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It's Waters's 1974 film Female Trouble,though, that is—to me—the single most fabulous and anarchic film ever made. It's often cited as Waters's own favorite from his five-decade career, and is basically a faux biopic of a Baltimore high school dropout named Dawn Davenport. Dawn is played by Harris Glenn Milstead, a.k.a. drag legend Divine, and to say she's a female in a spot of trouble is to put it lightly: Dawn is pretty much the craggy pinnacle of rebellion.It all starts at Christmas, when Dawn's parents fail to buy her the one single thing she requested—a pair of "cha cha heels." The scene plays out exactly how you'd imagine: a grown, overweight man in drag, in her dressing gown, attacking two old people. Dawn crushes her mother with the Christmas tree and runs away from home. Before long, she's picked up by an anonymous motorist (also played by Divine) and they fuck on a mattress by the side of the road.
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