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* [[Covered Up]]: Many don't know that "Lady Marmalade" was originally done by Labelle in [[The Seventies]]. Also, in spite of its popularity and the fact that it was used in a good deal of the film's marketing, that was not the version actually ''used'' in the film. The song itself, blended with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and original verse spoken by Jim Broadbent, is the first really big number in the film.
* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]: It's really, really hard to find the good in the situation at the film's opening: {{spoiler|Satine dead, Christian almost broken with grief, the Moulin Rouge a closed-down, decrepit ruin.}} However, the {{spoiler|absolutely ''epic'' triumph over the Duke}} infers that {{spoiler|the protagonists' ''ideals'' go on, even if they themselves are dead or scattered}}.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The songs "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" and "Diamond Dogs" are both featured in the film's soundtrack. Fast-forward to the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Ho Yay]]: Defied [[Your Mileage May Vary|or lampshaded]], when the Narcoleptic Argentinean admires Christian's attitude. "I like this boy..." ( [[Beat]], the Bohemians give a weird look) "Nothing funny. I just like talent."
** He also accidentally (?) touched Christian's crotch as he said it.
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* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Zidler makes whoremongering seem utterly glamorous. And his ''lies''!
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: The audience knows from the start that the Duke isn't a nice person; it's when he {{spoiler|tries to rape Satine after she refuses him}} that he [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|loses any sympathetic edge he might have had.]]
** To some, Christian crossed it at the climax {{spoiler|when he attacks and shames Satine in front of an entire audience.}} [[The Nostalgia Chick
* [[Love It or Hate It]]: There really seems to be no middle ground with audiences. Either it's a festive, magical experience with beautiful set pieces or it's schmaltzy dreck that does a complete disservice to modern music.
* Narm: Some people might find {{spoiler|Christian's hysterical sobbing/laughing when Satine dies}} a bit...misplaced.
* [[Strangled
* [[Tear Jerker]]: The [[Downer Ending]]. Christian's heartbroken, hiccuping sobs just add to it.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Some audience members felt this way about the chopy nature of the music. Typically, this reaction comes during the first music number when they hear [[
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: The second half.
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: At first played straight, then inverted. By [[Word of God]], the reason the Bohemians couldn't get their version of "The Sound of Music" right and resorted to [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]], and why Christian could get it right and wow them, was because Christian had an understanding of True Art that they did not--it was a stylistic choice. This is then continually inverted throughout the whole movie, where modern songs are used in place of the sort of music there would actually have been in 1899 Montmartre in order to help the viewer understand what it would have been like then and how those going to the Moulin Rouge would have felt (their idea of decadence and ours would not mix, but that ''is'' what it was to them), as well as to express feelings the characters otherwise could not. It's an interesting conceit, but whether it [[Narm|actually works]] or is [[Mind Screw|appropriate]] is [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|up to]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|the viewer]].
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
=== The 1952 film contains examples of: ===
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