Platoon

He wanted a little more anger from Gekko.

And then I realized, when I was finishing everything, you look at Oliver's history with men, El Salvador, Jimmy Woods, Tom Cruise, born on the Fourth of July, Charlie Sheen, Platoon, Val Kilmer, The Doors, Kevin Costner, JFK.

Me, every actor, male actor, probably gave their best performance with Oliver Stone.

And interested me, and he was tough.

Because of the Vietnam veterans and my family, I very much wanted to play that part.

Ten years before that, I auditioned for a movie called Platoon that Oliver Stone directed.

And I think I was close to getting a part in Platoon, but then Oliver's money kind of fell off for a while.

And so nothing happened and life went on.

Eventually, I think a year or two later, he put the money together again, but – I didn't get to be in that part, be in that role, but I very much wanted to because I had because the Vietnam veterans in my family.

By saying that, it makes me think of some movies.

And back in the 70s and 80s, there were a series of movies that were made about Vietnam veterans, for example.

And at the end of each one of those films, and I'll name a few, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Casualties of War, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home.

Okay, well, we'll get into more of that in a little bit.

But first, I thought I would start out with some credits and the actors of this film to kind of set the tone with what we're working here.

So today we're talking about Thrashing, released August 29th, 1986.

It's one hour, 33 minutes, rated PG-13, which I was kind of surprised to see that.

Okay.

I didn't know that.

And then, of course, Stacy Peralta, second unit director and also credited as filming additional skate scenes.

And one thing I noticed today that I didn't know.

I saw him at the Emmys and he was in that Clara damage movie and he, he, we were talking about, um, I mean, this was the Subway Series, and I would have to run.

We were in the middle of Jalapa, Mexico, in the jungle, and I would be at his trailer, and I'd have to run at night from his trailer all the way through the jungle, like Willem Dafoe in Platoon, like just running through the jungle, getting to the other end to get the scores, and then running back and being like, all right, the Mets are up by one now, the Yankees, and he's like,

really, really? Oh, okay.

Hey, could you see who's pitching right now? And I'm like,

You got Full Metal Jacket.

You got Platoon.

You

got Apocalypse Now.