Source #4

Horn, John. "The Land of Baz." Newsweek 137.22 (2001): 58 Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Apr. 2015.


Summary: This article is about all of the complications that went on during the filming of Moulin Rouge. It talks about how Fox Studios was nervous that the film was going to fail and how they originally refused to let him add the absinthe fairy and also for him to play with the trademark, but how everything eventually worked out. His team was known as the "Baz Circus" because everything was so chaotic, but how Baz could convince anyone of anything. It talked about how he gave 110% to every part of the film which made it have the success it had.

Evaluation: This was a useful source, because it talked about Luhrmann and what was going through his mind. It showed the chaos from the production and how his crew saw him. It gave a different perspective.

Reflection: This article will be helpful in my research paper, because I am focusing more on the behind the scenes and Baz Luhrmann's point of view rather than just the melodramatic aspects of the film. It gives me more of an idea of what happened during the production.

Source # 3

O'Flaherty, Diane. "Moulin Rouge." Australian Screen Education 31 (2002): 78. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Apr. 2015

Summary: In this article, it discusses many things from the film Moulin Rouge!  from analyzing "truth, beauty, freedom, and above all things, love" and also analyzing the plot, genre, sub-genre, point of view, types of shots and visual effects and the reasoning behind it, and many more. The article talks about how the "cutting and interpolating" of the shots to make a sequence were done purposely to make the scenes, specifically the "Le Tango de Roxanne" scene, more dramatic and to tap into the feelings of the main character. When reading this part of the article, it made so much sense to me, because especially in the tango scene, the craziness of the shots and how it would flip back and forth from Christian to the Unconscious Argentinian and NiNi dancing, and then to Satine with the Duke in the Gothic Tower, and it would get faster and faster and with the music, it makes you have that uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach and like the world, inside the film at least, is getting crazy and is coming crashing down, and that is exactly how Christian was feeling at that very moment when Satine was supposed to be 'spending the night' with the Duke. 

Evaluation: I think that this is a useful source, because it talks about the film as a whole and truly analyzes it rather than focusing on one specific part.

Reflection: This article would be good for my research paper, because I am focusing on the reasoning behind Baz Luhrmann's directing techniques and why he chose the things he chose for the film, and this article really helps.