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   非凡资源网 提供本片资源  　　Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adatation of the Oscar Wilde lay of the same name. The lay itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Batist (here, as in Wilde#39;s lay, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stedaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.br\　　Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the eriod), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary ros make for a screen image much more focused on atmoshere and on conveying a sense of the characters#39; individual heightened desires than on conventional lot develoment.br\　　Desite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to seak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have comlete control over the lighting. The film was shot comletely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the rinted edition of Wilde#39;s lay. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.br\　　No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its comletion before it was released, by a minor indeendent distributor. It was a comlete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova#39;s roducing career.br\　　A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in roduction, suggests that its cast is comrised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as er star and roducer Nazimova#39;s demand. It is, of course, imossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reorted that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual ercentage 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 layed very stereotyically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.br\　　Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Exerimental Film Festival.br\　　In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film quot;culturally significantquot; and selected it for reservation in the National Film Registry.