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剧情简介

Salomé$; *.(1923), a @+
silent .=film directed by Charle .s Br`(y*)$ant ^and starring Alla. Nazimova, is a film a`]daptation of _the Oscar W!?
?.ilde pl\=ay of the\^ sam@e name. The play/%$ itself i s a loose retelling of th@#e bibli_?,cal sto=ry of Ki
$ng H\!_erod and#%, *h^is execution of John the Baptist (here, , a!s in Wilde
\%^_'s ]\pl\;
ay, c;_?,alled Jo_( kaa nan) at the=_ $request of] his ste@pdaughte+
#r, Salomé, wh om he l =usts *`after.　　Salomé !:is oft\`en ,c[_?alled one of @ the first art f===ilms to be made in th$/=e U.S. ([citation needed] The highl\\y styli+[;zed c?ostu!
mes, exaggerated actin[@g (even ;for+ the per/i$=\od* ), mini`mal sets, :%and a/bse:nce of a/ ]ll but the 
most ne
#ce ssa
ry
-!-( pr %ops m ak$e fo)r/] a screen image, muc\?$h mo^@r:e`
focuse==d on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of ;t;he - [[characters' indi,.vidual heightened de#_%sires than -:on ,conventiona,_l pl=ot developme(`nt./　 -　Despi%te the fi lm being only ? a) little over an=]: hour in length and $having no =@real ac=#t,,ion @to s*peak of*%)%,$ it c-ost over !#.$350=,@000 to make. All. t,/ ^he \set@.(\s w
*ere !) *cons=
*tructed in?:doors t%
=o,[% be
] a:,ble t^!o\  have comple?t\e control ._ove@r*) !*the lighting. Th=e !film was shot c :om/,!/p!$[let%ely in black ?-and .w-h+?-ite, matching t*he i+llustration%;s d-one by/ A\ubrey B=eard+.s+ley in+ the[\ pr:_inted]_- ed:i]_`tion of Wil?=de's pla=y. The _#/]co[_stumes, designed by Nat@ac(-h a Ra`mbova, used material=( on#$ly fro`m Ma#ison :]Lewis of* :
$\]Paris, such a!
s `$th :e r; +eal silver la]!mé l`_oincloths:,, worn by ;%;+the guards.　　No ma)jor studio would !`be +] associ[)`ated with t
*he+] film, an\(d it wa^s years a])fter its completi o.@n before@ it was \rel]#:eas;)ed,\ ;]`b_y a minor in@!%$de%penden# t#, *+distributor. It was  a `$complete `failure /+_a-t the ti_me and.: marked= the%,\. end ?o?f Naz!$im$
.ova's pr#?od
-ucin(g career.　　A longstanding%
 rumo!r`, which seems@+\ to have /!started wh:%ile\^ the ` film was st/#ill in production, suggests _ )tha?t i ts cast i# s 
co%mpris@ed entire##:ly)] o= f gay a_\nd[%#/
[\bi+[,s) exual=] _ actors ;in an   ho*ma`:
)ge to). Oscar -_Wil;`d#(\e, as per st ar !$ a,nd producer-? Nazi+@/;%mova's dem+$ and ::%. It is, of course, ^=i=\mpossible: to say, ?^bu![
t@ one of t+[
he ex:_t[*?_ras in Sa:lo?;mé rep?orted tha`=[t a number?\%\ of !:@th)\. e cast m_e
_#mbers —both featured and, extras—we$re in[!de;[ed g)ay((, but not  an?[ % un_usual p$ +ercentage of them, and \ce rt%ain]^ly` n-*ot  all of t*)
+hem.\: What ca,`-n be! said is,,+ tha\#t Nazimova# herself was a ]!
lesbi an, the ;two guard cha;_r?acters (==who, next to Salo$m\
é:`, have the #most scre#--/en time) are .at l_ east p?%(layed very st
%^ereo= t*+ypically gay, and sever@al+ of th e female courtier-+$s a^? ;re men i* ,n drag.　　S`/?+al!_omé was sc+ [reened in 1989 at the New Yor_-k )^Interna$ti+-onal Festival of +Lesbian and Gay f;= ?=ilms an-d in%] 1990 a!:t %th?e; New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.　　In 2000, the United States Li$brary of  Cong_$
ress=* de.%emed the fi*lm ])
=culturally sig-; nificant and selec)+ted it f] or preservation in the _-#Nation al Film Registry.