萨乐美

剧情简介

Salo(%,&m'é] (1923), a sil(
ent fi: @lm di\(r^/^ecte, d?[% by Ch
"a@ )#rl\%es Bryant and s%=tarri< ng]: Alla Naz@#-imova, i$%s[^& a film "adapt.$a&#tion of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play(` it,(@self
i s[*[ a, l;[oos_>e r?[etel^ling of ">^t[ he biblical/!:. st?ory .^(]of King Her=.od and his execution of John the Bapti: st ( (here,=$ as in W)ilde*'s play, cal#led Jokaana`%n./) at the,) reque,&s['t)! of his-/ ste]\pdaughter,_ ;S!#alomé>., wh_om# he lusts af]?ter@ .　　+(Sa #lomé is of >ten c <alled $<?on&]e of the first art fil"ms to be. mad> e% in the U.S+^
.[citation *neede"d] _ @(Th>e h` 'igh_,ly stylize._d costumes, /exaggerated:& acting (even fo.;%r the pe^;riod), mi_?
nim@'al set<\s , an d& a;(%bsence of all' but th e 'most necessary props@ ^ &^make for a s#cree,n **&$ ima> ()ge . much more foc use+)d $ on atmosphere and on"@^ co\nveying ;a -(!se$ nse of the charac:/.ters'*/ in`_]dividual heig#=h@ 'te/n<!ed desires t">
han on (co! nvent(,<ional pl @ot development. 　　"Despi[@_te th;[&:e film bei ng*] only; !*a little>#- over an hour in len!)gth a=>n#,.d having ?!no \rea_' l action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to %make. All !t=he sets wer/e)# c&o)ns#(=tructed indoors to '^b-.e"^ abl$&e ?+to` _have c[']ompl e<;>te contro ,l over the light-ing. The `'fil)m was `@shot completel(y in b@`la`]ck and white, matc) hi(ng >the illu[st/rations done b^*(y Au 
br+$+?ey Bea"<r#?d "sley in the `^[$.printed edition o`;+f Wilde's pl?ay. The costume@s, des igned by N/:^[at)acha Ram
#]bova, use<>d mat!/erial only from\ Maison Lewis  of)% Paris, such as the ;_ r>*e;'al silver l,amé !?;)lo_incloth=s wo;&!rn by th>:,e gu<ards.　　No ma#..j:or ;^stu^\dio would be as<sociated with "the film, ) an.";d it was #@yea:rs after <(its completion b$`
efore it `was released, b
y a minor indepen[*dent distributor. \ It. was a comp/#&[/lete :failure] at the>- tim&&e. a!@_nd^' ma+!rked;,! the% end o()^]f
#:Nazimova's.:` produc-")in+$?)g career.　　A longstanding rumor,_!\ which seem&=&s to have s t>arted whi'l=`e+ the f[i:lm was still in p>rodu"[%#ct
',>ion, sugges=)<-ts that
$. (]its cast is comprised@ entirel, 'y of gay$\!" and bise^xua_l actors in an ho!):<<ma^]\,ge to Oscar  [$Wilde, as pe' `r star a`nd producer Nazimova's demand. It ?%*is, of course, i:mpossible to say,\-,[ but one of the ext[@ras in Salomé reported that a &(n`'umber of the cast\'& members—bot*:h featu:_?re+. d and extras—wer(e indeed g]ay, b^#)ut not an >,un[usual percentage of t%]hem, a-,nd ce
rtainly not a[ll of(/ them?)*/.\% What can be[ s$,#:=aid[(>\ is that Naz^imova herself w;as );a lesb$:
:ian, the two guard c,har"acters (wh%
'"o, next to ' Sal[omé, hav!#e the mos:t screen time) are at least pla.[ yed very s#ter( )eo)typi@)(cal
 l\-y &_$gay, an[d sev'er.al o_,f the fe ?(male [](cour.!<tiers are& men #<>in drag.　　Salomé "was screene',]d in 1989 at t_h
#e New York International Festival of Lesb'ian and< Gay :^"fil%ms a]nd# in*=\% 1990!. at =@the New York Gay Ex!&)peri"mental Fil?%m Fe%s&tiv`]al.　　In 2000, t( *he U: ni_ted !States 
+$?Library"( of .>Co(!n>:gress >;de$'em
'ed the f" " <il:*(<m cultu
(ral>*ly sign)if"i`'-ca&."nt a[nd selected it for preservation i
,n the National F"$ilm Registry.