Chapter 11 The Two Weapons of Righting the Rebel

The musical "Hairspray", which was staged in Beijing and Shanghai before, was adapted from John Waters' 1988 film of the same name. According to the promotional article, this is a story full of love. Before the age of forty, John Waters probably never imagined that one day he would have anything to do with a story full of love.Born in 1946, he studied in a Catholic school when he was a teenager, and the environment full of rules and regulations inspired his rebellious character.It was there that he met Glenn Milsty, who would become an iconic character in his films.After John Waters was expelled from New York University's film school because of drug use, he returned to his hometown to start the "Dreamland" film company, and started his film career, shooting "Roman Candles", "Eat Your Makeup" , "Garbage of the World" and "Multiple Madness", while Glenn Millsty, with a weight of 300 pounds, reversed the female role in his movie and became John Waters' "Saint".

Waters' 1972 work "Pink Flamingo" starred "Saint".Released in adult theaters, it was the highest-grossing underground film of the 1970s and has been called "the most obscene and disgusting film ever made."The most impressive work of Waters is this one. When I watched it late at night, I couldn’t help laughing, and one after another, “this is okay?” appeared in my heart one after another. To correct the rebels and return to the right way, there are two weapons, one One is success, and the other is age.If one plan fails, there is another plan.Success is the best correction, and getting old is the best way to recruit.If you want to reform a bad boy, let him be a class cadre; if you want to make a rebel docile, you only need to wait for him to grow old; Put on a Victorian frock, just wait until she's thirty-nine; Vito Don Corleone, once he's Godfather, will naturally look for legitimate business, and once radicals, once they're old, will naturally suffer. Changed his past and turned into a conservative.John Waters, who was successful in adult films, immediately got the qualifications to be corrected. Hollywood came to him to make movies, and commercial films looked for a little inspiration from him. .

The 1988 movie "Hairspray" marked his mainstream acceptance. In 2002, New Line's Broadway musical adaptation of "Hairspray" was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning eight of them. In 2007, "Hairspray" was remade into a movie, and the scale of production in 3,121 theaters made it the largest musical and musical film in history. The films written and directed by John Waters may still be so crazy and hysterical, but they are much gentler. They often have big stars, and at most they are rated as R.The two weapons of correcting rebels have worked on him. And the film critics who fiercely criticized the works of mainstream directors on the BBS back then suddenly returned after several years of disappearance, touting the new works of major directors uncharacteristically.In the blink of an eye, I knew that he must have made it through and approached the core of his interests.In a few days, his name will be suffixed after the screenwriter of the big production released in theaters, and his blog is full of middle-aged sighs.No one can match the two weapons of correcting rebels.