A prolific performer given to unconventional choices and distinctive turns of phrase, he was remembered on Twitter by producer Jonathan Sothcott as “one of those great actors who made rubbish watchable.” Though Hauer’s turns in pictures a varied as Ladyhawke, Blind Fury, The Hitcher (in which horror-mode Hauer, writes Stephen King, “will never be topped”), Sin City, and Hobo with a Shotgun won’t soon be forgotten, it will be as Roy Batty - the replicant he has described as wanting to “make his mark on existence” - that he’ll be remembered. But Hauer understood its appeal as “a really sexy, erotic, cartoon-opera interesting movie, but it was ahead of its time.”īlade Runner has long since taken its place in the pantheon of science fiction cinema, but Hauer’s filmography contains pictures of every other sort of reputation as well. And for an audience to carry that for 30 years was such love.” That audience, he acknowledges, kept Blade Runner alive even after its failure to perform back in 1982: “When the film came out, it was out of the cinema, I think, in a week,” and some critics dismissed it as a waste of time. “It came from the poet in me, and there was a poet in Roy.” In using those words “to conclude Roy’s quest,” he says, “I was also anchoring myself, as an actor, in my own insecure way. “It didn’t come from me,” Hauer says of the “tears in the rain” line in the interview clip above. 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,” Batty says. Hauer’s performance is arguably the film’s most memorable, not least because of the manner in which Batty finally accepts his own death even after sparing the life of the man tasked with terminating him. And so it falls to Harrison Ford’s detective Rick Deckard, trained as a replicant-hunting “Blade Runner,” to hunt them all down. Seeking an escape from his imminent demise, he and a group of his fellow replicants escape from their off-world mining colony to Earth, specifically Los Angeles, where they intend to seek out their creator and demand an extension of their lives. As a replicant, an artificial human being engineered to perform intense physical labor, Batty has immense strength but an existence deliberately limited to a few years. Rutger Hauer died last Friday at the age of 75, which means he enjoyed a life more than seven decades longer than that of Roy Batty, the character he played in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.
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