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Explain how Baz Lurhmann uses film language to make the audience respond to this scene in a particular way.
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Explain how Baz Lurhmann uses film language to make the audience respond to this scene in a particular way. Moulin Rouge tells the story of Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young writer in Paris who begins a doomed romance with the city's most famous courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman). Satine is the star of the eponymous nightspot, whose future depends on her marrying a wealthy patron (Richard Roxburgh) the duke. In a plot twist borrowed from "La Bohème" (which Baz Luhrmann (director) filmed for Australian television in 1993), she is also suffering from tuberculosis. Although it takes place in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century (1900) it uses dance and music from the contemporary pop culture. Some elements of film language that is used in the scene that I will be looking at are special effects, music and sound and many more. When I first saw the scene I was...
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