The night after the eating-dog-feces scene was filmed, Divine called a hospital emergency hotline pretending to be a mother whose son ate dog feces; she was told that the worst thing that could happen was that he might get white worms.
"Pink Flamingos" contains some memorably repulsive scenes like a sex scene with a chicken and the scene where Divine eats fresh dog feces. Yes,the movie is shocking and funny at the same time,but the biggest laughs come from the actors' lines. Check out especially this line from Divine:"Kill everyone now!
Featuring pig heads, cannibalism, and feces—oh my! —the film was given an NC-17 by the MPAA for its “wide range of perversions in explicit details” and banned in Australia, Norway, and—allegedly still to this day—in Hicksville, New York.
The girls are gone. Connie and Raymond assume the girls have sent for the police and they try to flee, but Divine, Cotton, and Crackers are waiting for them in the living room. They abduct the Marbles, tying them up and taping their mouths shut, and drag them back to the site of the trailer for a "trial" and execution.
It was filmed in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, where Waters and most of the cast and crew grew up. Displaying the tagline "An exercise in poor taste", Pink Flamingos is notorious for its "outrageousness", nudity, profanity, and "pursuit of frivolity, scatology, sensationology [sic] and skewed epistemology".
“The reason I called it 'Pink Flamingos' was because the movie was so outrageous that we wanted to have a very normal title that wasn't exploitative,” Waters says.
Flamingos are known for their monogamous nature, forming long-lasting bonds with their partners. This characteristic has made them symbols of love, devotion, and commitment. The vibrant pink hue of their feathers, often associated with love and passion, enhances this symbolism.
Fifty years after the release of “Pink Flamingos” and John Waters is still banned from screening the film in Hicksville, Long Island. Waters explained to Entertainment Weekly that despite being a camp cult classic, “Pink Flamingos” was deemed obscene in multiple legal cases.
Flamingo species found in the Caribbean are often bright red or orange, while those in drier areas tend to be… paler pink in colour. Without a high enough concentration of beta carotene-rich food, the pink feathers would moult away and new paler feathers would start to grow.
John Waters most famous film, Pink Flamingos is an awful piece of crap that is just poorly constructed with a poorly thought plot, which really doesn't make sense, and really bad cast. This is pure Exploitation done wrong. I've seen my fair share of Exploitation pictures, but this one ranks as the worst.
Carotenoids give carrots their orange color or turn ripe tomatoes red. They are also found in the microscopic algae that brine shrimp eat. As a flamingo dines on algae and brine shrimp, its body metabolizes the pigments — turning its feathers pink.
Why are Pink Flamingos so popular is because of the happy place they remind people of. This is a graceful bird that lives it life away from the crowds of city life. You will never see them on statues defacing them. They will only be seen in the wild in their natural habitat, the tropics.
Chilean flamingoes eating, drinking, and preening in St. Petersburg, Florida; flamingos (as well as penguins and other species) sometimes form committed same-sex relationships that can involve sex, traveling and living together, and raising young together.
Reporter: Does blood turn you on? Babs Johnson: It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
Bearing an NC-17 rating — it deserves nothing less — "Pink Flamingos" features copious nudity, cannibalism, assault, vomiting, unsimulated sex, torture, real animal death, and real coprophagy.
Male and female flamingo coloration is the same. Newly-hatched chicks are gray or white. Juveniles are grayish, taking approximately one to two years to obtain full adult coloration. Parents may lose some of their pink coloration while raising young.
The “Get Your Pink Back™" line was created by Lindsey Gurk in an effort to help encourage and inspire women. These pieces are designed around the fact that flamingos can actually lose their pink coloring while raising their children. If you receive a defective piece, it can be exchanged for a new item.
A recent blog post has revealed that Canada has ranked tenth in the top 10 countries with the most banned films, with 29 films making that list. Most of the bans have since been lifted, but among the films on that list are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1968's Romeo and Juliet, and the infamous Pink Flamingos.
While flamingos are an abundant bird species, they are threatened by habitat loss due to mineral mining and human disturbance. About 80,000-90,000 American flamingos, concentrated in four major breeding colonies, remain in the wild.
"Pink Flamingos" might be crude, but it has a serviceable narrative no worse than the Farrelly Brothers use as a clothes horse for their gross gags, and it's an effective satire of trash culture that anticipated Jerry Springer, "Natural Born Killers," and today's obsession with real lives and true crime.
