Roy's life closes with an act of pity, one that raises him morally over the commercial institutions that would kill him. If the film suggests a connection here that Deckard himself might still at this point deny, at the very end doubt falls away. As they do so, the similarities between them grow stronger – both are hunter and hunted, both are in pain, both struggle with a hurt, claw-like hand. The Guardian writer Michael Newton noted that 'in one of the film's most brilliant sequences, Roy and Deckard pursue each other through a murky apartment, playing a vicious child's game of hide and seek. Dick at the Movies, praised the delivery of the speech: 'Hauer's deft performance is heartbreaking in its gentle evocation of the memories, experiences, and passions that have driven Batty's short life'.

Jason Vest, writing in Future Imperfect: Philip K. Sidney Perkowitz, writing in Hollywood Science, praised the speech: 'If there's a great speech in science fiction cinema, it's Batty's final words.' He says that it 'underlines the replicant's humanlike characteristics mixed with its artificial capabilities'. the replicant in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of'. In an interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to 'make his mark on existence. After filming the scene with Hauer's version, crew-members applauded, with some even in tears. Hauer described this as 'opera talk' and 'hi-tech speech' with no bearing on the rest of the film, so he 'put a knife in it' the night before filming, without Scott's knowledge. I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium. seen things you little people wouldn't believe. I've seen it, felt it.! Īnd, the original script, before Hauer's rewrite, was: I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back… frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching stars fight on the shoulder of Orion. One earlier version in Peoples' draft screenplays was: In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only, 'All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain'. In the documentary Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples confirm that Hauer significantly modified the speech.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. 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. Recognizing that his limited lifespan is about to end, Batty further addresses his shocked nemesis, reflecting on his own experiences and mortality, with dramatic pauses between each statement: Batty turns back and lectures Deckard briefly about how the tables have turned, but pulls him up to safety at the last instant. During a rooftop chase in heavy rain, Deckard misses a jump and hangs on to the edge of a building by his fingers, about to fall to his death. The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) has been ordered to track down and kill Roy Batty, a rogue artificial ' replicant'.

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