[last lines] Christian: [voiceover and typing] Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The End. Christian: [voiceover, singing] The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
(53 votes)
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Christian: Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible.
(48 votes)
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Satine: I don't need you anymore! All my life you made believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me! But Christian loves me. He loves me! He loves me, Harold. And that is worth everything! We're going away from you, away from the Duke, away from the Moulin Rouge!
(23 votes)
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Christian: The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures. Where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine. A courtesan. She sold her love to men. They called her the 'Sparkeling Diamond', and she was the star... of the Moulin rouge. The woman I loved is... dead.
(24 votes)
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Satine: Tell our story Christian, that way I'll-I'll always be with you.
(20 votes)
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Satine: A little supper? Maybe some champagne? Christian: I'd rather, um, just get it over and done with. Satine: Hmph. Oh. Very well. Then why don't you come down here and let's get it over and done with. Christian: I prefer to do it standing. Satine: Oh. [starts to stand] Christian: You don't have to stand, I mean. It's sometimes that... It's quite long and I'd like you to be comfortable. It's quite modern what I do and it may feel a little strange at first, but I think, if you're open, then you might enjoy it. Satine: I'm sure I will...
(6 votes)
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Satine: The difference between you and I is that you can leave anytime you choose. But this is my home.
(5 votes)
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Zidler: Satine, hurt him. Hurt him, to save him.
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Christian: [to the Duke] This woman is yours now. I've paid my whore. [to Satine] Christian: I owe you nothing. And you are nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love.
(5 votes)
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Satine: I can't fall in love with anyone. Christian: Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible! Satine: No, living on the street, that's terrible. Christian: No! Love is like oxygen, love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love! Satine: Please, don't start that again. Christian: [singing] All you need is love. Satine: A gril has got to eat. Christian: [singing] All you need is love. Satine: She'll end up on the street. Christian: [singing] All you need is love. Satine: [singing] Love is just a game. [all following are singing] Christian: I was made for loving you, baby, you were made for loving me. Satine: The only way of loving me, baby, is to pay a lovely fee. Christian: Just one night, give me just one night. Satine: There's no way, 'cause you can't pay. Christian: In the name of love [Satine laughs] Christian: , one night in the name of love. Satine: You crazy fool, I won't give in to you. Christian: Don't - leave me this way. I can't survive, without your sweet love, oh baby... don't leave me this way. Satine: You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. Christian: I look around me and I see, it isn't so. Heh, no. Satine: Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. Christian: Well, what's wrong with that, I'd like to know. [They almost kiss, she pulls away] Christian: 'Cause here I go. [Jumps up on dome, Satine screams] Christian: Love lifts us up where we belong... Satine: Get down, get down from there. Christian: where eagles fly, on a mountain high. Satine: [pulls him down] Love makes us act like we are fools. Throw our lives away, for one happy day.
(4 votes)
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Satine: The French are glad to die for love. They delight in fighting duels. But I prefer a man who lives... and gives expensive... jewels.
(4 votes)
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Christian: Where were you last night? Satine: I told you... I was sick. Christian: You don't have to lie to me. Satine: We have to end it. Everybody knows. Harold knows. Sooner or later the duke will find out.
(4 votes)
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Christian and Satine: Come what may, I'll love you till my dying day.
(3 votes)
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Christian: Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show and whenever you sing it or hear it. Or whistle or hum it then you'll know. It'll mean that we love one another.
(3 votes)
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Toulouse-Lautrec: I got it, I got it. Christian. [shouts] Toulouse-Lautrec: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be love loved in return.
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Christian: Tell me the truth. Satine: The truth? The truth is that I am the Hindu courtesan... and I choose the maharajah.
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The Duke: I don't like this ending... Zidler: Don't like the ending, my dear Duke? The Duke: Why should the courtesan chose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah who is offering her a lifetime of security? That's real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave her with nothing. I suggest that the courtesan chose the maharajah. Toulouse-Lautrec: But, but tell me, that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and ... The Duke: [shouts] I don't care about your ridiculous dogma! Why shouldn't the courtesan chose the maharajah? Christian: [shouts] Because she doesn't love you!... Him... Hi-him, she doesn't love... she doesn't love him. The Duke: Oh, I see... Monsieur Zidler, the play 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... Zidler: But, my dear Duke, that will be quite impossible. Satine: Harold, the Duke is being treated appallingly. These silly writers let their imaginations run away with themselves. Why don't you and I have a little supper, and then we can tell Monsieur Zidler how we would like the story to end.
(2 votes)
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Christian: [singing] The courtesan and sitar man are pulled apart by an evil plan... Satine: [singing] but in the end she hears his song... Christian: [singing] and their love is just too strong. The Duke: [singing] It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside.
(2 votes)
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Satine: What's his type? Wilting flower? Bright and bubbly? Or smoldering temptress? Zidler: I'd say... smoldering temptress.
(2 votes)
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Argentinean: Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends bad.
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Argentinean: We have a dance in the brothels of Buenos Aires. It tells the story of the prostitute 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 can be no love. Jealousy, yes, jealousy will drive you mad.
(2 votes)
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Nini Legs-In-The-Air: Don't worry Shakespeare, you'll get your ending. Once the Duke gets his end-in.
(2 votes)
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Zidler: She said you make her feel "like a virgin." The Duke: Virgin? Zidler: You know, touched for the very first time.
(2 votes)
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Christian: It's a little bit funny. Satine: What? Christian: This feeling inside. I'm not one of those who can easily hide. Is this ok? Is this what you want? Satine: Ah, poetry. Yes, this it what I want naughty words. Christian: I don't have much money but boy if I did, I'd buy a big house where we both could live. If I were a sculptor, but then again, no. Or a man who makes potions a traveling show. I know it's not much... Satine: Oh Naughty, don't stop, don't stop. Christian: But it's the best I can do. [sings] Christian: My gift is my song. And this one's for you. And You Can Tell Everybody That this is your song. It may be quite simple but now that it's done. I hope u don't mind I hope You don't mind That I put down in words... How Wonderful Life is Now you're in the world
(1 vote)
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Satine: I can't believe it. I'm in love. I'm in love with a young, handsome, talented duke. Christian: Duke? Satine: Not that the title's important, of course. Christian: I'm not a duke. Satine: Not a duke? Christian: I'm a writer. Satine: A writer?
(1 vote)
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[Before kissing Christian] Satine: You're going to be bad for business. I can tell.
(1 vote)
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Nini Legs-In-The-Air: This ending's silly. Why would the courtesan go for the penniless writer? Whoops. I mean sitar player.
(1 vote)
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Zidler: I am the evil maharajah. Satine: Oh Harold, no one could play him like you could. Zidler: No one's going to.
(1 vote)
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Toulouse-Lautrec: Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being.
(1 vote)
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Zidler: Send Christian away. Only you can save him.
(1 vote)
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Toulouse-Lautrec: Oh no, I forgot my line.
(1 vote)
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Toulouse-Lautrec: Things aren't always as they seem. Christian: Things are exactly the way they seem.
(1 vote)
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Zidler: The Duke holds the deeds to the Moulin Rouge, he spending a fortune on you, he's giving you a beautiful new dressing room, he wants to make you a star, and YOU ARE DALYING WITH THE WRITER! Satine: Harold, that's ridic... Zidler: I SAW YOU TOGETHER. Satine: It's nothing. It's just infatuation... it's nothing. Zidler: And the infatuation will end. Go to the boy; tell him it's over, and the Duke expecting you at the hour eight.
(1 vote)
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Zidler: We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.
(1 vote)
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Zidler: You know it is. The show must go on. And now my bride it is time to raise your voice to the heavens and say your wedding vows.
(1 vote)
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Cast of Spectacular, Spectacular: [singing] So exciting, we'll make them laugh, we'll make them cry. So delighting... The Duke: And in the end, should someone die?
(1 vote)
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Zidler: You're dying, Satine. Satine: [long pause] Another trick, Harold? Zidler: The doctor told us. Satine: Marie? Marie: [silence] Satine: [singing to self] I was a fool to believe, a fool to believe. It all ends today, yes it all ends today.
(1 vote)
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Zidler: She is mine. The Duke: She is mine.
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Zidler: Outside it may be raining, but in here it's entertaining.
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The Duke: I'm not a jealous man, I just don't like people touching my things.
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[singing] Zidler: 'Cause we can cancan. Yes we can cancan.
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Argentinean: [arriving on stage after falling unconscious for a time] S'okay. Everybody back to work.
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Toulouse-Lautrec: Unbewievable. Stwaight to the ewephant.
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The Green Fairy: I'm the Green Fairy... The hills are alive, with The Sound Of Music.
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Argentinean: The Hills are alive with the sound of music? I love it.
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Zidler: A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. It will be: Spectacular Spectacular.
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The Duke: ...a little frog
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Toulouse-Lautrec: He's got a huge... talent .
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Zidler: Outside things may be tragic, but in here we feel its magic.
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[the bohemians are rehearsing a play that resembles a certain musical that begins with a nun singing atop a hill] Toulouse-Lautrec: [singing] The hills are made with the euphonious symphonies of descant... Doctor: I don't think a nun would say that about a hill.
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