Moulin Rouge UNEDITED REACTION (all access)

Whenever people ask me about this song, I never know how to explain it. It's so hyper-stylized and just unlike everything else I've seen in concept and aesthetics. The film style, the set design, the story--it's campy but tragic but opulent but modern...it's definitely unique. I didn't watch it until college despite by long held love of musicals because I had it in my head that it was something entirely different. But I saw La Traviata (the opera this movie is based on) so I realized it was a tragedy and was interested to see then how this modern musical with Nicole Kidman portrayed the story. Plus I had stayed in Paris for a semester and been to the Moulin Rouge at that point so I finally just gave in and watched it. And I was shocked. It's not my favorite musical (though Come What May is such an excellent song) but I'm so glad I watched it because it was an experience to say the least and just a whole new type of film. I've done theatre since grade school and in high school one of the characters playing a maid dropped a tray of glasses that shattered and we couldn't just leave glass on the middle of the stage during the show (and we didn't have a set change in the immediate future) so me and two of the other leads had to vamp while the "maid" cleaned it up. It was a comedy set in a haunted mansion so it was challenging to improvise funny-spooky but the cast was great and it was so seamless my friend the next day thought it was just part of the show. haha. It was nerve-wracking during the show but it turned out just fine for us.

SNBangtan

Nick, what was your favorite song in the movie? You said that Spectacular Spectacular was your favorite at that point in the movie. Did it remain the same, or did you like another song more?

Tasia Barrett

If you take a shot everytime they say "Roxanne" you'll probably have drunk enough for the entire night in the duration of one song and then pass out, probably

Érica Havican

Thank you so much for watching this!!! So excited!!!

Yay!!!! Thanks Nick so much for doing this one!!!

Tasia Barrett