{"id":15862,"date":"2023-09-12T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15862"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:03:47","slug":"female-trouble-1974-john-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15862","title":{"rendered":"Female Trouble (1974, John Waters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who wants to be famous? Who wants to die for art?&#8221;  I should&#8217;ve watched this a very long time ago, like before <em>Cecil B. Demented<\/em>.  Divine is Dawn, who storms out of her parents&#8217; house as a teenager since she didn&#8217;t get the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, immediately gets pregnant, flash-forward and she&#8217;s got a teenage daughter called Taffy (Mink Stole) and a hairdresser husband named Gator.<\/p>\n<p><em>Divine &#038; The Dashers:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/female1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Then the plot goes haywire.  Taffy seeks out her real father (also Divine) and stabs him to death, then threatens to join the Hare Krishas.  Gator&#8217;s aunt Ida throws acid in Dawn&#8217;s face, and the Dasher photographers who own Gator&#8217;s hair salon try to make the disfigured Dawn famous, everyone agreeing that she looks even more beautiful now.  None of the performances are &#8220;bad&#8221; because they&#8217;re all on the same heightened wavelength, but the dialogue is mostly yelling and it finally gets tiresome during the court scene that sends Dawn to the electric chair.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post-acid Dawn with daughter and caged Aunt Ida (Edith Massey):<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/female2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who wants to be famous? Who wants to die for art?&#8221; I should&#8217;ve watched this a very long time ago, like before Cecil B. Demented. Divine is Dawn, who storms out of her parents&#8217; house as a teenager since she didn&#8217;t get the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, immediately gets pregnant, flash-forward and she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,13,1957,1956,428],"class_list":["post-15862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-criterion","tag-divine","tag-john-waters","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15898,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions\/15898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}