History Film / TrainingDay

* BatmanGambit: Alonzo's whole master plan doesn't begin, [[spoiler:until after he convinces Jake to take drugs - which he would later use for leverage against him.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: Denzel Washington as a villain.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Alonzo.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Alonzo thinks he's above the law because he works for the Three Wise Men, whom are corrupt cops in high-ranking positions. [[spoiler: It's through them that Alonzo gets permission to rob and kill his long time drug contact. However, the alternate ending revealed that it was the Three Wise Men whom sent Hoyt to make sure Alonzo didn't pay off the Russians.]]

-->'''Alonzo Harris''': Today is a TrainingDay, Officer Hoyt.

* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Jack comments that the police usually don't enter The Jungle with anything less than a platoon.

* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: According to Alonzo, it's wolves and sheep. An obvious [[TakeAThirdOption third option]] would be "sheepdog," which police often use as a metaphor for their profession, but it's never brought up.

-->'''Alonzo''': "I've been planning this all week, son!"

* GangBangers: Specifically those in The Jungle and the house that Alonzo drops Jack off at near the end.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Alonzo leaves Jake to die with exactly the wrong set of gangbangers. (Possibly a subversion as the plan was never fully explained and perhaps Alonzo remembered [subconsciously?] the name of the gang that the girl had mentioned from earlier and simply selected the easy option to dispose of his problem.)

* ContrivedCoincidence: Alonzo leaves Jake to die with exactly the wrong set of gangbangers.

'''''Training Day''''' is a crime film from 2001 directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring DenzelWashington and Ethan Hawke.

* AcademyAward: DenzelWashington finally won Best Actor (in a leading role) for convincingly playing against type, not only as a villain, but [[MagnificentBastard for making it look cool]]. Ethan Hawke was nominated as Supporting Actor.

* PlotTumor: What actually drives the plot forward is Alonzo's beef with TheMafiya, but its explicitly stated in Alonzo's meeting with the Wise Men. Smiley spells out how grave the situation is for Alonzo near the tail-end of the film.

* ArcWords: Do you wanna go to jail or do you wanna go home?

* BecomingTheMask: One EpilepticTree claims that Alonzo is so dangerous precisely because being "The Wolf" does not come naturally to him - his bad guy persona is taken to the max precisely because he has to construct it.
** Additionally, they run into two deep cover operatives in a safe house (who they end up killing) who've gotten so deep into their cover that Alonzo remarks that they have forgot who they are anymore.

* DirtyCop: Alonzo's modus operandi. Observe the scene in which he roughs up Snoop Dogg's character.
** Also later, he casually boasts that he was the one who put Snoop Dogg in a wheelchair.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire movie takes place over the course of less than a day.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It is mentioned that Alonzo used to be a lot like Hoyt.
** A case of TruthInTelevision, as Rafael Perez, the RealLife corrupt LAPD officer who Alonzo was probably based on, invoked that trope's page quote at his sentencing to prison.
** In the DVD extras, most of the scenes that were cut, are the ones where Alonzo talks to Hoyt about his past as a beat cop, and how green and hopeful he was, until the harsh reality of the job woke him up.
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:So, the girl that almost got raped tells Alonzo who her cousins are, and then he proceeds to hand Hoyt over to them for elimination? Wonderful stuff at the end of a long and successful plan.]]
** Not necessarily, [[spoiler:since the girl was never that specific about who her cousins actually were, or Alonzo could have written it off as her bluffing since she was scared.]] Also, Alonzo [[spoiler:did not see Jake pick up her wallet, and without the wallet the incident wouldn't have come up with the gangbangers and Jake would have been killed according to plan.]]
* [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten If You're So Evil Eat This PCP]]: Actually a subversion - it appears Alonzo is making Jake smoke the pipe because of this trope, but he's actually doing it so that [[spoiler:Jake can't testify against him later without failing a drugs test and getting fired.]]

* InstantDeathBullet: Averted, anyone who gets shot in this film dies slowly while making a "wounded animal sound" as Alonzo calls it.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: [[spoiler: Jake takes Alonzo's badge, saying "you don't deserve this".]]

* LargeHam: Alonzo turns his scenery chewing on and off according to his needs.

* LetMeTellYouAStory: Alonzo's friend Roger decides to tell Jake a joke. He tells him about a snail that gets thrown off some guy's porch into the backyard and nearly dies. However, it recovers and after awhile it gains enough strength to crawl again. After about a year, the snail makes it way back on to the porch. The man comes out, looks at and says, "''What the fuck's your problem!?''" Jake laughs until he sees Roger and Alonzo's serious expressions and realize that it isn't a joke at all. Roger tells him that when he figures the joke out, he'll figure the streets out.

* {{Parody}}: Not the film itself, but it's the subject of [[MemeticMutation a well-known parody]] made in The Chapelle Show.

** Which is TruthInTelevision: that particular neighborhood is one of the most heavily controlled gang territories in Los Angeles, and the police know that going in there means they'll get killed, or at best roughed up. They ''do not'' go in there without SWAT.

* [[{{YouFailGunSafetyForever}} Artistic License - Gun Safety]]: [[spoiler: When the Russians kill Alonzo with a hail of bullets, one of their own is in the car right behind Alonzo.]]

** Not necessarily, [[spoiler:since the girl was never that specific about who her cousins actually were, and Alonzo could have written it off as her bluffing since she was scared.]] Also, Alonzo [[spoiler:did not see Jake pick up her wallet, and without the wallet the incident wouldn't have come up with the gangbangers and Jake would have been killed according to plan.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Alonzo leaving Jake to die at the hands of the gangbangers. But after he manages to pull himself out of that and catches up to Alonzo. Jake takes his badges and the money he need to pay the mafia. In a sense leaving Alonzo to die just as he did Jake.]]

* FakeNationality: Smiley, a Latino gangster, is played by Cliff Curtis, a NewZealand actor of Maori descent.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Everyone, including the subordinates, in the movie dislikes being around with Alonzo. Even his own ''neighbors''.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The actual girl. When she shouts at the attempted rapists about how her cousins would fuck them up, she wasn't kidding.]]

* TheMafiya: [[spoiler: Alonzo is in big with them for attacking and killing an important member of theirs in Las Vegas, and is given until midnight on Tuesday to come up with a million dollars or he will be executed.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Jake effectively screws Alonzo's plot to get away from TheMafiya, [[LaserGuidedKarma in the most ironic way possible.]]]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: The Russian Mafia knows how to get the job done. The parallels to ''Film/TheGodfather'' are not without reason.]]

* BadBoss: Alonzo is this to his subordinates. [[spoiler: This makes them abandon his ass when the chips are down.]]
* BatmanGambit: Alonzo's whole master plan doesn't begin, [[spoiler: until after he convinces Jake to take drugs - which he would later use for leverage against him.]]

* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: So, the girl that almost got raped tells Alonzo who her cousins are, and then he proceeds to hand Hoyt over to them for elimination? Wonderful stuff at the end of a long and successful plan.]]
* [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten If You're So Evil Eat This PCP]]: Actually a subversion - it appears Alonzo is making Jake smoke the pipe because of this trope, but he's actually doing it so that [[spoiler: Jake can't testify against him later without failing a drugs test and getting fired.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Alonzo himself often enjoy roughing up his suspects when he wants to.

* NotSoDifferent: Jake and Alonzo.

* ShotInTheAss: [[spoiler: Jake shoots Alonzo in the buttocks to prevent him from picking up his pistol]].

A crime film from 2001 directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring DenzelWashington and Ethan Hawke.

Training Day focuses on young and naive LAPD officer Jake Hoyt (Hawke) undergoing a single day evaluation by renowned and respected narcotics officer Alonzo Harris (Washington). Alonzo lets Hoyt step into his "office" (car) and takes him for [[ExtremelyShortTimespan a 24-hour ride]] [[TrainingFromHell through the drug neighborhoods and gang territories of South Los Angeles]]. Hoyt soon is exposed to the darker side of police duty as he realizes Alonzo's methods make him not so different from the criminals he pursues.

* IronicEcho: Alonzo tells Jake that if he doesn't start [[StartOfDarkness getting with the program]], he could end up in the news as a dead cop who died in the line of duty, leaving behind his wife and kid. [[spoiler: After Alonzo dies, this is what the TV report says about him.]]
** Also, Alonzo loved to say "Do you want to go to jail, or do you want to go home" to the people he would harsh. In the end,[[spoiler:Jake repeated the same line to Alonzo after he took the stolen money from him.]]
*** More subtly, after using the line with most of the criminals he and Jake encounter, we then hear him say it [[spoiler: to fellow cops as they plot to cover up a murder.]]