... society. He continually demeans Satine through his use of language and action, calling her, "Pumpkin-, "My Love-, and "Sweetheart- among others. With the Moulin Rouge, Zidler has created a culture that the female spectator is familiar with, " a culture where women are both subjects and objects of commodity exchange- (Stacey, ... for his own gain, and the Duke becomes Satine's new owner or more appropriately, her puppeteer. As Satine performs at the Moulin Rouge the audience is introduced to the Duke. He quickly becomes infatuated with Satine's beautiful image and objectifies her. To the ...

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... , one where contemporary characters are forced to follow the steps of their predecessors as Byatt is also compelled to do. The film Moulin Rouge directed by Baz Lurhmann also adopts self-reflective techniques by the premeditated use of anachronism, to de legitimise the text as being nothing more ... than fictitious, allowing the responder to be all too aware that it is not reality, merely a musical and theatrical montage of appropriated contexts. Moulin Rouge uses self-reflexivity by including frames in a film regarding the making a stage play. The remarks mad by the Duke, "At the end sho...

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... the painting. Dull blues run across the top background and gradate into earthen reds below, while effectively contrasting the two colorations throughout the piece. The patrons of the Moulin Rouge are predominantly dressed in boldly dark reds and blacks, giving emphasis to them as the main subjects. The tophats as well as the formation of the central subjects create square ... them. These elements create, what I feel, as a superior way of conveying emotion and emphasis, rather than relying on inhuman awkwardness, such as in Lautrec's painting. Lautrec's "At the Moulin Rouge" might be rem...

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