[UA] Moulin Rouge

[Nick Wedig]

>Um...wow.  Saw this yesterday, and it's still
>sending chills down my spine.  Part of it was the
>perfect audience--I was sitting behind 30 or so
>teenage girls who were--I kid you not--sobbing
>uncontrollably at the ending.  Not wailing and
>gnashing.  Just a slow, steady wave of sniffs and
>sighs, a little stuttered breathing, culminating
>in the head bending low.  The music was great blah
>blah blah, but the movie--damn, it's period UA all
>the way!  No Magick, no Avatars, no IC.  Just lots
>and lots of bohemians, whores, a Duke, a
>narcoleptic Argentinian, and the world's coolest
>French dwarf.  I walked out of the theater,
>thinking of about ten different ways to bring that
>world to life.  And if I walk out thinking that,
>and not of how I could have done it better, it's a
>damn near perfect movie for me.

Do you remember the discussion we had about doing posmodern period pieces?  This is  good exmple of one, it seems.

I thought it was two separate movies, one of which I loved, and the other I was indifferent towards.

Mr. Teapot
nacoleptic argentinian

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