Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
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#1Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 11:57am
We saw Moulin Rouge in Tampa on 2-17-24. At the end, Satine succumbs to consumption, right?
Thing is, this story is a play within a play. At the beginning, when they do an impromptu pitch to the Duke of Monrouth (to conceal Satine's entertaining of Christian in her boudoir when the Duke shows up to redeem his promised night with her), the Bohemians describe the play as including Satine who has an "obscure malaise."
Act 2 of ML strikes us as having a different tone, and we do wonder: does that whole act represent the last parts of the play within the play? If so, Satine doesn't have to be dead. It's possible that the illness as part of the play proposed to the Duke was foreshadowing, but this seems a bit of a stretch. If so, then the whole description of the play was foreshadowing. We, instead, prefer to think that we were immersed into the play within the play soon after the Duke agreed to bankroll the Moulin Rouge Theater.
We assert that Satine is NOT dead at the end of the play.
What do YOU think?
#3Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:08pm
Dead as dead can be.
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#4Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:34pm
Doornail dead.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#5Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:36pm
I think that you’re reading too much into it. There’s really only one thing you have got to understand and it’s this.
This woman is no more! She has ceased to be! She’s expired and gone to meet her maker! She’s a stiff! Bereft of life, she rests in peace! If she hadn’t had consumption she’d be pushing up the daisies! Her metabolic processes are now history! She's kicked the bucket, she's shuffled off her mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! She is an ex human.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:37pmDon't let the curtain call fool you. :)
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#7Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:37pm
This ain’t up for interpretation. She dead.
#8Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:38pm
They even kill the actress. That’s why they keep replacing them.
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#9Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:40pm
It’s the daily sacrifice (twice on Wednesday and Saturday) that must be paid to the jukebox gods.
#10Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:42pm
Both the character Satine plays in the play within the musical and the character of Satine that is just in the musical die.
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yyys
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#11Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:06pm
Satine coughing up blood was pretend.
#12Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:08pm
She's more dead than my hope for Boy George to leave the show incredibly early.
#13Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:10pm
As a nurse, I have also scrutinized this.
...SHE DEAD!
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#14Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:18pm
I am as big a fan of Rouge as they come (see my username), and even I can assure you that nobody on the creative team has given the show that level of depth of thought. It's not that deep. Lol.
yyys
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/14
#15Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:42pm
Her death in the musical was quite a disappointment compared to the movie.
inception
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
#16Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 3:54pm
The character arc is inspired by those of Violetta in La Traviata and Mimi in La Boheme.
Violetta was based upon the real Marie Duplessis who died of tuberculosis at the age of 23 on 3 February 1847. Her grave can be visited in Montmarte Cemetery.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#17Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 4:37pm
The lack of literature in Florida has really affected the masses, hasn't it.
#18Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 4:42pm
Boq101 said: "The lack of literature in Florida has really affected the masses, hasn't it."
Florida is just something else in general, It's honestly just it's own thing all together, and I don't wanna touch it.
Ceej
Stand-by Joined: 3/30/07
#19Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 6:06pm
Very dead.
She's asleep
Taking the big nap
She's gone
She has left the building
Resting in peace
Slipped away quietly
Got a one-way ticket
Went to the lone couch of everlasting sleep
She has cashed in her chips
It's her final curtain call
She has become living-challenged or living-impaired
She is trending towards a state of chemical equilibrium
She has become a root inspector
Bought a pine condo
Checking out the grass from underneath
Taking a dirt nap
Gone into the fertilizer business
Feeding the worms
She is in the horizontal phone booth
She has assumed room temperature
She is permanently out of print
She has passed her sell-by date
She is on the unable to breathe list
She is basting the formaldehyde turkey
She has kicked her oxygen habit
#20Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 6:31pm
As Coroner, I must aver
I thoroughly examined her
And she's not only merely dead
She's really most sincerely dead
#21Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 6:57pm
this entire thread is great entertainment, but i can't get past 'we assert...' as if it's the opening argument in a court of law
akhoya87
Stand-by Joined: 4/22/18
#22Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 7:26pm
Really, Satine died the moment she stared into the mirror, felt paper thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in.
(But yes, she died.)
#23Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 7:59pm
And the winner is.............Huss417
#24Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/18/24 at 8:13pm
so, are you saying she's dead?
smidge
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/06
#25Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?
Posted: 2/19/24 at 10:43pm
She’s fine, she sends her love.
