Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Pier Angeli: Ildith

Quotes 

• Ildith : Evil? How strange you are. Where I come from, nothing is evil. Everything that gives pleasure is good!

  Lot : Where do you come from?

  Ildith : There, not far, just ahead - Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Ildith : It is a secret as old as my city. When one is overcome by weakness from the sun's heat, one needs salt. Unfortunately, I traded all mine for - for those slaves you see. I bought them for the Queen. They're worth four times their weight in salt.

  Lot : Poor creatures.

  Ildith : Am I a poor creature too? Does your heart - ache for me? I'm a slave too. Chief of the Queen's body slaves.

  Lot : For one human to own another is wrong. Evil!

• Ildith : There is always someone to take the place of a wife. No?

• Lot : Women wear clothes to shelter them from the sun and from the cold.

  Ildith : That explains the fit. You - you Hebrews confuse clothes with tents!

  Lot : Oh, yes, they're loose. That's to leave the limbs free to work.

  Ildith : What work?

  Lot : A women's work. To cook, to spin, to clean, to follow the harvesters.

• Ildith : Is this why I was schooled? To live here with herdsman - in huts of - stinking hide?

  Queen Bera : You were schooled to do whatever pleases my whim.

• Ildith : A bird wears bright feathers to attract other birds.

• Ildith : Lot, look!

• Ildith : All right. Why not? I was trained to please, to submit. I could give you pleasure you never dreamt of.

• Lot : What is my being a good man got to do with me being here, with you, in my own tent?

  Ildith : Please, Lot. Please.

  Lot : Is it because you think that I'm a good man and that you're not a good woman? Is that it? Because you once lived in Sodom?

• Ishmael : They change us more than we change them. Their evil infects us! Look around you. Your clothes. This food. This house!

  Ildith : We live in a nicer place because the elders wish us to. Lot's the leader of a prosperous people.

  Ishmael : And Shuah who paints her face, who is never home. And my own Maleb, who avoids my eyes.

  Lot : Is this true?

  Ildith : Shuah passes her time as all those of her own age do. And as for Maleb, if you gave her as much thought as you do the mine slaves, there would be no trouble between you two.

  Ishmael : How can you judge innocence, who have none!

• Ishmael : Of all people, you know what its like to be a slave. Tell him.

  Ildith : A mine slave? What do I know of mine slaves? I was never one of those. And I think their freedom is less important than our peace with Sodom.

• Ildith : Once the Queen told me that between the Hebrews and the world, stood only Sodom.