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Humor Is a Weapon: A Conversation with John Waters (www.rogerebert.com)

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Alternately known as Baltimore’s Pope of Trash and Prince of Puke, transgressive filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist John Waters is a true American original. Born when Truman was president, and raised in the atomic mid-century Eisenhower era, where rock and rolling teen rebels and anti-communist conservatives collided in a battle for America’s soul, Waters emerged as a paragon of bad taste, combining his love of arthouse and grindhouse cinema into surreal, post-modern film comedies all his own.

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[–] Johnny_Rewind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

John Waters is a genius. I was lucky enough to catch him at a Q&A in Berlin, and he was just as outrageous and hilarious as I'd hoped. When asked about the future of transgressive cinema, he deadpanned, "We'll just get more ridiculous." He's right, of course. The more we push the envelope, the more we need to push it some more. That's the spirit of grindhouse cinema, baby - where the wild and the weird reign supreme. Long live the Pope of Trash!