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Actors: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ruby |
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Jack Ruby (Danny Aiello) owns a run-down strip club in Dallas, and gives information to the FBI and while doing the odd favor for his mafia contacts. When a hitman is killed, Louie Vitali asks him to help get mafia boss Santos Alicante out of a Cuban jail. When they get back, the mafia bosses take his headliner Candy Cane (Sherilyn Fenn) under their wing to develop her career in Las Vegas.
But the real reason is to plant her as a mistress with none other than the President of the United States John F. Kennedy. Slowly all the pieces of a massive conspiracy begin to emerge and JFK is assassinated in Dealy Plaza. Soon Ruby will have to kill supposed assassin Lee Harvy Oswald in a desperate attempt to bring the conspiracy to light.
--Matthew W. Kresal , Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Ruby |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- Mafia conflict
If this is a criminal POV story...
- one man's rise in a criminal organization
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- bald (man)
Body type
- fat (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- Las Vegas
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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