National Security (2003)
National Security is a 2003 American buddy cop action comedy film, directed by Dennis Dugan, and starring Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn. The supporting cast includes Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Colm Feore, and Matt McCoy.[1]
Plot
Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in. After confronting each other on opposite sides of the law during a traffic stop that escalates out of control, these two luckless individuals end up partnered as lowly security guards. Despite being damned to the lowest rung of the law enforcement ladder, Earl and Hank uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation led by Nash and his band of thugs. When Earl and Hank get their hands on some hot property, they go on the run from, first the bad guys, then the L.A.P.D.--led by Lt. Washington and Detective McDuff. What these two unlikely partners do to law enforcement is a crime, but they just might save the day. That is, if they don't kill each other first.[2]
Controversy
The movie jokes are really based on race, particularly the Earl comments which are either laments on the victimization of his race or reverse-racism remarks that border on the offensive and would certainly never be allowed to pass if the lines had been given to his white co-star.[3] Earl himself always explaining why white people expect black people to act as bad as possible, while himself defend by mocking white people and it makes thing worse, here is some example :
Hank: Do you know how to hot wire a car?
Earl: what, you think because i'm black I can hot wire a car
Hank: Well can you?
Earl: Yeah! but not because I'm Black
And there is a scene where Earl found himself in trouble reaching his car keys but suspected as robbing the car by a white police, later then a bumblebee shown up and mess up the scene, someone record it and got it on the news. The news also giving a scene of black community protesting because of the recordings.[4]
