Antoine Fuqua
5 titles · american genre
A rookie spends one shift being shown how policing actually works in Training Day, and by evening his training officer has made him complicit in most of it. Institutions that corrupt the people inside them are the standing subject, filmed in hard sunlight and handheld close-up. The later action films narrow to one competent man administering violence on behalf of somebody weaker, which The Equalizer does with a hardware store and a stopwatch.
Signature
- Institutional corruption examined from inside the ranks.
- Handheld, high-contrast urban photography.
- A single capable protagonist dispensing overdue justice.
- Star performances given room to dominate the frame.
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Earlier films these works draw on, and the films they went on to shape — each link checked to name a film that actually came first.