Ever wonder who would play you if they made a movie of your life? Perhaps George Clooney, or maybe Brad Pitt? Or—ooh!—Diego Luna! Okay, they're all passing. Hmm, how about Ethan Hawke? This is the dilemma that some Brooklyn cops are facing in the wake of the just released Brooklyn's Finest, and they are not happy, according to the Post. "I just wish once they would do a story about a guy who comes in and does an honest day's work, but that would never sell," says retired 33-year Brooklyn homicide detective Louis Savarese, and he's right on the money. You know who's also right on the money? Ex-MTA worker Michael Martin, who wrote the screenplay, and is presumably rollin' in it.
The Brooklyn-filmed movie, by Antoine Fuqua (the director of Training Day) depicts cops who have succumbed to corruption and indifference (like that movie Training Day). But according to Savarese, although it's naive to think that no cops are like that, "it's less than 1 percent." The retired officer even goes as far as to say: "I'm retired, but if I saw something going down today, I'd take action. It's in my blood."
The Post interviewed cops who see the film as nothing more than "an attempt at cop-bashing" by "liberal Hollywood." But screenwriter Martin doesn't see it that way: "Every police officer thinks they'll put a badge and a uniform on and change the city. Then they face this harsh reality." As we all know, if any entity dictates the harsh reality of NYC life, it's the MTA.
