Baz Luhrmann - Analysis of the Red Curtain Trilogy

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The Red Curtain Trilogy, upon first thought, could simply be seen as a marketing tool by Baz Luhrmann and the team at Bazmark - put your three popular films in a box set with some added features and set it upon the DVD buying audience. However, upon further inspection, the three films are not boxed together simply for marketing purposes, or just by the fact they have the same director and production team - Simply …

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…are similar yet different. The three films are each based on a myth, on obsession, on society, on love. They have similarities that are hard to ignore. But the three films deal with these issues in different ways, ultimately having different outcomes for their lead, and supporting, characters. Yet it remains that in each of his films, Luhrmann has aimed at creating a heightened world that is theatrical and strange, but yet familiar to audiences.