”: The 2014 movie Willem Dafoe declared the most “cynical”When Hollywood was in its so-called ‘golden age’, a time when film stars were hired under strict contracts and scenes were largely confined to soundstages, happy endings were to be expected. Willem Dafoe explains this best with his frustration surrounding the Andrew Garfield reboot of the Spider-Man series in the early 2010s, something he considered to be an utterly cynical cinematic endeavour. The film, according to Dafoe, is indicative of Hollywood’s prioritisation of profit, which is an utterly depressing fact of the industry. “I saw a trailer for the first Spider-Man reboot, and I thought, ‘This is crazy! Dafoe isn’t keen on this money-making approach, though, which he sees as the most cynical kind of filmmaking of all.