Something most people don't know about this event is that it is according to the Bible Salome getting John the Baptist's head on a platter caused the largest Biblical curse of all time. And it's still running BTW.

Put a basically as possible the murder of John the Baptist triggered the curse contained in Malachi 4. Which made Jesus Christ the "HE" that struck the earth with a curse. In Matthew 17 Jesus claimed John the Baptist was Elijah. So looking for the details of the curse you actually find them in the book of Hosea. Specifically verse 6-2. But what Hosea tells us is Israel and Judah were to face a 2000 year top level Leviticus 26 curse. Which also appears to be the curse of Malachi.

So all things considered Salome and her mother are guilty of the biggest crime in all history. She had Elijah killed and triggered a curse that's been responsible for the flow of human history for the past 2000 years.

The horrors she must be facing in Hell....

The drama of power, paternal, marital, prestigious. Herod is caught up in a network of relations and contradictions of their positions. not able to make decisions of the wishes of his daughter the princess Salome. however, even she, his apple, has not decision simple. the drama of three live charactersd courtiers. a riveting range of expressions of the soul of Salome and Herod. so powerful psychodrama is unique. thanks to mr AlPacino, ms. Chastaine

While it seems that Al Pacino is desperately trying to outdo the bad Hebrew accent that Laurence Olivier had in "The Jazz Singer", it's obvious that he's trying to be sincere as King Herod on the throne desperately trying to save the life of John the Baptist after stepdaughter Salome (Jessica Chastain) demands it in return for her dance. This is a rendition of Oscar Wilde's play, as if it was being done on the stage (part modern dress) and the audience (including Wilde) not seen as they were in the Ken Russell adaption, "Salome's Last Dance", and it's like imagining that there were modern film cameras present to capture the play as it was being done.

Taking on the role of the regal Queen Herodias (played previously by Judith Anderson and Glenda Jackson on film) is Roxanne Hart, and she has the perfect look for the part, the Hebrew version of Rome's Empress Livia. I had hoped it would be Dianne Wiest (who appeared in the Broadway revival with Pacino), but Hart is quite subtle, more so than Pacino and Chastain who obviously are trying to recapture early 20th Century styles of acting which over 120 years later seems absurd. In retrospect, this will appeal to theater historians and Pacino fans, but it's so close to Ken Russell's film that it hardly seems necessary. For me, I'll stick with the 1953 Rita Hayworth/Charles Laughton version which may be lacking in historical truth but is far more enjoyable than this or the 1988 film.