:05:02
I knew nothing of the Moulin Rouge,
Harold Zidler...
:05:05
or Satine.
:05:07
The world had been swept up
in bohemian revolution,
:05:11
and I had traveled from London
to be a part of it.
:05:14
On the hill near Paris
was the village of Montmartre.
:05:18
- It was not, as my father had said--
- A village of sin!
:05:22
But the center
of the bohemian world.
:05:25
- Of the revolution
- Musicians, painters, writers.
:05:28
They were known as
"the children of the revolution."
:05:39
and that which I believed in
above all things -- love.
:05:42
Always this ridiculous
obsession with love!
:05:47
There was only one problem--
I'd never been in love.
:05:51
- [ Typewriter Bell Dings ]
- Luckily, right at that moment,
:05:53
an unconscious Argentinean
fell through my roof.
:05:56
[ Man Shouts ]
:05:58
He was quickly joined
by a dwarf dressed as a nun.
:06:02
How do you do?
:06:04
My name is Henri Marie Raymond
Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa.
:06:09
- What?
- I'm terribly sorry about all this.
:06:11
- We were just upstairs
rehearsing a play.
- What?
:06:13
A play, something very modern
called Spectacular Spectacular.
:06:18
- And it's set in Switzerland.
- Unfortunately,
the unconscious Argentinean...
:06:22
suffered from a sickness
called narcolepsy.
:06:24
Perfectly fine one moment,
then suddenly -- [ Snores ]
unconscious the next.
:06:27
- [ Glass Breaking ]
- [ Man, High Voice ] How is he?
:06:30
Wonderful. Now the narcoleptic
Argentinean is now unconscious.
:06:34
Therefore, the scenario will not
be finished in time to present
to the financier tomorrow.
:06:37
He's right, Toulouse.
I still have to finish the music.
:06:39
- Find someone to read the part.
- Where in heaven's name are we
going to find someone...
:06:43
to read the role of a young,
sensitive Swiss poet / goat-herder?
:06:47
[ Narrator Continues ]
Before I knew it, I was upstairs,
:06:49
standing in for
the unconscious Argentinean.
:06:51
The hills animate
:06:54
With the euphonious symphonies
of descant
:06:58
Ha, ha, ha-ha-ha