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Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann, which tells the story of a young British poet and composer who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge cabaret. It uses the colourful musical setting of Montmartre, a district in Paris, France. Some plot details, specifically the poor artist and his dying lover, bear relation to the opera La Bohème (which Baz Luhrmann has also directed several times), including references to the " Bohemian" subculture. The plot was also inspired by the Greek myth of OrpheusFor other senses of the word Orpheus, see Orpheus (disambiguation). Gustave Moreau ( 1880) In Greek legend, Orpheus was the chief representative of the arts of song and the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history of Greece. He was a Greek o in the Underworld. The screenplay was written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce .

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It has a storyline and structure that is said to be inspired and influenced by BollywoodBollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based film industry in India. It is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema , even though a strong case could be made that the language of the films is actually Hindustani. Songs often use Urdu vocab movies: exuberant music, colourful visuals, elaborate sets and costumes, simple story line with a simple conflict, heroine with melodramatic disease, two-dimensional characters, and the songs themselves, adopted from contemporary musicians. It includes a popular HindiHindi Hindi Spoken India Region South Asia Total speakers 480 million Ranking2 Genetic classification Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Middle Indo-Aryan Hindi Official status Official language India Regulated by- Language codes ISO 639-1hi ISO 639-2h movie song near the end. Other songs it samples include Nature Boy by Nat King Cole, Lady Marmalade by LaBelle (the Christina Aguilera et al cover having been commissioned for this film), Madonna's Material Girl, the titular song of The Sound of Music, and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana--all within the film's first twenty minutes. The film uses so much popular music that it took Baz Lurhmann two years to secure all the rights to the songs.

The film takes established rock music songs and modifies them to fit into a tale of a turn-of-the- 20th-century Paris cabaret, blending swirling camera motion, loud music, and dancing to powerful effect. However, it depends heavily on suspension of disbeliefSuspension of disbelief is a willingness of a reader or viewer to suspend their critical faculties in order to "go along for the ride. The phrase was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (pub. 1817), but the concept was certainly and must be approached on its own terms.

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The theme of the movie is loveFor the 1960s band, see Love (band). The term is also used in tennis. Love has many meanings in English. It can mean an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Love is one of t. The main character ( Ewan McGregorEwan McGregor born March 31 1971, in Crieff, Scotland is probably most well known for his role in The Phantom Menace and its two sequels as Obi-Wan Kenobi, but came to prominence for his role as the heroin addict Renton in the film version of Irvine Welsh) is a writer who comes to Paris at the height of the Bohemian movement—a city of artistAn artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. The term may be used in connection with any branch of the arts—for example music, literature, and theatre—but more commonly refers to an individual who practises the visual arts ors, parties, and absinthe. He falls in love with the main singer of the Moulin Rouge cabaret ( Nicole Kidman), who unknowingly suffers from a terminal case of tuberculosis, and the rest of the movie follows their relationship (with plenty of songs in between), ending with her death.

Six other movies with the title "Moulin Rouge" have been made.



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