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Detective Alonzo Harris is a condecorated [[Los Angeles Police Department]] narcotics officer who has worked for over thirteen years on the streets. However, works with controversial and radical methods, and is one of the most feared agents due to their corruption, that can afford it, as it is exalted by their corrupt leaders. It is a selfish and interested man, who does anything for money and lacks empathy. He has a [[mistress]] and a [[son]], but they do not care him much. |
Detective Alonzo Harris is a condecorated [[Los Angeles Police Department]] narcotics officer who has worked for over thirteen years on the streets. However, works with controversial and radical methods, and is one of the most feared agents due to their corruption, that can afford it, as it is exalted by their corrupt leaders. It is a selfish and interested man, who does anything for money and lacks empathy. He has a [[mistress (lover)|mistress]] and a [[son]], but they do not care him much. |
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He owes money to the [[Russian mafia]] to be settled soon, otherwise he would be killed by the mafia members. Alonzo comes up with a plan when must evaluate the young officer Jake Hoyt. He forces Jake to smoke [[marijuana]] (with [[Phencyclidine|PCP]]) on the ground that if it withdraws from the plan, was expelled from the department. |
He owes money to the [[Russian mafia]] to be settled soon, otherwise he would be killed by the mafia members. Alonzo comes up with a plan when must evaluate the young officer Jake Hoyt. He forces Jake to smoke [[marijuana]] (with [[Phencyclidine|PCP]]) on the ground that if it withdraws from the plan, was expelled from the department. |
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Jake attempts to arrest Alonzo, but a gunfight ensues. Alonzo tries to get the crowd on his side by offering a reward to whoever kills Jake, but they have grown tired of Alonzo's arrogance and allow Jake to walk away with the money. |
Jake attempts to arrest Alonzo, but a gunfight ensues. Alonzo tries to get the crowd on his side by offering a reward to whoever kills Jake, but they have grown tired of Alonzo's arrogance and allow Jake to walk away with the money. |
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Alonzo tries to escape via [[Los Angeles International Airport]], but he is killed by the Russian mafia. |
Alonzo tries to escape via [[Los Angeles International Airport]], but he is killed by the Russian mafia. |
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== Casting == |
== Casting == |
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Revision as of 17:44, 30 July 2014
| Det. Alonzo Harris | |
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| Training Day character | |
| File:Alonzo Harris TD 2001.jpg | |
| First appearance | Training Day |
| Created by | David Ayer |
| Portrayed by | Denzel Washington |
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| Occupation | LAPD Narcotics officer |
| Nationality | American |
Detective Alonzo Harris is the main antagonist in the 2001 film Training Day. He is portrayed by American actor Denzel Washington. For his performance, Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor.[1]
Character
Detective Alonzo Harris is a condecorated Los Angeles Police Department narcotics officer who has worked for over thirteen years on the streets. However, works with controversial and radical methods, and is one of the most feared agents due to their corruption, that can afford it, as it is exalted by their corrupt leaders. It is a selfish and interested man, who does anything for money and lacks empathy. He has a mistress and a son, but they do not care him much.
He owes money to the Russian mafia to be settled soon, otherwise he would be killed by the mafia members. Alonzo comes up with a plan when must evaluate the young officer Jake Hoyt. He forces Jake to smoke marijuana (with PCP) on the ground that if it withdraws from the plan, was expelled from the department.
Alonzo and Jake later apprehend a wheelchair-bound drug dealer named Blue and find crack rocks and a loaded handgun on him. In exchange for his freedom, Blue reveals his associate: Kevin "Sandman" Miller, imprisoned at the time. Alonzo takes Jake to Sandman's home in Watts where he uses a fake search warrant to steal drug money from the premises. Sandman's wife, however, notices and calls out to the nearby armed gang members who open fire, but they escape.
Then Alonzo met his bosses, The Three Wise Men. They know that Alonzo owes money to the Russian mafia. Alonzo says that he has a plan and that will return the money to the mafia. Alonzo, Jake and his associates fo to Roger's home, a drug dealer and a former police officer. Alonzo steals a lot of money from underneath the floor of Roger's kitchen and kills him.
Later arranges the scene to appear like a justified shooting. Jake refuses the idea but Alonzo tells him that the LAPD will run a blood test on Jake, the result of which he can falsify in exchange for Jake's cooperation. Jake reluctantly agrees.
Alonzo betrays Jake and pay Smiley to kill him. That night, Alonzo must pay to the Russian mob for killing one of their couriers in Las Vegas or be killed himself. Smiley frees him because the young officer helped his cousin when she was to be raped.
Jake attempts to arrest Alonzo, but a gunfight ensues. Alonzo tries to get the crowd on his side by offering a reward to whoever kills Jake, but they have grown tired of Alonzo's arrogance and allow Jake to walk away with the money.
Alonzo tries to escape via Los Angeles International Airport, but he is killed by the Russian mafia.
Casting
Before Denzel Washington was to play the role, the producers considered and offered it to white actors Gary Sinise and Tom Sizemore but passed. Later, the producers were interested in that Bruce Willis play the role, but dropped down.[2]
When Davis Guggenheim was set to direct the film, Alonzo would be played by African-American actor Samuel L. Jackson. Later Denzel Washington was confirmed as Alonzo Harris and director Antoine Fuqua was in replacement of Guggenheim.[2]
Reception
Denzel Washington's performance as Detective Alonzo Harris was highly praised by critics. Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert said: "Washington seems to enjoy a performance that's over the top and down the other side". [3] In the Village Voice, Amy Taubin expressed: "Training Day, Antoine Fuqua's propulsive, elegantly written police thriller, offers the unsettling spectacle of Denzel Washington, whose old-fashioned combination of decency and sexiness suggests the African American counterpart to Gregory Peck (in his To Kill a Mockingbird period), as an LAPD cop so evil he makes Harvey Keitel's bad lieutenant look like even smaller potatoes than he was meant to be". [4]
He won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor.
In 2002, he received the Black Reel Award for Best Actor, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and surprisingly the Academy Award for Best Actor, beating out Russell Crowe as John Forbes Nash in A Beautiful Mind.[1]
He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (losing the two to Russell Crowe) and the Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama (losing to Brian Cox in L.I.E.).