Satine

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~Satine~ Satine aspires to become a "real actress" but was taken in by Harold Zidler, her father figure and owner of the Moulin Rouge. She is the "Sparkling Diamond", the most desired canidate and call-girl amongst Zidler's Diamond Dogs. She sells her love to men and must charm a duke that is in her presence the night Christian comes to the Moulin Rouge for the first time. She then mistakens Christian for the Duke and begins to fall in love with him the night of the "seduction" where she was supposed to meet the Duke so that he would invest in the Moulin Rouge. Satine has a secret that even she did not know of until she was almost out of time. It is a force darker than jealousy, and stronger than love, and it had began to take hold of Satine. She has Tuberculosis, a disease that effects the lungs. In those days Satine grew weaker and weaker and the disease grew worse. Christian was unaware and so was many others, except for Zidler who knew of her situation but did not make Satine aware. Christian was now in her world and they agreed to leave the Moulin Rouge forever, for the night of the seduction with the Duke( due to suspicion of how she actually felt for him even though she felt nothing) was disasterious, and she loved Christian. She went to gather her things from the Moulin Rouge only to be stopped by Zidler who bluntly told her she was dieing and must tell Christian she does not love him to save him, or The Duke's men would kill him on the spot. Once she told Christian he was devistated and did not believe the lie. Satine went through with the play in the way the Duke wished( changed the ending so that his character would get Satine), only to become face to face with Christian who through money to her feet, "paying her for what she is" and their "fake love". She sang their song "Come What May" and won his heart, but because of her illness Satine did not make it and ended up falling victim to the illness.