萨乐 美

剧情简介

　　Sal:$$omé (19*23), a silent film direc$.*ted by Charles B#;r_? ya*.nt[? and starring) Alla Naz@imova, is a film adapt^\a,@tion (/ _of ?t` he !Oscar Wild$(% e play of the same na+m]+;e. The (+pl=..ay @itself is a loose r; ete)ll@ing !o#
f t)! ,he biblical story%+ of# K
%[ing Herod and his execution, of John the=
Baptist (here!$, as in Wilde's ``play, called+ Joka:*=an$an) at the reque]st o[f his *stepdaug(*+h,ter \, Salo)_mé, whom:) h$]e lus
,ts after.　　Sal`$!omé is=. often call/;ed one of[*;^ the fi]+%rst a-rt films !!+to\*# ![
be mad??e in(_ the U.S.[c,%^i  tation nee+de;@d] The highly s#ty?l
_ized costumes, e?*xag@ +ger_ate?]d ;*a_;[cting (even fo,r :the per+$io d), minimal se(ts, and absen`#ce of al; l (,(but the most -*necessar,#
+y pr \op`( s m:/
\ake f or a scr^+een image */$much more: focu**sed on atmosp@h(e)r=e and on conve*^ying a sense of th e cha##racters&#;39 individua*-,l heightened[ desire @.s than on c/(onventional plot developmen=*t.　　!Desp/)ite /the film b.%eing only^ a - _$,$l=ittl!e @)over an hour in ] length and hav/ ;ing *no real action to  ;s;= ;peak of, it cos,]t\ ]]over?)
$350,) 000 t! o make. All the =set+ s w`\ere construc ted indoo%rs to be able to have co/;!+mpl/ete  *
control/)/ over the lig, (ht@@ ing,. The f ilm ]?
 was sho-)%t -+)comp letely ^in black an#d white, ma^:/*tching the illustrations done by Aubrey B^e#)
.ardsle-()y in the printe)%d editi,on- of Wild%!=e&##)*39s play. T=^:he costu)#*m!es, d `#esig@: ned by Na.tacha Rambo -va, used m*-=(aterial only from, Mais/on Lewis of Pari+%=s, such as the^$ real sil/?-ver lamé. loincloths worn b .+y the guards.^%　
　No major stu(,dio$ would)) be as-[sociated with %the+ fi.lm, and i:#-t was years after its complet=i*+*`on be+ fo#!re it was re;$le(%ased, by a minor in\` dep;endent distributor$:. It 
was a complete failure -=at th-e time and marked the e.nd of Na%-$zimov[..]a&$+#39s pro- ducing career.　　A longstan, d!in^=.g rumor, which seems t!\o ::have( starte;)d w/=#hile * the film was st(%i!ll =in production,\ sugge=sts that% \its ^=cast is comprised entir`el*y of[? gay and +]bisexual ``actor
s in an[[ homage %=to Osc,ar =-?Wil\
*de`?, as per star and producer -$Nazimova's[] d)%,emand. It is, 
of course, imp[%oss\@i;%ble to say, b/;#u$t one of the e(^ \xtra
]=s in Salom(=é reporte$
d% that-?[ a %`numb=_..er of the cast me$mbers—b-oth featured and e?.xtras—w`
ere indeed gay, but not an_- : unusual _pe^,rcentag$#
e of them:, [and ce+(rtai).nly _-not:
a ,ll ]o_,@f$% them. What ?[can be sai*;d is that !`]:Nazimova :herself was a lesbian,%
t\) he two gua- rd c$^har);@$acter s (who, next to. Salomé, have the most screen@=./ time?#) are a:-=t least; play[(e,,d very st%*_+ereotypically gay, and several of the f!e$)male courtiers are m`%en -,in drag-_.　　Salomé ;+#:wa*,
s scr,/eened.
!` )in 19 @$ 89 at the New York :\Internat_-iona^;l F.estival\, of Les\/bian and Gay fil]!ms. an[+d ^(^in 1990?; at t!,he Ne)@;\w /York
+ Ga y ;Experimental Film Fe?.#:s^@^tival.　
$,　In 2000, the United Sta+tes Library$ #=of [ Congr /ess deem(e,@d the\+ f`il#,m "+c+#=ult(#ura[
lly significant^)&qu=ot and selecte=d=: it fo ]r preservation in t%$he;\[\ National Film R/(egistry.