And this leads to the inevitable question about Denis Villeneuve’s new film: Was it worth it?

Even in a sequel-happy culture, the inevitable decision to make Blade Runner 2049 was gutsy. To follow that act requires considerable cojones, which might be why it took 35 years for a sequel to appear. The look of Blade Runner was intricately connected to its deep moral questioning, all set against an operatic score. It raised the question of whether our continuation could even be a good thing, and on whom our survival depends, themes that extend through everything from Battlestar Galactica to Wall-E. Blade Runner wasn’t content to just explore humanity - it aimed to make us, as audience members, question our own humanity by complicating our glib assumptions about our own superiority as a race. “He’d never done a film character-driven. He said, ‘This is what I want to do – bring me anything you can come up with, and I’ll take it on if I like it.Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markīlade Runner defined the visual vocabulary that would rule science fiction for a generation, but more importantly, it carved out an ethical and moral space for those visuals to operate within. “Ridley gave me all the freedom, because he wanted it to be a character-driven story,” the actor said. Hauer credited Scott with giving his actors the freedom to change things up based on how the actors were interpreting the characters. “You know, I think a lot of scripts are overwritten,” Hauer said. “The overwritten stuff comes from the writer and all the executives, but the audience can feel it, and even the best actor cannot sell me with language that is overwritten. The two lines Hauer kept from the original draft of the speech were “attack ships” and “C-beams.” Hauer believed the original speech was written in a way that was too operatic, a tone he felt a replicant would never use. He feels it! And while his batteries are going, he comes up with the two lines.”

“I thought they belonged to this character, because somewhere in his digital head he has poetry, and knows what it is. “I kept two lines, because I thought they were poetic,” Hauer said. Ridley Scott Teases a ‘Fantastic’ Four-and-a-Half Hour Director’s Cut of ‘Napoleon’ with More Vanessa Kirby In an interview with Radio Times back in 2017, shortly before the release of “Blade Runner 2049,” Hauer looked back on the iconic monologue and revealed he “took a knife” to the original script and rewrote his character’s dialogue. The speech only lasts about 50 seconds, but Hauer’s introspective performance and Scott’s gorgeous close-up work are in such perfect harmony it’s no wonder why the “tears in rain” monologue became one of the defining moments of both “Blade Runner” and Hauer’s career.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. “Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe,” Roy says. In one of the most famous “Blade Runner” scenes, Roy recites a short monologue while dying in the pouring rain. Hauer starred opposite Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott‘s 1982 classic “ Blade Runner.” The late actor appeared as Roy Batty, a rebellious replicant who confronts Ford’s Rick Deckard. Rutger Hauer has died at age 75 after suffering from a short illness (via Variety), leaving behind an acting career that includes one of the most memorable monologues in science-fiction film history.

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