A delightful TV special on John Waters sharing stories about his childhood and teenage years and the experiences from those periods that were used as
influences and references to his future movies, from "Pink Flamingos" to "Hairspray" (1988) - the latter is extensively discussed.
While I'm not necessarily a big fan of his films, I do find him one of the most interesting and fascinating figures of the movie industry. He's incredibly funny, articulate and quite outrageous and whenever you see his interviews or some quotes of his appear elsewhere you become interested in what he has to say. Like him, I too am one of those that whenever some people say such and such film shouldn't be seen (as his religious masters told him he'd go to hell) the more reason is given for me to watch such film (and enjoy them).
Waters is an amazing storyteller, he has some fun moments with the interviewer off-camera and it's more about his reality growing up in the 1950's and 1960's than actually dwelling about his films; and when you hear what he says and then go back to any of his early films you can get a little closer to the man, the artist and understand why he finds it important to show a very unconventional and somewhat twisted reality. As he says during the special, the goal is to be fun, since as long as you're being fun people won't attack you. 9/10.
While I'm not necessarily a big fan of his films, I do find him one of the most interesting and fascinating figures of the movie industry. He's incredibly funny, articulate and quite outrageous and whenever you see his interviews or some quotes of his appear elsewhere you become interested in what he has to say. Like him, I too am one of those that whenever some people say such and such film shouldn't be seen (as his religious masters told him he'd go to hell) the more reason is given for me to watch such film (and enjoy them).
Waters is an amazing storyteller, he has some fun moments with the interviewer off-camera and it's more about his reality growing up in the 1950's and 1960's than actually dwelling about his films; and when you hear what he says and then go back to any of his early films you can get a little closer to the man, the artist and understand why he finds it important to show a very unconventional and somewhat twisted reality. As he says during the special, the goal is to be fun, since as long as you're being fun people won't attack you. 9/10.
