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Training? What’s that?

So it turns out that we’re watching Training Day this Friday on APTN. I’ve heard of this movie. Tough guy cop tries to make rookie cop a tough guy. There’s a lot of drugs and bad things happening in this movie. It kind of reminds me of the old days. The all or nothing days. Back when I perused back lanes for scraps of food and did what I could just to get by. Let me tell you, those things weren’t always pretty. But those days are behind me now that I’m shacked up with Chantelle and she’s pretty nice to me. She tries to “train” me but I can’t be trained or tamed. I’m a wild dog on the inside! You can take the dog out of the wild but you can’t take the wild out of the dog! I know things you couldn’t even begin to understand.

I could show you a thing or two on any training day, Chantelle! Just you see.

Well, thanks for watching. I hope I can actually eat some popcorn this time around.

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10. Feb, 2011
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With Kernel, Every Day is a Training Day

This week’s movie is one of those movies that when you find out someone hasn’t seen it yet you exclaim, “What?! You haven’t seen it?” It’s a great movie and when it was just released in 2001 it was nominated for many, many awards. One of which was an Oscar won by Denzel Washington for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards. Ethan Hawke was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the same awards show but unfortunately, didn’t get it. He does a great job in this movie though. Both of our main characters are very believable and intense.

The story of Training Day revolves around the veteran narcotics officer, LAPD detective Alonzo Harris (Washington) training the newcomer Jake Hoyt (Hawke) for the mean streets of LA. But not everything is what it seems and Harris is quick to teach that very fact to Hoyt.

Kernel claims he’s had to live and learn on the mean streets but I’m not quite sure I am ready to believe that, considering he hides from the pizza delivery guy. He also refuses to say that he’s “trained” by me… he’d rather I call it his “inspiration” for the way he behaves. He’s such a diva. Or is it divo? Or what would a diva dog be called?

He’s still a mystery to me.

Well, I hope you enjoy this week’s Friday Night Flick! I know I will.

You can join us again next Friday for What Happens in Vegas starring our favourite blonde bombshell Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher on February 18.

Thanks for tuning in!

Chantelle

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10. Feb, 2011
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Training Day Trivia

Training Day
Released: 2001


Starring
Denzel Washington as Det. Alonzo Harris
Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt
Scott Glenn as Roger
Tom Berenger as Stan Gursky
Harris Yulin as Doug Rosselli
Raymond J. Barry as Lou Jacobs
Cliff Curtis as Smiley


In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. Training Day follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt — is Harris’ methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs right or wrong?


Before Antoine Fuqua was involved in the project, Davis Guggenheim was set to direct with Samuel L. Jackson as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris and Matt Damon as rookie Officer Jack Hoyt. When Denzel Washington accepted the role as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris, Guggenheim was replaced per his request.


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.


Denzel Washington has frequently said that Detective Alonzo Harris is his favorite character that he’s played.


This movie is unique in Academy Awards history, in that it’s the only time an African-American, Denzel Washington, won the Best Actor Oscar as directed by a fellow African-American, Antoine Fuqua.

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07. Feb, 2011
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Training Day Bloopers

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07. Feb, 2011