you don't have to wear that dress tonight
I was saying something about Satine's introduction, performing for the crowd of mostly men in the Moulin Rouge. I think I might skip past the rest of Lacan for now and move on to the feminist critique... Vladimir Propp (1968) lists among the basic dramatis personae the princess . Serving as the princess in Moulin Rouge! , Satine is "a sought for person" and she "cannot be exactly delineated" from her father (p. 79). As I have already said above-- If you haven't been reading this blog the last few days, you should know that much of what I've been writing about Moulin Rouge! I am deliberately repurposing for a paper for my media theory class... or vice versa. Hence, this "above" which actually refers to something I said yesterday or the day before, or maybe both. Just bear with me. --Zidler is just one male figure in this film standing in for the patriarchal order over Satine and her body. Quite specifically, he serves as her father, ...