Intensive scene study of the first 2 scenes (first 5mins 13 sec) of Moulin Rouge

Scene 1 - 'Main Titles' *<Tab/>The movie starts off from the perspective of a theatre, beginning in pitch black, with a bit of chatter, which would be the same as if you went into a real theatre, the sound of everyone calming down and getting themselves comfortable, then as the lights come on the live orchestra starts. *<Tab/>The conductor I feel is added for a bit …

…passes by the ally way that we saw the seedy looking drug dealer, we see instead, a happy man with a big smile on his face playing a guitar with a whole band playing outside of a bar, symbolizing the innocence in which Christian first saw Paris. *<Tab/>The camera flies up to an apartment flying through a big bright L'amour sign once again explaining that this is a movie about.