- The film is the opening film of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
- The dancers of the Moulin Rouge were wearing torn underwear under their skirts. In order to ensure the PG-13 level, the producers had to give up the truthful reproduction.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones and Heath Ledger were the first candidates to play Satine and Christian.
- Most of the film was shot at the Fox Studios in Sydney.
- In November 1999, the filming was suspended for two weeks due to a rib fracture and knee injury during Nicole Kidman's dance rehearsal. Later, she completed some pictures above the chest in a wheelchair.
- The necklace worn by Nicole Kidman in the film is indeed made of diamonds and white gold. The most expensive necklace made for filming is set with 1,308 diamonds, with a total weight of 134 carats and a value of about 100. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
- The 80-person clothing department produced 300 pieces of clothing for the film.
- Nicole Kidman always wears a wig in the film.
- More than 100 people participated in the setting up of the Moulin Rouge.
Moulin Rouge! behind the scenes gags
2021-10-20 17:21
Extended Reading
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Ashleigh 2021-10-21 15:30:12
The music is too noisy. There is a lyric like "How sweet life is, I live with you in this world". The plot is to coax the children.
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Elouise 2022-03-23 09:01:19
The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return. ps: Ewan likes singing and being naked in movies most.
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The Duke: I don't like this ending...
Zidler: Don't like the ending, my dear Duke?
The Duke: Why should the courtesan chose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah who is offering her a lifetime of security? That's real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave her with nothing. I suggest that the courtesan chose the maharajah.
Toulouse-Lautrec: But, but tell me, that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and...
The Duke: [shouts] I don't care about your ridiculous dogma! Why shouldn't the courtesan chose the maharajah?
Christian: [shouts] Because she doesn't love you!... Him... Hi-him, she doesn't love... she doesn't love him.
The Duke: Oh, I see... Monsieur Zidler, the play will be rewritten with the courtesan choosing the maharajah and without the lovers' secret song. It will be rehearsed in the morning, ready for the opening tomorrow night...
Zidler: But, my dear Duke, that will be quite impossible.
Satine: Harold, the Duke is being treated appallingly. These silly writers let their imaginations run away with themselves. Why don't you and I have a little supper, and then we can tell Monsieur Zidler how we would like the story to end.
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Satine: I don't need you anymore! All my life you made believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me! But Christian loves me. He loves me! He loves me, Harold. And that is worth everything! We're going away from you, away from the Duke, away from the Moulin Rouge!