It's crazy cheadle played ROCKET on the movie COLORS....id like to see rocket come out of him in this scene because denzel's character is annoying sometimes and he need a gangsta to put him in check prison style haha😂😂😂😂
Such a subtle little hint that he’s jonesing when he asks for cinnamon buns. He hasn’t had a drink in a while and his body is craving sugar to compensate. It’s always why he’s so irritable and paranoid. His body is used to such a depressed state that even a few hours without a drink and he’s amped up. It feels like a constant anxiety attack.
That alone deserves jail time though he deserves to detox until he doesn't crave it. You cannot be that irresponsible with your bodies chemicals as a pilot while having thousands of lives at stake each flight.
That's exactly how I felt when I stopped consuming sugary drinks or eating hardly any carbs suddenly, and getting ample sleep. For about 3.5 days I was REALLY anxious, felt like I wanted to jump out of my skin, BUT I also didn't feel like actually doing anything, it was very uncomfortable. It did end up making me more committed to getting away from bad food and processed crap because anything that makes you feel that bad NOT having it can't be any good to be consuming.
@@godofhate4167 …. So hypothetically according to you, somebody who holds a position which involves public safety deserves to go to prison if they have a proclivity to consume alcohol even if they only consume that alcohol in their free time on off days? What happened to your critical thinking skills?
@@SP-qo1so Lmao were not talking about weekend drinking, but sure, if your critically hungover and chemically unbalanced I dont think you should be practicing law, or flying over 1000 passengers, even enforcing the law, or anything retaining to people lives such as a bus driver. Are you on the job when you drink? Is that ok in your world? It's called being impaired in mine, it effects every part of your brain. Lets not forget this movie is fake and is in no way shape actually scientifically accurate. So Bro are you seriously arguing for drinking on the job? Again, let's use judges for example, judges who get arrested for driving drunk get their license to pratice revoked. Most judges have to step down. Does that make sense to your little brain that holds very little common sense? When peoples lives are at stake you're not allowed to be fked up, you get fired. Plain and simple.
Black men don’t respect other black men with Better careers especially lawyers. A white lawyer makes you look good in court it’s so sad this country 🇺🇸
Not really... it’s a pretty fascinating plot. A drunk, drug-addled pilot with addiction problems faces possible felonious charges for flying a plane while intoxicated... despite saving almost everyone on board.
I know. It p!sses me off when people say he is like De Niro. In the sense he ALWAYS plays the same character, De Niro does play the same character in EVERY single movie. Washington doesn't he is one of if not the best actor in the world. Yes I'm a fanboy but the man is incredible, he legit made me root for the villain in Training Day. No other villain has made me do that lol
Denzel changed his tune when dude brought up those blood test reports 😂🤣, Denzel knew where he was going with that, that's why got all nervous and order those buns he knew wasn't going eat.
Ahh...plead guilty. After that flight, life is a gift. And he got to act with Don Cheadle. " We didn't land on a jet airplane, a jet airplane landed on us".
@@thesavagetaxman846 You're correct in the typical case, and banning alcohol while operating a plane certainly makes sense as a standing rule. But I'm going to make a bullshit semantic argument anyway, because I'm a nerd on the internet and this is my thing. :-p The one thing that alcohol does that was potentially helpful is lower your inhibitions. What I mean is, in the situation depicted, what saved (most of) the passengers was a are-you-out-of-your-mind out-of-the-box solution. Denzel's character was more likely to have came up with such a solution with his inhibitions lowered. Computer programmers like me know this as the "Ballmer Peak", i.e. your programming ability is maximized when your BAC is a bit HIGHER than 0 %. Not to say we drink on the job; the potential for abuse far outweighs any potential Balmer Peak benefits, and it would be bloody impossible to calibrate properly.
This is easily one of the best scenes in the movie. Flows like a real conversation, especially Washington and Cheadle. A big reason why I think this movie is great.
Notice when the lawyer starts talking about his alcohol toxicity level, the camera starts to zoom in slowly and Denzel Washington's eyes start to dart around. He knows at that point his worst fears have been realized.
He was already determined to stop drinking after the crash, probably he felt guilty for few people who died. This scene is the beginning of him as a totally broken man inside out. The scene when he is driving and drinking really got me crying. Poor man struggling with his addiction but at same time got no one to support him
Guilty? Im sure the intoxication was vital for him to obtain the confidence and calmness needed to land a plane the way he did. He saved almost everyone.
I believe the point is drunk or sober this guy has skills and maybe even acted more accordingly with a few drinks in him. He didn’t panic. But he was also a Navy fighter pilot so may have kept his cool anyway. But I’m not condoning drunk flying. The guy had problems.
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@@kcoose5356 You are weak, that doesn't mean it's the way things are.
yep, it was the best part imo, asking for 2 warm Cinnabon buns, the character got nervous and his brain automatically and unconsciously asked for a fat/sugary meal in order to give a sense of warmth and security.
I love the way this scene is shot and edited. Long takes on Denzel even when the other actors are talking. No quick cuts between actors. It keeps the focus on how Denzel is reacting.
asking for 2 warm Cinnabon buns was pretty good too, he got nervous and his brain automatically and unconsciously asked for a fat/sugary meal in order to give a sense of warmth and security.
Brilliant acting. Typical alcoholic behavior when your caught: gaslight and redirect. When it all sinks in and he’s cornered, he says..”we need a bigger lawyer”. As if cheadles character has shown some incompetence, which he obviously has not. Its a distraction and an absurd request but pure alcoholic thinking. Just brilliant.
As a customer/passenger, I wouldn’t want to get into a taxi with a drunken driver, let’s alone an airplane. Now, whether the crash was taking place or not, he broke the laws and safety regulations for being intoxicated. And he was charged for that reason, not for the crash.
Considering that many airplane models go through upwards to decades of research and development(or are derived from military engineering) that operate alot, both for training and in various service roles(Freighting, passenger,etc) While in some cases planes really do break down, some even leading to catastrophic failure but ground crew/aviator problems are also a very real cause(For various reasons) It's not really unreasonable for the FAA to think that the pilot(who was hammered with vodka) would be responsible for crashing a plane. Even worse when they ask "Hey where did the bottles of booze go?" He tells them he had three bottles of vodka. Even if it is a legitmate plane issue(In maintenance as it typically is , a poorly designed plane seldom even gets off the ground let alone crashes) flying a passenger plane while drunk is illegal and rather crazy beyond any imagination
@@xxdomoxxkunxx Realistic or not, in this movie the plane was broken. That's the whole point. There's no ambiguity about why the plane went down. He didn't cause the accident, but his problems as a person and a pilot run deeper than the one flight in question.
@@xxdomoxxkunxx "In maintenance as it typically is , a poorly designed plane seldom even gets off the ground let alone crashes)" I got some Boeing 737 Max 8s here for sale. Real cheap. I got some MD-11s and DC-10s too.
It's funny seeing all of the passionate defense by commenters of Denzel's alcoholic heroics. Let's keep in mind that this is FICTION. In real life, pilots with .24 BACs don't heroically save lives. Calm TF down lol.
The plane was defective not the pilot and if it wasn't for his skill, ability and nerves of steel everybody on it would have died not just 6 six people and he is an alcoholic but the best pilot because saved all those people.
It's a case of being in a rock and a hard place for justifications. Guilty for drinking. Hero for skills and saving lives.. Both being hard facts. It's when laws and regulations start to fail as it isn't designed to deal with double edged cases where emotional and intrinsic values outweigh standards and logic. Which is why we have jury in court made of humans.
Well, it's tricky because he broke multiple laws by doing illegal drugs, and THEN going to work, which automatically endangers the life of the passengers and the way they'll see it, the plane just so happened to be defective, which made it worse. Overall, regardless of the lives he saved, he also endangered them by being under the influence.
@@kaizersolze yes, but in a law sense, he had already broken laws by being under the influence while going to work, and also injecting illegal substances. quite frankly, they don’t care about the good he did. the law rarely works that way
Everyone talks about Denzel in this movie and rightfully so, but Bruce Greenwood and Cheadle did an awesome job supporting in this movie. They helped solidify the concept of opposition that Whip was facing. Great movie, great actors.
A lawyer can only do so much when you're guilty, which his did. He found that they didn't do required maintenance on the machine, which would make the results invalid.
I don’t drink alcohol and I’m 21 plus it messes you up big time and for sure screw your life up if you have too much alcohol or drugs especially if your going to fly a plane or drive don’t do alcohol or drugs on your system!
Once again Denzel proves to most of us watching that he is an expert at his craft. Denzel and Don working side by side again after Devil in A blue dress. Denzel captivating addiction at its worst.
I had some liver issues a few years back and have had doctors ask me how many drinks I had the last week before and I would lie and say like four, and I have seen that exact reaction from Cheadle several times and they also repeat that back like “four times?”. That is so spot on. One of them telling me that usually when someone gives you that answer it’s a rule of thumb to multiply your response by three or four times. Once I started answering honestly is when I got proper medicines and help. This whole movie amazingly accurate.
Does he ask for the 2 cinnamon buns suddenly (he even says make that 2) because he is craving a drink in a high pressure situation, and a sugar fix is a quick substitute?
Not usually, but there are exceptions. In the US at least, pilots and crew of commercial airline agree that in the event of an accident their blood can be drawn immediately after an incident without their express consent. I suspect it's the same in most other countries.
NTSB can do as they did here- current limit is .04 to account for mouthwash and such. 8 hours bottle to throttle for part 91 ops- most airlines (Part 121) are 12 hours I got to paranoid with so many pilots getting nabbed by TSA that I stopped drinking day before trip and nothing on the road-
There's no way in hell that they'd be discussing such sensitive information in restaurant with other customers sitting within earshot. Matters like this would be discussed behind closed doors.
So true.. then at the hearing they put up the dead lady’s picture and wanted him to say it was her.. thrn he just said god help me and he’s drunk now at hearing and then while flying☹️☹️
The crazy look on Whitaker's face and demeanor on Hughes are you a Pilot 🙆then when he realises the toxicology samples have been taken now he Cowes down..it sinks in..lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
someone correct me, but were they trying to pin the plane crash on Whip because he was drunk? I dont see how him being drunk has anything to do with a mechanical failure. wouldnt that end up being the airlines fault?
The ends do not justify the means…BUT in this case I’ll make an exception. He did what he did drunk and drugged up what no other sober pilot could have done. And 6 people died instead of 102 people. In the end, that’s worth it.
The act of saving people and the act of drinking are completely unrelated. His heroism for saving them from an accident doesn't alleviate him of the guilt of putting the passengers at unnecessary risk.
Do you you guys know the movie name of Denzel, he is playing a serial killer and he is killing people from jail, ane cops don't know he spend 10 years digging the holes in the jail.
I love this scene. I think it was really interesting that Don Cheadle's character puts the blue folder thing on his plate, as if to say "I'm not here for the cinnamon buns, I'm here to work." Subtle but good detail!
@etru6 Theres merit to your opinion. When one goes on the dry, they aren't getting their sugar intake from alcohol so it must be substituted feom somewhere else.
