Chaeri+Jeong's+Analysis

Moulin Rouge can be described as a very colorful movie. The colors used in this movie are mostly very vibrant, which give off the festive and the entertaining mood of the Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge is a place where people, mostly working men, go to take a break from the strict reality. Such ambience can definitely be seen through the colors seen in the nightclub.

The working men are all dressed in black and white where as the girls in the nightclub are dressed primarily in saturated colors. For example, in the beginning, when the girls are dancing, their costumes are very bright and saturated. I spotted fiery red, pumpkin orange, bright sun light yellow, and bright neon green. Such saturated colors definitely conveyed a mood of festivity and entertainment. They even wore saturated colored make up (fiery red lipstick). There were some tint colors in the costumes of the actors.

In some parts of the movie, there are cool colors which is a big contrast from the warm colors seen in the night club. Usually cool colors are used to show the romantic relationship between Satine and Christian. The cool colors give more of a soft and grand effect where as the warm colors were used to give more of a crowded and lively effect.

There were also some analogous harmony colors in the movie as well. Satine's room is filled with, red, red-oragne and orange colors. I didn't spot any blue/cool colors. The colors were all adjacent to each other. .