The worst part of Training Day, according to Ethan Hawke

In the early 2000s, Training Day hit theaters and became a major landmark in police films, especially due to the performance of denzel washingtonwinner of Oscar 2002 in Best Actor. However, the production directed by Antoine Fuqua has a major defect, according to Ethan Hawke.

It is worth remembering how Hawke interpreted Jake and was nominated for Oscar 2002 in Best Supporting Actorbut lost to Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001). Already washington lived the veteran (and corrupt) policeman Alonzo.

As Cheat Sheet Showbiz remembered, Hawke he stated how the film was different from the other projects he participated in, but he was attracted to the film because he believed how the plot had a twist on a very familiar premise, and that made the narrative attractive.

“I haven’t done a lot of what you would call genre films. Training Day it’s a crime movie,” said the actor, according to black film. “It’s really hard to make a crime movie that’s different and unique and special when you have four crime shows every night on TV and about three different crime movies come out.”

So, to make one that is special, it will depend mainly on the uniqueness of the personalities involved in the story.

Furthermore, Ethan Hawke admired took the opportunity to praise the work of denzel washington as Alonzo Harris, and explained how the co-star added an interesting element to the cop’s image that hadn’t been seen before. However, the film had to fit into certain “commandments” of productions of the genre.

“Even in Training Dayneed to have [a grande cena de] shooting at the end,” he continued. “There are certain things about a crime thriller that you simply have to have or the audience isn’t going to feel good.” However, that doesn’t detract from the film’s quality, according to Hawke.

How the rest turned out to be so strong, it kind of trumped the genre, in a way, I felt.