History Film / TrainingDay

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Alonzo makes Jake smoke pipe PCP to prove that he's fully committed to do whatever it takes to survive on the street. In reality, [[spoiler:Alonzo is making sure that Jake can't testify against him later without failing a drugs test and getting fired.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Jake initially interprets some of Alonzo's requests of him as such, when in fact they are nothing of the sort.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Alonzo qualifies in the greater scheme of things. While he's evidently a big name within the LAPD, he seems to think being a top-notch detective allows him to get away with anything short of public murder. It probably explains why he felt he could [[spoiler:beat a man to death in Las Vegas heedless of consequences... only to discover that the Russian Mafia is ''not'' happy and his badge won't save him from execution if he doesn't pay them off.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Alonzo. His whole plan to is to either [[spoiler: buy Jake off into cooperating with his plan to kill Roger and steal his money, or set Jake up to look like he got high, killed Roger, then got murdered by gang members.

* AMFMCharacterization: The potheads that Alonzo and Jake bust in the car are listening to "Last Resort" by Music/PapaRoach.

* AssholeVictim: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Alonzo himself is killed by the Russian hitmen for killing one of their couriers and not paying up on time.]]
** Roger might qualify as well. While he was [[spoiler:set up and murdered in cold blood by Alonzo in what's effectively an armed robbery]], Alonzo points out to Jake afterwards that Roger had been LA's biggest drug dealer for over a decade, and that his customers included kids.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Seconds after he and Jake meet face-to-face, Alonzo gets ''extremely'' pissed at Jake for interrupting his newspaper reading. When he demands Jake entertain him with a story, he focuses almost entirely on the fact that Jake's partner for a particular DUI stop was a woman who Jake never had sex with than the fact that the stop prevented a murder. Alonzo is a [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] [[HairTriggerTemper hothead]] who [[DirtyCop doesn't care much about actually enforcing the law]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Two of the first three jobs Alonzo does with Jake involve him stealing money from someone. [[spoiler:The next "arrest" turns out to be an excuse to kill a dealer and take his money. Not only that, but Alonzo is in desperate need of money to keep the Russian mob from killing him.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Jake Hoyt and the other cops of the LAPD. Being policemen doesn't mean they will be nice people.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Jake Hoyt. As shown as early as when he prevents two drug addicts from raping a teenage girl. Alonzo even notes that he applied an illegal chokehold on one of them, [[BaddieFlattery and applauds him for it]]. Later during his final confrontation with [[spoiler:Alonzo]], he beats him up, holds him at gunpoint, and shoots him in the buttocks, [[spoiler:after Alonzo hired three GangBangers to kill him]].

* DirtyCop: Alonzo's modus operandi. Observe the scene in which he roughs up Snoop Dogg's character. Later, he casually boasts that he was the one who put Snoop Dogg in a wheelchair. The entire day turns out to be a result of Alonzo's dirty ways, specifically [[spoiler: he beat a member of the Russian Mafiya to death and he has until the end of the day to make good by paying $1 million or be killed.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Alonzo leaves Jake to die at the hands of Smiley and his cronies, but Jake manages to get out alive. Following this, Jake not only takes Alonzo's badge but the money he needs to pay off the Russians.]]
** It goes even further because [[spoiler: Smiley and the gangbangers Alonzo enlists to kill Jake end up sparing him because the girl he saved from getting raped earlier in the movie was Smiley's cousin. [[KickTheDog (Something Alonzo didn't seem interested in doing and didn't bother helping Jake to stop)]]]]

* MakeItLookLikeAStruggle: [[spoiler:Roger's murder]] is disguised as the result of a shootout during a drug raid. [[spoiler:Alonzo]] shoots another officer in his bulletproof vest[[note]]it goes through, actually wounding him[[/note]] using a "throw down" gun [[spoiler:which he places in the hands of Roger's corpse.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Alonzo.

* RooftopConfrontation: The final showdown between Alonzo and Jake occurs on the rooftop of the former's apartment.

** Jake ends up refusing $250,000 which does not make him popular with the other narcotics officers.

* TrainingFromHell: Alonzo makes Hoyt do all kinds of shit, including [[spoiler:participating in an armed robbery]] and smoke PCP-laced marijuana at gunpoint...in his first day as a narc.

* DirtyCop: Alonzo's modus operandi. Observe the scene in which he roughs up Snoop Dogg's character. Later, he casually boasts that he was the one who put Snoop Dogg in a wheelchair. The entire day turns out to be a result of Alonzo's dirty ways, specifically [[spoiler: how his attempts at ripping off the Russian Mafiya went bad and he has until the end of the day to make good or be killed.]]

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

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

Denzel Washington won the Best Actor UsefulNotes/AcademyAward--making him only the second black man ever to win the award, following Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Film/LiliesOfTheField'' nearly four decades earlier in 1963. Ethan Hawke was nominated for Supporting Actor.

Denzel Washington won the Best Actor UsefulNotes/AcademyAward--making him only the second black man ever to win the award, following Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Film/LiliesOfTheField'' nearly four decades earlier. Ethan Hawke was nominated for Supporting Actor.

A short-lived [[Series/TrainingDay TV series adaptation]], set fifteen years after the film, aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2017. In 2022 a {{Prequel}} film, ''Training Day: Day of the Riot'', was announced. It will focus on Alonzo Harris during the Los Angeles Riots in 1992.

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:Towards the end of the film, Hoyt corners Alonzo, and can either kill him or take him in with no evidence, ruining his own career. He reaches out and takes Alonzo's badge. ''And'' the money he needs to pay off the Mafiya.]]

* YouWouldntShootMe: In the climax, Alonzo taunts [[spoiler:Jake]] as the latter holds him at gunpoint, calling his bluff on shooting a fellow police officer, even going as far as turning around and walking to grab the gun of a GangBanger laid on the ground to shoot him. [[spoiler:He finds out the hard way that Jake ''would'' shoot him. In the ass. Jake even warns him what would happen if he tries that stunt again]].

* GunsAkimbo: Alonzo combines this with GangstaStyle.

A short-lived [[Series/TrainingDay TV series adaptation]], set fifteen years after the film, aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2017.

A [[Series/TrainingDay TV series]], serving as a sequel to the film, aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2017. It takes place fifteen years after the movie.

A [[Series/TrainingDay TV series]] which serves as a sequel to the movie premiered on CBS on February 2, 2017. It takes place fifteen years after the movie.

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''Training Day'' is a [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir]] crime film from 2001 directed by Creator/AntoineFuqua and starring Creator/DenzelWashington and Creator/EthanHawke.

The film focuses on young and naive LAPD officer Jake Hoyt (Hawke) undergoing a single-day evaluation by renowned and respected narcotics detective 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.

Denzel Washington won the Best Actor UsefulNotes/AcademyAward--making him only the second black man ever to win the award, the first being Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Film/LiliesOfTheField''. Ethan Hawke was nominated as Supporting Actor.

* BigBad: Alonzo Harris.

* NotSoDifferent: More than one character remarks that Alonzo was just like [[NaiveNewcomer Jake]] when he was starting out and was equally idealistic about using his position to save the day.

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Jake ends up refusing $250,000 which does not make him popular with the other narcotics officers.

''Training Day'' is a [[FilmNoir Neo Noir]] crime film from 2001 directed by Creator/AntoineFuqua and starring Creator/DenzelWashington and Creator/EthanHawke.

* 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. After about a year, the man encounters the snail on his porch again, and asks it "''What the fuck's your problem!?''" Jake laughs until he sees Roger and Alonzo's serious expressions and realizes that it isn't a joke at all. Roger tells him that when he figures the joke out, he'll figure the streets out.[[note]]No matter how long it takes you to achieve your dreams, they can be torn away from you in an instant by a much larger force, forcing you to start over...and there's no guarantee that force won't be there when and if you try again. The snail represents Roger, and the guy on the man represents Alonzo[[/note]]

* NothingPersonal: Smiley says this after [[spoiler: he spares Jake's life]]. In this case, it really isn't; Smiley hates the guy who ordered the hit a lot more than the actual victim, towards whom he harbors no particular ill will beyond a general dislike of cops. It's when the target ''makes it'' personal that his life is spared--[[spoiler:Smiley has to show his gratitude to the guy who rescued his little cousin from a pair of rapists on the street and sticking it to Alonzo is an added bonus.]]

* WhamShot: A doozy. Jake looks out the window to see Alonzo's car gone. He instantly realizes that Alonzo has left him there to be killed.

* WontDoYourDirtyWork: Near the end, when various ghetto residents, including many {{Gangbangers}} who've been forced to obey Alonzo, come out to see the commotion between him and Jake, Alonzo tries to get them to kill Jake for him. Bone, the lead gangster, refuses and tells Alonzo he needs to do it himself, with the clear implication that if Alonzo can't beat Jake on his own, he'll lose all his VillainCred, which in turn would [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore make the local residents lose their fear of Alonzo]]:

-->'''Bone:''' ''[Steps forward with a gun, then drops it in the street]'' You got us twisted, homie. You gotta put your own work in around here.
-->'''Alonzo:''' Oh, it's like that, Bo-
-->'''Bone:''' Yeah, it's like that.

* YouWouldntShootMe: In the climax, Alonzo taunts [[spoiler:Jake]] as the latter holds him at gunpoint, calling his bluff on shooting a fellow police officer, even going as far as turning around and walking to grab the gun of a GangBanger laid on the ground to shoot him. [[spoiler:He finds out the hard way that Jake would shoot him. In the ass. He even warns him what would happen if he tries a stunt like that again]].