin might be permitted a metamorphosis that isn't confined to a palatable montage. Until then, Inside showcases the desperation, the insanity, and the joy of behaving independently of societal norms, something Green Goblin does with gleeful abandon.
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