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| “ | SHOOT!! | „ |
| ~ Bishop taunting Franco with a gun pointed at him. |
| “ | Imbecile, how can you think that he would have killed you? Don't you know we would have killed you a thousand times to the end of eternity, if eternity could have ends! | „ |
| ~ Bishop denying Franco a quick death. |
| “ | All's good if it's excessive. | „ |
| ~ The Bishop's philosophy. |
The Bishop is one of the main protagonists of the infamous erotic horror-satire novel The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade and in the film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini. He is a corrupt church official who secretly denies God, preferring to embrace a life of dishonesty, licentiousness and monstrous cruelty. He is the younger brother of The Duke of Blangis and, with him and their friends Curval and The Magistrate, participates in an evil plan to capture and imprison several teenage boys and girls and subject them to every conceivable torture, cruelty, and perversion.
In Pasolini's film, The Bishop is portrayed by Giorgio Cataldi and is dubbed by the famous poet Giorgio Caproni.
Personality[]
The Bishop is described as a man who is flabby and weak, a person by the banal, otherwise by his own younger brother who is far more handsome and sexually competent, but equally as evil and has a superior refinement of taste. He apparently loves to torment his victims by raping them and promising them quick deaths only to deny them the favour last minute in favoring of torturing them. Just like his brother The Duke, he has a deep hatred for his family (apart from his own brother) and takes pleasure in torturing and raping his nieces Guilliana and Liana. Obviously he has denied God, becoming an athiest.
He is a big fan of sodomy, as active as passive; even when he has sex with women and girls, he outright refuses to have vaginal sex which explains why he amongst the fascist four, he is the only one without a son and daughter, given that the very sight of a vagina disgusts him beyond anything.
Despite his irredeemable traits, he is genuinely nice and polite to his friends aka the other three fascists as well as the collaborators, and is in a romantic and sexual relationship with Guido, one of the studs and appreciates his company, he also apparently has a potential soft spot for Graziella and most likely played a role in her being spared from a painful death at the end.
Biography[]
Like the other three fascists, The Bishop embodies one of the four main forms of power, in his case, the church.
Early life[]
The Bishop was presumably born in the early 1900's and at some point in his life, became a bishop of the Catholic Church, making him a powerful figure. He most likely took the role of the Bishop for the sole purpose of power and secretly denounces God.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom[]
Together with his brother, The Duke, and their friends Curval and The Magistrate, the Bishop enters into an agreement to cement their friendship, organizing of marriages with their four daughters, as well as organizing a 120-day debauched ritual where they would listen to three prostitutes tell stories of their sex life to stimulate them into raping and torturing their future victims.
The fascist four would enlist the Italian mafia to forcefully enlist a few young men to become guards and studs to collaborate with them for the atrocities to come. They would also organize the kidnapping of a dozen teenage boys and girls for a few of them to be selected as potential sex-slaves for the fascist four to abuse later on. After hand-picking several teenage boys and girls for their debauched ritual, they all head for a near-abandoned castle near Mazabotto where they are greeted by the rest of collaborators, the three middle-aged prostitutes themselves whose goal is to tell stories to arouse them.
Circle of Manias[]
Signora Vaccari is the first prostitute to tell her stories, she first tells a story of a college professor who molested her as a child. Aroused, The Bishop grabs Tonino's and brings him to a nearby room to rape him however, Tonino resists and fights back against his advances. Angered and no longer aroused, he violently throws Tonino out of the room and pleads with the Magistrate to write down his name in the red book to receive a severe punishment in the near future. After breakfast, the fascist four decides to determine their victim's "best parts", they select both Sergio and Renata to be forcefully masturbated by Vaccari and a stud. Once they've orgasmed, they are then forced to marry in a mock-wedding where The Duke gets aroused upon seeing the rest of the victims naked, he proceeds to grope and fondle all the victims including the prostitutes and the studs alike. Afterwards, the "married couple" are forced into having sex with each other, once they start, the fascists abruptly stops them and rape them instead, while Curval engages in a three way with The Duke as The Bishop joins in.
The very next day, both male and female victims are forced to be naked once again to degradingly act as dogs after Vaccari told a story about a client who demanded her to act as a dog. The victims end up getting fed like dogs, by the Bishop and the other three fascists.
Circle of Sh-t[]
Another prostitute, Signora Maggi, tells her story about her coprophilia. At one point she goes on to explain that she killed her own mother, the young female victim Renata begins to cry, because her own mother died while trying to save her from sexual slavery. The Duke becomes aroused by her grief and starts to verbally abuse her, joined by Curval. Duke then orders the guards and studs to violently strip her naked, which they do. The Bishop notices Renata crying out for God and informs the Magistrate to list her name in the red book for a painful punishment. The Duke then defecates on the floor, forcing Renata to eat it from the floor with a spoon as he watches in glee.
Later on during dinner, everyone gets presented with a meal of human feces collected from everyone in the palace. The fascists and the prostitutes happily eat the feces while almost everyone else at the dining hall gets forced into it, and a lot of the victims then start to gag over the taste and the odor. Later on, the Fascists randomly decide to pick the victim with the most beautiful buttocks - a young man named Franco, whose reward is a quick death. The Bishop orders the studs to hold Franco and place a gun at his head, he orders a stud, Guido to pull the trigger only for it to be revealed to be a prop. The Bishop proceeds to taunt and mock Franco and promises him a painful death in the near future.
Circle of Blood[]
The Fascists hold another mock-wedding between the studs and the leading men. The leading men become crossdressers and get into the marriage while The Bishop takes the role of a priest. While the victims are sadly looking down silent, the men furiously tell them to laugh or smile. Two of the prostitutes then start telling jokes to get them to laugh, as The Bishop are reading to them the wedding rites, Guido grabs and fondles his buttocks, arousing him. After the wedding, the Bishop ends up having sex with him. The bishop then leaves the room, and ends up finding information's from the victims about each others deeds against their rules, Tonino reveals that Graziella has a hidden photograph, and she tells him that Eva and Antiniska are having lesbian sex, they in return, inform him of a Black servant girl and a guard named Ezio are having sex.
The fascists become furious, finding them having sex in a hidden room behind the palace. And they end up shooting both the black girl and Ezio to death. In the end, the victims are lined up and are being called to pick which will get punished. The ones who receives a blue ribbons are being forced into a panful death, while the ones without the ribbons, if they keep working with them, will eventually be free to go home. Umberto is spared due to his cooperation with his ordeal and is selected to replace the deceased Ezio as a guard, Rino is spared due to his submissive relationship with The Duke and Graziella is spared for betraying Eva. The rest of the victims and the daughters are then forced into the palace's courtyard, where they all are brutally raped, tortured and killed, with various methods such as hanging, scalping, burning and many others as the four fascists take turns as voyeur, torturer and executioner.
The Bishop, the other three Fascists and the collaborators are implied to leave the palace and went back to their normal lives after everything is said and done but their fate remains ambiguous as World War II rages on.
Trivia[]
- In the novel, The Bishop is appointed as a guardian for two children (a boy and a girl), who are the children of one of the church's members. He would deprive them of all their possessions and subject them to years of physical and sexual abuse.
- This alone makes his novel counterpart a pedophile and far more evil than the film's version.
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