简介:Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblica..
Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after. Salomé is often called one of the first films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized stumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary ps make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on nveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on nventional plot development. Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it st over $350,000 to make. All the sets were nstructed indoors to be able to have plete ntrol over the lighting. The film was shot pletely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The stumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards. No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its pletion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a plete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's ducing career. A longstanding rumor, which seems to have sted while the film was still in duction, suggests that its cast is prised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and ducer Nazimova's demand. It is, of urse, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female urtiers are men in drag. Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival. In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally significant and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.展开
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