Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful was a mockumentary film starring comedienne Julie Brown as the title character, with actress Kathy Griffin and actor Donal Logue in supporting roles.
The film lampoons the legitimate documentary picture In Bed With Madonna, (known as Madonna: Truth or Dare in the United States.) In the original, pop superstar Madonna allowed cameras to follow her around for a no-holds-barred peek into her life during her "Blonde Ambition Tour." In this spoof, Brown plays Medusa, a controlling, hyper-sexual blonde bombshell who has allowed a documentary crew to follow her on her "Blonde Leading the Blonde Tour".
The film, about one hour long and originally produced as a Showtime television special, goes to great pains to recreate costumes, sets and situations that occurred in the original documentary.Things in original VS spoof
- ORIGINAL: Madonna visits the cemetery where her mother is buried while the song "Oh Father" plays.
SPOOF: Medusa visits the cemetery where her dog "Boomer" is buried and eventually digs him up, quipping "I wonder what he looks like now?"
- ORIGINAL: Kevin Costner visits Madonna backstage and calls her show "neat" to which she puts her finger in her mouth and gags.
SPOOF: Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait visits Medusa backstage and calls her show "nice," and Medusa responds in kind, only he sees her and becomes violently enraged..."I coulda gone to Monster Trucks, you know!"
- ORIGINAL: Madonna sings her hit song "Vogue."
SPOOF: Medusa performs her smash hit "Vague"
- ORIGINAL: Madonna, in a game of truth or dare, simulates oral sex on a water bottle.
SPOOF: Medusa does the same to a watermelon until it is sucked empty and only the rind remains
- ORIGINAL: Madonna's boyfriend Warren Beatty quips "Why would you do anything if it wasn't on camera?"
SPOOF: Medusa's boyfriend Warren Blatty refuses to visit her in Japan, prompting her to "have sex with the first man I see".
- ORIGINAL: Madonna is threatened with arrest for lewd content because of her show.
SPOOF: Medusa is threatend with arrest if she bares "her muffin" during a dance number. She does, and instead is harassed by police for autographs.
- ORIGINAL: Madonna refuses to remove sexual elements of her show because it would be "compromising my artistic integrity".
SPOOF: Medusa refuses to eliminate a giant ceramic penis (upon which she dances) from her show, even though it fell on her and almost killed her, because it would be "compromising my artistic integrity".
Quotes
- Film Director: You were amazing tonight, Medusa. You're so sexy!
Medusa: Duh.
- Film Director: I want to cast you in my film. It's an update of "Heidi"...
Medusa: You mean like Shirley Temple Heidi?
Film Director: Yes, but in my movie, Heidi is all grown up. She's exploring her sexuality and she's joined a neo-nazi regieme.
Medua: (Looking at script title) What's this? "Do the Rich Thing?"
Film Director: No. It's "Do the REICH! Thing".
- "I went to the Paws and Claws cemetery to visit the grave of my dead dog Buster. My grandmother used to say 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.' But you can't make lemonade out of a dead dog no matter how hard you try!"
- "There's the phone booth where I lost my virginity!"
- "I hear the crowd in the Puh-hillipines spent millions of dollars on my tickets so there was no way I could cancel. I mean, that's more than some people make in a whole year! They tell me a couple of people in the back row were consumed by molton lava; that's like a real complement!"
- "The prettiest girl in the mirror is Me
But am I still pretty
When there's no one to see?
...Me?"
- "Life can be so strange when you're all alone
I tried to call you up but they turned off your phone...
No need to pay this time
This boink's on me
Let's set our brains free
C'mon, you know, you're invited
to the party in my pants...
I'll be a virgin for you and lay my body down
'cause I know more tricks than a rodeo clown"
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