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Training Day
Training Day
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Memorable Movie Quotes
Alonzo Harris: To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.
Alonzo Harris: I run shit here! Y'all just live here!
Alonzo Harris: It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.
Alonzo Harris: Why don't you entertain me with some of your bullshit.
Jake Hoyt: That is the second time you have pointed a gun at me, there will not be a third.
Bone: Jake, go ahead and bounce, homey. Get up out of here. We got your back.
Trivia
The coffee shop in the beginning of the movie (which was, incidentally, the first scene shot) is the same shop that was used in Se7en in the scene where Morgan Freeman meets Gwyneth Paltrow to talk. In the window in both movies, the writing reads "Quality Cafe". The Quality Cafe is also used in Gone in Sixty Seconds, Ghost World and Catch Me If You Can.
This film marks the first time LA street gangs allowed cameras to be brought into the Imperial Courts neighborhood.
Alonzo's car is a 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo, with some modifications: it has Dayton wire wheels with bullet caps; a Grant steering wheel; Flowmaster exhaust; and hydraulics. Added to this, the car is outfitted with a sunroof, which that era's Monte Carlos never had.
Before Antoine Fuqua was involved in the project, David Guggenheim was set to direct with Samuel L. Jackson as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris and Matt Damon as rookie Officer Jack Hoyt.
Tobey Maguire was seriously considered for the part of Officer Jack Hoyt. He even followed Undercover Narcotics officers in Los Angeles for two months and gained pounds for the role. He was dropped when Ethan Hawke, Fuqua's first choice, was finally available for the shooting schedule.
The original ending of the script was Hoyt crashing the pad of Alonzo's girlfriend and find his training officer in the middle of an orgy with two young women. Hoyt shows him the money that Smiley was supposed to deliver to the Russians and tells him that there is a crew of hit men looking all over for him. Alonzo then commits suicide in front of Hoyt.
Famous crime novelist and LAPD specialist James Ellroy described the movie as "a complete waste of time".
The film had several police technical advisors. Among them is Detective-Sergeant Brian Davis, an LAPD veteran who is one of the most respected and decorated officer of the infamous elite Special Investigation Section.
Cle Shaheed Sloan, the gang technical advisor of Training Day, managed to get on screen real-life gang members from Rollin' 60 Crips, PJ Watts Crips and B.P.Stones Bloods.
Denzel Washington has frequently said that Detective Alonzo Harris is his favorite character that he's played.
Goofs
When Alonzo's car is wrecked, it hits two cars - one in the rear and one head on. When he is seen later driving the same car, it is completely repaired.
After the raid, they're supposed to claim that Roger shot one of Alonzo's men. Alonzo definitely tells the guys that the shooting took place straight after the door was kicked down; i.e. at the very start of the raid. In the few minutes between getting shot and the backup arriving, how do they explain the big hole in the kitchen and the digging up of the money?
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $45,000,000
Opening Weekend $22,550,788 (October 7, 2001)
Gross $76,261,036
Weekend Gross $71,321
Production Date: January 11, 2001 to April 2001
Filming Locations
Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Crenshaw, Los Angeles, California, USA
Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hawthorne, California, USA
Imperial Courts Housing Project, Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA
Interstate 105, Inglewood, California, USA
Interstate 110, Los Angeles, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mona Boulevard, Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Pacific Dining Car, Santa Monica, California, USA
South Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA