Monday, April 13, 2015
Protagonist in the movie Training Day
The movie I chose to identify the protagonist in was Trainig Day. In Training Day the leading character or protagonist in the movie is the character is Alonzo Harris which is played by Denzel Washington. Alonzo is a veteran detective in the LAPD, who is assigned to train a rookie named Jake Hoyt. However in th movie Jake thinks he is going to be trained to be an honest and courageous police detective, little does he know that Alonzo is the leader of a group full of dirty agents. Alonzo is in debt with the Russian Mafia, so to get the money to pay off his debts, Alonzo goes around robbing the drug dealers and the plugs. While Alonzo is robbing these dealers he is also teaching Jake how to do the same, but Jake doesn't want to be dirty. Alonzo decides it's time to have Jake killed and move on with his life; However Alonzo never expects Jake to turn the tables on him and unite the dealers and gang memebers he has been robbing and bullying for so long. There is not many times where the protagonist of the movie is actually the movie's main villian.
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Interesting, especially since we often like the protagonist to be the hero. Can a villain be a hero? Is there anything heroic about Alonzo?
ReplyDeleteTraining day was a good movie! Not used to seeing the great Denzel playing the role of the bad guy buy it made for top notch entertainment. I think the protagonist was Jake though. He was opposed to everything that Alonzo was about and ended up trying to right the wrongs that Alonzo created.
ReplyDeleteThis movie is amazing!!!!!!!! it is actually one of my favorites as well, but I also agree that Jake was the protagonist as well. Only because he changed the script on Alonzo and should him that he can play his cards a little bit better than he can.
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