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Pink Flamingoes and Female Trouble by John Waters
Topic Started: Nov 18 2008, 10:12 AM (477 Views)
Glamorama
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Near my house the old Film Academy of Amsterdam stands on the Overtoom street. It's no longer used as an Academy. It has been squatted by artists and film-makers and musicians who regularly put on (cheap) shows and club nights. The old cinema screening room is still used as a cinema and on Sunday night (to my joy) they held a double bill of 2 of John Waters' early films - Pink Flamingoes and Female Trouble starring Divine.

I'd never seen them before and was mega happy to get the chance.

Pink Flamingoes was hilarious in a really disgusting, cheap, low-budget kind of way. Divine played Babs Johnson - 'the filthiest person alive' who lives with her mentally ill mother Edie (who's addicted to eggs); her son Crackers (who she gives a Blow job to - on screen) and female companion. Their crown is threatened by Raymond and Connie Marble (played by David Lochary and Mink Stole) who engage in kidnap, rape, child acduction and drug dealing). Babs and her family end up winning. And the last scene is the notorious dog poo scene where in 1 take a dog takes a dump and Divine scoops up the poo and eats it on screen. I had heard of the scene of course but had never seen it. Classic.

Female Trouble is more of the same. Divine plays Dawn Davenport who leaves home for good on Christmas morning (because her parents refuse to get her cha-cha heels.) She gets pregnant after f*cking a guy (played by Divine as a man) on a mattress in a car park. She descends into stripping; whoring and thieving. She becomes a model for the Dashers who tell her she is a beautiful model (even after major facial scarring). She ends up killing her daughter (Mink Stole) for becoming a Hare Krishna) and decides to graciously grant fame to her nightclub audience by miurdering them. Poor old Dawn gets the chair in the end. It's again a very low budget movie but actually funnier than Pink Flamingoes.

See these movies people. They are vomit-inducing sheer class.
Edited by Glamorama, Nov 18 2008, 10:25 AM.
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this sounds fantastic!

do you think this migth be on DVD?
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I reckon so - apparently there's JOhn Water's commentary on the DVD as well.

Most of the cast are now dead

Divine died in 1988 from morbid obesity
Edith Massey (the grossest fat bird of all time) died in 1984 from cancer
David Lochary (who I found to be quite hot) died in 1977 after cutting himself with glass while on PCP
Cookie Mueller died of Aids in 1989

Mink Stole still rocks on however.
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I've not seen "Pink" but have watched "Female Trouble" about ten times.

"I'd better get them cha cha heels!"
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'I should have had you ABORTED' is my favourite line of Female Trouble.

And Pink Flamingoes is wortth checking out. The pervert Raymond Marble as well as being a drug dealing, baby snatching freak is also a flasher. There's a really funny scene when he flashes this girl who smiles, lifts her skirt and exposes her own penis (it's a very Vanity Bonet Moment). And another one where this anal contortionist makes it look like his asshole is singing.

Sick and wrong for sure. But so hilarious.
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I think it was always the thought of the last scene that put me off "Pink Flamingoes"!

"Female Trouble" is full of great lines. Favourite scene, though, has to be when Divine plays both shagger and shagee - "Eat it!" Great skid mark on his knickers as well.
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The last scene is truly disgusting. You can see him sort of flinching before he puts the poo in his mouth but when he does he has a goods old chew and sticks his (brown) tongue out.

The audience was screaming at it.

There's another vile scene when Divine keeps raw meat warm between his thunder thighs.
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Just remembered my favourite line in "Female Trouble".

"Hey Little Taffy. Come over here and suck your daddy's dick."
"I wouldn't suck your lousy dick if I was drowning and there was oxygen in your balls."

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Um, what planet do you fools live on?

Who the hell hasn't seen Pink Flamingoes or Female Trouble? Jesus, you sound like you just discovered plutonium or some shit.

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I am sort of tickled though that John continues to find new audiences to warp. You guys are 40 years late, but good for you for having the greatest, dirtiest taste in cinema. Now, all you have to see if "Multiple Maniacs," "Eat Your Makeup," "The Diane Linkletter Story." You have to remember that when he made these films, the Manson Murders were happening, Diane Linkletter jumped out of a window supposedly on LSD, (they did a short film with Divine, the day she killed herself, lmao), then you had Divine recreating the Kennedy Assassination, dressed as Jackie-O, in dress and everything, throwing herself on top of the moving car, trying to get a piece of John's brain that had just been blown out. lol. Patty Hearst was also happening. Patti went onto appear in a million of John's films, and still does today.

Now, where the fuck are my cha cha heels?
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Glamorama
Nov 18 2008, 11:10 AM
The last scene is truly disgusting. You can see him sort of flinching before he puts the poo in his mouth but when he does he has a goods old chew and sticks his (brown) tongue out.

The audience was screaming at it.

There's another vile scene when Divine keeps raw meat warm between his thunder thighs.
Oh, the dog shit scene was nothing. When I first saw the film YEARS ago, I thought it was going to be some big epic scene. It wasn't. The singing asshole was the one that did me in. Now, I watch it as I'm going to sleep. :lmao: :lmao:
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Nov 21 2008, 11:27 AM
Um, what planet do you fools live on?

Who the hell hasn't seen Pink Flamingoes or Female Trouble? Jesus, you sound like you just discovered plutonium or some shit.
Excuse me, Mary. But I first saw "Female Trouble" over twenty years ago, have been every one of his films at the cinema since "Hairspray" (including the GLORIOUS "Serial Mom") AND have actually met the cunt.
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Nov 23 2008, 10:49 PM
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Nov 21 2008, 11:27 AM
Um, what planet do you fools live on?

Who the hell hasn't seen Pink Flamingoes or Female Trouble? Jesus, you sound like you just discovered plutonium or some shit.
Excuse me, Mary. But I first saw "Female Trouble" over twenty years ago, have been every one of his films at the cinema since "Hairspray" (including the GLORIOUS "Serial Mom") AND have actually met the cunt.
Well, now, at least I have some respect for you. Now go jump in a river of snot!

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Nov 21 2008, 11:27 AM
Um, what planet do you fools live on?

Who the hell hasn't seen Pink Flamingoes or Female Trouble? Jesus, you sound like you just discovered plutonium or some shit.
Excuse me, Mary. But I first saw "Female Trouble" over twenty years ago, have been every one of his films at the cinema since "Hairspray" (including the GLORIOUS "Serial Mom") AND have actually met the cunt.
God Serial Mom is one of my all time favorite movies!!
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