FREE ON YOUTUBE John Waters - Multiple Maniacs

FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) John Waters probably deeply believes that all good American movies were made in the 50s. The dirty little movies with the bad endings. He himself looks like one of the greasy B-movie producers of the 50s, with a distinctive moustache. So about ten years later in his hometown Baltimore he started to realize similar trash movies for very little money. Such as Multiple Maniacs from 1967. Even when he got the means to produce "real" Hollywood movies during the 80s, he settled these candy musicals in the 50s. With a lot of gel and hairspray! In the 80's my father took me to the cinema to watch Waters "Cry-Baby". I liked the film but didn't know any of the actors: The very young Johnny Depp, Patricia Hearst, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, Willem Dafoe, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords(...) But my father raved that he had just seen the best cast of all time! John Waters would have agreed. Except for Dame-Elizabeth Taylor, I'm sure every wish-list candidate from former times has worked with him. Nevertheless, Waters expanded the cinema in 1981 when he laid out so-called Scratch-n-Sniff cards in the hall. Normally such cards smell like the ones you get for Christmas. Waters' cards, however, stank miserably. In any case, John Waters emulated the models of the 50s. Especially the high school rebel movies. But of course not the established classics, but the lousy little cheap films. Like every good "Auteur", Waters liked to cast the same actors. Preferably Divine, who grew up with him. Divine had outrageously thick eyebrows and outrageously tight dresses. In Waters work he even made the leap out of the midnight movies and played a faithful suffering mother. With lots of hairspray and concrete hairstyle. Years later I read an interview about the remake of his musical. Waters was very proud that his outsiders had finally arrived in the middle of society. Then the divine Divine died and Waters mourned that he would never try to replace Divine. By the way, as his successor he chose a certain Johnny-Depp... In Multiple Maniacs nobody knew Divine yet. Nobody could have imagined that she could become a movie star. In Multiple Maniacs Divine is raped by a giant lobster. I would call Multiple Maniacs a Catholic horror movie. With the atmosphere of a pompous Hollywood melodrama of the 50s. Or something like that. Not only does he NOT stand in the spirit of the hippie movement of his time, but he clearly stands against Peace & Love. Instead we experience the typical John Waters characters: armpit treats, human ash buckets, vomit eaters, junkies. And Divine, gnawing at the guts of her dead lover as the giant lobster approaches from behind. The song "America The Beautiful" is played. I think John Waters must have been very happy with his movie.