Frankly, you wax lyrical about the cinematic gem. Firstly, yes, it is one of the greatest monologues in cinematic history. But your analysis is one of the most ridiculous word salad garbage in history. Get over yourself, seriously. Rutger Hauer’s performance in this part of the movie is simply a great moment from a great actor. Yes, it portrayed the shift from simple robotic entity to prescient AI, but the reality is it was great acting in a movie. Your analysis is yours, you’re welcome to it, but it is faux intellectual garbage. Get over yourself.

2019: Roy Batty dies
2019: Rutger Hauer dies
It is almost poetic.

He smoked Harrison Ford in this film. He was the true hero of the movie. This scene just blew me away.

The most meaningful line to me is "Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it... that's what it is to be a slave" Fear is the entirely of slavery and so many of us live in fear. Fear of losing our jobs, love or life. Many never escape the chains.

"I want more life, father."


RIP Rutger Hauer, thank you so much.

I'm 70 years old and entirely get him. I've seen so much and done so many things. I was sitting on my Aunt's porch and saw a steam engine come around a bend, smoke blasting out of it's smoke stack. I was in Pearl Harbor when they were filming "Tora Tora Tora". I was looking down at the USS Arizona as Japanese Zeros flew in. I was in Munich in 1972 and on the Olympic site a month before the games. What does one do with these memories?

the idea that an android breaks his programming and becomes an individual is parallel with an actor expressing himself and breaking from the script.

Harrison Ford looks completely stunned, not scared.

In that scene I completely forgot Deckard was the main character in the movie. Rutger Hauer showed me why I love film and that we don't need to have big explosions and superheroes. This moment, this dialogue, in its simplicity is infinitely more emotionally complex than 99% of todays movies in their entire run time.

Its funny, you go through the entire movie thinking he is a villain, and at the end you realize he is the victim and the state is the villain. Rest in peace Rutger, you are missed.

I love the fact that Hauer made up the Tannhauser Gate, prompting people for years to wonder if that was some kind of real thing, and creating a giant imagined backstory to this whole network of offworld colonies that are hinted at in the film but which we never get a look at. One made-up throwaway line in a death soliloquy fired the imaginations of thousands of fans. Even better, the makers of Blade Runner 2049 wisely decided not to show us any of the offworld stuff either, thus not ruining our imaginations of what it all must be like. C-beams glittering in the dark? No idea what that looks like in Rutger Hauer's mind, but each of us has our own idea of the awesome and terrible things Batty must have witnessed in his short life.

I'm a grown ass man and this scene still rips me to pieces.... Masterpiece.

My husband..... loved this.... now my memories of him are tears in rain.....

2019 and he's actually gone, i have no words.

this scene cannot ever be redone the way it was done before. it’s one a kind

Looking at it from an actors perspective, it's not just the words, it's the expressions. What makes this one of the best acting scenes ever in my opinion is if you watch every little nuance and tick in his face, it reveals a deep history, a story. He expresses his whole life in under a minute. He conveys the pain, the glory, the love, the wonder, the disappointment and everything else. It's there in his eyes, his furrow, his grunts, his sideways glances. One can feel all his experiences in but a moment, but also sense the loneliness and abandonment of never really being human. in  his final moment he conveys his whole life with his face. It's absoloutley stunning and magic. I have watched this scene over and over probably 500 times. In my mind it is one of the best acting scenes of all time. I sat alone with Rutger at an airport gate once. We sat across from each other and I never said a word, I just reveled in his greatness, thinking of his Blade Runner death scene and how it has brought me so many emotions as well as taught me about great acting. Thanks for posting.

And now Rutger Hauer has passed away the same year as his character Roy; 2019

Rest In Peace Rutger Hauer.  According in Ripley Scott:  The speech’s most enduring line came not from screenwriters Hampton Fancher or David Peoples but Hauer himself, who, by his own account, “took a knife to” a much lengthier soliloquy in the script. The sci-fi references to Orion and C-beams were from the text, but “tears in rain” was Hauer’s, and that, along with the dying light in Roy’s eyes, is what will endure.

My dad got me to watch this movie when I was quite young. And at the time I thought his movie was pretty boring and old but then I got to this scene. The line "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" shook me to my very core. At the time I knew what death was but this single line made me understand the gravity of death. How permanent, unforgiving and cruel it really was. This scene was so masterfully simple, it made a child understand the severity of death in one sentence.

Rest In Peace Rugar Hauer ....Aged 75 and a complete legend from some of the best movies ever made  :(