In Blade Runner, the dying replicant Roy Batty makes this speech to Harrison Fords character Deckard moments after saving him from falling off a tall building. Deckard had been tasked to kill him and his replicant friends. The words are spoken during a rain downpour, moments before Battys death: I have… seen things you people wouldnt believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those… moments… will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears… in… rain. Time… to die… In the Channel 4 documentary On the Edge of Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples asserted that Hauer wrote the Tears in Rain speech. There were earlier versions of the speech in Peoples draft screenplays; one included the sentence I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark, near the Tanhauser Gate[5] 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[6] although the original script, displayed during the documentary, before Hauers rewrite, does not mention Tannhäuser Gate: I have known adventures, seen places you people will never see, Ive been Offworld and back… frontiers! Ive stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion… Ive felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. Ive seen it, felt it…! 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 Scotts knowledge.[7] In interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to make his mark on existence … the replicant in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of.[8] When Hauer performed the scene, the film crew applauded and some even cried. This was due to the power of the dying speech combined with coming to the end of an exhausting shoot
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