John Waters: The Prince Of Trash

Did you ever have a friend growing up that made it his or her ultimate goal to gross you out? Wether it be by cracking their fingers, telling jokes, or tortures through smelly socks, it is guaranteed that you did not appreciate when your your friend teased you about such matters. Most people as they get older they mature and grow out of this kind of humor. What if I told you there was a man that never grew up. A man that became a director to channel his talent into what he considers an art form. A man who ultimate goal is to make you puke. I imagine that would be your worst nightmare, unfortunately this man is real and he exists today. He is known as the Prince of Puke, the Pope of Trash, Mr. John Waters is the grossest man you'll ever meet. …show more content…
Growing up, it was said that John Waters had an unbelievable obsession with violence and gore both in real life and special effects done for on screen. One childhood memory that John Waters likes to cherish, is one of when he saw real blood on a car seat in a junk yard. He spent the rest of the day fantasizing lethal car crashes. With John Waters, he treated this subject matter as something he was studying. He liked to read about serial killers and look into how they killed their victims. Often John Waters would attend course cases of gory trails all over the United Staes(IMDb.com). John Waters’ upbringing definitely served as a transit into his career in filmmaking. John Waters’ film career started in the 60’s where he made silent 8mm and 16mm films. These movies were shown in baltimore at a church he rented out. His audience became sort of an underground club that grew through word of mouth. This was what became the beginning of John Waters’ following which ultimately launched his …show more content…
Currently he is seeking new adventures and is trying to have more experiences so he can learn more about people. He writes about one of his endeavors in his book “Carsick”. In this book John Waters writes about his adventure hitchhiking from baltimore all the way to the west in San-Francisco. The first part of his book is entirely fiction as he writes about his fantasies of best and worst case scenarios such as getting a ride from a murderer on the loose out to kill all cult filmmakers especially John Waters himself. John Waters for me can only be described as interesting. He likes to explore ideas most people would much rather not explore such as making gross movies. As gross as John Waters is, he knows how to keep true to himself. That alone is something people can look to. John Waters message is buried under all of his crazy, weird, and eccentric obsessions, but if you look hard enough you’ll see that he just wants you to be yourself and to be unique (An Interview With John