Moulin Rouge?

Question

is the movie based on true story or just a fiction ?

Answer 1

It's based on La Boheme, an opera by Puccini, and in La Traviata by Verdi.

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Answer 2

Hi - it is a work of fiction. There is a place called the Moulin Rouge (Red Windmill) in Paris, France, but that's as truthful as the storyline got.

Watched that movie a couple of years ago and, funnily enough, just purchased it yesterday off Ebay I enjoyed it so much!

Answer 3

Moulin Rouge was a place but the basic plot was fiction - brilliant film though!

Answer 4

well, the story of satine & christian was fiction.
the moulin rouge was a real place.
but in a way its true, for example the diamond dogs, and harry ziddler were real people as well as madame giri(i think thats what her name was..)..

haha., good question, i myself had to look up information on the moulin rouge after i saw the movie.
so, its fiction based on facts {if that makes any sense}


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Answer 5

just fiction. but there is a real moulin rouge theater in paris France that used to be a Cabaret theater for dancers a long time ago. if you look up moulin rouge thaeter in paris france it will come up with alot of cool facts.by the way i love the movie it's one of my faves

Answer 6

There are a couple of characters are based on real people. Zidler did run the Moulin, and Artist Toulouse-Lautrec did hang out there, though mainly to draw the can-can girls. However, the rest is pure delightful fiction.
Here is a decent website with some history if you are interested.

http://www.moulinvert.de/history/history.htm

Answer 7

there is a place called Moulin Rouge and i think its based on a true story.

Answer 8

The plot of the movie essentially derives from three operas/operettas. The plot line of a young writer with Bohemian friends who falls in love with a sick girl that eventually dies is from "La Bohème". (Baz Luhrmann directed a stage production of "La Bohème" in Sydney as well as a Broadway production in New York.) The plot line of a courtesan who learns that love can also be true and idealistic comes from "La Traviata". Finally, the plot line of the writer who travels to the "under-world" of the Moulin Rouge to find his love and tries to take her back to the "upper-world" comes from "Orpheus in the Underworld", which is an adaption of the ancient Greek "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth. "La Traviata" is based on Alexandre Dumas père' "Camille", while "La Boheme" is an adaptation of Henri Murger's "La Vie de la Boheme".

Answer 9

there is an actaul place called the moulin rouge - but as for the story line - there is no proof that its real . i love that movie

Answer 10

Just fiction although Toulouse Letrec is a real character.