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剧情简介

　　(:.Salomé (($1[923)@[, a silent film )=dir.ec?.,ted by Charle=s B r]y ant and sta_?%rring Alla \:Na `z@.imo \va, is a film adaptati !\[on _ o%:f the O
scar Wilde pl;ay of t?[@he same nam-]e. The play i;:^tself #`is a l o ose r]etell#ing of the biblical s%tor?y )` of King H
/erod and 
hi-;s e ?xec+],ution +of Joh+#^n t-.* ]he Baptist (her`e, as in W=ilde's play, ca+ll[/ed J=$])okaanan.+`)  at the req#$uest of his stepdaug
hter, Salomé, whom he[ lu !st)]s after.　　Salomé is often%$ called one]%, of the first art films to be mad e in the/ U[.S.[citation needed] T .$he highl $y styliz,ed co ;-s)(tumes, exaggerate*?@d \acting -(even for the perio-d), mini\ma l sets=@, an-; d absenc/.( @e ) of all but the mo.\%`st ne;@;ces sar)y props make for a)-[++ scr_ @@een^ ima-ge much more focused o)n #a-tmos@ ph`ere and on conveying a se
;nse of  ^the ch aracters' individua;l hei *?ghtened ^desires than on c`;on-ve+ntional plot develo/pment.　　Despite the fil-m b^e^#ing only a little over an hour\, i,@n l$ength! [ a`]$*nd hav#ing no r ))eal action to speak of, it cost over ^;$3?=5;0,@);000 to mak,
%e. All the sets were cons truct^]ed indoors to b@$e able to have? complete con.?tr( .]ol ov!\-er ]#_.the,), lighting+.[  The f^,i lm ( wa\ s shot comp__l$etely !  in black__ and white, match$in? _g the il 
lustrations  done_ by Aubrey _
B_?eards,. ley in the print%ed e`ditio#^n of W:ilde&#!.39s play. The cos)tumes, /!d^esig*#ned by N_atac/)#ha!= Rambova, used material only fro?!m Maison Lewis of Paris +-, su\ch as the r`eal +*silv*;er l=(am é loin+/cloths worn/:; by the gu ;a /_rds.　　No ?major studio w ould be associ;=ated with the[$ film, and it @ was yea*].rs af $ter :`its c_ompleti$on bef
ore it was released, by/]^ a mino([(!r ind\epe.%nd=ent dist\ribut%or. It:. was=  a compl/ete fail/_ure at the time an` d! mar ked#! //\t )h%(?=e end of + Nazimova 's pro? ?(ducin](;*_g ca`%ree\r.　$`　A lon\?gstanding r \umor, *#which %se]em-+s to have[- started whi ]le ]th[e film was still in pr`oduction, s/^ug+ge (sts that its cas^\%!t is comprised entire]/ly[ of g.ay an:d bi[sexual acto/#/rs $`in a%n homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star an@d pr[)o=ducer* Naz imo%va
^(9s deman(#`d. It is, / o[f course(, im! [p+!os\_sible to ! say, bu -t one # ?of the ?
!extr
,]as !$in Salomé repo, ;r\ t*[ed that ^a 
n umber of th%e ^% c#:ast memb:er.s—bot),h featured #-an.%`d extra$s!—w  ere ind]%/
eed gay, but n+ot an unusual perc+!entage `of %-t%;hem,+, and certa/:in *,)ly not %all of ` them.^$. Wh@)at c/ an be said is that Nazim=ova )
her_ ]self was_ a l@esbian, the] two g[ ;-%uard*;# c?;haracters ),(who, next to Salom!)é, h.;av.^]e the _*most scr\:een time) are
 a[%t l-+east played very.^ stere?otypica*`\lly gay, !
and+ sev*=e)ral o .f@% the female co:/urt#^ier =s are men in drag.　　Salomé =)\was s*\cree(ned; ,:in 198[\_#9 at the New York Internatio%nal F.(,- estival o?^+*f Lesb,/ian and@; Gay film?;s and in 1990 at th;#e (@New York Gay.* `Experimenta`l Film Fest,ival.　　I n #\
2$*00 ]$0, the$? Uni#;_ted States #)Library of C.$ong))%^r:`/ess de(; em,`ed the film &q
%uotculturally significan/t&q u=ot a^ ?/-nd! se_*lected it for__- preserva$[tion in^ `/]th^e Na_:t-%ional[ Film Registry.