End of Watch
End of Watch is a 2012 American action thriller film written and directed by David Ayer. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, two Los Angeles Police Department officers who work in South Central Los Angeles. The film focuses on their day-to-day police work, their dealings with a certain group of gang members, their friendship with each other, and their personal relationships.
| Directed by | |||
| Produced by |
|
||
| Written by | David Ayer
|
||
| Screenplay by |
 screenplay by
|
||
| Story by |
story by
|
||
| Based on |
based on
|
||
| Starring | |||
| Narrated by |
narrated by
|
||
| Music by | |||
| Cinematography | |||
| Edited by | |||
| Animation by |
animation by
|
||
| Layouts by |
layouts by
|
||
| Backgrounds by |
backgrounds by
|
||
| Color process |
color process
|
||
| Production company |
|
||
| Distributed by | |||
| Release date |
|
||
| Running time | 109 minutes
|
||
| Country | United States
|
||
| Language | English
|
||
| Budget | $7–15 million
|
||
| Box office | $57.6 million
|
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Type |
type
|
||
| Class |
class
|
||
| Theme |
theme
|
||
| Tone |
tone
|
||
| Mood |
mood
|
Brian Taylor: I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I *can* be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.
- In the trailer when they are speaking Spanish before they drink they say "Arriba, abajo, al centro, y padentro" which loosely translates as "up, down, to the center and drink".
- Most of the crude banter between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña was improvised by the two.
- The Spanish graffiti on the wall of the house with the dismembered corpses reads "Hey fags! Keep sending people, HA HA HA!"
- When Zavala mentions "Badge Bunnies" to Taylor, he is talking about women who like cops for being a cop, reasons can include the uniform, the badge, or whatever comes with the job. It's a true phenomenon and every station has their local badge bunnies... and a warning to stay away from them.
- As part of their training, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña spent five months doing 12-hour ride-alongs with on-duty LAPD officers. During Gyllenhaal's first ride-along, he witnessed a murder.
More...
This page is the FamousFix profile for End of Watch. Content on this page is contributed by editors who belong to our editorial community. We welcome your contributions... so please create an account if you would like to collaborate with other editor's in helping to shape this website.
On the End of Watch page you will be able to add and update factual information, post media and connect this topic to other topics on the website. This website does skew towards famous actors, musicians, models and sports stars, however we would like to expand that to include many other interesting topics.