![]() 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. In the light of this revelation, it is conceivable that Batty knows this, and saves Deckard out of a sense of kinship (which also ties in with the moral high ground portion above). Tears in rain Ive seen things you people wouldnt believe. During an interview in the 2000 BBC documentary On the Edge of ‘Blade Runner’, Ridley Scott confirmed that Deckard is, in fact, intended to be a replicant. Changes made in the later Director’s Cut, however, introduced hints that Deckard himself might be a replicant (the “unicorn scene”, and Gaff’s unicorn origami). The original version was “lightened up” a bit by the studios. The second reason is more subtle, and more speculative. It is, in my opinion, one of the single greatest moments in the movie, and is one of the primary reasons why I consider it a true classic. It is one of those moments that flips the perspective of the entire narrative, and suddenly the “bad guy” is now the sympathetic victim of a system that never gave him a chance. The first, and most obvious reason Batty spared Deckard’s life is to demonstrate that he (Batty) understood the value of life, and what it meant to be “good”, better than Deckard, the supposed protagonist of the story. Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer from the scripted lines the night before filming, the monologue is. ' Tears in rain ' (also known as the ' C-Beams Speech ') is a death soliloquy delivered by character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Aren’t you the ‘good’ man? C’mon, Deckard. Rhombicuboctahedron by Leonardo da Vinci. He directly taunts Deckard’s supposed moral highground: “Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. He breaks his fingers for Pris and Zhora, and asks Deckard “proud of yourself, little man?”. Roy Batty, throughout the final confrontation, points out Deckard’s failings. In interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to “make his mark on existence … the robot in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of.”. ![]() Rutger Hauer, the actor playing Roy Batty, improvised that speech a bit at the last moment, cutting some of the scripted speech, and adding a bit of his own improv. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. The first is that, during his final moments, Roy utters his awesome “Tears in the Rain” soliloquy, which extols the wonders of life, and despite its complexity, how utterly fleeting and transitory life is: I feel there are two reasons Roy saved Deckard. At the end of Blade Runner, why does Roy Batty catch Deckard as he is about to fall?
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