Stolen Valor – The Movie
So, you detest stolen valor?
Now is your chance to be a real person playing a fake that is being a fake. Try and wrap your head around that for a moment.
Yes, they are casting for a movie called “Stolen Valor” and need actors and extras. Being an extra involves no real acting talent, you are just part of the crowd.
“Stolen Valor”
Casting “Stolen Valor,” a feature film. Especially seeking real military veterans.
Synopsis: “Stolen Valor” is a film about the phenomenon of people claiming to be military to gain monetary means from the government and other people. After a new phenomenon of persons claiming to be veterans are found to be fake. A young CID agent investigates a murder that is tied to a ring of impostors with nefarious intentions.
The director/writer/producer is Sean Brent Swingler who served in the US Navy and National Guard.
Shooting is TBD and is going to be in the Northern Virginia / Washington D.C. area.
Then, you will have the bragging rights of saying “I’m not a fake, but I played one in the movies.”
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If I become an actor will people give more value to my political opinions?
Asking for a friend.
Yes!
I can already see more relevance in your posts…or is that because you were first!?
The casting director should just cull thru the archives of TAH and MP. They could very shortly get an entire cast of real Valor Thieves to play the parts. Might add a bit of realism to the picture show, Would save costs in the wardrobe department too what with most of the phonies already having their uniforms and such. Alaska Bob will be there right after he visits the Wall. The phony seals can practice in the reflecting pool and the snipers can set up in the Washington Monument. Might even have a group set up a chili cook off to raise awareness of the release date. Saggy Maggie can run the PT program, keeping everyone in shape for the grueling shooting schedule. Brucie’s Bath House (Entrance in the Rear) can handle the spa treatments and there would be a chance for night shots/love interests at the Flying J just off I-295 bypass @ State Rt 23…on the Frontage Road.
Told y’all I had Movie Production/Acting experience. Do believe I’ll pass on this opportunity for more claim to fame. If they decide to use my recommendations, I will expect my usual consulting fee, 80% of the gross.
Wow! You tied things together very nicely. It’s all so clear to me now. 😉
“Especially seeking real military veterans.”
Yeah, that should be fun. ‘Nuff said.
No! No!
Don’t give the Stolen Valor phony attention whores real attention.
The FANS of MP and TAH (you and me!) should be in this….
WE know what they do…. and how they do it.
Who better to portray….
than legit veterans who can stand tall throughout.
🙂
Are you saying you want be a veteran pretending to be a phony veteran?
LOLOL
I’d rather see HACK STONE in the screen credits,
compared to reading off names and seeing ham acting
from the likes of Les Brown or the Texas twins Foley and Jowers.
Oh hell yeah!
The possibilities for some hilarious Hollyweird mayhem by the usual suspects and miscreants here on Team TAH are endless. Think about it.
Question: if we play posers in the movie, would we get to keep the dumbass-looking white-framed wrap-around mirror-lens sunglasses, the tiger stripe doo-rags, and the leather vests covered in poser bling?
I get to keep my costume…. lol. Seriously, I’m retired I have nothing else to do I would love to be an extra in a movie.
Do we get a service dog too?
A really hokey honor vest, perhaps?
I wouldn’t mind signing on. If I return to Virginia before filming.
Any filming in Bethesda? Quite a few interesting filming locations available. Maybe they can even film a few scenes in the Reston Virginia branch of All Points Logistics.
You gotta be joking…. im so in… how can I reach that guy….. ?????
Blood Sport – the original stolen valor movie.
An interesting topic. Frank Dux has been fairly well established as a serial liar, poser, and embellisher in both his military and martial arts pursuits. As for Jean-Claude Van Damme, who apparently did not serve, I’m genuinely curious as to how Van Damme got out of serving in the Belgian Army, since Belgium has military conscription, and Van Damme did not appear to require a draft waiver for health or religious reasons…
Van Damme did serve his required time in the Belgian military, very briefly. He managed to secure a position on their Ski Team, and spent most of his service in that capacity. I know that sounds like it might be tongue-in-cheek, but it’s true. Bottom line, he was not a draft dodger.
Frank Dux, on the other hand, is among the most shameless of Valor Thieves, whose phony military career has been chronicled in the book, “Stolen Valor,” on TAH and Military Phonies, and on many other sites as well. His alleged martial arts exploits and titles have been proven to be equally bogus. Within the last year or so he’s even become a birds-of-a-feather buddy with none other than the notorious Dallas Wittgenfeld.
If you can’t be with the one you want…
Love the one you’re with.
Thank God those two cannot reproduce. Imagine the knots in that DNA strand.
Glad to read that Van Damme did his time, even if his time was spent schussing downhill the ski slopes. At least he didn’t wreck any tanks, like Arnaaaaud kept doing in Osterreich….
Or Steve McQueen taking a USMC Amtrak on a joyride through Oceanside, CA.? Good story, but apparently it never really happened. McQueen, however, actually was a tank driver in the Marines.
See, us US Army 9″th Infantry Division Certified Ski Instructors really do exist !!!
Worldwide !!!
Remember, it’s not who you know, it’s who you blow !!!
Sure. But I want to wear a Marine uniform.
No, I don’t know why, but iffin’ we’s gonna bees paradin’ ’round lookin’ likes wanna bees, make mine Marine.
Besides, it would be a great opportunity for us to make a TaH video ala the Village People. We could form up somewhere and dance around some monuments. (Hope somebody else can sing.)
Can’t you just see it? “TaH People release their latest – Band of Miscreants Take DC.”
Or something.
It’s Fun To Go To The USO.
They want you… But I’m allergic to water, I get seasick watching it on TV! 😉
Don’t be so quick to send these folks your pictures and resumes. This, if anything, is an extreme low-budget/no-budget wannabe production, that will probably never happen. Most likely it was “announced” in an attempt to raise interest and financing. Ironically, something like this is the entertainment industry equivalent of “Stolen Valor.”
Here’s what’s listed on IMDb, the Internet Movie Database: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11950994/?ref_=pro_tt_visitcons.
Hack Stone is currently casting for the autobiographical film of his time attending Ground Radio Technician Course at Marine Corps Communications Electronics School. Working title is “Top Soldering Gun”.
I wanna play the Viet of the Nam vet that fled to northern Maine.
Wait…what? I already starred in that movie. Never mind.
Buck Owens wrote the script for you:
They’re gonna put me in the movies.
They’re gonna make a big star out of me.
We’ll make a film about a man that’s sad and lonely
And all I gotta do is act naturally.
Well, I bet you I’m gonna be a big star.
Might win an oscar. you can never tell.
The movie’s gonna make me a big star,
’cause I can play the part so well.
Well, I hope you come and see me in the movies.
Then I’ll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that ever hit the big time
And all I gotta do is act naturally.
We’ll make the scene about a man that’s sad and lonely
And begging down upon his bendin’ knee.
I’ll play the part and I won’t need rehearsing.
All I have to do is act naturally.
Well, I bet you I’m gonna be a big star.
Might win an oscar. you can never tell.
The movie’s gonna make me a big star,
’cause I can play the part so well.
Well, I hope you come and see me in the movies.
Then I’ll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that ever hit the big time
And all I gotta do is act naturally.
👍👍👍
I would highly recommend this gig to anyone considering it. I was one of the Union cavalry reenactors hired to be extras, “background artists” in the movie “Gettysburg.” It was one of my greatest life experiences. I was paid $110 a day and got to ride a horse everyday for two weeks as part of a fully functioning cavalry company of 78 men and horses. After only three days we were a smooth running military formation given commands by bugle call.
Plus, participants will see first hand how movies are made. It is a fascinating but sometimes frustrating, tedious process.
All true…
Having been a ‘background artist’ in about 10 major motion pictures, I echo these comments.
The only thing you have to accept is that you can’t control camera angles.
When seeing the movie for the first time, I actually jumped out of my seat in a theater full of strangers and yelled “That’s my ass.”
In fact, my a$$ and my gut have been featured in so many movies that I need one of those hyperbaric chambers to go around my midsection like David Duchovny did for being a hand model in Zoolander.
It was some of my best work and I believe had Academy Award written all over it. Politics screwed me in the voting.
It is better than going to the zoo for the day. You don’t get paid much but you are not spending money since they feed you and provide refreshments (no alcohol). You get to learn how movies are made, as rgr769 point out.
In our cav camp on a Cashtown apple farm, Sam Elliott sent us a keg of beer every few days. Also, in all of his TV appearances promoting the movie, he praised us and said it would have been impossible to have made the movie without us, our horses, and our gear. He was so enthused he came to our Brandy Station reenactment a year later and reprised his role as General John Buford.
Sam Elliot, one of the good ones. One of his other unforgettable military roles was as the First Sergeant in “The Roughriders”, and of course his breakout role as the protagonist in “Once an Eagle” miniseries in 1976…
Great guy, I spent over an hour in the bar in the at Farnsworth House in Gettysburg answering his questions about the battle and General Buford. He said his fave movie is “Conagher” cuz his wife was his costar.
In “Deep Impact”, as the bus is going through the gate to the “Arc” with Leo and family, the aerial shot shows a Soldier on a machine gun to the inside right of the gate…
…that’s me! Sure, it’s from 200′ up, and hardly shows any detail, but it really is me. They told me to be very animated so the camera would see movement, so I’m swinging that M60 like a mad man! I can also be seen, when Leo is telling his family that he has to go back and get his girlfriend. A line of Soldiers jog past the scene. I’m the last guy in the line!
Was also in “We Were Soldiers” as a cannon cocker. When you see the 5 seconds of the artillery banging, I’m the last gun, pulling string. That’s real 105 ammo were firing, at Ft Hunter-Liggett range. The combat scenes were also filmed at Liggett. Someone, thankfully told Wallace that real ammo doesn’t make pretty puffs of smoke, and the guns rock back and dance around. We found ammo at 29 Palms, and the studio made hundreds of fake casings to look like the actual 3 days of firing. Our shop rebuilt two of the M101 guns, the third was in good shape as a salute gun, but we had to grind out the dewat blocks welded at the chamber throat. When we presented the guns to the studio for use, they asked us how they work, and can we train the actors to use them. “We’ll pay you pretty good for the help”, so duh!
BTW, Mel is a dick, and Sam is way cool, even sharing cigars with us during breaks.
They moonlighted for a movement / patrol in Eglin to familiarize themselves with unit movements / cohesion.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points logistics) should try out. He could earn a movie credit.
I wonder if they could shoot a scene at All-Points Logistics? Maybe the Fourth Toughest Man in the World could show up an Phildo could pimp slap him? Then Phildo could make his move….
The sky is the limit…
The dude with his “pappy’s recipe” for barbecue sauce can provide the craft services. What’s on the menu? Imitation crab, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, And mock apple pie.
Too bad Danny Bernath isn’t around… he use to be an extra for “Portlandia”.
such a movie has the potential to be the modern caddyshack…a comedy with no plot, no point, and no actual acting, but funny as hell…
Think of the comedic possibilities…dupes, dopes, dumbasses, sockpuppets, fake records, and idiot “journalists”.
We’re talking Bill Murray territory here.
The characters based on our real “hall of zeros” offer genuine comedy on their own.
A cult classic in the making!