Yep. I knew about the dog crap scene at the end, but I was unprepared for all the scenes that led up to it. The singing asshole, the Divine fellatio, the semen syringe, and the general creepiness of Edie. I only have one regret–that The Innocent Schoolgirl watched it with me. She took it mostly in stride, but I felt kind of bad for laughing at the “sex and chickens” scene while she was genuinely horrified at how the chickens were being treated.
There’s another thread about the most gratuitous scene in a movie. Pink Flamingos was all gratuitous. And to top it all off, we saw The Aristocrats beforehand.
John Waters says of the chicken scene that he sometimes hears from people about the cruelty of it. His position is that they ate the chicken after and it got to be a movie star so it’s all right. One of the few things Waters has said with which I whole-heartedly disagree.
He’s also said that PF contains the one scene he now regrets filming, which is the artificial insemination scene.
I disagree with you that Edie is creepy. I think she’s sweet and endearing. Really, that whole family, for all its talk of being “The Filthiest People Alive,” are pretty harmless overall. It’s only when they’re attacked that they start getting nasty. If those Marbles had just left them alone everything would’ve been just fine. It’s the Marbles who are the out-and-out monsters. Kidnapping, rape, theft, indecent exposure, arson, sending shit through the mail…what, until they were provoked, did Babs and Co. do that came anywhere close to that?
Hey, I have a huge number or family members in The Treasure Valley area! Very nice area. So nice in fact, that it really needs more Divine and Cotton type people. (But there’s already too many Napoleon Dynamites.)
You don’t show a John Waters virgin PF straight away. If they get some of the humor in Cry Baby and Hairspray you might ease them along with Female Trouble or Desperate Living, my favorite.