post one.

Sally Bowles is a fictional character inspired by Jean Ross whom Isherwood met on his travels to Berlin. Sally Bowels is a charming Englishwoman (American in the film) living in Berlin in the late 1920's-1930's. Sally instantly befriended Christopher. Christopher lodges in the same building as Sally, he soon learns her Bohemian lifestyle. He learns that not only is she a cabaret performer she is a nymphomaniac. That does not phase Christopher.

Everything Sally does is theatrical and pretentious to a degree. Sally portrays herself as being ironically innocent; and childlike this adds to her energetic personality. Sally is a strong character. Sally is very much a socialite, although she is a performer she has aristocracy connections allowing her to escape realism when life as a performing gets somewhat uninteresting.  What I love about Sally's character is she seems almost invincible. I feel as tough the audience go on  an emotional journey with sally. Rejection from lovers even a heart breaking abortion, yet she seems untouched by this. Other Berliners are devastated by the Nazism culture, we do not see this from Sally as an insider she simply seems unaffected.

As a character Sally displays the Wiemar Berlin culture. Taking us into The Kit Kat club, to where they lodge, to grand houses, Sally takes us on a journey. She demonstrates the music, fashion, some politics, and of course the care free lifestyle of that time. It makes me question were women this care free of the time as those good times may never some back with the war?

I feel as though Sally can be interrupted in so many ways. As in every single interpretation of the script Sally is perceived in a different way to how I would create her. For example in Isherwoods novel `Goodbye To Berlin` he describes her as being "really beautiful" "She was dark....Her face was long and thin, powdered dead white. She had very large brown eyes which should have been darker, to match her hair and the pencil she used for her eyebrows". The mysterious green nail varnish which has everyone wondering why that choose of colour? Of which I will find my own interpretation of.

In the film `The Cabaret` Joe Masteroff Sally to me is not attractive. She is seen as an object. Showing the politics of the time that women knew they were only objects. Only men could make them wealthy and happy. 

I am looking to research into the movemnt of the 20's. As well as researching all of Sallys interpretations.