#334: In Baz Taste, Pt. 1 — Moulin Rouge!

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Would the feverishly stylized, irreverently ahistorical spectacle of Baz Luhrmann’s MOULIN ROUGE! resonate with audiences today the way it did in 2001? We may be about to find out with the director’s latest, ELVIS, which takes a very similar approach to a very different story. Before getting into the parallels between the two musicals next week, we’re revisiting a movie that was either an “apocalyptic moment” for film or a canny predictor of the next two decades of pop culture — or maybe both? — to consider what it gains and loses in its expansive, fluid relationship to music, history, and musical history. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about MOULIN ROUGE, ELVIS, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: “Lady Marmalade” by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, and Pink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:34.7	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:41.5	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.1	Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:53.4	and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here with Keith Phipps and Genevieve Koski.
1:00.1	Tasha Robinson, our co-host, is off getting bedazzled somewhere in the deep south, but
1:05.7	we will see here again on a future episode. This week, we almost certainly say goodbye to the summer of 2001,
1:13.6	at least as far as studio movies are concerned. We did AI artificial intelligence earlier
1:18.9	this year and a pairing with After Yang, and today we tackle Moulin Rouge. I, of course,
1:24.4	will resist any effort to give Shrek the classic designation, which leaves Pearl Harbor, evolution, swordfish, Laracroft Tomb Raider, Dr. Zoolittle 2, the first Fast of the Furious movie, Cats and Dogs, Jurassic Park 3, America's Sweethearts, and Planet of the Apes. There's also legally blonde, which I think we more or less like.
1:45.4	So any arguments from you, Keith or Genevieve, about closing the book on the blockbusters of 2001 after today?
1:52.7	I'm not ready to write off legally blonde as an option in the future. I'm holding on to that. We may do legally blonde.
2:03.0	Yeah. I did kind of want to separate that one from the from the rest of the bunch Keith is that is that all right
2:08.0	with you that's fine yeah and I will say I remember dr. Doolittle too I think has a
2:11.9	fairly sensitive vocal performance from from Albert Brooks as a tiger I don't
2:17.2	know I can look it up but
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