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Synopsis Upon arriving at an all-male brothel where he is welcomed as a regular, controversial Irish scribe Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) is treated to a surprise performance of his recently banned work of theater, "Salome." As a group of prostitutes runs through a bizarre and bawdy version of the play -- which retells ...
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00:00:18Ah!
00:00:48Evening, gentlemen. How are we this evening?
00:00:52As close as two testicles, children.
00:00:55People are beginning to talk.
00:00:57There is only one thing worse than to be talked about,
00:00:59and that is not to be talked about.
00:01:01I wish I had said that.
00:01:03You will, Bosie.
00:01:04You will.
00:01:05If you would like to go up, sir,
00:01:06Mr. Taylor will be with you directly.
00:01:08May I take the opportunity to thank you
00:01:11for the ticket to Lady Windermere's fan, Mr. Wilde.
00:01:14I enjoyed it immensely.
00:01:16It's a regular triumph with the public, sir.
00:01:17Yes, the whole town's quite lit up.
00:01:19I'm told that royalty has turned away nightly.
00:01:21Isn't that line getting a little stale?
00:01:23No line is ever stale that leads directly to the box office, dear Bosie.
00:01:27And where are you going?
00:01:29Below stairs.
00:01:30Obviously.
00:01:31To polish up your repartee with a little boot black.
00:01:34I've rather taken a shine to him myself.
00:01:37You'll see him shining as bright as gold tonight.
00:01:40But don't be tempted to worship the golden calf,
00:01:43or you'll suffer my wrath.
00:01:45No summons, please, Bosie.
00:01:47I'm not in the mood for the missionary position just now.
00:01:51No, nobody will.
00:01:53In the mood of dolphins,
00:01:54I am interim oli,
00:02:20Amen.
00:02:50Amen.
00:03:20Ah, Oscar.
00:03:47Ah, my dear Alfred.
00:03:49Congratulations.
00:03:50I have never been more flattered.
00:03:53The moon rising in a jewel box of deepest night could not be more exquisitely displayed.
00:03:58But if you're going to redecorate every time a new play of mine is published, I fear you
00:04:02will soon be destitute.
00:04:04I'm feeling disgustingly creative.
00:04:07Oh dear.
00:04:08You are not going to write another play to scandalize the Lord Chamberlain into banning
00:04:12it, my dear Oscar.
00:04:13I don't think I could afford it.
00:04:15What do you mean?
00:04:16Hmm?
00:04:17What are you up to?
00:04:20I know you are the most benign brothel keeper in the whole of Westminster.
00:04:24But surely you're not going to shut up shop, are you?
00:04:26And send off all those boys and girls to warm their pretty little bottoms around a bonfire.
00:04:32Where is everyone?
00:04:34Putting on their makeup.
00:04:35Well that's nothing new my dear.
00:04:37Though if I may say so I think you've overdone the mascara just a little tonight.
00:04:41Hmm?
00:04:42Are you going to perform yourself?
00:04:44You're getting warm.
00:04:47They say that sex is the theater of the poor.
00:04:51You're not going to stage the beggar's opera are you?
00:04:55Hmm stage yes we have built a stage.
00:04:57Ah.
00:04:58You're getting hot.
00:04:59You're almost there.
00:05:00Ah.
00:05:01Can't you get?
00:05:02Ah.
00:05:03I only play guessing games when I want to be beastly to my darling children.
00:05:08Oh God.
00:05:10I promised them a firework display tonight.
00:05:12Ah.
00:05:13I say this this isn't some elaborate charade involving Guy Fawkes is it?
00:05:18Hmm nothing so mundane.
00:05:20Though the date is not without significance.
00:05:22Guy Fawkes wanted to strike a spark for freedom and blow up a parliament he considered oppressive.
00:05:27You have done the same with your play Salome.
00:05:30The Lord Chamberlain acting on behalf of parliament has banned it.
00:05:33So a few kindred spirits have hatched a little plot of their own.
00:05:36Ah.
00:05:37In defiance of the law and in honor of our greatest playwright the premiere of Salome will take
00:05:45place here tonight the 5th of November 1892.
00:05:50I'm touched my dear Alfred.
00:05:52Really I am.
00:05:53But you must promise me one thing.
00:05:56Of course if I can.
00:05:57Promise me you won't play Salome.
00:05:59Much too energetic my dear.
00:06:02Here I am.
00:06:07Evening Mr. Wilde.
00:06:10Jewel residuals here.
00:06:11So here I am.
00:06:12Why thank you.
00:06:13Rose how many times have I got to tell you?
00:06:16You should have been ready half an hour ago.
00:06:18Look at you.
00:06:19Give Mr. Wilde a scar and get out.
00:06:21Sorry sir.
00:06:23Beg pardon sir.
00:06:25Thank you Rose.
00:06:28Come on Alfred.
00:06:29She knows I only come here for the cigars.
00:06:32Don't be hard on her.
00:06:34You may be hard on me when you discover Salome has been played by a skivvy.
00:06:39Salome?
00:06:41Does she rehearse the dance of the seven vales with her dusters?
00:06:45She looks terribly undernourished poor thing.
00:06:47Will she have the strength to drop them?
00:06:50She had better the little bitch or I will murder her.
00:06:53Well you can afford to these days with servants to a penny.
00:06:56How much have you spent on the rest of the cast?
00:06:59We're all doing it for love Oscar.
00:07:01Clients and courtesans alike.
00:07:03Now take your ease.
00:07:05And imagine yourself on a moonlit terrace
00:07:08in the palace of bad King Herod
00:07:10on a balmy summer's night
00:07:12some 20 years or so after the birth of Jesus Christ.
00:07:15And what our production lacks in stagecraft
00:07:17we hope to make up for in enthusiasm
00:07:19and any shortcomings in design I know will be compensated for by your fertile imagination.
00:07:24That sounds too much like hard work.
00:07:26Ha ha ha.
00:07:27I came here to be entertained.
00:07:28Entertain me.
00:07:29As always I shall do my best.
00:07:31Well you've never failed me yet.
00:07:33Hmm.
00:07:34What's that delicious fragrance?
00:07:36What is it?
00:07:38Sandalwood?
00:07:39Myrrh?
00:07:40No.
00:07:41It's a blending of green carnations
00:07:42and the pubic hair of virgins.
00:07:44Of course.
00:07:45I should have guessed.
00:07:46Let the play commence.
00:07:48Bozy.
00:07:49Bozy.
00:08:16Maria?
00:08:17Oh, my God.
00:08:47Oh!
00:09:17Oh!
00:09:19Oh!
00:09:21Oh!
00:09:23Oh!
00:09:25Oh!
00:09:27Oh!
00:09:29Oh!
00:09:31Oh!
00:09:33Oh!
00:09:35Oh!
00:09:37Well done, Kenneth.
00:09:39As usual, you've captured the perfect moment, the climactic one.
00:09:43And hope to catch many more before the night is out, Mr. Wilde.
00:09:45While playing a part, I presume.
00:09:47But did I really include a court photographer in Herod's entourage?
00:09:51Oh, no. We're playing a couple of foreign guests.
00:09:53But I've taken the liberty of combining business with pleasure.
00:09:57As one would expect in a whorehouse, Kenneth.
00:09:59And if your acting is as grossly indecent as your photographic studies,
00:10:03we're in for an outrageous evening.
00:10:05Merde!
00:10:07Merde to you too, Mr. Wilde!
00:10:09How beautiful Salome looks tonight.
00:10:11Look at the moon!
00:10:13How strange she looks.
00:10:15Like a woman rising from a grave.
00:10:17She looks like a dead woman seeking out the dead.
00:10:19She looks strange.
00:10:21She looks like a princess in a yellow veil with silver feet.
00:10:23She looks like a woman rising from a grave.
00:10:27How beautiful Salome looks tonight.
00:10:29Look at the moon!
00:10:31How strange she looks.
00:10:33Like a woman rising from a grave.
00:10:35How strange she looks
00:10:37Like a woman rising from a grave
00:10:40She looks like a dead woman
00:10:43Seeking out the dead
00:10:45She looks strange
00:10:47She looks like a princess in a yellow veil with silver feet
00:10:50She looks like a princess who has feet like little white doves
00:10:54She could beat dance
00:10:55She is like a dead woman
00:10:58She moves very slowly
00:11:01What it then?
00:11:03Who are those wild howling beasts?
00:11:05The Jews
00:11:05They're always like that
00:11:08They are discussing that religion
00:11:11Why are they discussing their religion?
00:11:14I don't know
00:11:14They're always at it
00:11:16The Pharisees say they're angels
00:11:18The Sadducees say they don't exist
00:11:20I think it's ridiculous to argue about such things
00:11:24How beautiful the princess Salome looks tonight
00:11:35You're always looking at her
00:11:38You look at her too often
00:11:40You mustn't look at people like that
00:11:43Something terrible could happen
00:11:45She is very beautiful tonight
00:11:48Tetrarch looks glum
00:11:51Yes, he is looking glum
00:11:55He's looking at something
00:11:56He's looking at someone
00:11:58Who's he looking at?
00:12:06Who's he looking at?
00:12:07I don't know
00:12:08I don't know
00:12:08How pale the princesses
00:12:20Never have I seen her so pale
00:12:23She looks like the reflection of a white rose in a silver mirror
00:12:27You mustn't look at her
00:12:29You look at her too much
00:12:31Herodias has poured the Tetrarch a drink
00:12:40Is Herodias the one with the red eyes
00:12:43The ruby lips, the ruby hips
00:12:45And the red rubies?
00:12:47Yes, that's Herodias
00:12:48She's the wife of the Tetrarch
00:12:50The Tetrarch loves wine
00:12:53He keeps three kinds
00:12:54One which comes from the island of Samothrace
00:12:56Is as purple as Caesar's cloak
00:12:58Ah, Caesar
00:12:59I've never had the pleasure
00:13:01Another from the city of Cipra
00:13:03Is as yellow as gold
00:13:05Gold
00:13:06I love gold
00:13:10And a third, which is a Sicilian wine
00:13:12That one is as red as blood
00:13:15The gods of my country love blood
00:13:17Twice a year we sacrifice ewes and virgins to them
00:13:20Fifty ewes and a hundred virgins
00:13:23But it seems we never give them enough
00:13:25Because they still persecute us
00:13:26In my country there aren't any gods now
00:13:30The Romans chased them out
00:13:32There are those who say they hid in the mountains
00:13:35But I don't believe it
00:13:36I spent three nights in the hills
00:13:39Looking everywhere
00:13:41But I didn't find them
00:13:43Finally I called upon each one by name
00:13:46But they didn't appear
00:13:48I think they are dead
00:13:54The Jews worship a god they can't see
00:13:58Really?
00:13:59In fact they only worship things they can see
00:14:02Ridiculous
00:14:04After me will come one even more right
00:14:08Sometimes he says fearful things but we never understand them
00:14:12I am not worthy to lose the thoughts of the...
00:14:14Can we see him?
00:14:15No!
00:14:16When the tetrarchs are British
00:14:18To rejoice
00:14:19The eyes of...
00:14:20What a bizarre prison
00:14:22It's an old well
00:14:23An old well?
00:14:25It must be very unhealthy
00:14:28Take the brother of the tetrarch
00:14:31His elder brother
00:14:32Queen Herodias
00:14:33His first husband
00:14:34He was incarcerated down there for twelve years
00:14:37And he didn't die
00:14:38In the end he had to be strangled
00:14:41Strangled?
00:14:41Who dared do that?
00:14:44That one
00:14:45Norman!
00:14:49Wasn't he afraid?
00:14:53Oh no
00:14:54The tetrarch sent him the ring
00:14:55What ring?
00:14:56The ring of death
00:14:57That way he wasn't afraid
00:14:59Even so
00:15:00It's terrible to strangle a king
00:15:02Why?
00:15:03Kings have only got one neck
00:15:04Just like other men
00:15:05It seems terrible to me
00:15:08Now!
00:15:12The princess is getting her
00:15:14She's leaving the table
00:15:16She seems bored
00:15:18She's coming over here
00:15:21Yes, she's coming towards us
00:15:23I'm not staying
00:15:28I can't stay
00:15:30Don't look at her
00:15:31I beg you, don't look at her
00:15:34It is strange that my mother's husband looks at me so
00:15:38I don't know what it means
00:15:41Actually, I do know
00:15:46Have you just left the banquet, princess?
00:15:50Would you like to sit down, princess?
00:15:53Why look at her?
00:15:54Why speak to her?
00:15:56Oh, something terrible is going to happen
00:15:58How fresh the air is here
00:16:02At last one can breathe
00:16:05Inside, there are Jews from Jerusalem
00:16:09Tearing each other to pieces
00:16:11Over their ridiculous ceremonies
00:16:13Barbarians drinking and spilling wine everywhere
00:16:18And then there are the Romans
00:16:20With their brutality
00:16:21Their clumsiness
00:16:22Their swear words
00:16:24Oh, how I detest the Romans
00:16:27Commoners
00:16:28Giving themselves the airs and graces of royalty
00:16:32Isn't it wonderful to see the moon?
00:16:40She is cold and chaste to the moon
00:16:42I am sure she's a virgin
00:16:45But, yes
00:16:48She's a virgin
00:16:52She has never sullied herself
00:16:55She has never given herself to men
00:16:59Like the other goddesses
00:17:01The Lord has come
00:17:04The Son of Man has come
00:17:08The centaurs have hidden themselves in the rivers
00:17:12And the mermaids have fled
00:17:15To sleep beneath the leaves in the forest
00:17:18Who said that?
00:17:20It's the voice of the prophet, princess
00:17:21Ah, the prophet
00:17:23The one that Tetrarch fears
00:17:26We know nothing of that, princess
00:17:29It is the prophet John
00:17:31The Baptist
00:17:32Shall I order your litter, princess?
00:17:35It is very beautiful in the garden
00:17:36He has said monstrous things about my mother, hasn't he?
00:17:41We never understand what he says, princess
00:17:43Yes, he has said appalling things about her
00:17:47Rightfully sorry, princess
00:17:48The Tetrarch requests you return to the banquet
00:17:50I'm not going back
00:17:52Pardon me, princess
00:17:53But if you don't go back
00:17:55Something awful could happen to you
00:17:56Is he an old man, the prophet?
00:17:59Princess, it would be best if you went back
00:18:02Permit me to accompany you
00:18:04The prophet
00:18:06Is he an old man?
00:18:08No, princess
00:18:09He's a very young man
00:18:11Well, we don't know
00:18:13There are those that say he's Elijah
00:18:15Who's Elijah?
00:18:17A very old prophet, princess
00:18:18From the provinces
00:18:19Sorry, what reply should I give to the Tetrarch
00:18:22On behalf of the princess?
00:18:24Do not rejoice, land of Palestine
00:18:28Because the rod of your oppressor has been broken
00:18:33For from the serpent's head will come a basilisk
00:18:37And he who is born from it will devour the birds
00:18:42What a strange voice
00:18:45I would like to speak to him
00:18:47I'm afraid that's impossible, princess
00:18:50The Tetrarch doesn't wish us to speak to him
00:18:51He has forbidden even the high priest to speak to him
00:18:55I want to speak to him
00:18:57It's impossible, princess
00:18:59I want to
00:19:01Indeed, princess
00:19:02It would be better to return to the banquet
00:19:05Have the prophet brought out
00:19:07I have always been nice to you
00:19:14You will do it
00:19:16Won't you?
00:19:18I only want to look at him
00:19:21This strange prophet
00:19:23Everyone talks about him
00:19:27I've often heard the Tetrarch talk about him
00:19:31I think the Tetrarch is afraid of him
00:19:35I am sure he is afraid of him
00:19:38And you, Naravoth?
00:19:40Are you afraid of him too?
00:19:42I'm not afraid of him, princess
00:19:44I am afraid of no one
00:19:46But the Tetrarch has officially forbidden us to release him from the world
00:19:50You will do this for me, Naravoth
00:19:53And tomorrow, when I pass in my litter
00:19:58Under the arch of the vendors of idols
00:20:01I will drop a little flower for you
00:20:05A little green flower
00:20:09And tomorrow, when I pass over the bridge of the vendors of idols
00:20:30I will look at you
00:20:34Through my muslin veils
00:20:37I will look at you
00:20:42We dare not, princess
00:20:45How dark it is down there
00:20:54It must be terrible
00:20:56To be in a place so black
00:20:59It's like a tomb
00:21:01Didn't you hear me?
00:21:04Let him out
00:21:05I want to see him
00:21:07I beg you, princess
00:21:09Do not ask this of us
00:21:10Don't keep me waiting
00:21:12Princess
00:21:13Our lives belong to you
00:21:15But we cannot do what you ask
00:21:17In any case
00:21:19It's not we
00:21:21Who you must ask
00:21:23Oh, what is going to happen?
00:21:29I am sure something terrible is going to happen
00:21:32You will do it for me, won't you, Naravoth
00:21:37You will do it for me
00:21:41Naravoth
00:21:43I will smile at you
00:21:47Perhaps
00:21:48Look at me, Naravoth
00:21:52Look at me
00:21:54Ah
00:21:56You know full well you will it
00:22:01Send out the prophet
00:22:03The princess wishes to see it
00:22:06Send up the prophet
00:22:09Oh
00:22:13Oh, how strange the moon looks tonight
00:22:18Through the clouds of muslin
00:22:20She smiles like a little princess
00:22:23Like a princess with amber eyes
00:22:26Tell him to come out
00:22:32So that he may hear the voice of he
00:22:34Who has shouted in the deserts
00:22:36And in the palaces of kings
00:22:38Whom does he mean?
00:22:40We never know, princess
00:22:41Where is she
00:22:44Who having seen naked men
00:22:47Painted on city walls
00:22:49Pictures of Chaldeans etched in colour
00:22:52Gave way to lust
00:22:54And sent envoys to Chaldea
00:22:57He is speaking about my mother
00:22:59No, princess
00:23:00Yes
00:23:02It's about mother
00:23:03Where is she who gave herself to the captains of the Assyrians
00:23:06Tell her to drag herself from her bed of lasciviousness
00:23:10From her bed of incestuousness
00:23:14So that she may hear the words of he
00:23:16Who paves the way of the Lord
00:23:18So that she may repent her sins
00:23:21Although she will never expiate them
00:23:25But remain steadfast in her crimes
00:23:28Tell her to come
00:23:31For the Lord has his scourge in his hands
00:23:36Oh, but she is horrible
00:23:39She is horrible
00:23:42Who is this woman who looks at me?
00:23:45I do not want her to look at me
00:23:47Why is she looking at me
00:23:50With her amber eyes
00:23:51And silver eyelids
00:23:53I don't know who she is
00:23:57I don't want to know
00:23:59Tell her to go away
00:24:01It is not to her that I wish to speak
00:24:03I am Salome
00:24:06Daughter of Herodias
00:24:09Princess of Judea
00:24:11Get back
00:24:12Daughter of Babylon
00:24:14Fall back
00:24:15From the Lord's Chosen One
00:24:17Your mother has stained the earth
00:24:20With the wine of her iniquities
00:24:21And the cries of her sins
00:24:23Have reached the ears of God
00:24:26Talk on, John the Baptist
00:24:29Your voice intoxicates me
00:24:32Princess
00:24:33Princess, princess
00:24:34Speak again
00:24:38Speak again, John the Baptist
00:24:41And tell me what I must do
00:24:44Away
00:24:44Daughter of Sodom
00:24:46Cover your face with a veil
00:24:48And heap ashes on your head
00:24:50And go into the desert
00:24:52To seek out the Son of Man
00:24:54Who is the Son of Man?
00:24:58Is he as beautiful
00:25:00As you, John the Baptist?
00:25:04Back
00:25:04Back
00:25:06In the palace
00:25:09I hear the beating wings
00:25:11Of the angel of death
00:25:13Princess, I beg you
00:25:14To go back inside
00:25:15Angel of the Lord
00:25:22Why are you here
00:25:24With your sword?
00:25:26Whom do you seek
00:25:26In this foul palace?
00:25:29The day of the one
00:25:30Who will die
00:25:30In a scarlet robe
00:25:32Has not yet come
00:25:33John the Baptist?
00:25:35Who speaks?
00:25:37John the Baptist
00:25:38I am in love
00:25:41With your body
00:25:42Your body
00:25:44Is white
00:25:45Like the lily
00:25:46Of a meadow
00:25:47That the scythe
00:25:48Has never cut down
00:25:50Your body
00:25:51Is as white
00:25:52As the snows
00:25:53On the mountains
00:25:54Of Judah
00:25:55Which descend
00:25:56To the valleys
00:25:57The roses
00:25:59The roses
00:25:59In the garden
00:26:00Of the Queen
00:26:01Of Arabia
00:26:02Are not as white
00:26:04As your body
00:26:06Nor the footprints
00:26:08Of dawn
00:26:09Which steal unto leaves
00:26:10Nor the breast
00:26:11Of the moon
00:26:12When she sets
00:26:13On the bosom
00:26:14Of the sea
00:26:15There is nothing
00:26:17In the world
00:26:19As white
00:26:20As your body
00:26:21Let me touch
00:26:25Your body
00:26:27Away
00:26:27Daughter of Babylon
00:26:30It is through woman
00:26:33That evil
00:26:34Entered the world
00:26:35Do not speak to me
00:26:37I do not wish
00:26:39To hear you
00:26:40I listen only
00:26:42To the word
00:26:43Of the lord god
00:26:44Your body
00:26:46Is hideous
00:26:47It is like
00:26:48The body
00:26:49Of a leper
00:26:49It is like
00:26:51A wall of plaster
00:26:53Where vipers
00:26:54Have passed
00:26:54Like a wall
00:26:56Of plaster
00:26:56Where scorpions
00:26:57Have made
00:26:58Their nets
00:26:59It is horrible
00:27:00It is horrible
00:27:02Your body
00:27:03It is your hair
00:27:11That I am in love
00:27:14With
00:27:14John the baptist
00:27:16Your hair
00:27:18Is like bunches
00:27:20Of black grapes
00:27:21Which hang
00:27:22From the vines
00:27:23Of Edom
00:27:24In the country
00:27:25Of the Edomites
00:27:26It is like
00:27:28The cedars
00:27:28Of Lebanon
00:27:29Like the large
00:27:30Cedars of Lebanon
00:27:31Which give shade
00:27:33To the lions
00:27:34And to the robbers
00:27:35Who hide
00:27:36During the day
00:27:38The long
00:27:39Black nights
00:27:41The nights
00:27:42When the moon
00:27:42Hides herself
00:27:44When the stars
00:27:45Are afraid
00:27:46Are not as black
00:27:48The silence
00:27:50In the forest
00:27:52Is not as black
00:27:53As silence
00:27:54There is nothing
00:27:55In the world
00:27:56As black
00:27:57As your hair
00:27:59Let me touch
00:28:02Your hair
00:28:03Away
00:28:04Daughter of Sodom
00:28:06Do not touch me
00:28:08Do not violate
00:28:10The temple
00:28:10Of the lord
00:28:11God
00:28:12Your hair
00:28:13Is horrible
00:28:14It's all covered
00:28:16In mud
00:28:16And dust
00:28:17It is like
00:28:19It is like a crown
00:28:19Of thorns
00:28:20Placed on your brow
00:28:21It is like
00:28:23A knot
00:28:24Of black snakes
00:28:25Twisting around
00:28:26Your neck
00:28:27I don't
00:28:29Like your hair
00:28:31It is like your mouth
00:28:43That I am in love
00:28:44With
00:28:45John the Baptist
00:28:47Your mouth
00:28:50Is like a band
00:28:52Of scarlet
00:28:53Around an ivory tower
00:28:55It is like a pomegranate
00:28:58Cut
00:28:59By an ivory knife
00:29:01The pomegranate flowers
00:29:03Which bloom
00:29:04In the gardens of Tyre
00:29:06And are redder
00:29:06Than the roses
00:29:07Aren't as red
00:29:09The red cries
00:29:11Of trumpets
00:29:12That herald
00:29:13The arrival of kings
00:29:14And frighten the enemies
00:29:16Aren't as red
00:29:18Your mouth
00:29:20Is redder
00:29:21Than the feet
00:29:22Of those
00:29:22Who tread the wine
00:29:23In the wine presses
00:29:25It is redder
00:29:27Than the feet
00:29:28Of the doves
00:29:28Which live in the temples
00:29:30Who are fed
00:29:31By the priests
00:29:32It is redder
00:29:34Than the feet
00:29:35Of one
00:29:36Who comes out
00:29:37Of the forest
00:29:38Having killed
00:29:39A lion
00:29:40And seen
00:29:42Golden
00:29:43Tigers
00:29:44Your mouth
00:29:47Is like a branch
00:29:49Of coral
00:29:50Which fishermen
00:29:51Have found
00:29:52In the half light
00:29:53Of the sea
00:29:54And saved
00:29:55For the king
00:29:56It is like
00:29:58The vermilion
00:29:59That the Moabites
00:30:00Find
00:30:00In the mines
00:30:01Of Moab
00:30:02Which the kings
00:30:03Take from them
00:30:04It is like
00:30:06The birth
00:30:06Of the king
00:30:07Of Persia
00:30:08Which is painted
00:30:09Vermilion
00:30:10With horns
00:30:12Of coral
00:30:13There is nothing
00:30:15In the world
00:30:17As red
00:30:19As your mouth
00:30:21Let me kiss
00:30:25Your mouth
00:30:28Never
00:30:29Daughter of Babylon
00:30:31Daughter of Sodom
00:30:33Never
00:30:34I will kiss
00:30:36Your mouth
00:30:37John the Baptist
00:30:39I will kiss
00:30:41Your mouth
00:30:43Princess
00:30:47Princess
00:30:49You who are like
00:30:51A bouquet
00:30:52Of myrrh
00:30:53You who are
00:30:54The dove
00:30:55Of doves
00:30:56Do not look
00:30:58At this man
00:30:58Do not look
00:31:00At him
00:31:01Do not say
00:31:02Such things
00:31:03To him
00:31:04I can't bear it
00:31:06Princess
00:31:07Do not say
00:31:09Such things
00:31:10I will kiss
00:31:12Your mouth
00:31:13John the Baptist
00:31:14Mouth
00:31:20Let me kiss
00:31:24Your mouth
00:31:25John the Baptist
00:31:26Princess
00:31:27Princess
00:31:28The young captain
00:31:29Has killed himself
00:31:30Let me kiss
00:31:34Your mouth
00:31:36Are you not afraid
00:31:37Daughter of Herodias
00:31:39Did I not tell you
00:31:40I heard the beating wings
00:31:41Of the angel of death
00:31:42And has not the angel come
00:31:45Let me kiss
00:31:47Your mouth
00:31:48Adulterous
00:31:50Daughter
00:31:50There is only one man
00:31:52Who can save you
00:31:53It is he I was speaking of
00:31:55He was my brother
00:31:57Go and seek him out
00:31:58Closer even than a brother
00:32:00He is in the boat
00:32:01In the sea of Galilee
00:32:02Teaching his disciples
00:32:03I gave him a little box
00:32:04Of perfumes
00:32:05And a ring of egot
00:32:06Which you always wore
00:32:07On his hand
00:32:08Kneel down by the water's edge
00:32:09And call his name
00:32:10In the evenings
00:32:11We would stroll
00:32:12By the side of the river
00:32:13Amongst the almond trees
00:32:14When he comes towards you
00:32:15And he would tell me stories
00:32:17About his country
00:32:17When he comes to all those
00:32:19Who call him
00:32:19Prostrate yourself at his feet
00:32:23And ask forgiveness
00:32:24Of your sins
00:32:25Let me kiss
00:32:28Your mouth
00:32:30Be cursed
00:32:32Daughter of an incestuous mother
00:32:35Be damned
00:32:37I will not look at you
00:32:44You are accursed
00:32:46Salome
00:32:47You are accursed
00:32:51I will kiss your mouth
00:32:56John the Baptist
00:32:57I will kiss your mouth
00:33:00We must dispose of the body
00:33:08The only corpses
00:33:09The Tetrarch likes to see
00:33:10Are those he's killed himself
00:33:11You are right
00:33:12We must hide the body
00:33:14The Tetrarch mustn't see it
00:33:16The Tetrarch doesn't come here
00:33:18He never comes out
00:33:19In the terrace
00:33:19He is too afraid
00:33:20Of the prophet
00:33:21Where is Salome
00:33:23Where is the princess
00:33:24Why did she not return
00:33:27To the banquet
00:33:28As I commanded
00:33:28Ah
00:33:29There she is
00:33:31You must not look at her
00:33:35You are always looking at her
00:33:37This moon is strange tonight
00:33:40Isn't the moon strange
00:33:41Like a mad woman
00:33:43Looking for lovers everywhere
00:33:44Ah she's naked too
00:33:46She's completely naked
00:33:47The clouds are trying to clothe her
00:33:49But she doesn't want them
00:33:50She's showing herself
00:33:50Completely naked in the sky
00:33:52She's reeling across the clouds
00:33:55Like a drunken heart
00:33:57I'm sure she's looking for lovers
00:34:00Doesn't she reel
00:34:02Just like a drunken woman
00:34:04She's like a crazy woman isn't she
00:34:09Let's go in there's nothing out here
00:34:12No I'm staying here
00:34:13Melody
00:34:13Lay the carpets down here
00:34:15Light the torches
00:34:15Bring out the ivory and marble tables
00:34:17Yes the air here is delicious
00:34:21I shall take more wine with my guests
00:34:24To the ambassadors of Caesar
00:34:26One must afford all of the honors
00:34:30It's not because of them that you're staying out here
00:34:34Yes the air here is exquisite
00:34:35Come my dear Herodius
00:34:37We'll keep you out just waiting
00:34:38Oh I've slipped
00:34:41Slipped in blood
00:34:43That's a bad omen
00:34:45A very bad omen
00:34:46What is this blood doing here
00:34:48And this corpse
00:34:51What is this corpse doing here
00:34:53Do you think I'm like the king of Egypt
00:34:56Who never holds a banquet
00:34:57Without showing a corpse to his guests
00:34:59Who is he anyway
00:35:02I don't want to look at him
00:35:04It's our captain my lord
00:35:06It's that young Syrian you made captain only three days ago
00:35:08I gave no orders to kill him
00:35:10He killed himself
00:35:11Why I made him a captain
00:35:13We don't know why my lord
00:35:15He just killed himself
00:35:16How strange
00:35:17I thought it was only Roman philosophers who killed themselves
00:35:21Isn't that true Tegelinus
00:35:23That the philosophers of Rome commit suicide
00:35:26There are others that kill themselves my lord
00:35:28The Stoics for instance
00:35:30They're a very crass people
00:35:31In fact they are ridiculous
00:35:32I find them ridiculous
00:35:33So do I
00:35:34It is ridiculous to kill oneself
00:35:37We laugh a lot about it in Rome
00:35:39The emperor has written a satirical poem about them
00:35:42It is recited everywhere
00:35:44He wrote a satirical poem about them
00:35:46Caesar is marvelous
00:35:48He can do anything
00:35:49It's strange
00:35:52It's strange young Syrian should kill himself
00:35:56I'm sorry very sorry for he was handsome
00:35:59He was very handsome
00:36:01He had languid eyes
00:36:03I've seen him looking at Salome with languid eyes
00:36:07As I recall
00:36:08He looked at Salome a little too often
00:36:11There are others who also look at her too often
00:36:17His father was a king
00:36:19I chased him from his kingdom
00:36:20And you made a slave of his mother
00:36:22Who was a queen
00:36:24Herodias
00:36:24He was a guest here
00:36:27That's why I made him a captain
00:36:28And I'm sorry he's dead
00:36:30And so
00:36:30Why have you left the body lying here?
00:36:35Take it away
00:36:35I don't want to look at it
00:36:37Take it away!
00:36:47There's a wind
00:36:48Isn't there a wind?
00:36:51No there is no wind
00:36:52Yes there is a wind
00:36:54And I hear on that wind
00:36:55Something akin
00:36:56To the beating of wings
00:36:57The beating of giant wings
00:36:59Don't you hear it?
00:37:00I hear nothing
00:37:01I don't hear it anymore either
00:37:03But I did hear it
00:37:05Maybe it was just the wind
00:37:07It's gone
00:37:07But no
00:37:09I can still hear it
00:37:11Don't you hear it
00:37:12Just like the beating of wings?
00:37:13I tell you
00:37:14There is nothing
00:37:15You are ill
00:37:18Let's go inside
00:37:19I am not ill
00:37:21It is your daughter who is ill
00:37:23She seems very ill
00:37:25Your daughter
00:37:26Never have I seen her looking
00:37:28So pale
00:37:30Then don't look at her
00:37:32Give me some wine
00:37:35Salome
00:37:38Come drink a little wine with me
00:37:41This wine is exquisite
00:37:43Caesar himself sent it to me
00:37:45Come moisten your sweet red lips with me
00:37:53And I will drain the cup
00:37:57I am not thirsty Tetrarch
00:38:00Salome
00:38:01Come and eat some fruits with me
00:38:03I love to see the marks your little teeth make
00:38:05Come
00:38:06Bite into this
00:38:08Piece of fruit
00:38:10And I will finish it off
00:38:12I am not hungry Tetrarch
00:38:14See how you've brought her up
00:38:16My daughter and I are of royal heritage
00:38:19Your grandfather kept camels
00:38:21And he was a thief as well
00:38:24You lie
00:38:25You know it's the truth
00:38:27Salome
00:38:28Come and rest with me
00:38:30I will give you your mother's throne
00:38:32I am not tired Tetrarch
00:38:36Bring me
00:38:37Oh
00:38:39I forgot what I wanted
00:38:40Oh yes I remember
00:38:42The time has come
00:38:45What I predicted has come to pass
00:38:48Sayeth the Lord God
00:38:51This is the day of
00:38:53Shut him up
00:38:54I can't bear to hear the sound of his voice
00:38:59Forever spewing up insults about me
00:39:02He hasn't said anything against you
00:39:05And he's a great prophet
00:39:06Oh I don't believe in prophets
00:39:08How can anyone say what will happen
00:39:10No one knows
00:39:11He's always insulting me
00:39:13But I think you are afraid of him
00:39:17Yes I know very well
00:39:19You are afraid of him
00:39:21I am not afraid of him
00:39:22I am not afraid of anybody
00:39:23Yes you are afraid of him
00:39:26If you are not afraid of him
00:39:27Why do you not deliver him to the Jews
00:39:29They've been asking for the past six months
00:39:32That is over Lord
00:39:35It would be better to hand him over to us
00:39:37Enough
00:39:38I have already given you my answer
00:39:40I don't want to hand him over
00:39:42He's a holy man
00:39:43He's a man who has seen God
00:39:46That's impossible
00:39:47No one has seen God since the prophet Elijah
00:39:49He was the last to see him
00:39:51God does not show himself these days
00:39:53He is in hiding
00:39:54And that is why there are great misfortunes in this country
00:39:56Ah we don't know for sure if the great prophet Elijah really saw God
00:40:00It is more likely that he saw the shadow of God
00:40:03God never hides himself from anything
00:40:05He shows himself in everything
00:40:06God is in good as he is in evil
00:40:09You mustn't say that
00:40:10That is a very dangerous idea
00:40:12It's an idea which comes from the schools of Alexandria
00:40:14Where they teach Greek philosophy
00:40:16And the Greeks
00:40:17They are Gentiles
00:40:18They're not even circumcised
00:40:20We can't know how God acts
00:40:22His ways are mysterious
00:40:23God is all powerful
00:40:24He breaks the weak and the strong together
00:40:26He cares for nobody
00:40:28That is true
00:40:29God is all terrible
00:40:30He crushes the weak and the strong
00:40:31As you would crush wheat in a mortar
00:40:33But this man has never seen God
00:40:35No one has seen God since the prophet Elijah
00:40:37Shut them up
00:40:39They bore me
00:40:41But it's said that John the Baptist himself is your prophet Elijah
00:40:45That's not possible
00:40:46Three hundred years have passed since the prophet Elijah
00:40:48You might believe
00:40:49There are those who say that he is the prophet Elijah
00:40:52Oh
00:40:53Oh
00:40:54I'm sure
00:40:55He's the prophet Elijah
00:40:57No no
00:40:58He's not the prophet Elijah
00:40:59The day has come
00:41:01The day of the Lord
00:41:03And on the mountain's death sound
00:41:05The footsteps of the saviour of the world
00:41:08What does that mean?
00:41:11The saviour of the world
00:41:17What does that mean?
00:41:18The saviour of the world
00:41:22This is what Caesar calls himself
00:41:24Caesar is not coming to Judea
00:41:26Only yesterday I had letters from Rome
00:41:28They didn't mention it
00:41:29You were in Rome during the winter
00:41:31Did you hear anything about it then?
00:41:32No my lord
00:41:33I haven't heard anything either
00:41:35I was merely explaining about the title
00:41:37It's one of Caesar's titles
00:41:39Caesar can't come
00:41:40He has gout
00:41:41They say he has elephant's feet
00:41:46Also for political reasons
00:41:48He who leaves Rome loses Rome
00:41:50He won't come
00:41:52On the other hand
00:41:53Caesar is master
00:41:54He'll come if he wants to
00:41:56But I don't think he'll come
00:41:58The prophet was not speaking of Caesar my lord
00:42:01Not Caesar?
00:42:02No my lord
00:42:03So who was he speaking of?
00:42:05Of the messiah who has come
00:42:07The messiah has not come
00:42:09He has come
00:42:10He's performing miracles everywhere
00:42:11Not miracles
00:42:12I don't believe in miracles
00:42:13I've seen far too many
00:42:15This man performs real miracles
00:42:19Once during a marriage in the town of Galilee
00:42:22A town of some importance
00:42:24He changed the water into wine
00:42:27My fan!
00:42:30People who were there told me
00:42:32He also cured some lepers who were sitting at the gate of Capernaum
00:42:36Simply by touching them
00:42:38No it was two blind people he cured in Capernaum
00:42:42No they were lepers
00:42:44But he cured the blind too
00:42:46And we saw him on a mountain
00:42:49Speaking with angels
00:42:51Angels don't exist
00:42:53Angels do exist
00:42:54But I don't believe that man spoke with them
00:42:57He was seen by a crowd of people
00:42:59Talking to the angels
00:43:01These men irritate me
00:43:04They are stupid
00:43:05So stupid
00:43:06So utterly stupid
00:43:08Where is my fan?
00:43:10No
00:43:11You seem to be dreaming
00:43:13One shouldn't dream
00:43:15Dreamers are sick people
00:43:17Then there's the miracle of the daughter of Jairus
00:43:21That's absolutely right
00:43:23You can't deny it
00:43:24These people are mad
00:43:26They've been mooning at the moon too long
00:43:29Tell them to be quiet
00:43:31What was that?
00:43:33The miracle of the daughter of Jairus?
00:43:35Yes it's true
00:43:36You can't deny it
00:43:37Well what was it?
00:43:38The miracle of the daughter of Jairus
00:43:40The daughter of Jairus was dead
00:43:42He restored her to life
00:43:45He raises the dead?
00:43:48Yes my lord
00:43:49He raises the dead
00:43:51I don't want him to do that
00:43:53I forbid him to do that
00:43:55You must find this man
00:43:57And tell him I will not allow him to raise the dead
00:44:00Where is he now this man?
00:44:02He's everywhere my lord
00:44:04But he's very difficult to find
00:44:06They say he's in Samaria at present
00:44:09It's easy to see he's not the messiah if he's in Samaria
00:44:13It's not to the Samaritans the messiah will come
00:44:17He left Samaria a few days ago
00:44:21I think he's on the outskirts of Jerusalem
00:44:24Oh no he's not there
00:44:25I've just come from Jerusalem
00:44:27No one has heard anything about him for two months
00:44:29So it doesn't matter
00:44:31You must find this man and tell him on my behalf
00:44:34That I don't want him to go around raising the dead
00:44:37Now turning water into wine
00:44:39Curing lepers in the blind
00:44:40He can do that if he wants
00:44:41I have nothing against that
00:44:42In fact I think curing lepers is a good deed
00:44:45But I will not have him going around raising the dead
00:44:49It would be terrible if the dead were to come back
00:44:54The wanton one
00:44:56The slut
00:44:57The whore
00:44:58The daughter of Babylon
00:45:01Silence him
00:45:02With gold and eyes
00:45:03And golden eyes
00:45:05This is what the Lord God commands
00:45:09Bring against her
00:45:11The multitude of men
00:45:13So that the people may take up rocks and stone rocks
00:45:17Do you hear what he is saying about me?
00:45:19You allow him to insult your wife
00:45:21He hasn't even mentioned your name
00:45:22Oh you know very well I am the one he is insulting
00:45:25And I am your wife aren't I?
00:45:28Oh yes my dear and noble Herodias you are my wife
00:45:30You are also my brother's wife
00:45:32You tore me from his arms
00:45:36Quite so I was the stronger
00:45:38But let's not talk these things now
00:45:40It's because of this that the prophet has said these terrible things
00:45:42And in consequence something dreadful may happen
00:45:44Let's not talk about it
00:45:46Just pour me a drink beloved
00:45:48You haven't mentioned how pale your daughter is
00:45:51What is it to you whether she is pale or not?
00:45:53Never have I seen her so pale
00:45:55Don't look at her
00:45:57Don't
00:46:01No
00:46:03No
00:46:05Me?
00:46:07Them
00:46:09Don't
00:46:10They're over here
00:46:11Don't
00:46:13No
00:46:15No
00:46:16No
00:46:17No
00:46:18No
00:46:19No
00:46:20No
00:46:21No
00:46:22No
00:46:23No
00:46:24On that day
00:46:25The sun will become as black as a sack of feathers
00:46:30And the moon will become like blood
00:46:34And the stars in the sky will fall on the earth
00:46:37Like green figs from the fig tree
00:46:40And the kings of the earth will be afraid
00:46:45He
00:46:47I'd really like to see the day when the moon drips blood
00:46:51And the stars fall to earth like ripe figs
00:46:54He talks like a drunk
00:46:56I cannot bear the sound of his voice
00:46:58Order him to be silent
00:47:00No
00:47:01I don't understand what he's saying
00:47:03But it could be an omen
00:47:05I don't believe in omens
00:47:07He speaks like a drunk
00:47:09Maybe he's drunk on the wine of God
00:47:13What wine is that?
00:47:15The wine of God
00:47:16What vines does it grow on?
00:47:18In what wine cellars?
00:47:19Will you find it?
00:47:20Did you let us?
00:47:22When you were in Rome recently
00:47:26What did the emperor have to say on the subject?
00:47:31What subject my lord?
00:47:33What subject?
00:47:34I asked you a question didn't I?
00:47:37I have forgotten what it was
00:47:38You're looking at my daughter again?
00:47:41Don't look at her
00:47:42I've told you this before
00:47:43You're always saying it
00:47:44And I'm saying it again
00:47:45The
00:47:48The restoration of the temple we talked so much about
00:47:53Are we going to do something about that?
00:47:57They say the veil from the sanctuaries disappeared
00:48:03You took it yourself you talking nonsense
00:48:09Dance for me Salome
00:48:11I don't want her to dance
00:48:13I have no desire to dance Tetrarch
00:48:16Salome daughter of Herodias
00:48:18Dance for me
00:48:20Leave her alone
00:48:22I command you to dance for me Salome
00:48:24I will not dance Tetrarch
00:48:30See how she obeys you
00:48:35What is it to me if she dances or not?
00:48:37Doesn't matter
00:48:39Tonight I'm happy
00:48:40I'm very happy
00:48:41I've never been so happy
00:48:42Tetrarch looks glum
00:48:43Don't you think he looks glum?
00:48:45He's glum alright
00:48:46Why shouldn't I be happy?
00:48:49Caesar
00:48:50Who's the master of the world
00:48:51Master of everything
00:48:52Loves me very much
00:48:54He just sent me some valuable gifts
00:48:56Also he has promised to summon my enemy
00:48:58The king of Cappadocia to Rome
00:49:01Maybe he'll be crucified in Rome
00:49:03He can do anything Caesar
00:49:05After all he's master
00:49:07So you see I have every reason to be happy
00:49:10In fact
00:49:12I am happy
00:49:13I've never been happier
00:49:14There's nothing in the world that could spoil my happiness
00:49:18He will be seated on his throne
00:49:21He will be clothed in purple and scarlet
00:49:26In his hand he will carry a golden vessel
00:49:31Filled with his blasphemies
00:49:34And the angel of God will strike him down
00:49:40He will be eaten by worms
00:49:44Do you hear what he's saying about you?
00:49:46He says you will be eaten by worms
00:49:54The prophet never says anything against me
00:49:57It's the king of Cappadocia he's talking about
00:49:59The king of Cappadocia who is my enemy
00:50:01It is he who will be eaten by worms
00:50:03Never
00:50:04Never has the prophet said anything against me
00:50:07Except to say that
00:50:08I was wrong to take the wife of my brother as my wife
00:50:11Then maybe he's right
00:50:13After all you are barren
00:50:16Barren?
00:50:17You dare say that to me?
00:50:21You who are forever ogling my daughter
00:50:25Who asked her to dance for your pleasure it is ridiculous to say that
00:50:31I have a child
00:50:34You have never had a child even by one of your slaves
00:50:38If anyone is sterile it is you not I
00:50:41Shut up!
00:50:42I'm telling you you're barren!
00:50:44You have not given me a child
00:50:46And the prophet says that our marriage is not a true marriage
00:50:48He says it's an incestuous marriage
00:50:50A marriage which will bring misfortune
00:50:52I'm afraid he may be right
00:50:53I'm sure he is right
00:50:55But now it's not the time to talk about such things
00:50:59At the moment I want to be happy
00:51:01Ha ha ha ha
00:51:12Get off
00:51:16Oh
00:51:19Hey
00:51:20Ha, ha, ha!
00:51:24Ha, ha!
00:51:26Ha, ha, ha!
00:51:30Ha, ha, ha!
00:51:50Oh, God!
00:52:03Oh, God!
00:52:05I'm happy I'm very happy there's nothing I could wish for I am delighted to see you
00:52:31such good humor tonight it is so unusual but it is getting late let us go in
00:52:41have you forgotten we are hunting at dawn we must bestow honours on Caesar's
00:52:49ambassador must we not how glum the truck looks yes he does seem glum
00:52:58Salome Salome Salome dance for me Salome I beg you I'm sad tonight yes tonight I'm I'm very sad when I
00:53:13came out here I slipped in some blood that's a very bad omen and then I heard oh I'm sure I
00:53:20heard the beating of wings in the air beating of giant wings I don't know what it means I'm sad
00:53:26tonight dance with me Salome dance for me now I'll give you anything you ask for even if it's half my
00:53:38kingdom you will give me anything that I ask for Tetrarch don't dance my daughter
00:53:46anything even if it's half my kingdom do you swear it Tetrarch I swear it slowly my daughter do not dance
00:54:16on what do you swear Tetrarch on my life on my crown my god I will give you anything you want
00:54:38even even half my kingdom if you dance for me if you dance for me
00:54:46if you dance for me Salome Salome
00:54:50dance for me
00:54:54you have sworn Tetrarch
00:54:58I have sworn Salome
00:55:03my daughter do not dance
00:55:08I will give you one half of my kingdom
00:55:17as Queen you would look very beautiful if you were to ask me for one half of my kingdom
00:55:28wouldn't she look very beautiful as Queen
00:55:32it's cold
00:55:35it's a very cold wind blowing
00:55:39and I hear
00:55:41oh why do I hear this beating of wings in the air
00:55:45it's as though there's a bird
00:55:46a big black bird hovering over the terrace
00:55:49the wind coming from his wings is fierce
00:55:51it's a cold wind
00:55:54no it isn't cold at all
00:55:58on the contrary
00:55:59it's too hot
00:56:00suffocating
00:56:02pour water on my hands
00:56:04give me snow to eat
00:56:06and fasten my toga quickly
00:56:07quickly
00:56:08I've had no
00:56:08leave it
00:56:09it's my crown
00:56:14it's hurting me
00:56:15my crown of roses
00:56:16it's a loaf
00:56:18a petal
00:56:19a maid of flame
00:56:21it's burning my forehead
00:56:23oh that's better
00:56:30I can breathe at last
00:56:33how red they are the petals
00:56:39like drops of blood
00:56:44but it doesn't matter
00:56:47one must not look for symbolic meanings in everything one sees
00:56:51it makes life impossible
00:56:52but let's not talk about that now
00:56:53now I want to be happy
00:56:55I am happy
00:56:55I'm very happy
00:56:56I have every reason to be happy
00:56:58haven't I
00:56:58your daughter is going to dance for me
00:57:00aren't you Salome
00:57:01you promised to dance
00:57:02I don't want her to dance
00:57:05I will dance for you
00:57:09Tetraak
00:57:11do you hear what your daughter is saying
00:57:15she is going to dance for me
00:57:16she is going to dance for me
00:57:17your daughter
00:57:18you're quite right to dance for me Salome
00:57:22and after you have danced
00:57:24don't forget to come and ask for anything you want
00:57:26anything you want
00:57:27I'll give you
00:57:28I have sworn it haven't I
00:57:29you have sworn
00:57:31I have never
00:57:33gone back on my word
00:57:35I'm not one of those
00:57:37to go back on my word
00:57:38I don't know how to lie
00:57:40I'm a slave to my word
00:57:43because my word is the word of a king
00:57:45the king of Cappadocia lies all the time
00:57:48but he's not a proper king
00:57:50he's a coward
00:57:52and he owes me money
00:57:53he doesn't want to repay
00:57:54he said
00:57:57very hurtful things
00:57:59he insulted my ambassadors
00:58:00but Caesar will crucify him
00:58:02when he gets to Rome
00:58:03I'm sure Caesar will crucify him
00:58:05or he'll die
00:58:06eaten by worms
00:58:07as the prophets predict
00:58:08what are you waiting for
00:58:13I am waiting for my slaves
00:58:16to bring me perfumes
00:58:19and the seven veils
00:58:21and to unlace my boots
00:58:25oh you're going to dance barefoot
00:58:27oh that's good
00:58:28that's good
00:58:29your little feet will be like white doves
00:58:32they'll be like little white flowers
00:58:34that dance the trees
00:58:36no
00:58:41I don't want to dance barefoot
00:58:44she'll dance in blood
00:58:48there was blood spilled
00:58:49I won't have her dancing in blood
00:58:51that would be a very bad omen
00:58:53what does it matter
00:58:56if she dances in blood
00:58:58you have walked in it yourself
00:59:02what does it matter
00:59:04look at the moon
00:59:10she's turned red as blood
00:59:13as the prophet said
00:59:14he predicted the moon
00:59:15would turn as red as blood
00:59:17don't you see
00:59:18I see it perfectly well
00:59:20and the stars will fall
00:59:23like green figs
00:59:25and the sun is turning as black
00:59:27as a sack of feathers
00:59:28and the kings of the earth are afraid
00:59:30that at least we can see
00:59:32for the first time in his life
00:59:34the prophet is right
00:59:35the kings of the earth are afraid
00:59:37so let us go in
00:59:39you are ill
00:59:40they are going to say in Rome
00:59:41that you are mad
00:59:42let us go in
00:59:44what can I tell you
00:59:45who is he who comes from Edom
00:59:48who comes from Bosra
00:59:50with his purple colored robe
00:59:52who glows in the beauty of his clothes
00:59:54and walks with a powerful stride
00:59:58why are his clothes dyed scarlet
01:00:03let us go in
01:00:05the sound of this man's voice exasperates me
01:00:08I don't want my daughter to dance
01:00:10while he is carrying on like this
01:00:12I don't want my daughter to dance
01:00:13while you are looking at her like that
01:00:15in fact I don't want my daughter to dance at all
01:00:19no go in
01:00:21my wife my queen
01:00:22it's no use
01:00:24I will not go in until I have seen her dance
01:00:27Salome
01:00:30dance for me
01:00:33I am ready
01:00:35Tetrarch
01:00:37do not dance my daughter
01:00:39do not dance me
01:00:42I am ready
01:00:44if you want my daughter to dance
01:00:44Hee
01:00:54I am ready to dance
01:00:56I am ready and I am ready to be
01:00:57to dance
01:00:59I am ready to dance
01:01:00try to dance
01:01:01kick
01:01:02Do not dance
01:01:03do not dance
01:01:04do not dance
01:01:05I am ready to dance
01:01:06bye
01:01:06There no
01:01:08Oh, my God.
01:01:38Ooh!
01:01:40Ooh!
01:01:42Oh!
01:01:46Mm-hmm!
01:01:48Okay.
01:01:54Ooh!
01:01:56Ooh!
01:02:02Ooh!
01:02:04Ooh!
01:02:06Ooh!
01:02:08Ooh!
01:02:10Ooh!
01:02:12Ooh!
01:02:14Ooh!
01:02:16Ooh!
01:02:18Ooh!
01:02:22Ooh...!
01:02:24Ooh!
01:02:27Oh!
01:02:28Ah!
01:02:30Ah!
01:02:32Ah!
01:02:34Oh!
01:02:36Oh
01:03:06you see she has done for me your daughter come here slowly come here so I can reward you anything
01:03:31you want I'll give you what do you want tell me I want it brought to me presently on a silver platter
01:03:41on a silver platter on a silver platter of course isn't she charming what do you want brought you
01:03:49on a silver platter my dear and beautiful Salome you're the most beautiful of all the girls in
01:03:54Judea what do you want brought you on a silver platter tell me and I'll give it to you all my
01:03:59treasures belong to you tell me what do you want the head of John the Baptist well said my daughter
01:04:11I beg you slowly do not ask this of me I don't pay any attention to your mother she's always giving
01:04:18you bad advice you mustn't listen to her I'm not listening to her it is for my own pleasure that I
01:04:25ask for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter remember you swore Herod I know I swore
01:04:34by the gods I know very well but I beg you do not ask this of me ask for anything else ask for half
01:04:38my kingdom I will give it to you but I beg you do not ask this of me I am asking you for the head of
01:04:46John the Baptist
01:04:51Salome Salome let's be friends eh you see what was I going to say I've forgotten yes I remember what it
01:05:01was uh no Salome come closer I'm afraid you you won't hear me you know my my beautiful peacocks my
01:05:12beautiful white peacocks which live between the cypress trees and myrtles in the garden their heads
01:05:22are golden the grain they eat is gold too and their feet are dyed purple the rains come when they cry out
01:05:28and when they open up their fans the moon appears in the sky they walk two by two between the cypress
01:05:37trees and the black myrtles and each one has a slave to look after him sometimes they fly through
01:05:43the trees and sometimes they sleep in the grass or by the pool there are no animals in the world as
01:05:51beautiful as they I'm sure no king on earth as birds is perfect I'm sure even sees Caesar it's not
01:06:00birds is beautiful I will give you 50 of them they will go everywhere with you and amongst them you
01:06:08will be like the moon on a great white cloud I will I will give them all to you I have only 100 and
01:06:17there's no king on earth who has peacocks such as mine I will give them all to you but you must release
01:06:24me from my promise and not ask me what you have asked of me give me the head of John the Baptist well said
01:06:37my daughter you you are ridiculous with your white peacocks shut up you're always shouting you screech like
01:06:44a bird of prey stop screeching like that so low me so low me think of what you're doing this man comes
01:06:55from God perhaps I'm sure he comes from God he's a holy man the finger of God is upon him I mean God
01:07:04has put terrible words in his mouth in the palace as in the desert God is always with him it's possible
01:07:12isn't it I mean we don't know but it's possible that God is always with him and it could be that
01:07:18if he dies something terrible will happen to me well he said the day he died a great misfortune would
01:07:25befall someone it could only be me but when I came out here I slipped in blood and then I heard I know I
01:07:32heard the beating of wings in the air the beating of giant wings these are both very bad omens and there
01:07:38others I know there were others although I haven't seen them so so Salome you you don't want to be
01:07:47terrible to happen to me do you so listen to me
01:07:56give me the head of John the Baptist oh you see you're not listening to me
01:08:03I have got jewels hidden here that even your mother has never seen in a casket of ebony I have
01:08:20two amber goblets that look like golden apples now if an enemy puts poison into the goblets they become
01:08:27silver apples in a chest covering number I have slippers entrusted with glass I've got cloaks from
01:08:37the country of series I have got bangles garnished with carbuncles and jade from the city of Euphrates
01:08:43so tell me Salome what do you want anything you desire I'll give you I'll give you everything except
01:08:49one thing I'll give you everything I own except my life I will give you the cloak of the high priest I'll
01:08:58give you the veil from the sanctuary
01:09:00I'll give me the head of John the Baptist
01:09:11give her what she asks for she is truly her mother's daughter
01:09:41why did I give my word
01:10:08Kings should never give their word.
01:10:13If you don't keep it, it's bad.
01:10:15If you do keep it, it's worth.
01:10:16I think my daughter did right.
01:10:20I'm afraid something terrible is going to happen.
01:10:38There isn't any noise.
01:10:41I can hear nothing.
01:10:43Why doesn't he cry out?
01:10:45If someone were trying to kill me, I'd scream and fight.
01:10:50I wouldn't want to suffer.
01:10:53Strike!
01:10:54Strike, Naemon!
01:10:56Strike, I tell you!
01:11:00I hear nothing.
01:11:08Strike, I tell you!
01:11:20Whoa!
01:11:29You didn't want to let me kiss you, John the Baptist.
01:11:34Well, I will kiss you now.
01:11:37I will bite your mouth with my teeth the way I bite into a ripe fruit.
01:11:44Yes, I'll kiss your mouth, John the Baptist.
01:11:50I told you so, didn't I?
01:11:53I told you.
01:11:55Well, I will kiss it now.
01:12:00But why don't you look at me, John the Baptist?
01:12:04Your eyes, which were so terrible, so full of anger and contempt, are closed now.
01:12:14And your tongue, that was like a red snake darting poisons.
01:12:21It doesn't move anymore.
01:12:24It doesn't say anything now, John the Baptist.
01:12:28That red viper, who vomited his venom on me?
01:12:33Strange, isn't it?
01:12:36Why is it that the red snake is still?
01:12:41You didn't want me.
01:12:43You rejected me.
01:12:45You said infamous things to me.
01:12:48You treated me like a courtesan, a whore.
01:12:51Me!
01:12:52Salome, daughter of Herodias, princess of Judea.
01:12:58So now, John the Baptist, I am still alive.
01:13:03But you are dead.
01:13:06And your head is mine.
01:13:10I can do with it as I please.
01:13:12I can throw it to the dogs or the birds in the air.
01:13:20What the dogs leave, the birds will eat.
01:13:25John the Baptist, John the Baptist.
01:13:29You were the only man I ever loved.
01:13:34Or the others fill me with disgust.
01:13:37But you...
01:13:40You are beautiful.
01:13:43Your body was an ivory column on a silver pedestal.
01:13:49It was a garden filled with doves and silver lilies.
01:13:55It was a silver tower adorned with ivory shields.
01:14:00There was nothing in the world as white as your body.
01:14:07There was nothing in the world as black as your hair.
01:14:14In all the world, there was nothing as red as your mouth.
01:14:20Your voice was a censer filled with strange perfumes.
01:14:27And when I looked at you,
01:14:32I heard strange music.
01:14:37Oh, why didn't you look at me, John the Baptist?
01:14:41You hid your face behind your hands and your blasphemy.
01:14:45You placed on your eyes the bandage of one who wishes to see his God.
01:14:49Well, you have seen him, your God,
01:14:55John the Baptist.
01:14:56But me!
01:14:58Me!
01:15:00You have never seen me!
01:15:04Oh!
01:15:06How I loved you!
01:15:08I love you still, John the Baptist.
01:15:10I love only you.
01:15:15I am thirsty for your beauty.
01:15:18I am hungry for your body.
01:15:21And neither wine nor fruit can appease my desire.
01:15:26Oh, tell me what to do now, John the Baptist!
01:15:29Neither rivers nor floods can drown my passion.
01:15:36I was a princess and you humiliated me.
01:15:42I was a virgin and you raped me.
01:15:47I was chased and you filled my veins with fire.
01:15:52Oh!
01:15:54Why didn't you look at me, John the Baptist?
01:15:58If you had looked at me,
01:16:01you would have loved me.
01:16:04I know you would have loved me.
01:16:08And the mystery of love
01:16:13is greater
01:16:15than the mystery of death.
01:16:18One must look only
01:16:25to love.
01:16:38She is monstrous, your Lord.
01:16:41Utterly monstrous.
01:16:43It's a vile crime she's done.
01:16:45It's a crime against an unknown God.
01:16:48I approve of what my daughter has done.
01:16:53I like it out here.
01:16:56I want to stay for a while.
01:16:58Ah!
01:17:00The incestuous wife speaks.
01:17:02Come.
01:17:04I do not wish to stay here.
01:17:07I'm afraid something terrible is going to happen.
01:17:10Come, I say.
01:17:11Melasseh!
01:17:13Hezekiah!
01:17:14Osiris!
01:17:15Put out the torches!
01:17:16I don't want to see anything.
01:17:18I don't want anything to see me.
01:17:20Extinguish the torches!
01:17:23Hide the moon, hide the stars.
01:17:25Come.
01:17:27Let us hide in our palace, Herodias.
01:17:32I'm beginning
01:17:34to feel afraid.
01:17:35I have kissed your mouth,
01:17:40John the Baptist.
01:17:43I have kissed your mouth.
01:17:51Is that the taste of blood?
01:17:57Perhaps it is the taste of love.
01:18:01They say love leaves a bitter taste.
01:18:05But what of that?
01:18:08I have kissed your mouth.
01:18:14Kill that woman.
01:18:15Oh!
01:18:30Bravo!
01:18:31Well done!
01:18:32Bravo!
01:18:36What, no curtain falls?
01:18:38It wasn't as bad as all that.
01:18:40They're getting out of their drag.
01:18:42I wish they'd drag me out of this hole.
01:18:46Oh dear, Bosie.
01:18:50I knew you were more than just a pretty face.
01:18:52But considering how distasteful you must have found it,
01:18:55that was quite a performance.
01:18:56I wish I could be as enthusiastic about yours.
01:18:58Come, come.
01:18:59Jealousy is not part of a prophet's makeup.
01:19:01And yours, my dear, is just a little overdone.
01:19:04If I may be permitted a teeny criticism.
01:19:07Oh, how I love your lips.
01:19:09Let me kiss your lips, John the Baptist.
01:19:12No, thank you.
01:19:14You've got too much gold on your own.
01:19:16I'm well aware that he's your favorite.
01:19:19But I find gold irresistible.
01:19:21And as you know, I can resist anything but temptation.
01:19:25You took advantage of my position.
01:19:27I might be tempted to do so again if you don't close your mouth.
01:19:30Ah, Alfred.
01:19:39Our prophet is somewhat at a loss.
01:19:42Bravo, Bosie.
01:19:44Don't panic.
01:19:45Help is on its way.
01:19:46When you feel yourself getting a good groping,
01:19:48you'll know the stagehands have arrived.
01:19:50Very touching, isn't he?
01:19:52He always is touching.
01:19:54The casting was nigh on perfect.
01:19:56I've always admired the talent here but never more so than tonight.
01:19:59Your Herod outheroded Herod.
01:20:01Oh, you don't think it was a mistake casting the soldiers from the rough trade then?
01:20:04Inspired, my dear Alfred.
01:20:06Absolutely inspired.
01:20:08I was delighted to find that I'd written yet another comedy.
01:20:11I'm afraid the staging left a little to be desired.
01:20:13On the contrary, I found it extremely stagey.
01:20:17The death of Salome was pure verismo.
01:20:20How on earth did you achieve such realism?
01:20:22I wondered if you were going to...
01:20:24Well, Oscar, tell us the worst.
01:20:26My dear Lady Alice,
01:20:28you're acting to tell the truth.
01:20:30That remark generally precedes an untruth.
01:20:33I make no excuses for my performance.
01:20:35If it is good enough for Queen Victoria,
01:20:37it is certainly good enough for you.
01:20:39You've done a Royal Command performance?
01:20:41The Christmas of Balmoral would be complete without the entire family staging Macbeth.
01:20:44Why back there?
01:20:45I had no idea. Her Majesty admired Shakespeare.
01:20:47The Balmoral Ghost walks only at Christmas Eve.
01:20:50I was not referring to my acting but to my costume.
01:20:53It is the one I usually wear as Lady Macbeth.
01:20:57My dear Lady Alice,
01:20:58you transcended country, class and indeed the very centuries.
01:21:02Sarah Bernhardt should look to her laurels.
01:21:05Though I must confess,
01:21:06you lack one of her most singular attributes.
01:21:09Indeed, and pray, what is that?
01:21:12A wooden leg.
01:21:16Remain where you are.
01:21:18Nobody is to leave the room.
01:21:19What is the meaning of this?
01:21:21We're here to run you in.
01:21:22Run us in?
01:21:24Taran-ta-rah, taran-ta-rah, taran-ta-rah, taran-ta-rah, taran-ta-rah.
01:21:27Oh, please, Alfred, not the Pirates of Penzance.
01:21:29I'd hate to share a double bill with Gilbert and Sullivan.
01:21:32I assure you, Oscar...
01:21:33Oscar Wills, Fangaloflaity Wilde.
01:21:35You're under arrest.
01:21:36Charged with gross sexual indecency
01:21:38and the corruption of minors.
01:21:43Bosie.
01:21:45Alfred Taylor,
01:21:46you're also under arrest.
01:21:47Charged with running a disorderly house.
01:21:49I...
01:21:50Now, will you both come quietly
01:21:52or shall we use the handcuffs?
01:21:54That won't be necessary, officer.
01:21:56We've had one melodramatic ending tonight.
01:21:59Two might be an indulgence.
01:22:01Chubbers.
01:22:02My top hat and cloak.
01:22:04I'm joined out.
01:22:06I may be some little tired.
01:22:17You called, sir.
01:22:19You know, Alfred, I think Bosie was miscast.
01:22:32If you want a revival,
01:22:34he really should play Salome
01:22:36and I should play the prophet.
01:22:38With your head served up in a silver platter?
01:22:41Or my balls.
01:22:43If you think I am traveling in this horse box
01:22:47with two dangerous criminals,
01:22:49you are mightily mistaken, my man.
01:22:52Name and address, Miss.
01:22:53Miss, I have never been called Miss in my life.
01:22:56I am the Lady Alice Fitz Kensington Windsor.
01:22:59I beg your pardon, Your Ladyship.
01:23:01I'd you down for an oar.
01:23:02We'll have to come along all the same.
01:23:04Since when has it been a crime to play charades?
01:23:07Never, Your Ladyship.
01:23:08We need you as a witness.
01:23:09One of the chambermaids has just been murdered.
01:23:11Murdered? Nonsense.
01:23:13It was death by misadventure.
01:23:15She slipped on a banana skin.
01:23:27Mr. Taylor!
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01:23:30I've got them!
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