There were also a lot of scenes where characters talked for 10 minutes that just felt unnecessary. We filmed a subplot where Cookie gets murdered that was too violent and not very funny. What do you remember of the scenes that got cut? I read that your original cut of the film ran for two and a half hours. That’s why we shot the trailer stuff in the middle of nowhere up at my friend Bob Adam’s farm. It was a nationwide news story, and the American Civil Liberties Union ended up handling our case. I filmed a nude hitchhiker scene for Mondo Trasho and got some of us arrested for conspiracy to commit indecent exposure. Were there many instances like that, where the real world bled into filming? We were all influenced by radical politics and rioting, so we were driven, but we were also looking for trouble. But I wouldn’t call us a happy-go-lucky bunch. Danny Mills and Mary Vivian Pierce were freshly in love at the time, so those are the memories that flood back to me when I watch it. I certainly wrote Pink Flamingos under the influence of marijuana, but nobody was on drugs when we made the movie. Divine was an incredibly shy guy who just liked to smoke pot all day. I’m sure it helped that you and most of the cast had already made movies together and had a sense of camaraderie.Īnd we only got closer. It was also freezing because we shot in the middle of winter, so you can see everyone’s breath in a lot of shots. We’d all be in prison if we were like that! We’d work 20 hours straight, and some days the film wouldn’t develop so we’d have to reshoot everything the next day. Everybody always thought we were like those people, when in fact nobody was. What do you remember most about the experience? Some of the Pink Flamingos stories in your book Shock Value are just as shocking as the movie.
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