Christian then joins the group from the room above and joins their play of "Spectacular Spectacular", which when presented to the audience seems to be a parody of the musical "The Sound of Music" as it is set in Austria, involves nuns and is set in the hills. This use of the music and story line from 'The Sound of Music' shows that it is definitely not real life as 'The Sound of Music' as set in the Second World War, which is after the time period in which this film is currently set. When the others are quarrelling over the lyrics of a song, Christian bursts into song, singing the lyrics "The hills are alive with the sounds of music", stunning the others to silence. He then follows this up with the next set of lyrics "With songs they have sung, for a thousand years", which continues to amaze those involved in the production of 'Spectacular, Spectacular'. This again emphasises the unrealistic nature of this production. He is asked to take over the writing of the show to which he becomes filled with doubt when a flashback of his father warning him to stay away from Montmartre as he'd only end up with a can-can dancer. In part of persuasion, the group of bohemians ask him whether he believes in truth, beauty, freedom and love, to which Christian replies with statements such as "above all things I believe in love", "love is like oxygen", "love is a many splendid thing","love lifts us up where we belong" and "all you need is love". These statements are all lyrics from contemporary songs, and allow the audience to feel a link of familiarity to what Christian is saying and what he believes in. Through using such a grand scale of lines from songs, it allows a greater portion of the audience to realise this effect.
In celebration, Toulouse offers Christian a glass of Absinthe, the most potent alcoholic drink, and in correspondence, it is typed on his typewriter to reinforce furtherly to the audience the effect this drink will have on him. Due to the colour of Absinthe being green, the colour scheme of the shot turns a slightly green shade and when there is a close up of Christian, he seems to be bathed in green light. The camera then zooms into the label on the bottle of Absinthe, the green fairy from the label comes alive as Kylie Minogue, looking similar to a figure of Tinkerbell from the story of Peter Pan, and she flies across the room, leaving a sparkling green trail behind her and causing an explosion of fireworks. The fact that the fairy on the label of the bottle has seemingly come alive, it emphasises to the audience that Christian and his group of friends are drunk.
Once again, similarly as before, the camera follows swiftly up through the window of Christians room, this time the changes are distinctly noticeable as the room is portrayed as bright, airy and clean and shows Christian looking out of the window, satisfied with his surroundings. Christian explains his need to be in Paris due its bohemian atmosphere and want to write about truth, beauty, freedom and most importantly, love. Christian sits down at his typewriter to begin writing about love when he realises that he knows nothing about love as he has never been in love. This is made more obvious to the audience as there is a brief pause on Christian as he realises his obsession with love, purposely pausing on it to accentuate its importance. Then there is another pause as he realises he hasn't been in love and there is an extreme close up of him, followed by another pause. These aspects contribute to audience participation cinema as the audience is completely aware that they're watching a movie, as there are constant interruptions with the telling of the story. To emphasis this, things flash from past to present because as Christian types things on his typewriter, certain events occur. As he is contemplating his ignorance of what it is like to be in love, an unconscious Argentinean man falls through his roof, dangling upside down from a cord attached to his foot. As soon as this happens, Toulouse Lautrec bursts in the door with a jumper wrapped around his head, supposedly dressed as a nun, attempting to explain everything in rather a patchy fashion, missing certain things out. The next set of events occurs rapidly and is hardly taken in by the spectator before something else happens. Suddenly, three faces appear over the hole in the roof asking what has happened and who will fill in for the unconscious Argentinean in their rehearsal. This sequence is so far removed from reality that it is impossible to believe that it is real life.
Christian then joins the group from the room above and joins their play of "Spectacular Spectacular", which when presented to the audience seems to be a parody of the musical "The Sound of Music" as it is set in Austria, involves nuns and is set in the hills. This use of the music and story line from 'The Sound of Music' shows that it is definitely not real life as 'The Sound of Music' as set in the Second World War, which is after the time period in which this film is currently set. When the others are quarrelling over the lyrics of a song, Christian bursts into song, singing the lyrics "The hills are alive with the sounds of music", stunning the others to silence. He then follows this up with the next set of lyrics "With songs they have sung, for a thousand years", which continues to amaze those involved in the production of 'Spectacular, Spectacular'. This again emphasises the unrealistic nature of this production. He is asked to take over the writing of the show to which he becomes filled with doubt when a flashback of his father warning him to stay away from Montmartre as he'd only end up with a can-can dancer. In part of persuasion, the group of bohemians ask him whether he believes in truth, beauty, freedom and love, to which Christian replies with statements such as "above all things I believe in love", "love is like oxygen", "love is a many splendid thing","love lifts us up where we belong" and "all you need is love". These statements are all lyrics from contemporary songs, and allow the audience to feel a link of familiarity to what Christian is saying and what he believes in. Through using such a grand scale of lines from songs, it allows a greater portion of the audience to realise this effect.
In celebration, Toulouse offers Christian a glass of Absinthe, the most potent alcoholic drink, and in correspondence, it is typed on his typewriter to reinforce furtherly to the audience the effect this drink will have on him. Due to the colour of Absinthe being green, the colour scheme of the shot turns a slightly green shade and when there is a close up of Christian, he seems to be bathed in green light. The camera then zooms into the label on the bottle of Absinthe, the green fairy from the label comes alive as Kylie Minogue, looking similar to a figure of Tinkerbell from the story of Peter Pan, and she flies across the room, leaving a sparkling green trail behind her and causing an explosion of fireworks. The fact that the fairy on the label of the bottle has seemingly come alive, it emphasises to the audience that Christian and his group of friends are drunk.
