Yes, really: Moulin Rouge! is totally inspired by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. While I've known for a long time that Moulin Rouge! is based on Puccini's La Boheme, I recently discovered that the story also comes from an ancient Greek legend. It's such a powerful musical, and its mythological basis just adds to this. Older, wiser, and even more obsessed with Baz Luhrmann flicks than I was as a kid, Moulin Rouge is still high on my list if your hobbies include recreating the "Elephant Love Medley" scene in your bathroom mirror with a hairbrush, we're probably going to be friends.
I didn't learn that fact until later in life, and it's made my love for the film even stronger. One big thing I didn't know about Moulin Rouge!? Its roots in ancient mythology.
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At that point, there were about a thousand different things I didn't know about that film, even though I was already certain it was my favorite movie of all time.
With this in mind, I was double-determined to see Moulin Rouge! Eventually, I would "borrow" a VHS of the movie from a classmate, but before that happened, I got my hands on the soundtrack and would sit in my room, totally obsessing over Ewan McGregor's voice and trying to put together a plotline just by listening to the CD over and over again. Yet as the oldest child of two conservative parents, I was also forbidden to watch PG-13 movies, especially ones about singing courtesans and sexy French people. When Moulin Rouge! came to theaters in 2001, I was a 10-year-old girl out in Iowa, confident she would wind up on Broadway and devouring anything to do with musicals.
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