Training Day

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Movie
German title Training Day
Original title Training Day
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Antoine Fuqua
script David Ayer
production Robert F. Newmyer
music Mark Mancina
camera Mauro Fiore
cut Conrad Buff
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Training Day is a thriller from director Antoine Fuqua from the year 2001 with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in the lead roles. The action takes place in large part in the slums of Los Angeles , which are ruled by various drug dealers and gangs. Detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) interprets the law in his own way. He knows how to involve the inexperienced cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) in his high-handed approach until he has to make a decision. In February 2017, a television series of the same name based on the film ran in the USA .

action

The action takes place in Los Angeles and revolves around the corrupt drug investigator Alonzo Harris and the police officer Jake Hoyt, who is still inexperienced in the field of drug crime. He absolutely wants to join the drug squad because he sees good career opportunities for himself here. To do this, however, he first has to survive a training day with his new supervisor, Harris, in order to prove himself.

At first, Hoyt is fascinated by the tough and self-assured Harris who claims that to catch the big fish, you have to let the small ones do their criminal business in order to be able to use them as informants. But the impression changes quickly when Hoyt realizes that he is dealing with a corrupt and brutal cop. Harris blackmailed and robbed petty criminals and drug dealers whom he knew would not dare to report him, thus increasing his salary. Since he also killed a senior member of the Russian mafia , he now needs a lot of money to buy his way out. This leads him to ambush the dealer Roger, his alleged friend. When he asks Hoyt to kill Roger and to put some of Roger's money in his own pocket, Hoyt refuses. Harris then tries to get rid of him and delivers Hoyt to a brutal Latino gang. By coincidence (Hoyt had saved the cousin of a gang member from being raped), however, the Latinos let Hoyt go again, who is now countering Harris and taking the money he had raised for the Russians. A little later, Harris is intercepted by a Russian Mafia killer squad on the way to the airport and shot on the street. On the way to his house, Jake learns from the news that Harris has been killed.

synchronization

The film was set to music at RC Production in Berlin . Jan Odle wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Detective Alonzo Harris Denzel Washington Leon Boden
Officer Jake Hoyt Ethan Hawke Frank Schaff
Roger Scott Glenn Pure beauty
Stan Gursky Tom Berenger Hans-Jürgen Wolf
Paul Dr. Dre Michael Iwannek
Blue Snoop Dogg Asad Black
Sara Harris Eva Mendes Carolina Vera
Sandman's wife Macy Gray Sandra Schwittau
Doug Rosselli Harris Yulin Joachim Kerzel
Tim Nick Chinlund Jan Spitzer
Smiley face Cliff Curtis Marco Kroeger
Sniper Raymond Cruz Lutz Schnell

Reviews

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Roger Ebert praised the portrayals of Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke as well as the supporting actors in the Chicago Sun-Times on October 5, 2001, with particular emphasis on Scott Glenn. Ebert also wrote that he had enjoyed Training Day because of its "kinetic energy", but some "logic holes" bothered him in the last quarter of an hour of the film.

James Berardinelli also found the final 15 minutes of the film "disappointing," but described Training Day overall as "engaging" and "strong". He also said the film works as a "social commentary". Hawke is "solid" in his "ungrateful" role, Washington, who played "righteous" people in Hurricane and Against Any Rule , clearly feels comfortable in a role on the other side of the "moral rule " and steals every scene.

Cinema said the film was "actually a normal cop thriller, told a bit sluggishly, brilliantly cast with Denzel Washington in his first villain role", but "behind his pictures" it says "a lot about the self-perception of Americans". He deals with "the competition between idealism and pragmatism".

The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “A thriller characterized by affected acting, the script of which shows hardly any original facets; the tension inherent in the genre is gambled away in favor of an exaggerated finale. "

Prisma found that the "initial realism" of this "hearty" cop thriller "degenerates more and more into improbabilities", which is why the film ultimately "just another - at least at the beginning quite gripping - variant of the usual" crime is not worth it "- Story ”.

Awards (selection)

Denzel Washington won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2002 for Training Day , was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and won the MTV Movie Award in 2002 alongside Snoop Dogg . Ethan Hawke was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Denzel Washington, Antoine Fuqua and the film for best film won the Black Reel Award in 2002 .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Training Day . In: Swedish Film Institute .
  2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Training Day. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b [1] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on March 2, 2015
  4. ↑ a b [2] at Metacritic , accessed on March 2, 2015
  5. ↑ Training Day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
  7. ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli
  8. ^ Film review , Cinema
  9. ↑ Training Day. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ^ Film review , Prisma
  11. ↑ Evaluation of the German film and media evaluation