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 art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. 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.
No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.
A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, 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 courtiers 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.
和Turning Red的内核好像，只不过这部的主角是妈妈。东亚女性如何摆脱桎梏做自己真是个永恒的问题，即使想象力如此天马行空，最终好像也只能说说服自己回到原来的社会结构里。略遗憾。
总有某个平行宇宙里，你从小喜欢的阿姨正在搅姬😉
起码把美军当成真正的人来写，把朝鲜的寓意化作孩童的善意，就已经胜过其他了
It's not your fault. Sometimes it came too late.
脑洞不可思议；就算我们只是石头，就算被挂在树上，我也要在你身边
武志红会喜欢的片子：女妖与无欲男；共生即绞杀；全能自恋与彻底无助；妈妈请看着我；爱就是答案（以上均为武的文章小标题）。若我自己来说，孤独感、存在主义危机、毁灭和创造是一体两面，婴儿汲取母体相爱相杀是必然，要靠爱才能接得住毁灭欲，而只有拥有走的自由而又确认被爱着才有可能选择留下来，而爱是接纳对方而非对方的投影……英语没完全懂换德语二刷后我可以说我不喜欢大团圆结局希望停留在忍痛放手，价值观太中国了，“别叫我xx我是你妈”实在…只能说不仅控制欲会让人窒息，爱有时也会。即使有完美的原生家庭，人也会遇到别的太多问题，人也有权自我毁灭，而对抗死本能的生本能只能等人自己长出来。我还要和我的伴侣构建关系，我可不想和我妈相爱相杀16.05
非常喜欢女儿的演员，特别贴合角色
大型加长广告片。不是承认彼此都很普通很乐色就可以 而是 东亚母女关系是不可能和解的 成为石头也不可能。爹-女儿这一层关系就更不可能了。东亚人唯一的破局办法就是成为哪吒自刎。
和《小僵尸》一样，在尽可能的炫酷中，表达新时代元宇宙的眷恋和多次元大爱。万花筒效果做得可谓稳准狠，一次次的跳跃，丝毫没印象主线剧情和角色一以贯之的行为目的。然而，我却不属于这样的万花筒观看者，在只幻不科的跳跃中，被催眠的昏昏欲睡。只能遗憾地说，这样的可贵瞬息、这样包容的全宇宙不属于我。
我已经看过了这里的一切，宇宙不值得我爱，但我本能地爱你。软弱的你，一无是处的你，把所有物品都贴上眼睛。它们都是你的眼睛，石头也因此有了生命。可爱的眼睛，琐碎的眼睛，快和我一起贴满整片夜空，让它们变成星星掉下来守护你，变成毛茸茸的小狗和香肠手指，变成爪子柔软的浣熊和披萨形状的展板，你的武器。宇宙不过是一间卡通卧室，因为这些塑料眼睛，我开始有点留恋这里了。
1⃣️一小时左右便开始哭个稀里哗啦2⃣️即便还是传统“和解”故事的内核（我不喜欢），导演却天马行空赋予哲学/黄暴/无厘头的想象力，让故事爆发新奇的活力，导演玩疯了，这是创作者的热情与诚意，永远respect3⃣️电影给我一种解题之感，看主角一步一步往下做，导演害怕观众等待的答案不够震撼，于是拿来了甜甜圈/石头/塑料眼拔高4⃣️多元宇宙概念好火5⃣️挂念两块石头和树上的Evelyn&Joy娃娃6⃣️细品老公演技，不仅要帮助女主搞清状况，还要告诉观众目前是哪个宇宙的人格，演的太好。
华人刻板印象+港式无厘头+亲情俗套，噱头太多，着实一般。
观众究竟做了什么孽，要被这样的辣鸡影像惩罚？
开始十五分钟我就开始哭哭到肝痛 哇 my new favourite
绝对是我近年来看过的最佳影片！真想象力爆棚，信息量爆炸，多重宇宙已经不新鲜了，但却能做到这么复杂密集的对话和情节下仍然带动了情感和逻辑的贯通，实在让人佩服，多重宇宙代表了多种可能，每一个不同的抉择都诞生不同的人生，情节上致敬了不少经典电影，动作戏上又带有中国传统功夫的美轮美奂，后半段不断冲刷我的认知和理解，在整部片如此宏大的设定和虚无缥缈的主义中却夹杂最简单最理智的主题：善良。即使在最离奇荒诞的宇宙里，我们总有爱的东西。故事在阐述情感上也对父女，母女等关系融入了探讨。剪辑大胆，画面绚丽，节奏紧凑，天马行空，震撼又感人，真相当于一部加长版《瑞克和莫蒂》，如此精彩如此让人疯狂！大爱
我脑子比较简单，可能就欣赏不了这种片子。但最大的感受就是：女人如果没有男人和孩子，人生会有多少种精彩到爆的可能性；无论哪条路，都比依附于一个全程围观老婆拼命、只会说“我全都看着呢，你做得太棒了”的老公强啊！
去爱，就是去寻觅心伤，既然这样，为何经历如此多的宇宙、遍数每一种近于不可能的可能，在触及到的无穷世界线里，却依然不愿松开紧抓的手？我想，诚如片中所言，正是许多渺小的瞬间，共同拼出了足够定义一个人的幸福；也正因如此，在无处可去的当下，只选择眼见为真的爱，哪怕尽头仍是破碎，也好过见证一切便畏之不前。这确实是种勇敢的观点。
加缪would be so happy with this movie. Nice explanation of nihilism～crazy epic and fun all at once
外壳闹热，内核悲哀。厌弃自我，厌弃伴侣，厌弃生活。于是补偿性的宇宙中不够“爷们儿”的丈夫大变李小龙，瘫痪累赘的老父行动如飞，疏离叛逆的女儿化身伏地魔。华服换了皱衫，镁光灯咔嚓代替洗衣房轰鸣，就连难以启齿的性也变成了博人一笑的梗。最后拖得天长地久的大和解看似美满，其实依旧是、温柔刀、刀刀割人性命。唉，人生无趣，人不如石。
看到中段，杨紫琼不断变化形态，头皮开始被震撼到无可附加，随着她变成一个公仔，变成贞子，变成石头，被其实算是直白技术做出来的多重画面搅融了的脑浆きりきり地就从我的眼睛里流了出来，哭得发麻颤抖。而人生的多重选择也一直是不同作品尝试去阐释清楚的话题，“中庸”又或者是“爱”也并不是什么新鲜的解答，但这种将每一代连接起来的共鸣情感真的是太有用了，就像是肠胃炎时吃下的粥：你觉得想吐，但又知道这是有用的。而这种令人窒息的情感不断倾轧，就像最终那个对决群雄的动作戏一再表述的那样，或许“控制”与“被控制”才是一种值得思考的解答方案，或许得在“被控制”之中思考“被控制”的“控制”之道吧。真的可惜孔大山，《宇探》晚上又撞题，但用概念和制作去包裹简单故事、和用较成章节的故事来隐藏概念诈欺，其实算是两种讲故事的方式。
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