Mouline Rouge: Everything Expressed with Colors

On this passage from the movie Mouline Rouge we can see a stage show, a star, a powerful man in love and a whole audience full of what it seems rich people. But if we look deeper we see that that´s not all we´ve got. The colors used in this scene, make an amazing difference, from the Sun Yellos mixed with golden used at first, to the pale blues and silvers used later on. They are opposite colors but with a meaning.

At first, during the first seconds we find that the stage is made of a strong carmine difficult for anyone not to notice. During that epoque this color was related to kan kans, shows, and prostitutes of the area, thats why this color suits perfectly fine with the scene opening, when the courtain opens, when the show is about to start.

Everything about the show transport us to somewhere over in India, the singers, the dancers, the setting on the stage, but most of all the colors. In this section all the colors used are summer colors. Lemon and Sun yellows, Gum pink but also fuchsia, whish all these colors transmite either warmth or happiness, or both. It seems that someone using those colors can´t be unhappy or sad,. All these colors are alternated with golden accesories. This metal is always associated with the sun and with happines(since it´s said that money gives happines). Everytime we see gold or golden things in our society we associate it with anything but sadness or pesimistic adjectives.

Once the main star comes out the lightning changes. All the dancers and secondary actors are shown in a pale blue color, mixed with silver areas. It kind of reminds me to the moon and to one of those nights where the moon is big and shining and iluminates all the area I am in. Everything seems so fake, but so marvellous at the same time. Of course another idea for everyone but the main acctres to be in this color is to fushion them with the setting on the stage, to give them less importance and make the audience focus on that pale fuchsia figure that emerges from underneath the stage. Nicole Kidman is treated as the star in those colors, she is the queen of the stage, but it is also noticeable how fake everything is, how those colors don´t really exist anywhere in reallity. She is not healthy, so that might be another one of the reasons why she doesnt try to look better.

In this mosaic all those changes in the scene are represented: The background is divided in 2. The first half a colorful half with mostly warm colors such as Lemon yellow and Sun yellow but also colors like gum pink that even though they are not warm colors they always express happiness.qhen the figure comes out, the whole stage transforms into different shades of pale blue, sad pale gray and silver, simulating the night the cold and the night, also compared to the fakeness. The figure int he middle expressed in ladybug Red shows us the desired object, the person that the whole audience wants to see and have, but it also makes us think of her illness(tuberculosis) which is a sickness that makes the person vomit blood. Here we see how even the main stars of the time had sicknesses too.

As my picture i decided to take an indoor photo of a dead rose, simulatin the actress since roses are always pretty but like everyhting else, they also come to an end. the background of the picture simulates the setting at the stage, ho it is still pretty but not as pretty or nearly as important as our rose. The picture has been modified changing the color to a paler blue imitating that second part of the scene when Nicole Kidman, the Rose, comes out and how the whole stage looks around her.