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Moulin Rouge Color Analysis  The film Moulin Rouge consists of various color components that brings up the film’s mood and atmosphere. One of the color component used in the film was Analogous harmony. The film included several scenes that used analogous harmony in the background and the setting. One of the scenes that used the colors that are next to the each other on the color wheel for background and setting was when Christian and Satine was secretly together in the elephant room in the beginning of the movie. The colors of the curtain, bed sheet, and the ornaments together formed the analogous harmony. Most of the objects were primarily red colored, but some were red-orange, yellow, and yellow-orange. The color harmony together soothed the overall tone of the colors in the background and colors blended in as a whole in the background. Another color component used in the film was complementary harmony. Such scenes like where the dancers danced Can Can, the colors of the actor’s outfit and costumes together formed a complementary harmony. Their dresses included red and green, yellow and purple, and also blue and orange. The colors of the dresses formed very vivid and bold images of the scene. Last, another component used in the film was saturated colors. When Satine sang “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” in the beginning of the movie, her skin tone and out fit was very white that it couldn’t be more white. Also, her lip color really contrasted from her face, and it couldn’t be more red than that. In conclusion, such components like analogous harmony, complementary harmony, and saturated colors were used in the scenes to enhance the mood and atmosphere of the movie.