Why did this scene bother me so much? Two reasons. Now on to the meat and potatoes of this post. You can watch this scene as well and keep in mind that while it doesn’t show the sexual assault, hearing it may still be upsetting:īy the way, for anyone wondering why I bothered to describe the scenes if I was going to post links to them, it’s because users sometimes take videos down and not everyone will watch them anyway. Reggie says, “Ask Junior”, following it with a quote that perfectly punctuates the brutality of the scene. “Oh yeah. Unaffected, Reggie eyes the men funneling out of the room as if he doesn’t understand why they’re put off. Ronnie and Clyde return just as they’re exiting and Ronnie asks where Ebony is. Sickened by what they hear – though not enough to intervene, apparently – the men slowly start to exit. What follows is a shot of Reggie and the other “men” standing outside the door listening as Junior brutally beats and rapes Ebony. Realizing his intentions, Ebony makes it clear that she’s not there to have sex, she’s only there to dance, to which Junior locks the door and replies, “Then let’s dance.” She tells him she’ll be ready to strip outside in a minute, but he remarks that the real party is in there. He then tells Junior to have sex with Ebony, lying about how she’s easy and willing, that he and Clyde ran a train on her, and giving Junior a condom to use.Ĭonvinced, Junior enters the bedroom to find Ebony half naked and scared, clutching her chest. While Ebony is alone in the bedroom reluctantly getting ready to strip, Reggie tells Clyde to take Ronnie outside. Meanwhile, Reggie, who is at the party, is still upset that Diamond got in the way of he and Clyde’s “fun” and that Ebony went along with rejecting them, maybe even insulting them at some point we didn’t see, so he decides to get back at them. Diamond, however, takes her sweet time since they aren’t on great terms by that point. When Ebony realizes she’s the only one, she gets worried and calls Diamond to pick her up. The main scene in question takes place later at a bachelor party being thrown by Ronnie for her brother Junior. Not wanting her friends to strip for the questionable assortment of men, Ronnie tricks Ebony into going, giving her the impression that there will be other strippers too. Diamond, familiar with their circle – even having been sexually assaulted by their acquaintance, a fellow stripper named Ronnie – knew better. They comply, calling Diamond and Ebony names before driving off.Įbony mistakingly believed Reggie and Clyde only wanted her to dance for them. Diamond tells the guys to let Ebony out of the car before she calls the cops. Reggie and Clyde protest, remarking that no one is going to get raped, Diamond is stuck-up, etc.Įbony says it’ll be okay but Diamond won’t relent, so Ebony finally agrees to leave, which upsets Reggie and Clyde. Thankfully, Ebony’s cousin, Diamond, shows up and tells Ebony to get out of the car because “Reggie and Clyde will rape her”. She’s too drunk to stand let alone consent to sex, but they take her out of the club and pull her down the street.Ĭlyde jokes about “running a train” on her and Reggie tries to quiet him as he doesn’t want to draw attention. Reggie – played by Ice Cube – and his buddy Clyde are at the club with a stripper named Ebony, who they think they can have sex with – either for money or for free. First, I want to touch on an earlier scene for context. If you’ve seen the movie, you likely know which scene it is. It followed a woman’s account of her time as a stripper, and while it wasn’t a memorable film on the whole, there was one scene that stuck with me. Years ago, there was a movie called The Players Club written and directed by Ice Cube.
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