Spoilers for Training Day: Denzel Washington says his character Alonzo was originally not supposed to die at the end of the film. However, he refused to play the character unless he suffered a brutal downfall. He explains why:
“It was the first time playing a quote-unquote bad guy. The bad guy has all the fun, because you could get away with doing anything.
One thing I made sure we changed right from the start—I said, ‘This guy has to die in the worst way.’
No, it was written that he lived. I said, ‘No, I can’t do the part like that. The only way I can justify being the worst guy is if he dies in the worst way.’
It wasn’t an accident that I wanted, when Ethan grabs me and punches me in the face, and I crawl on the floor like a snake, and the whole neighborhood turns against him, and then he gets his brains blown out. I wanted all of that.
Then I could be the nastiest guy in the world.
And women love that.”
Denzel Washington, TIFF Conversation with Antoine Fuqua (2014)
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This scene still hits different years later.
The Joker didn’t rob the bank for the money. He robbed it so he could gather every boss in one place and show them how fragile their little Empire really was.
It’s a masterclass in using spectacle as leverage. Create a crisis big enough that the people you want to talk to have no choice but to show up then own the room.
That’s the real flex. 🎥 🔥
We just lost another legend today 😔
Anime just lost a veteran behind Akira, Death Note, Naruto and today’s biggest isekai titles.
Director and animator Yūji Yanase has passed away at 59. His death was announced today by the production committees behind The Insipid Prince’s Furtive Grab for the Throne and The World’s Strongest Rearguard, two currently airing anime he directed. Their staffs expressed deep gratitude for his work and sorrow over his sudden passing.
Yanase spent decades working across nearly every level of anime production. His extensive credits included:
• Akira — In-Between Animation
• Death Note — Key Animation
• Hellsing — Animation Director
• Chobits — Animation Director
• Naruto: Shippuden — Episode Direction
• Pokémon XY — Episode Direction
• Macross 7 — Key Animation
• Aria the Animation — Animation Director
• Symphogear — Animation Director
• Saint Seiya Omega — Animation Director
He later became especially known as a series director, leading anime including In Another World With My Smartphone, If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord, By the Grace of the Gods, In the Land of Leadale, My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1, I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, and Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra. His directing career began with Himegoto in 2014.
His final chapter is especially bittersweet, with two series under his direction still airing when news of his passing was announced.
Rest in peace, Yūji Yanase. From animator to director, his work quietly became part of decades of anime history. 🕊️
You were never invisible, Max.
All he ever wanted was to be noticed. Instead, he was ignored until the very thing that made him feel seen turned him into Spider-Man’s greatest enemy.