Oscar Wilde's Salome and Why I can't stop thinking about it
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- So I started looking into Salome because it was a play on my to-do list for multiple Pride Months. And now the video's this convoluted and questionable. Anyway, enjoy this saucy look at Oscar Wilde's Salome (the show that originated the phrase "Dance of the Seven Veils," by the way).
00:02 A quick rundown of Oscar Wilde
00:23 The tomb of Oscar Wilde
01:05 A plot breakdown of Salome as Wilde wrote it
02:34 Salome compared to other Wilde works
05:01 Salome's mom
06:00 Some themes in Salome
08:20 Salome as illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
08:57 Salome the silent picture of 1923
10:27 An overture to Salome as directed by Al Pacino
10:43 Explaining political art with sex toys, Broadway, and other random media
12:57 Salome as a political satire (?)
15:38 Herod and Salome's parallel cruelty streaks
16:18 What makes this Salome's show, and what we can learn from "that woman"
Sources I perused for this video include but are not limited to...
The Female Gaze - The Journey of Oscar Wilde's SALOMÉ through ADAPTATION
• The Journey of Oscar W...
Words About Words - A Look at Oscar Wilde's Salome
• A Look at Oscar Wilde'...
Salome 1923
• Salome (1923) - from O...
Salome 2013
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How We Made It |Why We Build the Wall in Hadestown - National Theatre
• How We Made It |Why We...
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Good stuff as always and I appreciate the way you balance big topics with humor. You are under appreciated on TH-cam without a doubt.
Thank you kindly. This one was a little all-over-the-place, so if some of the stuff made someone giggle, better still :)
Actually, of all the humans that occasionally pop into my comments, I'd be most intrigued by your thoughts on the Beardsley works. Juvenile phallices and goth-y angst aside, I find his work fascinating, but I couldn't necessarily articulate why.
@@SelfWriteousness I love all the poster art of that era(as do most). Beardsley's design sense was fantastic. His influences are very present in the images but not overpowering. Health issues and insecurity with his appearance likely defined his overall attitude and art. Putting his emo nature on display artistically was definitely a bit juvenile, but I think youth often allows us to take the risks we later become too sensible to express. I have other thoughts but I don't want to go to long lol.
Got it. Yeah, poor guy had kind of an unforgivably English face. I gather Wylde himself described Beardsley as having "...a face like a hatchet."
I feel that. 's totally why *I* got into the fine arts: found something the prettier people weren't doing and did that :)
I always feel like I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Grear one again, Martha ❤
Thank you kindly. This is the first video in a while that netted me a -1 subscriber count. I wonder which of the many questionable things I said bothered someone so awful bad.
I was introduced to this story via "Salome's Last Dance " and Tim Powers incorporated the 1923 movie into his book "Medusa's Web". Thank you for your take on it.
Pleasure :)
I've not heard of *Medusa's Web* before. Most intriguing title. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
I cannot make the internet smarter in the comments, I am just a mortal man...
Aw, you make the internet a smarter place and raise the property values of any space you inhabit
I became a fan of Salome through the 1905 Richard Strauss opera, which removed bits of the original and was based on a translation by Hedwig Lachmann, the (posthumous) grandmother of director Mike Nichols. My obsession with it mainly derives from the late Romantic music careening into modernism, but we wouldn't have that without Wilde's text and all one can read into it. In more recent years, opera companies have put on productions that bring into greater relief the story's gender politics. Of course, one can access them relatively easily thanks to TH-cam.
If I remember correctly, I watched the Pacino movie many years ago. This was very likely before Trump ran for president, so I didn't make the connection (plus I was living in Canada at the time). It could be the New York accent, but your opinion about the parallels makes sense. Wilde's words make Herod bloviating, but Pacino's vocal timbre really drives home the possibility of Herod as Trump.
Funnily enough, Strauss' 1911 comic opera Der Rosenkavalier features a character named Baron Ochs, another wealthy man who's full of himself and who acts crass. Apparently in a 2018 Australian production, the singer who portrayed Baron Ochs was made up to look like Trump, red tie, dead small animal toupee, and all...
*Der Rosenkavalier* sounds like a blast (Man, do I miss opera! I used to catch'm in the wee morning hours when I worked nights). I kept hoping someone clever would write a *Masque of the Orange Death* when COVID reved up and person's in power didn't want to admit it was a thing, but alas, it never came to pass.
Wow I haven't seen al pacino's version and he sounds so much like trump, no way this isn't intentional
Right? I thought I was imagining things 'til I talked a buddy from Long Island. Apparently, no other New Yorker talks like that on accident. Like, kiddos don't grow up with whole burrows sing-saying their speech in quite that way.
If you have a couple hours to kill sometime, I found that version of Salome right here on TH-cam.com. It's pretty wild. Or "Wilde," I suppose.