{"id":54018,"date":"2019-07-28T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=54018"},"modified":"2019-07-28T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T17:23:39","slug":"tears-in-the-rain-the-most-memorable-scene-in-blade-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=54018","title":{"rendered":"Tears In the Rain: The Most Memorable Scene in “Blade Runner”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“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 Tannh\u00e4user Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”<\/p>\n

At the end of Ridley Scott<\/a>‘s 1982 sci-fi cult classic Blade Runner<\/a><\/em>, Replicant Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer<\/a>, who died last week at the age of 75<\/a>) delivers the iconic monologue you see above just before he perishes. It is a profoundly moving moment, and an utterly cool moment for a movie that explored issues of sentience and what it truly means to be a human…and the razor thin line that can existence between man and machine. Hauer himself contributed to the speech by enhancing David People’s script with his own creative enhancements. The result? Cinematic poetry:<\/p>\n