Pink flamingos
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Original title | Pink Flamingos (alternatively: John Waters' Pink Flamingos) |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1972 |
length | 93 minutes |
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Director | John Waters |
script | John Waters |
production | John Waters |
camera | John Waters |
cut | John Waters |
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Pink Flamingos is a cult film directed by John Waters in 1972 . He made the extravagant transvestite Divine an underground star. Also featured are David Lochary , Mary Vivian Pearce , Mink Stole , Danny Mills , Channing Wilroy , Cookie Mueller , Paul Swift, and Edith Massey . With a budget of only $ 12,000, the film was shot over several weekends in Baltimore , Maryland .
action
Divine lives under the pseudonym "Babs Johnson" with her egg-addicted mother Edie, the criminal son Crackers and Cotton, a like-minded companion who is addicted to voyeurism . You live in a motor home (in front of it are a few pink garden flamingos , hence the film title) on Philpot Road in Phoenix , Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore (John Waters' home). After the Marbles, enemies of Divine, found out that Divine was named "filthiest person alive" by a newspaper, they set out to usurp the title. The Marbles own an "adoption clinic," a black market for babies. They kidnap young women who are artificially inseminated by their butlers and die in childbirth.
controversy
There are a lot of borderline scenes in the film, but according to interviews, that's exactly what Waters had in mind when shooting it. He himself calls the film “tacky” and a “lesson in bad taste”. At the same time, the film contains typically bizarre humor for Waters. The limit value is expressed, for example, in a sex scene in which a chicken is involved, which is then eaten, a scene with the butler of the Marbles who draws his ejaculate in a syringe and thus impregnates a hostage, Divine, who pleasures her son orally , a music scene with a "singing" anus in close-up and the infamous final scene in which Divine takes warm dog poop into her mouth "live" and without a cut.
In 1997 the film was released again in US cinemas for the 25th anniversary with improved sound (unlike the first release, a soundtrack was also released ). After the end of the original film, the new version contained a short commentary by Waters, several scenes that had once been edited, and the original cinema trailer from 1972, which only shows the audience's reactions to the film, but not a single correct excerpt apart from a few audio snippets.
Web links
- Pink flamingos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed production notes about the making of the film ( Memento from December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )