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 indulged by the use of red and gold in santine room where the whole scene was based, the use of these colours made it portray a romantic scene ahead along with the romantic pose that Satine and Christian began the scene with, which shows Christian leaning over Santine in a clinch, but
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this scene was completely the opposite and it was a scene of comedy, tension and bizarre actions.                                                                          The scene that I have looked at was based in Santines room in the house of Moulin Rouge, the sets main colours of the room where red and gold, the red would signify an intimate atmosphere and love, the gold in the room signifies how high class Santine is in the social class, it shows how classy she is and what a luxurious hooker she is. Also in the set Santines room shows there are nude pictures and fruits such as grapes this ...

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