Pink Flamingos (1972)
Directed by John Waters · Cinematography by John Waters
NC-1793 min41 frames
ComedyCrime
An exercise in poor taste
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What is Pink Flamingos about?
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American independent black comedy crime film by John Waters. It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). 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". While living in a trailer with her mother Edie, son Crackers, and companion Cotton, Divine is confronted by the Marbles, a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth. Characters caught in their feud include the Marbles’ sadistic butler Channing, their spy Cookie, and The Egg Man, an egg salesman whom Edie is infatuated with. 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". It was filmed in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, where Waters and most of the cast and crew grew up.
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What does the cinematography of Pink Flamingos look like?
Sampled across 41 frames, the coverage of Pink Flamingos leans on medium shots (49% of the sample) and full-body frames (24%). Cinematographer John Waters keeps 78% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 68% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame, over a texture recalling 16mm. Focus stays shallow in 59% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of Pink Flamingos?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Pink Flamingos (1972) are #35302d, #d3d0ce, #57504c, #afadaa, #eeebe8, #8d7769 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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