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In the spectacular movie, Moulin Rouge, Bazz Luhrmann created a formalistic musical about freedom, beauty, truth and most especially, love. In this movie, he creates a fictional storyline about love relative to a few historical events that occurred during the early 1900's in Paris' well-known nightclub, The Moulin Rouge. Although the events all through out the movie are portrayed in a sense of fantasy through a remarkably choreographed comic musical and melodrama, Luhrmann is still able to make it exceptionally and passionately manipulative of its audience. Furthermore, its music is strongly relative to its theme: Love can overcome all obstacles.
One scene in this movie wherein the sound aspect, specifically musical and melodrama, clearly stands out is the "Elephant Love Medley" scene. This scene is very formalistic because it makes no pretense at realism. Like music, wherein most people rely on to retire in their difficult moments, this scene is a form of escapism as well. Here,......

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