Oooh, which means I'm ripping off Monty Python! Excellent. *does happy dance*
May I join the dance? :)
What was Luhrmann homaging (is that a verb?) in Moulin Rouge?
Oh goodness do you have an hour or so? These are some things just off the top of my head: -Christian's storyline borrows heavily from the myth of Orpheus. -Satine's story in the original draft of the script (very different from the movie) borrowed heavily from Alexendar Dumas' La Dame Aux Camillas, about a dying courtesan; which was later adapted as the opera La Traviata (Luhrmann has directed stage versions of it), as well as the movie Camille with Greta Garbo. (Most of that material was cut; in the original Satine had a son and had a history with Christian's father - no it didn't make sense to me when I read it - but Luhrmann decided to cut most of that out to focus on Christian's story.) -The red satin dress ("smoldering temptress") is a direct homage to the black sheath gown worn by Rita Hayworth in the movie for the musical number "Put the Blame on Mame" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZn86sSWtEQ -The Sound of Music in the sequence where Christian first meets the Bohemians and that's the first song that pours out of his mouth -"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" from the stage play "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds" with Carol Channing that was adapted into the 1953 movie and sung by Marilyn Monroe, in the number that was also ripped off for Madonna's "Material Girl" video - so that number self-consciously references both Monroe and Madonna. (Satine was pretty much designed as a stand-in/homage to all of the great movie and pop music divas of the last 60 years.) http://vimeo.com/56710275
I'd have to look it up to add more, I haven't watched it or the featurettes in ages. (I got the box set and it pretty much set the standard for 'deluxe' special features, or at least until LoTR came along.)
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Date: 2013-10-09 02:32 pm (UTC)May I join the dance? :)
What was Luhrmann homaging (is that a verb?) in Moulin Rouge?
Oh goodness do you have an hour or so? These are some things just off the top of my head:
-Christian's storyline borrows heavily from the myth of Orpheus.
-Satine's story in the original draft of the script (very different from the movie) borrowed heavily from Alexendar Dumas' La Dame Aux Camillas, about a dying courtesan; which was later adapted as the opera La Traviata (Luhrmann has directed stage versions of it), as well as the movie Camille with Greta Garbo. (Most of that material was cut; in the original Satine had a son and had a history with Christian's father - no it didn't make sense to me when I read it - but Luhrmann decided to cut most of that out to focus on Christian's story.)
-The red satin dress ("smoldering temptress") is a direct homage to the black sheath gown worn by Rita Hayworth in the movie for the musical number "Put the Blame on Mame" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZn86sSWtEQ
-The Sound of Music in the sequence where Christian first meets the Bohemians and that's the first song that pours out of his mouth
-"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" from the stage play "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds" with Carol Channing that was adapted into the 1953 movie and sung by Marilyn Monroe, in the number that was also ripped off for Madonna's "Material Girl" video - so that number self-consciously references both Monroe and Madonna. (Satine was pretty much designed as a stand-in/homage to all of the great movie and pop music divas of the last 60 years.) http://vimeo.com/56710275
I'd have to look it up to add more, I haven't watched it or the featurettes in ages. (I got the box set and it pretty much set the standard for 'deluxe' special features, or at least until LoTR came along.)