Robert is a widower who lives in a stripped-down apartment and shows certain obsessive-compulsive tendencies (a routine with a teabag) and can't sleep at night. In the adaptation by Richard Wenk ( 16 Blocks, The Expendables 2), Robert works as a companionable employee at a Home Depot-style box store where he's a good buddy with the other staff and rides the bus (Woodward's Robert McCall drove a Jag). The most important part of the adaptation is that the hero Robert McCall's social status has been downgraded. Giving Denzel two meshing sides to his persona – the reserved and noble, and the calculating and violent – is a good fit.
THE EQUALIZER 2014 MOVIE
The movie is adapted from an eighties television series, starring English actor Edward Woodward as a kind of modern knight, a retired intelligence officer who helps people in trouble, which in turn was modelled on the sixties series Have Gun – Will Travel. Denzel, out there making things more Equal.Ī sequel to The Equalizer, a Sequelizer if you like, is already in the works, and while Denzel may seem a little mature to be kicking off a new movie franchise, there's a current movie vogue for sexagenarians kicking butt: Sixty-two-year-old Liam Neeson is planning his third Taken movie next year, Pierce Brosnan, 61, just did the action flick The November Man, and Sly Stallone, 68, is still stripping down and strapping on in The Expendables series.īring on the sequel please, because, as fine as Denzel is, director Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer is not so good – a self-consciously stylized, stop-and-start hodgepodge of Death Wish street vengeance, Bond-style Russian villainy, and moodily shot Boston locale. Denzel Washington turns 60 this year and the release of The Equalizer seems as good a time as any to consider the Meaning of Denzel: the screen's most prominent African-American leading man of the past 30 years, with his reserved manner and stony gaze and disarming overbite.
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