“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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.”
– Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Blade Runner (1982), screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick
The Daily Dialogue theme this week is villain’s last words suggested by Blue. Blade Runner suggested by Mark.
Trivia: While the film is loosely based on Philip K. Dick‘s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, the title comes from a book by Alan Nourse called “The Bladerunner”. William S. Burroughs wrote a screenplay based on the Nourse book and a novella entitled “Blade Runner: A Movie.” Ridley Scott bought the rights to the title but not the screenplay or the book. The Burroughs composition defines a blade runner as “a person who sells illegal surgical instruments”.
Great choice! A truly beautiful and haunting scene.
And there it is, the moment we (and the hero) learn the answer to the central question of the story: Are replicants human?
Poetry in service of story and structure…masterful!
One of my all time faves. BUT, I've always hated the pigeon flying into the blue sky.
It's SUCH a shit shot! And the blue sky just seems all wrong there – it's pissing with rain for a start.