![]() That said, there are strong performances and two or three house-raising comic set pieces. Sympathetic it may be, but it never cuts deep moreover, the camera spends far longer gazing at the women's stage acts than it does recording their feelings of degradation. For the most part, the film follows Spike Lee's Girl 6 and the post-feminist consensus in defending sex workers' professional choices according to the control they maintain over their acts while acknowledging at least some of the constant sexual, economic and personal pressures involved. The 'girls' occupy centre frame: Diana 'Diamond' Armstrong (LisaRaye), using the night work to support a young son and pay her way through journalism college, and Ronnie (Wilson) and Tricks (Givens), sour lifers who amuse themselves corrupting new recruits, including Diamond's gullible young cousin Ebony (Calhoun). Tricks & Dollar Bill (the club's owner) come to check on her (w/hilarious commentary from Lil Man, the doorman) until the police arrive to take Ronnie & Tricks into custody for their involvement in Ebony's rape.Ice Cube's first foray behind the camera as writer/director combines a cautionary tale of greed, folly and brutality at a Southern black strip club with an account of one fresh intern's triumph over the joint's stacked odds. ![]() ![]() After a back & forth, they begin a brutal catfight, in which Diamond prevails over the larger Ronnie, leaving her bloodied & knocked out. Actress LisaRaye McCoy said that she suffered from an identity crisis after playing the stripper Diamond in the 1998 film The Players Club. Diamond & Blue arrive, clear out the dressing room, & Diamond instructs him to guard the door while she confronts Ronnie. ![]() In the meantime, Ronnie makes it to the club w/intentions of lying & saying that it was her alibi all night. & her love interest, hesitantly comes to check on Ebony & breaks down at the sight of her abandoned & abused cousin, telling Blue to call for help. Ronnie comes back to see the party ending, checks on Ebony & flips out at her unconscious naked body. Junior goes in the back, turns off the lights, & proceeds to rape & brutally assault Ebony the sounds of which cause the party to empty out. One of the party guests, Reggie (who earlier tried to pick up Ebony for a train w/his friend Clyde) convinces Junior to go in the back & seduce Ebony while Clyde took Ronnie outside to smoke weed. A call to Diamond doesn't get her help, as their relationship is soured due to her emulation of Ronnie. Diamond being stalked by weirdo guy in the strip club. Diamond passed out drunk getting licked licked by Roni. So on the night of the party, Ebony is in the backroom while all the men are waiting & Ronnie is coaching her to perform. Ratings: Players Club, even though it was funny at times, was a dark movie. However, the truth was every other woman asked had firmly turned it down. As she busted her cousin for attending a similar party w/Ronnie, she was fearful of the worst.įast forward to the climax, where Ronnie manipulates Ebony into being the dancer at her little brother Junior's bachelor party under the guise that she wouldn't be the lone girl there. At this one party of all women clients, Diamond got wasted past sound consciousness & Ronnie raped her. Apparently, Ronnie once had Diamond along for her side gig of moonlighting as an escort (w/ clients' genders left ambiguous). During this time, we get a flashback from Diamond that answers the reason for her fallout w/Ronnie. Later, when Diamond's 18-year-old cousin, Ebony, comes to stay w/her (w/her intentions of working at the club), Ronnie, knowing it would get under Diamond's skin, immediately latches on to Ebony & begins manipulating/corrupting her. When Diana, now know as Diamond, first starts, Ronnie takes her under her wing for a period of time until Diamond abruptly breaks from her. She persuaded the film's protagonist, Diana, into quitting her shoe store job & working at the club for more money. Ronnie, along w/her friend/partner-in-crime Tricks, is the HBIC among the ranks of the dancers at the Players Club. Greedy, Self-centered, Manipulative Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) is the main antagonist of the 1998 movie The Players Club. ![]()
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