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Mondo Trasho
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Mondo Trasho is a
1969 16 mm black-and-white film by
Baltimore,
Maryland filmmaker
John Waters starring
Divine,
Mary Vivian Pearce,
David Lochary and
Mink Stole. It contains no dialogue: the soundtrack is entirely musical (except for Divine's brief monologue).
In 2001 an Argentinian director called Mariano Peralta directed a trilogy (wich ended in 2005 with SUPERMONDO TRASHO UNLEASHED!) inspired by Water´s Mondo Trasho... the last part of this underground movie trilogy was premiered in the Mar Del Plata International Film Fest. creating a massive scandal. Audience in a riot wanted to attack director for scenes in the movie showing Virgin Mary becoming drug addict, lesbian and finally deciding to abort the unborn baby Jesus to marry her prostitute girlfriend. Many Argentinian press reports catalogued this comedy film as a filth disgusting and perverted film that must never be seen.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Legal issues
- 3 Title
- 4 External links
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Plot
After an introductory sequence during which chickens are beheaded on a chopping block, the main action begins. Platinum blond heroine Mary Vivian Pearce begins her day by riding the bus and reading Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. She is later seduced by a perverted "shrimper," hit by a car driven by Divine and visited by a vision of the Virgin Mary in a laundromat (during which Divine exclaims, "Oh Mary ... teach me to be Divine") and is forced to hear women gossip about her ("I think she's a Hair Hopper ... she looks like a Rimmer") amongst other terribly dramatic and trashy situations.
Legal issues
Waters was almost arrested during the film's production for illegally shooting a scene involving a nude
hitchhiker on the campus of
Johns Hopkins University, but the cast and crew managed to escape before the police arrived.
Title
The film's title refers to a series of semi-related quasi-documentary films that were popular during the 1960s:
Mondo Cane,
Mondo Freudo,
Mondo Bizarro, etc. The title also pays tribute to
Mondo Topless, a film by one of Water's favorite directors,
Russ Meyer.
