Moulin Rouge
Film Synopsis
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet (Ewan McGregor), who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star (Nicole Kidman).
Analysis
The movie is centered on the life of a young poet who fell in love with a performer. It emphasizes the impact of intellectual, aesthetic and scientific development to the society. It is an unusual film in many aspects. It has the over-enforced and hyperbolic musical elements. It utilized intense colors and bold details of the set and costume.
The film is considered to be a literary film because many of the ideas that shape it have a long literary history. The concept of intertextuality is there in as much as, many scenes from the movie were based from the previous literary accounts, one of which is the famous, "Romeo and Juliet"
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