Moulin Rouge Page #6

Why would the courtesan

go for the penniless writer?

Whoops. l mean, sitar player.

CHORUS [SINGING]:

Come what may

I will love you

Come what may

Yes, I will love you

Come what may

I will love you

Till my dying day

I don't like this ending.

Don't like the ending, my dear Duke?

DUKE:

Why would the courtesan choose...

...a penniless sitar player

over the maharajah...

...who is offering a lifetime of

security? That's real love.

Once the sitar player

has satisfied his lust...

...he will leave the courtesan

with nothing.

I suggest that in the end,

the courtesan choose the maharajah.

But, but.... Sorry.

Sorry, but that ending does not uphold

the Bohemian ideals of...

...truth, beauty, freedom--

I don't care about

your ridiculous dogma!

Why shouldn't the courtesan

choose the maharajah?

Because she doesn't love you!

Him.

Him. She doesn't love....

She doesn't love him.

Now I see.

Monsieur Zidler.

This ending will be rewritten...

...with the courtesan choosing

the maharajah...

...and without the lovers' secret song.

It will be rehearsed in the morning,

ready for the opening tomorrow night.

My dear Duke,

that will be quite impossible.

Harold.

The poor Duke is

being treated appallingly.

These silly writers let their

imaginations run away with them.

Why don't you and I...

...have a little supper?

Then afterwards...

...we can let Monsieur Zidler know

how we would prefer the story to end.

Thank you, Elizabeth.

I don't want you to sleep with him.

He could destroy everything.

It's for us.

You promised.

You promised me

you wouldn't be jealous.

It will be all right.

Yes, it will.

He's waiting.

No. No.

[SINGING]

Come

What may

Come what may.

She had gone to the tower

to save us all.

And for our part...

...we could do nothing but wait.

SATINE:
My dear Duke. I hope

I have not kept you waiting.

Don't worry, Shakespeare.

You'll get your ending.

Once the Duke gets his...

...end in.

ARGENTlNEAN:

Nini. No, no.

NINI:

You keep your hands off me!

Never fall in love with a woman

who sells herself.

It always ends bad!

The boy has a ridiculous

obsession with me.

I mean, I indulge his fantasy

because he's talented.

We need him.

But only until tomorrow night.

We have a dance...

...in the brothels of Buenos Aires.

It tells the story...

...of a prostitute...

[PEOPLE OOHING AND LAUGHING]

...and a man...

...who falls in love...

...with her.

First...

...there is desire!

Then passion!

Then suspicion!

Jealousy! Anger! Betrayal!

When love is for the highest bidder,

there can be no trust.

Without trust, there is no love!

Jealousy--

Yes, jealousy.

--will drive you mad!

[SINGING]

Roxanne

You don't have to

Put on that red light

Walk the streets for money

You don't care if it's wrong

Or if it is right

Roxanne

You don't have to

Wear that dress tonight

Roxanne

You don't have to

Sell your body to the night

CHRISTIAN [SINGING]:

His eyes upon your face

His hand upon your hand

His lips caress your skin

It's more than I can stand

Roxanne

Why does my heart cry

Roxanne

Feelings I can't fight

You're free to leave me

But just don't deceive me

And please believe me

When I say

I love you

DUKE:

When this production succeeds...

...you will no longer be

a cancan dancer...

...but an actress.

I will make you...

...a star.

Accept it...

...as a gift from this maharajah

to his courtesan.

SATINE:

And....

And the ending?

Let Zidler keep his fairy-tale ending.

Roxanne

Why does my heart cry?

You don't have to put on that red light

Roxanne

Feelings

I can't fight

You don't have to do your hair tonight

Roxanne

You're free to leave me

But just don't deceive me

And please believe me

When I say

I love you

[SINGING FAINTLY]

Come what may

I will love you

Till my dying

Day

No.

No?

I see.

It's our very own

penniless sitar player.

My dear Duke--

Silence!

You made me...

...believe that you loved me!

Why does my

Heart cry?

Feelings

I can't fight

Roxanne

You don't have to

Wear that dress tonight

[SINGING]

Why does my

Heart cry?

Roxanne

I couldn't.

I couldn't go through with it.

I saw you there, and I felt differently

and I couldn't pretend.

And the Duke, he saw!

He saw and he--

[SOBBING]

Christian, I love you.

CHRISTIAN:

It's okay.

I couldn't do it. I didn't want to

pretend anymore.

I didn't want to lie. I don't.

And he knows. He knows and he--

You don't have to pretend anymore.

We'll leave.

We'll leave tonight.

Leave?

But the show--

I don't care.

I don't care about the show.

We have each other.

That's all that matters.

Yes.

As long as we have each other.

We have each other.

Chocolat, take Satine to her dressing room

and get the things she needs.

No one must see you. Do you understand?

I understand.

Darling, you go and pack.

And I'll be waiting.

It's the boy.

He has bewitched her with words.

I want her back, Zidler. Find her.

Tell her...

...that the show will end my way...

...and she will come to me

when the curtain falls...

...or I'll have the boy killed.

Killed?

Killed.

Forgive the intrusion, cherub.

You're wasting your time, Harold.

You don't understand.

The Duke is going to kill Christian.

No.

ZIDLER:
The Duke is insanely jealous.

Unless you do his ending

and sleep with him tomorrow night...

...the Duke will have Christian killed.

He can't scare us.

He's a powerful man.

You know he can do it.

What are you doing?

SATINE:
I don't need you anymore!

All my life you made me believe l was only

worth what someone would pay for me!

But Christian loves me.

He loves me, Harold.

He loves me.

And that is worth everything.

We're going away from you, away from

the Duke, away from the Moulin Rouge!

Goodbye, Harold.

You're dying, Satine.

You're dying.

Another trick, Harold?

No, my love. The doctor told us.

Marie?

I'm dying.

[SINGING]

I was a fool

To

Believe

A fool

To believe

It all

Ends today

Yes, it all

Ends

Today

ZIDLER:

Send Christian away.

Only you can save him.

He'll fight for me.

Yes. Unless he believes

you don't love him.

What?

You're a great actress, Satine.

Make him believe you don't love him.

No.

ZIDLER:
Use your talent to save him.

Hurt him.

Hurt him to save him.

There is no other way.

The show must go on, Satine.

We're creatures of the underworld.

We can't afford to love.

[SINGING]

Today's

The day

When dreaming

Ends

Another hero...

...another mindless crime.

Behind the curtain...

...in the pantomime.

[SINGING]

On and on

Does anybody know

What we are living for?

CHORUS [SINGING]:

Whatever happens

We leave it all to chance

Another heartache

Another failed romance

On and on

Does anybody know

What we are living for?

ZIDLER:

The show must go on

The show must go on

Outside, the dawn is breaking

On the stage

That holds our final destiny

The show must go on

Inside, my heart is breaking

My makeup may be flaking

But my smile

Still stays on

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