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Players club diamond and ronnie4/25/2024 Ronnie accepts the offer and proceeds to assault Diamond, the flashback encourages Diana to protect Ebony. The men at the private party offers to pay Ronnie to perform cunnilingus on Diamond who has passed out on the bed drunk. Diana tries to warn Ebony to stay away from "those two" and quit doing house parties, but Ebony declines being told what to do, choosing to ignore Diana's advice.Īfter the heated confrontation, Diana has a flashback of a time when she was at a private party with Ronnie and Tricks. After listening to Dolla's rendition of "The Strippin' Game", she starts working at the club.Įbony is soon out of control, excessively drinking, staying out all night and influenced more and more by Ronnie and Tricks who encourage Ebony to do more out-of-club parties for groups of men. Everything is fine until four years into the game, her younger lost-minded cousin Ebony Armstrong (Monica Calhoun) comes to live with her. They convince Diana she would make better money stripping, by saying, "Use what you got to get what you want."ĭolla Bill gives Diana a job, giving her the name Diamond. She narrates that she used to work at the club and begun when she moved out of her parents home after an argument with her father as she was pregnant with her son.ĭiana ends up working at a shoe store, when she meets Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) and Tricks (Adele Givens), who work for Dolla Bill (Bernie Mac) at The Players Club. The scene's effect depends on the way Wilson plays it a less convincing performance, and we wouldn't buy it.Plot Spoiler Warning: The following contains important plot details of the entire film.ĭiana "Diamond" Armstrong (LisaRaye) arrives at the scene of the raunchy, dysfunctional Players Club. (Slapping one officer on the behind with a paddle, she says, "That's one more for Rodney King.") The scene develops interestingly: At first we think Ronnie may be in danger, and when we see she knows what she's doing, Ice Cube resists the temptation to go for a comic put-down of the agents and stays instead with the real tension of the tables being turned. Ronnie knows these guys from earlier parties and plays the role of dominatrix. The movie has strong scenes for all its major characters, including a boozy afterhours party thrown by some federal agents who hire Ronnie and some of the other girls as strippers. And then a strong underpinning of economic reality, as Diana works hard to pay her bills and is encouraged by a professor after she finds herself falling asleep in class. There's the documentary stuff, the crime story, Diana's shaky romance with a new boyfriend, Ebony's problems, and comic relief from the stylized dialogue of Dollar Bill and his doorman, L'il Man (A.J. What's interesting about "The Players Club" is how it moves through various tones and kinds of material. Ice Cube uses strong dramatic intercutting to build suspense in a scene where Ebony, hired as a dancer at a bachelor party, is uneasy to find there aren't any other girls there. She wants to keep Ebony away from the club, but "Ebony jumped head-first into the lifestyle," and soon Diana, who has drawn the line at prostitution, finds that Ebony treats it more like a career goal. (A lot of people get shot at in the movie, but I don't think anyone ever quite gets killed.) Problems for Diana begin when Ebony ( Monica Calhoun), her 18-year-old cousin, comes to stay with her. Louis wants his money, Dollar Bill doesn't have it, and at one point Bill is inside a car trunk, and we think we know what has to happen next, but the action tilts toward farce rather than tragedy. Louis, a gangster who is owed a lot of money by Dollar Bill ( Bernie Mac), the club's fast-talking owner. Onto this semi-documentary material is grafted a crime story involving the mysterious St. "The first dance is degrading," Ronnie ( Chrystale Wilson) tells her, "but you get used to it." Her advice: Don't look at the customers, look at yourself in the mirror. The film is knowledgeable about details of the clubs: the camaraderie of the dancers, the flamboyance of the owner and grandiloquence of the doorman, the way the bartenders and the disc jockey keep an eye on the action, and the needy absorption of the customers. They are correct, but the money comes at a price. Then she meets Tricks and Ronnie, two dancers at the Players Club, who tell her there are ways to make a lot more money. Pregnant and jobless, she moves away from home, gets a job in a shoe store and is fairly happy until her child's father wants "more space," and abandons her. The movie stars a convincing newcomer named LisaRaye as Diana, who has a fight with her father over what college to attend.
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