Salome's Last Dance Page #4

What is this blood doing here?

And this corpse!

What is this corpse doing here?

Do you think I'm like the King of Egypt,

who never holds a banquet without

showing a corpse to his guests?

Who is he anyway? I..

I don't want to look at him!

It's our captain, my Lord!

It's that young Syrian you made

captain only three days ago.

I gave no orders to kill him!

He killed himself.

- Why? I made him a captain!

We don't know why, my Lord. He just..

killed himself.

How strange!

I thought it was only Roman philosophers

who killed themselves.

Isn't that true, Tigellinus, that the

philosophers of Rome commit suicide?

There are others that kill

themselves, my Lord.

The stoics, for instance,

are a very crass people.

In fact, they are ridiculous!

I find them ridiculous. - So do I!

It is ridiculous to kill oneself!

We laugh a lot about it in Rome.

The Emperor has written a satirical poem

about them. It is recited everywhere.

He wrote a satirical poem about them?

Caesar is marvelous!

He can do anything!

It's strange young Syrian..

should kill.. himself.

I'm sorry, very sorry for he

was handsome. He was..

very handsome.. he had languid eyes.

I've seen him looking at Salome with..

languorous eyes.

As I recall,

he looked at Salome a little too often.

There are others, who also

look at her too often!

His father was a king.

I chased him from his kingdom..

and you made a slave of his mother..

who was a queen, Herodias!

He was a guest here,

that's why I made him a captain.

I'm sorry he's dead, I'm sor..

Why have you left the body lying here?

Take it away. I don't want to

look at it! Take it away!

There's a wind.

Isn't there a wind?

- No, there is no wind.

Yes, there is a wind!

And I hear on that wind something

akin to the beating of wings.

The beating of giant wings.

Don't you hear it?

I hear nothing.

I don't hear it anymore either..

but I did hear it.

Maybe it was just

the wind, it's gone.

No! I can still hear it.

Don't you hear it? Just like a beating

of wings! - I tell you there is nothing!

You are ill, let's go inside.

I am not ill!

It is your daughter who is ill.

She seems very ill your daughter..

never have I seen her looking..

so pale.

Then don't look at her!

Give me some wine!

Salome.. come drink a

little wine with me.

This wine is exquisite.

Caesar himself sent it to me.

Come, moisten your

sweet red lips with me..

and I will drain the cup!

I am not thirsty, Tetrarch.

Salome, come eat some fruits with me!

I love to see the marks

your little teeth make.

Come.. bite into this.. piece of fruit..

and I will finish it off.

I am not hungry, Tetrarch.

See, how you brought her up!

My daughter and I are of royal heritage.

Your grandfather kept camels!

And he was a thief as well.

- You lie!

You know it's the truth.

Salome, come and rest with me.

I will give you your mother's throne.

I am not tired, Tetrarch.

Bring me..

I forgot what I wanted..

Oh, yes, I remember!

The time has come!

What I predicted has come to pass,

sayeth the Lord God!

This is the day..

Shut him up!

I can't bear to hear

the sound of his voice!

Forever spewing up insults about me!

He hasn't said anything against you!

He's a great prophet.

I don't believe in prophets!

How can anyone say what

will happen? No one knows!

He's always insulting me!

But I think you are afraid of him!

Yes, I know very well,

you are afraid of him!

I am not afraid of him!

I am not afraid of anybody!

Yes, you are afraid of him!

If you are not afraid of him,

why do you not deliver him to the Jews?

They've been asking for

the past six months!

That is so my Lord, it would

be better to hand him over to us.

Enough!

I have already given you my answer!

I don't want to hand him over!

He's a holy man.

He's a man who has seen God!

That's impossible! No one has seen

God since the Prophet Elijah!

He was the last to see him.

God does not show himself

these days. He is in hiding!

And that is why there are great

misfortunes in this country!

Ah! We don't know for sure if the

great Prophet Elijah really saw God!

It is more likely that he

saw the shadow of God!

God never hides from anything!

He shows himself in everything!

God is in good as he is in evil.

You mustn't say that! That

is a very dangerous idea!

It's an idea which comes

from the schools of Alexandria,

where they teach Greek philosophy!

And the Greeks, they are Gentiles!

They're not even circumcised!

We can't know how God acts!

His ways are mysterious!

God is all-powerful! He breaks

the weak and the strong together!

He cares for nobody!

That is true. God is all terrible,

he crushes the weak and the strong..

as you would crush wheat in a mortar!

But this man has never seen God!

No one has seen God

since the Prophet Elijah!

Shut them up!

They bore me!

But it is said that John the Baptist

himself is your Prophet Elijah.

It's not possible! 300 years have

passed since the Prophet Elijah..

There are those who say that

he is the Prophet Elijah!

Oh, I'm sure.. he's the Prophet Elijah.

Oh, no! He's not the Prophet Elijah!

The day has come!

The day of the Lord!

And on the mountains there

sound the footsteps..

of the Savior of the World!

What does that mean?

The Savior of the World?

What does that mean?

The Savior of the World!

This is what Caesar calls himself.

Caesar is not coming to Judea.

Only yesterday, I had letters from Rome,

they didn't mention it.

Tigellinus, you were in Rome during the

winter. Did you hear anything about it then?

No, my Lord, I haven't

heard anything either.

I was merely explaining about the title.

It is one of Caesar's titles.

Oh, Caesar can't come, he has gout.

They say he has elephant's feet.

Also, for political reasons.

He who leaves Rome, loses Rome.

He won't come!

On the other hand, Caesar is master.

He'll come if he wants to.

But I don't think he'll come.

The prophet was not speaking

of Caesar, my Lord.

Not Caesar?

- No, my Lord!

So, who was he speaking of?

- Of the Messiah who has come.

The Messiah has not come. - He has come!

He's performing miracles everywhere.

Not miracles! I don't believe in

miracles. I've seen far too many!

This man performs real miracles.

Once, during a marriage in the town of

Galilee, a town of some importance,

he changed the water into wine.

My fan!

People who were there, told me.

He also cured some lepers who

were sitting at the gate of Cafarnaum..

simply by touching them.

No! It was two blind people

he cured in Carfarnaum.

No, they were lepers.

But he cured the blind too.

And we saw him on a mountain..

speaking with angels!

Angels don't exist.

- Angels do exist..

but I don't believe that

man spoke with them.

He was seen by a crowd of people,

talking to the angels!

These men irritate me, they are stupid!

So stupid! So utterly stupid!

Where is my fan?

You seem to be dreaming.

One shouldn't dream!

Dreamers are sick people.

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