萨德侯爵夫人
戏中,萨德本人从未露面,只存在于六名登场人物的对话中。人物的性格也很分明,西缅男爵夫人代表“美德”、而圣芳伯爵夫人代表“恶行”,门托纽夫人则代表了世俗。尽管两位代表善恶的人物更富有戏剧性,然而全剧的中心仍是主人公露涅和门托纽夫人的对立。  以剧中人对萨德的态度为例:门托纽夫人认为声名狼藉、锒铛入狱的萨德根本就是家庭的耻辱,而萨德的妻子露涅则截然不同,她真诚地等待着被社会排斥的丈夫,并认为这才是表达真爱的惟一方式。但是,当革命风起云涌,社会价值观也随之改变。萨德出狱并被捧为新时代的旗手,门托纽夫人的态度来了个一百八十度大转弯,她成了萨德的捧哏,称萨德为法国的献身者。  而露涅的态度却截然相反。丈夫重新被社会承认,意味着她那孤独的爱就此丧失了根基。不仅如此,她读了萨德在狱中写的小说,里面描写了一位坚持美德的女子的悲剧,露涅在作品中看到了自己的影子。她的孤独之爱从根底瓦解了,同时也意识到之前的半生不过是徒劳,于是她投身修道院,再也不与萨德相会。剧中露涅曾说:“与其付诸行动,不如创制法则……”  这句话也可以理解为“与其委身现实,不如付诸思想”。对原剧作者三岛先生来说,“艺术”无疑是存在于现实之外的、对于异端思想之美的例证。
萨乐美
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.
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