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most of the film is edited normally
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Statements like this can't be proven true any more than my
own subjective opinion of the movie as a whole. If we want to establish a criteria for what constitutes 'normal editing' we might as well develop similar criteria for 'normal pacing,' 'normal script,' etc. You see where I'm going? Normal for that type of film? Normal for the types of films that you enjoy? Even if by normal editing you mean conventional editing, I must respectfully disagree.
I admire
Moulin Rouge. So much about the picture appealed to me: the songs, the plot, and the imagery. Ewan McGregor was amazing.
I felt that aside from the 'heightened editing' during the Moulin Rouge introductory sequence (and select others) that the editing throughout the picture, by my count, was still frenetic in just about every scene.
This comes down to what each of us need
personally in order to emotionally invest in a picture. It's a simple issue of subjective taste. I get frustrated when a director won't let me linger on a character or on an image for too long, it makes me feel like the subject matter is not being taken seriously and instead being put through a spin cycle. The slow, romantic lyrical scenes still felt like a series of panning reaction shots to me. It was frustrating for me to want to like a film so much, but to cringe every time a beautiful set-up shot was suddenly cut off and replaced with another similarly incomplete shot. This is what I saw throughout most of the picture, and perhaps I was watching a different film, but it's what I saw.
Listen, I consider this all friendly debate.
I have no strong negative feelings about MR, but ever since the debacle that was
Armageddon, I developed a neurosis and hyper awareness for quick cut editing.
Also, I love certain films that many people consider truly, truly bad, from the best and worst in Italian Horror to the film
Magnolia (which many could argue used too many panning shots and was an over pretentious waste of celluloid). My point it, we all have opionions and views, they're all valuable, and bottom line: I wanted so much to like
Moulin Rouge and am just disappointed that it didn't satisfy me.
Cheers and peace,
Joseph
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