John Waters earned the title "Pope of Trash" through decades of transgressive filmmaking that celebrated outcasts, questioned taste, and found beauty in the grotesque. His early collaborations with Divine—including Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), and Polyester (1981)—pushed boundaries of acceptable cinema content while maintaining a playful wit that distinguished genuine subversion from mere shock value. Waters' later mainstream successes like Hairspray (1988) proved his sensibility could translate to wide audiences without losing its essential weirdness. His influence extends beyond filmmaking to visual art, writing, and cultural commentary, with his defense of "good bad taste" versus "bad bad taste" providing a philosophical framework for appreciating outsider culture.
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