Thursday, July 25, 2019

Tears in rain

In the movie “Blade Runner” the Harrison Ford character, Rick Deckard, is supposed to terminate the Rutger Hauer character, Roy Batty, who is a non-human “replicant." 

In spite of the fact that Deckard was sent to kill him, Batty saves Deckard’s life just before he himself dies.  Batty delivers these lines in a heavy downpour:

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.  I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhåuser Gate.  All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.  Time to die.


Now that is what I call a death soliloquy.  Those last two lines were not in the original script.  They were added by Rutger Hauer.  Mr. Hauer died yesterday.

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