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Pink Flamingos (1972)
In director John Waters' ultimate, exploitational trashy/cult
film ("An Exercise in Poor Taste") with homage to the Manson
family, and multiple examples of grotesque sexual acts and behavior
- the first in a bad taste-laden "Trash Trilogy"
followed by Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977):
- the many oddball characters living in a Maryland
trailer (with plastic pink flamingos) of overweight transvestite
trailer park matron-diva Divine/Babs Johnson (drag queen Divine
or Harris Glenn Milstead) including her delinquent son Crackers
(Danny Mills), her traveling companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce),
and her half-dressed, mentally-ill corpulent mother Edie (Edith
Massey) who sat in a playpen and ate hard-boiled eggs
- tabloids had named 'Babs Johnson'/Divine as "the
Filthiest Person Alive"; one early example was her public urination
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Edie (Edith Massey)
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(l to r): Edie and Babs Johnson (Divine)
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Babs (Divine)
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"The Filthiest Person Alive!"
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- the continuing conflict between Babs (and her family)
and the envious and rival couple ("two jealous perverts"):
transgender blue-haired Raymond Marble (David Lochary) and
red-haired Connie Marble (Mink Stole) who were involved in black-market
criminal activity with their manservant Channing (Channing Wilroy);
girls would be kidnapped by chloroforming them, locking them up
in a basement, artificially inseminating them by injecting Channing's
sperm into their vaginas through a dispenser tube syringe, and
then waiting nine months to sell their babies (in their "adoption
clinic") to lesbian couples
- the exhibitionism scene of a clown-masked, tall Raymond
exposing himself to two females lunching in a wooded park, after
tying and attaching a very long kielbasa sausage to the end of his
penis, and then stealing a left-behind purse
- the shocking scene of rape-sex between Crackers and
the Marbles' spy Cookie (Cookie Mueller), as voyeuristic Cotton looked
on from a nearby trailer window, and two live chickens were crushed
between them during bestiality copulation
- Babs' over-the-top birthday party scene, with a cake
decorated with the words: "Happy Birthday Babs The Filthiest
Person Alive", featuring bizarre sex acts, including a topless
woman (with pasties) dancing with a snake around her neck, and a
gay male contortionist (anonymous, uncredited as the "Singing
Asshole") who ascended onto a performance stage, laid down on
his back with his legs in the air, and musically sang or 'lip-synched'
to the tune of The Trashmen's "Surfing Bird (Bird is the Word)" ("Mau-mau-mau")
by flexing his anal sphincter!)
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Babs' Birthday Party
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Stripper
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The Singing Asshole at Babs' Birthday Party
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- disgusted by the party as they spied upon it, the
Marbles summoned the police - followed by the
killing and cannibalistic eating (simulated) of a quartet of policemen
(reminiscient of Night of the
Living Dead (1968)) after being axed into pieces
- the scene of the surprise revelation of a Trans-sexual's
(Elizabeth Coffey, credited as "Chick with a Dick") breasts
and male genitals in an outdoor park to thief Raymond, when he selected
his next victim and 'she' flashed her penis at him
- the outrageous scene of mother-son incestual sex (fellatio)
between Babs and Crackers, after they vandalized the Marbles' home
and licked all the furniture
- the revelation that Channing, after being castrated
by one of the freed pregnant women in the basement ("I'm gonna
cut that big fat worm right off you") (off-screen), had bled
to death (Connie Marble: "He's been castrated. His penis is
gone!")
- the scene of Babs' vengeful kidnapping and trial (kangaroo
court) of the Marbles for burning down the trailer, and for "first-degree
stupidity" and "assholism"; Babs delivered a stunning "filth
politics" speech to TV and tabloid reporters, including Mr.
John Vader who asked if blood was a turn-on: "It (blood) does
more than turn me on, Mr. Vader. It makes me come. And more than
the sight of it, I love the taste of it. The taste of hot, freshly
killed blood...Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate
cannibalism! Eat s--t! Filth are my politics! Filth is my life!"
- the bound-and-gagged couple were tied to a tree,
coated in tar and feathers, and gunned down one-by-one in the head
by Babs/Divine in front of the press - it was a 'live homicide'
- the scatological, disgusting gross-out scene of
Divine/Babs eating real fresh, recently defecated dog feces in
a competition to become the 'World's Filthiest Person' at the film's
conclusion - she gagged and then smiled at the camera in a close-up
- finally succeeding in attaining the title
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The Trailer (with Pink Flamingos)
Raymond and Connie Marble
Transgender Raymond Marble: Exhibitionism in the Park
- A Ploy for Purse-Snatching
Copulation Between Crackers and Cookie (with Two
Live Chickens)
Cannibalism of Policemen at the End of the Party
Trans-sexual in a Park
Incestual Oral Sex: Babs and Crackers
Channing Castrated
Eating Dog Feces (Coprophagia)
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