... little association with the classical precedent. Compared with such a precedent in My Fair Lady, we discover that besides infuriating historical puritans and those who enjoy only sedate films, Moulin Rouge is reduced to an overly staged music video. If eliciting a deeper meaning behind the songs in effort to pilot a powerful message marks a necessary syntactic characteristic of the musical ... touches applied to familiar tunes. Luhrmann fuses "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" with "Material Girl" and develops a "Love Montage" recycling about a half-dozen love songs. Moulin Rouge subj...

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