divine was great!


only non-waters film i've seen him in but he was a great bad guy. he had a lot of the best dialogue too.

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He did have a lot of great lines:

"I prefer priests. They're REAL hypocrites"


and the greatest bad guy line of all time:

"women are despicable...especially mothers!"

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Surely his classic line is: "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

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Dudes, I am sorry, but he was /not/ great. On the contrary, he was positively awful. He delivered his lines way too fast, fretted and pouted when he shoulda BITCHED, kept breaking eye contact with the other characters, the way a real gangster never would... And generally acted like he was in a different movie. A John Waters movie, for example.

I'm as big a cult fan as any other and cheerfully sing "How Much Was That Doggie in the Window" while doing the dishes; but please - fabulous does not equal good. Divine should never, ever have been in this picture. Carradine managed to pull off the artistic weirdness of his character; but this was a bridge too far.

The fact that Divine was given the role of Hilly Blue - and allowed to play it as he did - just goes to show how hard it is for anyone, even in experimental cinema, to imagine how a camp, effeminate man might nevertheless come across as a sincerely dangerous, threatening villain. We'll still have to wait for that one.

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yes, I love Divine! But, he simply couldn't deliver the short lines. He certainly was much better during the finale in his gallery with Hawk; he seemed to be more or less free-associating old John Waters' lines at that point, and hamming it up. But, really, he wasn't that great... and compared to the other really great actors in this film, he was amateur.

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Agreed. Divine was marvelously slimy as the ruthless Hilly Blue.

I'm a totally bitchin' bio writer from Mars!

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This was his first major non drag role.

It's that man again!!

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