Is Satine really gone at the end of the play?

[Mastodon]

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?

 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:04pm

Dead.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:08pm

Dead as dead can be.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:34pm

Doornail dead.

[Islander_fan]

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. 

[Huss417]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:37pm

Don't let the curtain call fool you. :)

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:37pm

This ain’t up for interpretation. She dead. 

[Kad]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 12:38pm

They even kill the actress. That’s why they keep replacing them. 

[Jordan Catalano]

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. 

[Call_me_jorge]

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.  

[yyys]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:06pm

Satine coughing up blood was pretend.

[tacotheatrelover]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:08pm

She's more dead than my hope for Boy George to leave the show incredibly early.

[quizking101]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:10pm

As a nurse, I have also scrutinized this.

...SHE DEAD!

[ElephantLoveMedley]

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]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 1:42pm

Her death in the musical was quite a disappointment compared to the movie. 

[inception]

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. 

[Boq101]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 4:37pm

The lack of literature in Florida has really affected the masses, hasn't it. 

[tacotheatrelover]

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]

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

[Elibal]

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

[veronicamae]

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]

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.)

[SweetLips22]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 7:59pm

And the winner is.............Huss417

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 2/18/24 at 8:13pm

so, are you saying she's dead?

[smidge]

Posted: 2/19/24 at 10:43pm

She’s fine, she sends her love.