History Trivia / TrainingDay

* AwardCategoryFraud: Denzel Washington won the Oscar Best Actor for his performance in the same year that Creator/HalleBerry won Best Actress for ''Film/MonstersBall'', thus becoming the first pair of black Leads to win awards in the same year. However, Ethan Hawke is ''Training Day'''s protagonist, not Denzel.

* ActingInTheDark: During the scene when Jake plays cards with the Latino gangsters, Creator/AntoineFuqua gave certain instructions to the actors playing the gangsters, without telling Creator/EthanHawke. This was done to further confuse him and add to the tension of the scene.

** A scene was filmed that reveals Alonzo wasn't always corrupt. Alonzo and Jake drive to a house belonging to a man called Spooky. Alonzo tells Jake that during his second week on patrol as an LAPD cop he pulled up outside Spooky's house and he witnessed an old man called Tufine beating a dog with a garden hose. Alonzo wanted to get out of the car and do something about it, but his partner wouldn't let him because Spooky paid Tufine to beat the dog to teach it to hate colored people. Alonzo adds he'd almost quit and felt like getting on a bus and go home.

* DiedDuringProduction: Creator/BillPaxton passed away on February 2017 due to complications from surgery. The production team has since stated that another actor will not be casted as Frank Roarke (though due to the show's already flagging ratings, Paxton's death was likely just the final nail in the show's coffin).

* KilledByRequest: The film originally ended with Alonzo being a KarmaHoudini, but Creator/DenzelWashington insisted that he get his comeuppance.

** Creator/TobeyMaguire was seriously considered for the part of Officer Jake Hoyt. He even followed Undercover Narcotics officers in Los Angeles for two months and gained weight for the role. He was dropped when Creator/EthanHawke, Fuqua's first choice, was finally available for the shooting schedule. Music/{{Eminem}} was offered the role, but he was busy with ''Film/EightMile''. Had he accepted the role, he would've shared scenes with Music/SnoopDogg and his mentor Music/DrDre.
** Antoine Fuqua wanted Creator/MickeyRourke to play Roger, but the studio turned him down. Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/RyanPhillippe, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr, Creator/ScottSpeedman, Creator/PaulWalker and Creator/MarkWahlberg were also considered.

** Creator/TobeyMaguire was seriously considered for the part of Officer Jake Hoyt. He even followed Undercover Narcotics officers in Los Angeles for two months and gained weight for the role. He was dropped when Creator/EthanHawke, Fuqua's first choice, was finally available for the shooting schedule.
** Antoine Fuqua wanted Creator/MickeyRourke to play Roger, but the studio turned him down.
** Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/RyanPhillippe and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for Jake Hoyt. Music/{{Eminem}} was offered the role, but he was busy with ''Film/EightMile''. Had he accepted the role, he would've shared scenes with Music/SnoopDogg and his mentor Music/DrDre.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/BillPaxton passed away on February 2017 due to complications from surgery. The production team has since stated that another actor will not be casted as Frank Roarke (though due to the show's already flagging ratings, Paxton's death was likely just the final nail in the show's coffin).

** Creator/GarySinise, Creator/TomSizemore and Creator/BruceWillis were offered the role of Alonzo Harris.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: David Ayer wrote the first draft in 1995, way before the Rampart Scandal made headlines in 1998. In the first draft, Alonzo was a Latino officer in charge of drug enforcement in the gang infested area of Pico-Union within the Rampart Division. He was a loner and didn't have any partner because of his reputation as a corrupt and racist cop. But the basics elements of the character were there: he wears expensive jewelry and drives a 1979 Monte Carlo.

** Creator/ChristianBale and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for Jake Hoyt. Music/{{Eminem}} was offered the role, but he was busy with ''Film/EightMile''. Had he accepted the role, he would've shared scenes with Music/SnoopDogg and his mentor Music/DrDre.

* AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
** #50 Villain, Detective Alonzo Harris

* ActingInTheDark: During the scene when Jake plays cards with the Latino gangsters, director Antoine Fuqua gave certain instructions to the actors playing the gangsters, without telling Creator/EthanHawke. This was done to further confuse him and add to the tension of the scene.

* WagTheDirector: A positive example. The film originally ended with Alonzo being a KarmaHoudini, but Creator/DenzelWashington insisted that he get his comeuppance.

** Before Antoine Fuqua was involved in the project, Davis Guggenheim was set to direct with Creator/SamuelLJackson as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris and Creator/MattDamon as rookie Officer Jake Hoyt. When Creator/DenzelWashington accepted the role as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris, Guggenheim was replaced per his request.

** Creator/GarySinise and Creator/BruceWillis were offered the role of Alonzo Harris.

* TheOtherMarty: Esai Morales was originally cast as Smiley, but was re-cast due to scheduling.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/TerryCrews plays an uncredited role as a gangster. He was originally doing security for the movie, but Antoine Fuqua invited him in front of the camera and later kept asking him back.

** Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/GarySinise and Creator/TomSizemore were offered the role of Alonzo but passed.

* ActorAllusion: Eddie Shin previously played a Japanese-American character in the TV version of Man in the High Castle.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Bill Paxton passed away on February 2017 due to complications from surgery. The production team has since stated that another actor will not be casted as Frank Roarke (though due to the show's already flagging ratings, Paxton's death was likely just the final nail in the show's coffin).

** Creator/ChristianBale and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for Jake Hoyt. Music/{{Eminem}} was offered the role, but he was busy with ''Film/EightMile''. Had he accepted the role, he would've shared scenes with Music/SnoopDogg and his mentor Dr. Dre.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Bill Paxton passed away on February 2017 due to complications from surgery. As such, the production team that another actor will not be casted as Frank Roarke.

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* RaceLift: RaceLift/MixedRaceOrMiscellaneous: The TV series has Creator/BillPaxton as white [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] [[CorruptCop cop]] Det. Frank Rourke and newcomer Justin Cornwell as black [[NaiveNewcomer naive]] StraightArrow Kyle Craig.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: When the movie came out, many viewers and critics were skeptical of the scenes where Jake Hoyt smokes marijuana laced with PCP and Alonzo's explanation of how a cop who didn't take drugs offered to him on the street would be ID'd as police and murdered. David Ayer responded in an interview by holding up a highlighted section of the LAPD's rules and regulations; it stated that officers were allowed to use narcotics in very specific undercover situations, and hewed closely to what Alonzo told Jake.

* RevisedEnding: An alternate ending had Jake getting a visit from The Three Wise Men.