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)
“The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)