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I seriously doubt the costume had an effect on the acting performance.
Yes it did. Because if you're Willem Dafoe how are you supposed to take your acting job seriously if you look like a smurfing reject from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? If you can't see that Dafoe was doing an overacting job on purpose then quite frankly you need glasses. Because you're blind.
If he was overacting on purpose, he probably would have done so whatever the outfit. But I'll obviously have to list 'the costume was rubbish' on my list of reasons for a below-par acting performance.
No, no, no, no. You don't get it do you? Dafoe couldn't take his job seriously because he was dressed like a smurfing Power Ranger or like a Power Ranger villian. So Willem purposely put out a hammy acting performance because a serious acting performance and a ridiculous costume don't always go hand and hand, do they?

But if that explanation is too difficult for you to grasp...Let me put it to you this way, if you're Willem Dafoe and Sam Raimi is making you wear a retarded looking Green Goblin costume, can you in all honesty look at yourself in the mirror while in costume and resist your inclination to overact? Because there's a thin line between overacting, underacting, and just plain acting but thankfully Dafoe comes nowhere near that line. He was just a cliched, overacting, mustache twirling, run of the mill, villain.