Pink flamingos

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Movie
Original title Pink Flamingos (alternatively: John Waters' Pink Flamingos)
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director John Waters
script John Waters
production John Waters
camera John Waters
cut John Waters
occupation

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.

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