Dale Dye

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Counted as craft, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: Platoon (1986); Born on the Fourth of July (1989); Dead Presidents (1995).

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

  1. craft (craft) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they worked on as trained the actors: 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 worked on as trained the actors: 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 worked on as trained the actors: 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 worked on as trained the actors: 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)

The Deer Hunter: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they worked on as trained the actors: 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)

Vietnam-vet cliche films (The Exterminator, The Park Is Mine): 1 line

  1. contrast (contrast) · through Born on the Fourth of July (1989), which they worked on as technical advisor and small on-screen role: Vietnam-vet cliche films (The Exterminator, The Park Is Mine) ⇒ Born on the Fourth of July (the host's read). Born was meant as a rebuttal to the ticking-time-bomb vet movies of the 80s.
    “The film would almost be a rebuttal to all those Vietnam vet cliches.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:20:05 · 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.

Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Born on the Fourth of July (1989), which they worked on as technical advisor and small on-screen role: Born on the Fourth of July ⇒ Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump) (the host's read). Dan's angry wheelchair stretch evokes Kovic.
    “Behavior that no doubt reminded many of COVID and born in the 4th of July.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:46:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (3) everyone in craft

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (people): Dale Dye → Born on the Fourth of July. Dye was advisor and played a small role; his reason for the film was the VA hospitals.
    “He was an advisor on board of the 4th of July, and played a small on screen role.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:25:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dale Dye → Dead Presidents. Dye trained the Dead Presidents cast as he had Platoon's.
    “Dale Dye, the man who'd put Oliver Stone's platoon actors through fake hell and back.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:19 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.