The glorious line-crossing of Pink Flamingos

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George Wood looks at how Pink Flamingos throws good taste to the wolves - and gets away with it.


WORDS: George Wood

This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 36 in September 2022.

CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault, violence, animal cruelty, misogyny, swearing

“Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! EAT SHIT! Filth is my politics, filth is my life!”

Such are the beliefs of Babs Johnson who, contrary to your typical politician, very much lives up to her pledge: to be the filthiest person alive. Babs is an alias of Divine, both a real-life drag queen and one of many gleefully grotesque characters in John Waters's 1972 film, Pink Flamingos.

While many films can claim to be shocking or transgressive, Pink Flamingos is defiantly repulsive - featuring bestiality, rape, murder, necrophilia, cannibalism, and incest, all before treating the viewer to a final scene in which Divine happily munches down on actual dog faeces.

"If someone vomits watching one of my films," John Waters once wrote, "it's like getting a standing ovation."

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the film has now received its first official, uncut release in the UK, courtesy of the Criterion Collection. It's also been recently selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

So how did such a trashy, exploitative midnight movie end up as a celebrated classic? Does Pink Flamingos still have the power to shock and revolt audiences today?

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<p><strong>George Wood looks at how Pink Flamingos throws good taste to the wolves &#8211; and gets away with it</strong>.</p>



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<p>WORDS: George Wood</p>



<p><em>This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 36 in September 2022.</em></p>



<p><strong>CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault, violence, animal cruelty, misogyny, swearing</strong></p>



<p>“Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! EAT SHIT! Filth is my politics, filth is my life!”</p>



<p>Such are the beliefs of Babs Johnson who, contrary to your typical politician, very much lives up to her pledge: to be the filthiest person alive. Babs is an alias of Divine, both a real-life drag queen and one of many gleefully grotesque characters in John Waters&#8217;s 1972 film, <em>Pink Flamingos</em>.</p>



<p>While many films can claim to be shocking or transgressive, Pink Flamingos is defiantly repulsive &#8211; featuring bestiality, rape, murder, necrophilia, cannibalism, and incest, all before treating the viewer to a final scene in which Divine happily munches down on actual dog faeces.</p>



<p>&#8220;If someone vomits watching one of my films,&#8221; John Waters once wrote, &#8220;it&#8217;s like getting a standing ovation.&#8221;</p>



<p>Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the film has now received its first official, uncut release in the UK, courtesy of the Criterion Collection. It&#8217;s also been recently selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, for being &#8220;culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.&#8221;</p>



<p>So how did such a trashy, exploitative midnight movie end up as a celebrated classic? Does <em>Pink Flamingos</em> still have the power to shock and revolt audiences today?</p>



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<p>Before Pink Flamingos, Waters started building his oeuvre as a counterculture filmmaker in Baltimore, Maryland. Partly influenced by Andy Warhol&#8217;s early experimental films, much of Waters&#8217;s earliest shorts are crude and plotless, but were crucial to establishing the Dreamlanders, his cast and crew of fellow degenerates.</p>



<p>Waters also directed two black-­and-white 16mm features, the (mostly) silent film <em>Mondo Trasho</em> in 1969, followed by <em>Multiple Maniacs</em> in 1970, with both films starring Divine as the lead. <em>Mondo Trasho</em> is Waters at his most experimental and foot fetishistic, while <em>Multiple Maniacs</em> is a film that begins with a puke-eating fetish and ends with (spoiler alert!) Divine being raped by a giant lobster before being shot by the National Guard for multiple homicide. It&#8217;s also infamous for introducing the sacrilegious concept of a &#8220;rosary job&#8221;.</p>



<p>But it was <em>Pink Flamingos</em> in 1972 that became Waters&#8217;s big midnight movie phenomenon, scoring a 95-week run in New York City and establishing the director&#8217;s reputation as the &#8220;Pope of Trash&#8221;. Booking agents and film distributors at the time saw its potential to shock and excite young audiences in the fledgling genre of midnight movies.</p>



<p>&#8220;Just the right kinkiness,&#8221; said a representative at New Line Cinema, which initially picked up Pink Flamingos. &#8220;Or camp, or sex, or, well, awfulness for the midnight audience, people who want a little late-night kick.&#8221;</p>



<p>Indeed, it was through the discovery of this midnight moviegoing audience, keen to watch something so radical and unpalatable to mainstream audiences, that <em>Pink Flamingos</em> found its commercial viability. But even those making money off of the midnight movie craze were disdainful of both the movies themselves and the audiences who enjoyed them.</p>



<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need Pauline Kael to tell you that garbage stinks,&#8221; said one nameless distribution executive. &#8220;The kids, you know, the 18-25 crew, they just have nothing to do. Nothing. Zero! And they&#8217;ll take anything. God, they must have jelly brains &#8230; It&#8217;s all crummy kink, banal camp, bad sex. Jesus, why am I complaining? For me it&#8217;s a terrific cash flow.&#8221;</p>



<p>Compared to more respectful outsider art, such as the Andy Warhol films that had inspired Waters, <em>Pink Flamingos</em> and its ilk were seen as an altogether separate category of cinema. Where the form belonged to a cult film circuit which catered to a &#8220;select, sophisticated audience&#8221;, cinema owners saw<em> Pink Flamingos</em> and other midnight movies as having &#8220;an altogether different audience, an audience that goes to see something which is really culturally bad.&#8221;</p>



<p>Any contemporary value attributed to the film seemed to be down to its sustained ability to excite and revolt viewers, and not much else.</p>



<p>That so many viewed the success of <em>Pink Flamingos</em>, which was still only relative to its $12,000 budget, with such snobbishness is perhaps to be expected. After all, it features a musical performance by a lip-syncing prolapsed anus. But the film&#8217;s real success &#8211; and the reason we&#8217;re still talking about it 50 years later &#8211; is that these shocking moments help satirise the moral hypocrisy of respectable American society.</p>



<p><em>Pink Flamingos</em> came out only three years after the murder of Sharon Tate, with Divine&#8217;s hillbilly family of murderous misfits painted in deliberate parallel to the Manson Family. Waters himself narrates the film as if the whole plot is a tabloid story, daring you to laugh and side with these colourful, dangerous outsiders, and in turn poking fun at America&#8217;s mix of disgust and titillation at the Manson Family trials.</p>



<p>But even without that historical context, Divine&#8217;s found family of oddballs contrast with the antagonists of the movie, the perpetually frustrated heterosexual couple (David Lochary and Mink Stole), whose game of one-upmanship with Divine leads to their capital punishment, for crimes of &#8220;first-degree stupidity&#8221; and &#8220;asshole-ism&#8221;. Divine is more than a riotous anti-hero; she&#8217;s a queer icon, whose proud, dangerous existence subverts the good taste and safety of American heteronormativity, both literally and figuratively.</p>



<p>For queer audiences, there&#8217;s something empowering in seeing a found family so flagrantly disregard the rules that society places on them. One of the most powerful scenes is simply Divine walking down a busy street in Baltimore in full drag makeup, clearly not giving a shit about the real-life people gawking. In amongst the depravity, there are also moments of kitschy sweetness, such as Divine&#8217;s mother Edie&#8217;s (Edith Massey) excitement at the arrival of Mr Eggman come to deliver her precious eggs, or the birthday party that friends and family throw for Divine, in which the lip-syncing anus makes its celebrated appearance.</p>



<p>In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Criterion presented a screening at Picturehouse Central in London last month, complete with replicas of the barf bags that were handed out in screenings back in 1972. Half the crowd had never seen <em>Pink Flamingos</em> before, and it was clear from the uproarious laughter and shock-horror that the film still packs its punches.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s still, in parts, uncomfortable to watch; a subplot involving forcible impregnation and child trafficking plays uncomfortably closer to reality now the US has gone full circle on Roe v Wade since the film&#8217;s original release. There&#8217;s also the infamous rape scene in which a live chicken is used to sexually assault a woman, being crushed and killed in the process.</p>



<p>None of these scenes are defensible, nor are they intended to be. But they&#8217;re a reminder of the film&#8217;s place in 1970s countercultural filmmaking, at a time when anti-sodomy laws were recent, living memory. The film is unapologetically and radically queer, a rebuff to assimilationist ideals of gay liberation movements of both then and now. If the exploitative aspects of the movie are difficult to reconcile with, there&#8217;s still a point to all the provocativeness: to throw the revulsion that queer people experience in their day-to-day lives back in the audience&#8217;s faces.</p>



<p>After <em>Pink Flamingos</em>, Waters failed to capture the same runaway success with the following films in his &#8216;Trash Trilogy&#8217;: <em>Female Trouble</em> (1974) and <em>Desperate Living</em> (1977). The former is a favourite among Divine fans, while <em>Desperate Living </em>spotlights Mink Stole with an exceptional opening monologue where she screams, &#8220;I hate the Supreme Court!&#8221;</p>



<p>Waters eventually stopped trying to one-up his own obscenities and transitioned to more commercial features, bigger budgets, and shooting in 35mm for <em>Polyester </em>(1981) and <em>Hairspray</em> (1988). Both feature Divine as more conventional female characters, showing both the actor&#8217;s and filmmaker&#8217;s will to push boundaries within the confines of mainstream cinema. Indeed, Waters himself describes the PG-rated <em>Hairspray</em> as a Trojan horse:</p>



<p>&#8220;It had the power to sneak into middle-class homes and espouse gay marriage and teenage race mixing without anybody noticing &#8230; Even racists loved <em>Hairspray</em>!&#8221;</p>



<p>Divine died shortly after the release of <em>Hairspray</em>, right at the crest of his career, a loss that rippled through the industry (Whoopi Goldberg&#8217;s sympathy card to Waters read: &#8220;See what a good review will do?&#8221;). Waters would go on to make more commercial movies such as <em>Cry-Baby</em> (1990), <em>Serial Mom</em> (1994), and <em>Cecil B. Demented </em>(2000), box office bombs at the time but now seen as among his best works. In 1997, Waters guest-starred in one of the greatest episodes of <em>The Simpsons</em>, titled &#8216;Homer&#8217;s Phobia&#8217;, and later made cameos in <em>Jackass: Number Two</em> (2006), the musical remake of <em>Hairspray </em>(2007), and <em>Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip</em> (2015).</p>



<p>John Waters always wanted to become a commercial filmmaker; he himself said that &#8220;a starving artist is an outdated concept.&#8221; But he still managed to find ways to sneak in his camp and transgressive sensibilities into his later studio works, which is why <em>Pink Flamingos</em> has such a lasting legacy. There are so many gateway drugs to <em>Pink Flamingos</em> in mainstream pop culture; whether you discover the movie via <em>Serial Mom</em>, <em>The Simpsons</em>, or <em>RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race</em>, you&#8217;ll find the grubby fingerprints of his original trashterpiece everywhere. Just beware of watching the movie with a faint heart &#8211; or stomach.</p>
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