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Moulin Rouge trivia for charminglyxbohemian.

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the movie is based on the myth Orpheus, where the musician falls in love with Eurydice, she dies, and is transported to the underworld. he goes back in to look for her and Hades is all like "you can take her back, and trust that she's following you, but if you look behind you to check, she will be sent back to the underworld. so he does but he looks behind him and they're separated forever.

In the Come What May finale, Christian looks back at her once at curtain call, and then she dies. To symbolize that moment.

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never knew i could feel like this, like i’ve never seen the sky before, 

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1/50 favorite films (x)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.

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I used to rule the world | via Tumblr on We Heart It.

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"We’re creatures of the Underworld. We can’t afford to love." (Moulin Rouge, 2001.) 

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Love? Love. Of all things, I believe in love. Love is like oxygen! Love is a many splendid thing! Love lifts us up where we belong- All you need is love!

Christian in “Moulin Rouge” (via bluedoes)

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I love this part of the movie. Satine has come to terms with her impending death and has almost accepted it. Throughout the movie they sing “I will love you until my dying day.” Satine changes it, knowing that her dying day is very soon and that’s just not enough. She proclaims instead she will love him “till the end of time.” 

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Moulin Rouge (2001)

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La traviata Fact 5: Moulin Rouge

La traviata was also a significant influence on Baz Luhrmann’s musical film Moulin Rouge (2001) and follows the same basic plot.

Moulin Rouge tells the story of celebrated courtesan and star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Satine, who, though resisting at first, gives in to the unwavering love and devotion of a young poet/writer, mirroring the scenario of La traviata. Like Violetta, Satine learns that love can be true and idealistic, and something she is able to experience.  

However, both romances are shattered by extenuating circumstances, and both Violetta and Satine selflessly sacrifice their own happiness for someone else’s sake. In Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge as in La traviata, the courtesan’s lover misunderstands the decisions she has made, believes she is unfaithful and throws money at her in payment for her ‘services’, cheapening the love they shared. Most strikingly, the heroine in both succumbs to the consumption that has been gradually weakening her, and tragically dies.

Interestingly, the iconic red dress that Nicole Kidman wore as Satine echoes how top fashion designer J Mendel imagined his Violetta to be, and how Lila di Nobili designed Violetta back in 1955, as worn by soprano Maria Callas. 

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Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge - 2001

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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?

Moulin Rouge (via adreamersimpleasthis)

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