Moulin Rouge

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Moulin Rouge

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Outline

• 1. Introduction
• A. Setting
• B. Plot
• C. Basic Structure
• D. Structuralist Analysis Major Argument
• 2. Musical as a Genre
• 3. Songs in the Musical Scenes
• 4. Visual Signs Postmodern (Self-Conscious)
  Elements

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Introduction

• A. Setting The Bohemia underworld of Paris at
  the turn of the 20th Century. (1899-1900)

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A. Setting (2)

• Bohemian spirit The state of mind and way of
  life began in about 1830 and continued until
  1914. It was a time and place where misfits spent
  their lives outside society, choosing penury,
  squalor and freedom over prosperity and
  convention. They protested against the bourgeois,
  against a social structure based on money,
  against the increasing uniformity and drabness of
  existence. Bohemia had always been a lotus land
  for misunderstood and unproductive genius it had
  given an artistic aura to vagrants without
  talent.

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B. Plot

• Moulin Rouge is based on the Orphean myth of a
  penniless writer (Christine) who descends to the
  underworld in search of ideal love, and then
  falls in love with a courtesan (Satine).

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B. Plot (2)

• Orphean myth Orpheus, the son of Apollo and
  Calliope, has the power to enchant with his
  music. When his love, Eurydice was killed,
  Orpheus descended into the Underworld to plead
  for her return. Enchanting Hades, monarch of the
  Underworld, with his music, Orpheus is permitted
  to leave with Eurydice on condition he does not
  look back to see if she is following him. When
  Orpheus nears the entrance to the underworld,
  fear overpowers him, he turns back to see if
  Eurydice is following, and he loses her forever.

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C. Basic structure

• One (destitute) young man falls in love with a
  (rich) woman, but their love ends in tragedy,
  such as Shakespeare in Love Camille.

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Moulin Rouge Structuralist Analysis

• 1.     Christine (subject) searches his ideal
  love, Satine (object) in the underworld of Paris.
  
• 2.     Christine (sender) brings love into
  Satines (receiver) world.
• 3.     The black man (helper) saves Satine twice.
  One is when Satine falls down from a Trapeze the
  other one is when the duke (opponent) wants to
  rape her.

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Binaries

• 1.  Bohemia underworld (Toulous) vs. Bourgeois
  world (The duke).
• 2. Love (Christine) vs. Money (Satine)
• 3. Practical (Zilder) vs. Romantic (Satine)

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D. Argument

• Baz Lulman uses many skills to represent the
  theme of this movieLOVE, such as musical, mellow
  drama, and postmodernism (parody, pastiche). He
  pushes us to feel such romantic/extreme love can
  never last in reality therefore, death is the
  only solution in order to keep love forever.

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• Cancan (the introduction of Moulin Rouge and
  building of misunderstanding)
• The Elephant House (the growth and triumph of
  love)
• Roxanne (building of tension and inner
  desire/conflict)

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• Christians My Song (naïve,
• innocent,romantic)
• Satins Fly Away (contrast to the earlier
  material courtesan, a
• dreamer)

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• Spectacular, Spectacular (to overwhelm the duke
  and gain his support)
• Like a Virgin (to deceive the cause of Satins
  absence and her dying state)
• The Show Must Go On(to convince Satin not to
  elope with Christian)
• The ending show (to unknot the biggest
  misunderstanding between Satin and Christian,
  embracing truth, beauty, freedom and love)

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• Masala Movie
• --the popular India Bollywood
  films
• Masala films are usually extravagant mixing
  elements such as songs and dance numbers, violent
  action, and vibrations of the eternal themes of
  love, friendship and nationalistic fervor.
  Although often dismissed as escapist
  entertainment, Masala films remain widely popular
  in India and have become a major unifying force
  in a country separated by disparitive languages,
  religions, and standards of living.
• the Indian favors blending in the music, dance
  and the visual effects

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III The Analysis of Songs Musical Scenes

• A. Songs as the structure (of the film)
• a. The whole film is divided into 4 sections,
  each section includes 5 songs
• b. The first song (of each section) points out
  the theme
• c. Zidlers being the one to solve the crisis in
  the end of each section

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A. Songs as the structure (of the film) (2)

• d. The development of love between Satine and
  Christian (conflicts solved in songs)
• misunderstanding? recognition, attraction?
  commitment? jealousy, love
• e. The repetition of Children of the Revolution
• Bohemian spirit wins over materialism

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B. Myths within the songs

• a. American songs V.S. English songs
• songs performed by American singers represent
  materialism
• songs performed by English singers represent
  the theme of love
• b. Myth related with Orientalism
• 1. the example of Roxanne
• the Argentinean is followed with Tango music
• Roxanne? exotic, sexual, dangerous, tension,
  male dominance

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B. Myths within the songs (2)

• 2. the example of Hindi
• lyrics? She is mine male dominance
• ?Satines part yielding to the domination
• Hindi melody? exotic, dangerous, tension,
  sexual, male dominance

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C. language (songs) meanings arbitrary
relationship

• . a. Emptied out and filled with a new concept
  
• In the Name of Love, Nirvana, Roxanne
• b. Meaning changes according to different
  contexts
• Its a little bit funny, this feeling
  inside
• c. Songs with different meanings are combined to
  present a new theme
• Elephant Love Medley

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D. Songs related to postmodernism

• pastiche and fragmentation
• Elephant Love Medley,
• Lady Marmalade,
• Sparkling Diamond

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? Visual Sign

• Color
• 1.      Moulin Rouge red and another colorful
  colors
• 2.      Other places gray and dark
• Costume
• 1.      Womens colorful dresses be
  attractive
• 2.      Men formal suit pay money for pleasing
  women

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Postmodernism A Self-Conscious Film

• Narrative Structure
• 1.      Beginning
• a.      The curtain of the film open
• b.      Toulouse sings Natural Boy.
• c.      Christines story telling
• The start of Hindi

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Postmodernism A Self-Conscious Film

• 1.      Ending
• a.      The end of Hindi
• b.      Christines typing
• c.      Toulouses song
• d.      The curtain of the film close

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Postmodernism A Self-Conscious Film

• Filming Skills
• 1.      Rewind
• 2.     Fast in actions
• 3.     Music using 

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