John Waters Research Paper
My favorite director, as far back as I can remember, has continuously been John Waters. His movies have always been a style that differs from other directors. If you find yourself watching a John Waters film, you know it. I can only describe his film expertise, in uncensored absolute filth. If there's one thing that’s quite evident in all of his films, its his love of the absurd and disgusting. He had a fascination with subjects children don't often have, at least to the degree he had. Waters often kept news paper clippings of murders, bizarre catastrophes, and anything else especially gruesome. Although that sounds more like he would become a serial killer than a film director, it actually helped him become the latter. It definitely helped him to meet a group of friends with a similar sense of humor,who later became the stars of about every movie he did. These favorite pals of John included David Lochary, Mink Stole, and of course, the beautiful drag queen “Divine.” This fascination with the bizarre also led him later to such people as Edith Massey (often known as “The Egg Lady” in Pink Flamingos), and “Hatchet Face”. Later he was able
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This film was equally extreme as its predecessors. It stars our favorite queen of filth Divine playing as Dawn Davenport. The film begin with “Dawn” having an animalistic sex scene with her lout of a beau “Earl,” (played by Divine not in drag). This film basically outlines “Dawns” life from teenage years to her eventual death in an electric chair. The main events of this movie start when Dawn gets involved with Donald and Donna Dasher (“make-up activists” played by David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce). Finally being treated right by someone in her life, she does anything they tell her, including becoming a guinea pig for their “Crime is Beauty” campaign that involves acid face treatments and ends with a shooting spree for
This film was equally extreme as its predecessors. It stars our favorite queen of filth Divine playing as Dawn Davenport. The film begin with “Dawn” having an animalistic sex scene with her lout of a beau “Earl,” (played by Divine not in drag). This film basically outlines “Dawns” life from teenage years to her eventual death in an electric chair. The main events of this movie start when Dawn gets involved with Donald and Donna Dasher (“make-up activists” played by David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce). Finally being treated right by someone in her life, she does anything they tell her, including becoming a guinea pig for their “Crime is Beauty” campaign that involves acid face treatments and ends with a shooting spree for