Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001) is an award winning musical that follows the growth of an exceptional romance between a passionate young writer and beautiful cabaret actress. The film is postmodern in its exciting approach and fast paced rhythm of storytelling.
The first way in which the film is postmodern lies with the songs that feature in it. It consists of mash-ups and remixes of modern pop songs, being performed in a 1899 Paris setting. It takes these songs from a more modern time period and forges them into spectacular performances sung by Parisians from the 19th century.
The film uses CGI and editing to enhance the mood and over the top pace to a great extent. This contributes to the success of the film by familiarizing the audio and visual aspects, while emphasizing the atmosphere's excitement that the film aims to achieve. A lot of actions and shots are sped up to an extreme and highly obvious extent which draws attention to itself, matching the songs' pace and rhythm throughout.
Moulin Rouge is very pastiche in the way it mimics the theatrical and musical style of the film's time period visually. Using this along with the elements that feel much more modern creates an enjoyable energy that the film gives off. The balance of it mixes up the mood into something very enticing and exhilarating.
Ewan McGregor plays the role of Christian, the writer who's story the audience follows during the film. The film begins in the year 1900, showing us a highly depressed Christian reflecting on the events of the previous year, which then follow on screen. The time jump occurs numerous times throughout the film, showing two opposite sides to his character and emotions. This non-linear method shares the ending with the audience early on, making the twist at the end one that was inevitably expected. What isn't given away is the process in which it happens or the events surrounding the tragedy. Even though the ending is easily predicted, the other elements of the film are strong enough to invite the audience in and keep them watching.
Despite the films enthusiastic set up and over the top sense of joy and optimism that gradually builds, the ending of the film defies the genre's traditional expectations and conclusions. The favors are initially not handed to the protagonist to begin with, leaving the remainder of screen time active to pull him up and push him towards a brighter destination in his story. As expected, things begin to develop positively and faith mostly remains stable as the story unwraps. After tackling multiple obstacles and reaching a point where the potential happiness has peaked for the characters. Tragedy strikes unmercifully and his lover dies. After a challenging climb to succumb, when Christian finally succeeds and unites with Satine, (Nicole Kidman) she loses her life to tuberculosis, abandoning Christian with the broken pieces that are left behind.
The first way in which the film is postmodern lies with the songs that feature in it. It consists of mash-ups and remixes of modern pop songs, being performed in a 1899 Paris setting. It takes these songs from a more modern time period and forges them into spectacular performances sung by Parisians from the 19th century.
The film uses CGI and editing to enhance the mood and over the top pace to a great extent. This contributes to the success of the film by familiarizing the audio and visual aspects, while emphasizing the atmosphere's excitement that the film aims to achieve. A lot of actions and shots are sped up to an extreme and highly obvious extent which draws attention to itself, matching the songs' pace and rhythm throughout.
Moulin Rouge is very pastiche in the way it mimics the theatrical and musical style of the film's time period visually. Using this along with the elements that feel much more modern creates an enjoyable energy that the film gives off. The balance of it mixes up the mood into something very enticing and exhilarating.
Ewan McGregor plays the role of Christian, the writer who's story the audience follows during the film. The film begins in the year 1900, showing us a highly depressed Christian reflecting on the events of the previous year, which then follow on screen. The time jump occurs numerous times throughout the film, showing two opposite sides to his character and emotions. This non-linear method shares the ending with the audience early on, making the twist at the end one that was inevitably expected. What isn't given away is the process in which it happens or the events surrounding the tragedy. Even though the ending is easily predicted, the other elements of the film are strong enough to invite the audience in and keep them watching.
Despite the films enthusiastic set up and over the top sense of joy and optimism that gradually builds, the ending of the film defies the genre's traditional expectations and conclusions. The favors are initially not handed to the protagonist to begin with, leaving the remainder of screen time active to pull him up and push him towards a brighter destination in his story. As expected, things begin to develop positively and faith mostly remains stable as the story unwraps. After tackling multiple obstacles and reaching a point where the potential happiness has peaked for the characters. Tragedy strikes unmercifully and his lover dies. After a challenging climb to succumb, when Christian finally succeeds and unites with Satine, (Nicole Kidman) she loses her life to tuberculosis, abandoning Christian with the broken pieces that are left behind.
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