Moulin Rouge - Three Paragraphs

The scene of “Moulin Rouge” seems to be played as a very intense and makes the genre clear of being a dramatic film. This is mainly due to their choices in creating the movies mise-en-scene characteristics. Most dramatic films are usually classified as being serious, having plot-driven presentations and also portraying realistic characters and settings. All these sections can be related to the movie, “Moulin Rouge” and prove it to be a dramatic film. The main reasons for depicting this movie as being the genre of drama, is due to the lighting and style of acting within the scene.

The mise-en-scene within this movie clip is important in classifying the genre of the film, especially the lighting and style of acting. The lighting throughout this clip seem to intensify the meaning of the film, and “dramatic-ness” of the scene. The lighting in the beginning of the film clip is dark to show the mood of the scene. As the scene continues, the light becomes blue when seeing the man typing at his typewriter. This displays sadness, as it is accompanied by sad and intense music. Then, when the scene begins to end, the lighting becomes normal and no signs of darkness are displayed, as it is a flashback. This produces a dramatic effect, as their are many different emotions exposed throughout the clip. It also displays the realistic setting, due to these lighting effects, and makes the whole clip seem relatively realistic. Secondly, the style of acting within this scene persuades the audience to think of the movie as being the genre of “drama”. The acting begins off as being crazy, due to the many over-exaggerated faces and motions of movement, but this increases the amount of over-exaggerated drama portrayed within the scene. When the man is using the type-writer there is a significant sad style of acting. This is a very common emotion, and contributes widely to making the characters seem realistic. Lastly, as the scene ends the people begin to act crazy again, or mad in some case. But this could be due to the images of them within the mans mind. Overall, the sections of lighting and style of acting, contained within the mise-en-scene unit, makes the move clip of “Moulin Rouge” seem like a very dramatic movie.

Through the previous examples, it should be now clear that the film clip of “Moulin Rouge” has a genre of being a dramatic movie. This was shown through the use of both lighting and style of acting, which was over-all the mise-en-scene within the movie. The lighting made the film seem like it portrayed very realistic settings and moods. Whereas the style of acting depicted the characters to appear realistic. Both these elements contribute to make the movie seem dramatic, although their are many more examples to be found.