The main characters drawn together in a misconceived love riangle in the corrupt, pleasure-seeking world outside the cabaret were:Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli in a bravura, career-defining performance), a flamboyant, amoral and effervescent American singer/performerBrian Roberts (Michael York), Sally""s bisexual boarding house tenant - a Britisher and English language teacherMaximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), a homosexual German playboy-baron[In the original mid-1960s Broadway production version, he main characters were an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw and 19 year-old English cabaret singer Sally Bowles - reversed nationalities in the film.I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.The orchids are an excuse for the heat.Do you like orchids?Marlowe: Not particularly.Sternwood: Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.The film also popularized, normalized and promoted alternative sexuality, drag culture, punk rock, the fun side of cross-dressing, promiscuity, and rebellious behavior.Ambrose ordered Stamp and others: "Run that bastard down." With time running out, McCloy reluctantly cooperated, transferring money from a Swiss bank and allowing Ambrose to take control of his company.He announced to the passive human group to rally them: "This is the day you get to stand up to the apes.