OVER BLACK CRAFT LANE
3 evidence notes grounded in reviewed screenplay scenes.
Training Day (2001)
Rookie ride-along / Alonzo rules tutorial
The ride-along structure turns corruption into onboarding. Alonzo does not merely break rules; he teaches the rookie which rules actually govern the street.
Read the reviewed scene →Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening idol temple / traps, exchange, escape
The opening works because every threshold teaches both Indy’s competence and his limits. The temple is a chain of tests where expertise, betrayal, and luck keep repricing the room.
Read the reviewed scene →Batman Begins (2005)
League training / fear theatricalized into discipline
The origin works when fear becomes a craft system. Training does not merely toughen Bruce; it gives him the theatrical grammar that later becomes Batman.
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