Moulin Rouge

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People who love Moulin Rouge should check out Phantom of the Opera...hell do I even need to SAY that?...

And because it's one of the best musicals EVER...check out this musical too =)...

Ok, found this video which is like...a tribute to the movie The Notebook, I LOVE this movie, and yeah...people should go rent it or buy it or whatever...but this little video just rules...so shameless little plug here for a movie I just adore...

Movies:

Movie Quotes:

Christian and Satine: Come what may, I'll love you till my dying day.

Christian: My gift is my song. And this one's for you. And You Can Tell Everybody That this is your song. It may be quite simple but now that it's done. I hope u don't mind I hope You don't mind That I put down in words... How Wonderful Life is Now you're in the world

Satine: [singing] Never knew I could feel like this. Like I've never seen the sky before. Want to vanish inside your kiss, every day I'm loving you more and more. Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing? Come back to me- and forgive everything. [gasp] seasons change, winter to spring. I love you. Until the end of time.

Satine: [to herself, singing] When will I begin to live again? One day I'll fly away... leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Christian: [singing] Why does my heart cry? Feelings I can't fight... you're free to leave me, but just don't deceive me, and please believe me when I say I love you!

Toulouse-Lautrec: Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being.

Movie Trivia:

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Heath Ledger were contenders to play Satine and Christian.

The wardrobe department created three hundred costumes and, at one point, eighty people were employed for this task.

This is the third part of Baz Luhrmann's "Red Curtain" trilogy which includes Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Romeo + Juliet (1996).

"Come What May" was written by 'David Baerwald' for Romeo + Juliet (1996) but not used. In Moulin Rouge, it is newly written for the stage show by Christian. However, it is the only completely original song in the entire film.

The plot of the movie essentially derives from three operas/operettas. The plot line of a young writer with Bohemian friends who falls in love with a sick girl that eventually dies is from "La Bohème". (Baz Luhrmann directed a stage production of Bohème in Sydney as well as a Broadway production in New York.) The plot line of a courtesan who learns that love can also be true and idealistic comes from "La Traviata". Finally, the plot line of the writer who travels to the 'under world' of the Moulin Rouge to find his love and tries to take her back to the 'upper world' comes from "Orpheus in the Underworld" which is an adaption of the ancient Greek 'Orpheus and Eurydice' myth. "La Traviata" is based on Alexandre Dumas' "Camille", while "La Boheme" is an adaptation of Murger's "La Vie de la Boheme".

Originally, the green fairy was going to be a long-haired muscle man with a giant sitar, and Ozzy Osbourne was hired to provide the vocals. Eventually it was changed to the current "Tinker Bell" incarnation, played by Kylie Minogue, but Osbourne still gives voice to the fairy's guttural scream when it turns evil.

The word "love" and its variations (loved, loves, loving, lover and lovers) appears in this film 143 times.

Heroes:

Arguably the movie that led up to Moulin Rouge (in both style and storyline)...one of Baz Luhrmann's best movies...after Moulin Rouge of course..

Oh yeah...and Baz Luhrmann too of course =)