Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. Today we are talking about Mulan Rouge, the 2001 film. Michael, pronounced the exclamation point. I did. I tried to be as excited as without yelling.

Try it again.

Once more with feeling.

Today we're talking about Milan Rouge.

The 2001 film directed by Bazelerman, screenplay by Baslerman and Craig Pierce.

I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team,

Tricia Arand. Hello, everybody. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayeros.

Hi. Before we dive in to Mulan Rouge and all the things that we want to talk about,

our question for Spotify listeners is, what is your favorite song from Mulan Rouge? I want to know.

I'm really excited to read them all

and then listen to them all probably on Spotify. Plug Spotify. There you go. So let's dive in.

So Moulon Rouge. Let's all talk about our first experiences with this film. For people our age,

this was a film that you had an opinion on, I think, generally speaking. And this is where

Brian, it'll be interesting to see if the slight age difference that we have now was created

a different experience for you. Leave Uncle Brian alone. I was, yeah, 14, I believe, when this came out

in high school and at the height of hopeless romanticism and getting into film.

And this film was just to borrow Alex's phrase, this was a cinemagasm, if ever there was one.

Perhaps my first.

Wow.

You were a cinemagasm virgin and told this movie.

Aw, cinematagasm for the very first time.

So many of us were.

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