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Are there any fans of Moulin Rouge! here? I am a HUGE fan. I saw it when I was younger in 2001, and I loved it. However, I never got to buying it because my parents thought I should be older. I am praying I will get it for my B-Day this Wednesday, and if not I will get the 2-Discer at Target with my own money!!

Anyone else love this gem of a film?

ME!!!



I absoloutly love it! I will buy it someday, when I'll have more money!

Absolutely. It is definitely one of my all-time favourites.

What I liked about it, was that it actually used the cinematic medium and new technologies to do things that you couldn't possibly do on stage. The higher-grossing and more critically praised Chicago took an already successful stage musical and filmed it. Gee, think of the effort.

Almost everything works about it, the love the colour the spectacle. Although most people who criticised it said that it was "too MTV" I disagree - it managed to capture the spirit of the golden age of film musicals, while making it accessible and believable for a modern audience.

A gem in every sense of the word.

I'm a fan!

It's one of the most colorful and vibrant musicals I've seen, with songs far more fun to sing randomly on the streets than any others (though I often love bursting out a rendition of Singin' in the Rain every so often, lol).

Escapay

Loomis wrote:The higher-grossing and more critically praised Chicago took an already successful stage musical and filmed it. Gee, think of the effort.

EXACTLY!

Moulin Rouge! > Chicago

Moulin Rouge! > A Beautiful Mind

Academy =

Big FAN here!!!

I LOVE Baz Lhurmann's work (loved romeo+Juliet and Strictly Ballroom), but Moulin rouge is really his masterpiece. Great directing, lights, camera shots... Great actors, Nicole and Ewan are great, John as Toulouse is neat too! The songs remixed by Craig Armstrong i know them by heart!

PS: for every fans of Baz, this set is a MUST HAVE:


and only 21 euros an Amazon.fr!

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000795O8/qid=1111796796/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-7284229-9364233

KinOO wrote:
and only 21 euros an Amazon.fr!

Also available from its "country of origin", almost as cheap:

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/221663

Loved it.
Lived it.

I love Moulin Rouge, but I must defend my Chicago with all of this slamming going on. Chicago did not simply film the stage musical. For something like that, watch the home video versions of Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Jesus Christ Superstar (2000). The original broadway show didn't really have much of a storyline. It was basically a series of loosely connected "acts" peformed on stage in a vaudeville manner. The majority of the spoken script you see in the film is original, and even the way the musical numbers are portrayed are very different from the show. So just like Moulin Rouge built a storyline around existing music, so did Chicago, essentially. Sorry, I just had to defend it since it's one of my favorite films (and better than Moulin Rouge, in my opinion).

Now, that said, I think Moulin Rouge is brilliant. The way popular songs are ultilized into the script is clever, and every frame is filled with eye candy. The cast is perfect in their roles; I can't think of anyone better for each part. My only gripe with the film is the editing. I'm not a fan of quick cutting. I feel you grab an audience more the longer you hold a shot, plus cutting to a different shot every other second can give one a headache if they're not prepared. Still, one thing I love about the cinematography is how they created one of the earliest examples of the CGI aerial shot (flying over and through a huge amount of space that a normal camera wouldn't accomplish, usually ending at a live-action window or doorway). I love those kind of shots, and now they've become quite commonplace (Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings both use this nicely). Moulin Rouge deserved the Best Picture award much much more than A Beautiful Mind did.

Disneykid wrote:I love Moulin Rouge, but I must defend my Chicago with all of this slamming going on. Chicago did not simply film the stage musical. For something like that, watch the home video versions of Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Jesus Christ Superstar (2000). The original broadway show didn't really have much of a storyline. It was basically a series of loosely connected "acts" peformed on stage in a vaudeville manner. The majority of the spoken script you see in the film is original, and even the way the musical numbers are portrayed are very different from the show. So just like Moulin Rouge built a storyline around existing music, so did Chicago, essentially. Sorry, I just had to defend it since it's one of my favorite films (and better than Moulin Rouge, in my opinion).

I agree with you wholly. My statement of "Moulin Rouge! > Chicago" was saying that I thought it was a better film. However, I loved Chicago. I'm so glad it won Best Picture and deserved more. But, the point I was trying to get across was that Moulin should have won MUCH, MUCH more than Art Direction and Costume Design!

Disneykid wrote:Moulin Rouge deserved the Best Picture award much much more than A Beautiful Mind did.

AMEN!!

Ah I love Moulin Rouge! I just bought it not too long ago for a good price and it was the 2-disc collector's set. It's my favourite modern musical.

I saw this film in October (was too young in 2001 to see it) and absolutely fell in love with it. My friend and I bawled our eyes out, and brought the soundtrack on our school trip that week and sang it for 2 hours straight.

Oh, and it's on TV tomorrow (Sunday the 27th) at 2 or 2:30 on Much More Music.

Moulin Rouge is a masterpiece. period.

Prince Adam wrote:Oh, and it's on TV tomorrow (Sunday the 27th) at 2 or 2:30 on Much More Music.

OOH! Sweet. But I don't know if I have Much More Music...

[quote="Loomis"]

What I liked about it, was that it actually used the cinematic medium and new technologies to do things that you couldn't possibly do on stage. The higher-grossing and more critically praised Chicago took an already successful stage musical and filmed it. Gee, think of the effort.

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That statement is not entirely accurate. Moulin Rouge! was a bigger critical success, check the critic's compilations for their respective years. Chicago did better with Oscar, but that does not necessarily translate into critical kudos.

While I think Moulin Rouge! is a great film, probably the best of 2001, I do support Chicago as well, even though I don't think it's brilliant. (My musical slot for that year goes to Monsoon Wedding. Second, goes to Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India, which I saw today, again. ) Chicago was more than just a re-filimg of the stage version. Like it has already been said, Broadway companies film musicals and sell them on home video. This is an entirely different case with Chicago. It used many different conventions to make it a successful film musical.

We all seem to be forgetting the BEST musical of the 2000's - Lars Von Triers Dancer in the Dark. Original musical + original story = timeless classic. Overall, I think musicals are few and far between, but excellent when they are here. If you exclude of course, the horrid The Phantom of the Opera. Andrew Loydd Webber is the death of the American musical!


Favorite Musical Films in Each Year:

2000 - Dancer in the Dark
2001 - Moulin Rouge!
2002 - Monsoon Wedding
2003 - ?
2004 - Ray

I'm not but has any one seen this one

I have

JiminyCrick91 wrote:I'm not but has any one seen this one

Yes. I didn't like it as much, because I love musicals more, but it was a good film..

I never saw it in the theaters... and didn't know it was a musical (honestly). But since I knew it was a well known and popular movie I bought it the day it was released. I didn't like musicals back then so when I started watching it I was like: "oh, no...." But later I really started liking it and in the end I discovered what a good movie it is.

I showed it to my friends who didn't like musicals either and they ended up: "we have to show this to the rest of our friends". Turned out to be that the rest of our "tough guys" friends really loved it. And it became the only romantic/musical movie they like and are proud to mention.

A big fat yes. Moulin Rouge! is my favorite movie, ever. I was so happy when I found a copy of the 2 disc edition last year for 15 bucks.