In Popular Culture
The ship was featured prominently in the 2012 film Battleship where she was shown to destroy three alien craft before being sunk.
A parody of the song "I'm in a Boat" was filmed on the John Paul Jones.
The ship is mentioned in the last mission of Homefront as she escapes a naval blockade of San Diego to provides support to the player in the climatic final battle on the Golden Gate Bridge along with sister ship USS Milius (DDG-69).
Read more about this topic: USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“He was one whose glory was an inner glory, one who placed culture above prosperity, fairness above profit, generosity above possessions, hospitality above comfort, courtesy above triumph, courage above safety, kindness above personal welfare, honor above success.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)