Dick Tracy

Todd: Look...


 * Picture of Madonna with Sean Penn, clip of Shanghai Surprise, black-and-white pic of the two, and headshot of Sean 

Todd (VO): ...Sean Penn and Madonna never made any sense, not now, not at the time. Even ignoring all the fights and craziness, they just didn't match. Sure, Sean Penn was a young, hot, extremely talented and successful A-list actor. But at the end of the day,...

Todd: ...still just an actor. Madonna needed a movie star.


 * ''Clip from Warren Beatty film
 * Warren: Miss me?


 * Clips from Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Time Magazine cover, picture and People Magazine cover of Warren and Madonna, et al

Todd (VO); Enter the next man in her life, one Warren Beatty. Alongside Robert Redford, probably the last scion of the Hollywood Golden Age. Warren Beatty probably thinks the song "You're So Vain" is about him, and he is probably right. Clearly, he was a better fit for Madonna than Sean, even though he was, like, seventy years older than her. And what with being part of a glamorous power couple this big, clearly it was time for Madonna to take the step back into big-budget filmmaking. [Clips of...] And this would be the biggest one yet. A heavily marketed, summer blockbuster, comic book movie; a big screen version of the legendary pulp action hero Dick Tracy. I was too young to go see it at the time, and I still remember it being everywhere. [Promo footage] Dick Tracy commercials, t-shirts, soundtracks, toys, video games. It was a full-blown media phenomenon.

Todd: And a year later, no one would even know it existed. [Todd shrugs]


 * Cinemadonna intro


 * Movie begins

Todd (VO): Dick Tracy—the overhyped, underperforming summer movie of 1990; the Roland Emmerich Godzilla of its day. But ignoring the box office disappointment, what is this Dick Tracy movie?

Todd: Well basically, [promo pic of...] it's Sin City, but for little kids. The end.

''Closing tag song:

THE END "Dick Tracy" is owned by Touchstone Pictures This video is owned by me

Todd: Okay, maybe I should try and explain it a little more.

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