Captain Dale Dye - Episode 35

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Capt. Dale Dye revolutionized Hollywood war movies by putting the actors through a military style boot camp.

We talk about his career in the Marines, the horrors of war, mental health, his transition into the film industry, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and his latest project "No Better Place To Die".

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0:00.0	Welcome guys to Behind the Shield. My name's James Gearing and this is episode 35 and my next guest
0:06.2	is a man who I actually worked with about 15 years ago in Japan. I was hired as a stuntman to do
0:12.8	the Terminator 2 show and a white-haired gentleman beat the crap out of us for three days on an
0:19.6	island in Osaka.
0:28.9	That gentleman was Captain Dale Dye, and it wasn't until I discovered who he was that I realized how privileged we were out there.
0:40.0	Captain Dye is the man behind the training of the cast of Platoon, Save and Private Ryan, and Band of Brothers, and he also has been in numerous Hollywood productions himself. He was originally a Marine, captain in the Marine Corps, and the interview
0:47.1	is incredible. We cross everywhere from his actual time in the service through to how he got
0:53.6	into Hollywood, why he got into Hollywood,
0:56.2	and some of the stories from these amazing projects.
0:59.2	And the three that I've named are probably my three favorite movies that have anything to do with military whatsoever.
1:06.8	So what I want to do in this intro, though, before we get into the interview, is just reiterate a project that he talks about.
1:15.3	He is going to be crowdsourcing or crowdfunding, I think the word is, his latest project, No Better Place to Die.
1:22.9	This is the story of the D-Day landing on Normandy, and his goal is to use as many veterans as
1:29.4	he can in the production, and he wants to fund it himself, so that way he's free from some
1:35.3	of the restraints of the studio money. So after you listen to this incredible interview, I want
1:41.4	you guys to go to the links that we have on the website and delve in and see if there's any way you can help. I know we have a lot of people listening
1:47.9	that are veterans themselves. So really spread the word and really help me help Dale share this project.
1:55.2	He was very, very generous with his time on this podcast and I really want to repay the
2:00.1	favor and help be part of the solution and
2:03.0	spread the word and help him with the funding of this this movie based on the ones he's been
2:07.7	involved with so far this would be the inception of yet another incredible military movie that
2:13.7	really will pay homage to the to the guys that they truly, truly lay down their
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