May's Gilliam Wins the Epic Presidential Race

      In the movie Head of State, Chris Rock plays just another average man who is seemingly nothing, until he approached by a presidential team who want him (Mays Gilliam) to run for President. At first people laugh at the fact that Mays is even running due to the fact that he has no knowledge of politics and or any facts about what is happening around the world. Mays is "a little rough around the edges" but his political team changes that with the snap of the fingers. He usually wears just a t-shirt and a pair of jeans, but now that he is seen as a presidential candidate, he must dress and act the part. Suits, ties and nice shoes (not sneakers) is what one should be wearing.

      He begins his campaign by following everything that he told by his team. Whether that be, what to say, how to act, what to wear, and or following speeches that his team has come up with for him. He soon realizes that running for President that way is not the way he had wished, He soon tells his team that he will be running the way that he wants to run and if they have a problem with that, then he'll show them the door himself.

      Mays starts dressing the way he feels he should dress and starts to talk the way he feels he can get the message across the country more effectively. Of course his team is outraged and feels as the more it continues, they will loose the race even worse then they had imagined. People need jobs and his team soon realizes that if they want to keep working, then they are just going to have to be right by Mays' side the entire race.

      Mays started off his campaign by following the rules and just simply, playing by the book so that he would be safe and just another average candidate. Towards the middle of his campaign though, he realized that the way of playing is safe wasn't the way that he wanted to run. He changed his look back to the way it was in the beginning and started doing everything his way.He started to belive that he actually had a shot at being the president (in which case he did) but one of his team members admitted that he was only here so that his opponent would have someone to run against. Mays kicked them off the team but soon realized that he needed them to win, Although he didn't completely go back to the way things were at the beginning, he did go back to the suit for the big debate.

      Mays finally realized that one could wear a suit and look nice and at the same time, get his/her message across the country the way that he/she wants. He demolished his opponent in the big debate and it was only a matter of time before he knew if he had one or not, At the end of the movie, Mays won the race (happy ending-predictable) and knew that all the hard work and all the sweat and tears was worth it in the end, because while his opponent was punching everyone on his team, May's was celebrating and getting the kiss in which he had hoped for throughout the whole move,

                  ...And of course became the first African-American President in history...