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say that Luhrmann entirely leaves the text behind in his film. His overtly clever imagery and word play creates a world that is detailed, textured and intertextual. The level of detail in his world indicates that a certain level of fantastical realism remains in this film, but every aspect of that detail exists to serve the poetry and the understanding and entertainment of the audience. There is never a detail that is too realist to the point of redundancy, it's all innately clever. Luhrmann is in every

experience this revolution and be surrounded by the artists, singers, and dancers of this new Bohemian world. Little did he know that he would experience something he had never felt before but always believed in: love. Moulin Rouge, directed by Baz Luhrmann, is an exquisite movie musical based off of a real life cabaret called Moulin Rouge in Montmartre. The movie tells the story of the love triangle between Christian, Satine aka the “Sparkling Diamond” of the Moulin Rouge, played by Nicole Kidman

characteristics of Luhrmann’s signature genre, ‘Red Curtain Cinema’, to the audience of the film. The term, coined by the director himself, is distinguished by films that follow a simple, recognisable narrative set in a world of ‘heightened reality’: Luhrmann describes the central parameters as a “simple, even naïve story based on a primary myth…set in a heightened interpretation of a world that is at once familiar yet distant and exotic”. The use of music, set, costumes, as well as more technical features

Both Baz Luhrmann in the 2001 romantic musical “Moulin Rouge” and Angela Carter in the 1984 novel “Nights at the Circus” use postmodern elements to explore the importance of storytelling. These two texts, both fin de siècle, set in 1899 to the dawning age of the 1900s, feature tales of extravagant performers, Satine and Fevvers, and their writer lovers, Christian and Walser, on their journeys of self-discovery and revolution. Both texts feature main female characters with theatrical professions,

environment can be too restrictive which would make it harder for them to express their own individuality. ‘Strictly Ballroom’ directed by Baz Luhrmann effectively depicts the experience of an individual trying to belong, in a world that is rigid and set up with pre-determined rules that cannot be

mansions, shiny cars and bright lights. While Zeffirelli paced his film in an Iambic pentameter – a traditional Shakespeare pace; Luhrman never kept his film at a solid pace. “By modernizing these aspects of the play, and reconstructing the prologue, Luhrmann creates a movie that is more interesting to the modern viewers.” ("Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet." 123HelpMe.com). As Zeffirelli may have believed famous actors would steal his show he instead hired fresh new faces to give

Baz Luhrmann film study The Great Gatsby and Romeo & Juliet Introduction Baz Luhrmann is an Australian born director. He is known for his adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in 1996 and The Great Gatsby in 2013, amongst others such as Strictly Ballroom and The Moulin Rouge. He is the creator of “Red Curtain Cinema” and in his eccentric filming methods: highlights important themes and ideas through the fast pace, camera angles, and use of modern music in period films. Luhrmann is eccentric and unconventional

as her future prospects with Romeo are bleak and Gatsby wants to create a beautiful future by restoring the past. Baz Luhrmann is known for his distinctive style especially in films such as Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom. Also known as ‘The Red Curtain Trilogy’, there are many similarities between all three of these films with The Great Gatsby. Baz Luhrmann is able to keep his pompous signature style that has made him the director that he is today. The extravagant parties, modern

Evolution of Baz Luhrmann Topic 3 In Baz Luhrmanns films they always have the story of love and compassion and Baz Luhrmann use of modern film techniques in movies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby he uses special effects to help influence the love which we see in his films in both films however there is the sense of loss come in as death occurs in them with Romeo and Juliet both dying tragically as well as Jay Gatsby being murdered in The great Gatsby but there is more to the films than

with static behavioral patterns. These people have many traits, but not one trait that is distinctly their own. Often their actions are hard to predict and seem may seem random or uncalled for. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet, Nurse is one of these characters. Her actions are often unpredictable. The Nurse’s inconsistent traits all come from the trust Juliet has in the Nurse and the influence over Juliet that comes with trust. The Nurse helps Juliet