![]() She accepts his proposal and he carts her off in a wheelbarrow.ĭivine and Crackers head to the Marbles' house, where they lick and rub the furniture, which excites them so much that Divine fellates Crackers. The Egg Man, who delivers eggs to Edie daily, confesses his love for her and proposes marriage. Disgusted by the outrageous party, the Marbles call the police, but this backfires when Divine and her guests ambush the officers, hack up their bodies with the meat cleaver, and eat them. Entertainers include a topless woman with a snake act and a contortionist who flexes his prolapsed anus in rhythm to the song " Surfin' Bird". Her birthday gifts include poppers, fake vomit, lice shampoo, a pig's head, and a meat cleaver. The Marbles arrive at the trailer to spy on Divine's birthday party. When the Marbles return home, they are outraged to find Channing mocking them, so they fire him and lock him in his "room" (a closet). While the Marbles are gone, Channing dresses in Connie's clothes and imitates his employers' overheard conversations. Worried that her title has been seized, Divine declares that whoever sent the package must die. The Marbles send a box of human feces to Divine as a birthday present with a card addressing her as "Fatso" and proclaiming themselves "the filthiest people alive". Cookie then informs the Marbles about Babs' real identity, her whereabouts, and her family – as well as her upcoming birthday party. Cookie gets raped by Crackers while crushing a live chicken between them as Cotton looks on through a window. ![]() The Marbles enlist a spy, Cookie, to gather information about Divine by dating Crackers. One of Raymond's would-be targets, a transgender woman who has not completed gender reassignment surgery, thwarts his scheme by exposing her breast, penis, and scrotum, causing Raymond to flee in shock. Raymond also earns money by exposing himself – with a large kielbasa sausage or turkey neck tied to his penis – to women and stealing their purses when they flee. The proceeds are used to finance pornography shops and a network of dealers selling heroin in inner-city elementary schools. The Marbles run a black market baby ring: they kidnap young women, have them impregnated by their manservant Channing, and sell the babies to lesbian couples. After learning that Divine has been named "the filthiest person alive" by a tabloid paper, jealous rivals Connie and Raymond Marble attempt to usurp her title. They share a trailer on the outskirts of Phoenix, Maryland, next to a gazing ball and a pair of plastic pink flamingos. The notorious criminal Divine lives under the pseudonym "Babs Johnson" with her mother Edie, delinquent son Crackers, and traveling companion Cotton. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film, at first semi-clandestine, has received a warm reception from film critics and, despite being banned in several countries, became a cult film in subsequent decades. The film is considered a preliminary exponent of abject art. It features a "number of increasingly revolting scenes" that center on exhibitionism, voyeurism, sodomy, masturbation, gluttony, vomiting, rape, incest, murder, animal cruelty, cannibalism, castration, foot fetishism, and concludes, to the accompaniment of " How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?", with Divine's consumption of dog feces – "The real thing!" narrator Waters assures us. It was filmed in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, where Waters and most of the cast and crew grew up.ĭisplaying the tagline "An exercise in poor taste", Pink Flamingos is notorious for its "outrageousness", nudity, profanity, and "pursuit of frivolity, scatology, sensationology and skewed epistemology". ![]() The characters engage in several grotesque, bizarre, and explicitly crude situations, and upon the film's re-release in 1997 it was rated NC-17 by the MPAA "for a wide range of perversions in explicit detail". While living in a trailer with her mother Edie ( Edith Massey), son Crackers (Danny Mills), and companion Cotton ( Mary Vivian Pearce), Divine is confronted by the Marbles ( David Lochary and Mink Stole), a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth. ![]() The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson, who is proud to be "the filthiest person alive". It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American black comedy film directed, written, produced, narrated, filmed, and edited by John Waters.
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