Martin Sheen

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q184572: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Apocalypse Now (1979); The Dead Zone (1983); Dead Presidents (1995); The American President (1995); The West Wing (1999); The Departed (2006).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Apocalypse Now (1979): 1 line, within their own work

  1. craft (craft) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots.
    “The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Blaxploitation films: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they acted in: Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul.
    “But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Bloods (book): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they acted in: Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans.
    “It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Full Metal Jacket (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they acted in: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes). Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon.
    “So I watched Full Metal Jacket.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80 sure it was them)

Infernal Affairs (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake source) · through The Departed (2006), which they acted in: Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter.
    “It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Scarface (1983): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Departed (2006), which they acted in: Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche.
    “there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Deer Hunter: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they acted in: The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters.
    “The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Dead Presidents (1995): 1 line, within their own work

  1. craft (craft) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots.
    “The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting.
    “He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read). Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary.
    “By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

The West Wing (TV series): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The American President (1995), which they acted in: The American President ⇒ The West Wing (TV series) (the host's read). The film is a test case for the West Wing, sharing actors like Martin Sheen and ideals.
    “it is a lot of ways a test case for the West Wing”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:02:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (8) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (people): The Dead Zone → Martin Sheen. Sheen's villain in The Dead Zone was referenced twice on Billions.
    “Martin Sheen in that movie, uh, is we, we, we referenced that movie twice last year on the TV show”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:31 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Martin Sheen → J. Gianoni. A host suggests the production should have had the accent coach voice Martin Sheen's lines while cutting to reaction shots.
    “get, you know, JG and Oni in there to do his accent”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:33:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Martin Sheen: Idea: keep Sheen's hangdog acting but cut to reaction shots when he talks and dub in the accent coach, as supposedly done on Ozark.
    “I almost think they should have done this from Martin Sheen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:33:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)