History Film / PinkFlamingos

!! "The Filthiest Tropes Alive!":

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Which is why it is {{defied}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUd_6FF4AtM this official trailer]] that was used to promote the movie.

The film that launched Creator/JohnWaters as the world's leading authority on bad taste, ''Pink Flamingos'' is a 1972 transgressive comedy starring Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, and Mary Vivian Pearce. It follows the adventures of [[TheDanza Divine]] (living under the alias of Babs Johnson), a [[FatBastard fat]], style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. Divine, however, is furious when a pair of perverts, Raymond and Connie Marble, try to steal her title of "[[WorldsBestCharacter filthiest person alive]]." HilarityEnsues.

-->'''Ebert:''' Note: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Both [[VillainProtagonist Divine]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Connie & Raymond]].

-->'''Ebert''': Note: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.

* DirtyCoward: The Marbles are totally helpless the moment Divine, Crackers, and Cotton barge into their home out of revenge for [[spoiler: burning down Divine's trailer]] and they try to get away with it by lying, saying they've got the wrong people. Of course, [[BlatantLies it doesn't work]].

-->'''Mr. Vader''': Do you believe in God?
-->'''Divine''': I AM GOD!

* ThereAreNoPolice

-->'''Connie''': "I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone: MY kind of people, and assholes. It's rather obvious which category you fit into. Have a nice day."

'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me cum! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
-->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
-->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[ImAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!

--> '''Divine''': [Blood] does MORE than turn me on, Mr. Vader! It makes me CUM!

* PlotHole: The Marbles sending the [[RoadApples gift]] to Babs is "Phase one" of their plan. The attack on the trailer is "Phase three". There is no phase two.

* {{Transgender}}: One of the women that Raymond exposes his penis to flashes hers back.

* WorldsBestCharacter: Divine's title of "filthiest person alive".

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead" Cotton (blonde), Crackers (brunet) and Divine (redhead).

** YouKeepUsingThatWord: Castration is removal of the testes. Removal of the penis is emasculation.

** The actual production of the film counts, as well, as ''everything you see in the movie actually happened''. '''''Unsimulated.''''' Except for the deaths, of course.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/combined IMDb.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: Divine is EXTREMELY proud of being called "The Filthiest Person Alive".