Dutch actor Rutger Hal, who has played important roles in many famous film and television dramas such as "Blade Runner", died of illness at the age of 75. He starred in the classic scene in Blade Runner, known as "Tears in the Rain Monologue," which is considered one of the most moving moments in film history.
"I've seen scenes that you people absolutely can't believe
The battleship flares up on the shoulders of the constellation of Orion
C-rays streak through the 'Door of Don Wisser' in the dark universe
But all these moments will pass away in time,
It's like tears drowning in the rain.
The time of death has come. ”
On the screen, his dying monologue captured the hearts of the audience. Now, he's really leaving us.
According to Variety and other foreign media reports, Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, who played the villain Roy in the movie "Blade Runner", died last Friday at the age of 75.
It is reported that Rutger Hal died of illness at his dutch home, and his funeral was held yesterday.
In the setting of Blade Runner, Roy also died in 2019. In that classic scene, Roy's classic last words are called "Tears in Rain." There is a theory that the passage that ended up on the big screen was not in the original script, but was largely improvised by actor Hauer on the eve of filming: he cut the dialogue of the original script into several lines, adding the sentence "But all these moments will fade away in time, like tears drowning in the rain."
While it's unfair to condense his life's work into one scene in a movie, we do it for the time being, because the scene can be said to go beyond the movie, and this magnificent scene description and the cyborg's lament and helplessness about the length of life in the film mean more things to the audience and more readers.
Towards the end of the movie Blade Runner, Roy, the leader of the villain cyborgs, is dying because he has failed to find a way to prolong his life. For most of the film, he is the bad guy who is stopped by the protagonist Deckard (Harrison Ford). They chase the slaughter in a dystopian urban scene.
But, in just a few words, Hauer inspires our imagination of the infinite possibilities of the future. He made us imagine that future humans would live in the stars of the universe, where wonderful things were waiting to be seen, and he made us think that artificial intelligence might one day be just like us...
Here's the English of this famous line:
“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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
The monologue has entered pop culture as "perhaps the most moving pre-death monologue in the history of cinema" and is often cited as a representative of science fiction.
When Rutger Hauer performed the monologue on set, the film crew applauded en masse, and some even cried on the spot. In 2000, the British newspaper The Observer voted the monologue the sixth of the top ten classic moments in film history.
The tears that drowned in the rain were his, and now it is ours.
Rutger Hauer's character in Blade Runner is Roy Batty.
Roy Batty, a chain number 6 cyborg of Tyrell's company, is hunted down by Blade Runner and is a violent but thoughtful cyborg leader.
Blade Runner is a movie set in 2019 and has become a smoky, nine-pronged Los Angeles.
Taylor's advanced robots have evolved into a chain of robots that are actually identical to humans, known as cyborgs, who are physically, agile, and intelligent, and are used by humans for slave labor, dangerous expeditions, and colonization missions on other planets in the outer world
Although human beings have created cyborgs who are no different from real people to work for human beings, they will be destroyed when these cyborgs have thoughts and feelings.
Although artificial people are cruel by nature, they are full of longing and nostalgia for the four years of life they only have. Humanity does not allow these replicas to have the right to be normal, so these lives, which are condemned as "trying to become human beings," must be destroyed.
The Special Service Team, Blade Runner, is tasked with scouting any invading cyborgs and killing them. That's not called execution, it's called retirement.
Rick Deckard is a killer who specializes in hunting down renegade cyborgs, with the responsibility of hunting down rebellious cyborgs.
One day, he is ordered to track down Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Zhora, Leon, and Pris, the cyborgs who infiltrated Taylor's company, and his partner is Rachael, the tailers' chain number six cyborg.
In the process of tracking, he and Rachael developed a relationship, understood the efforts of cyborgs to extend the life of their own machines, and gradually began to reflect on the fate of humanity.
This classic film has also won numerous awards for this:
55th Academy Awards (nominated): Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects;
40th Golden Globe Awards (nominated): Best Film Score;
36th British Academy Film Awards: Best Cinematography (Awarded), Best Production Design/Art Direction (Winning), Best Costume Design (Winning), Best Sound Effects (Nominated), Best Film Editing (Nominated), Best Special Visual Effects (Nominated), Best Dubbing (Nominated), Best Makeup Artist (Nominated);
10th Saturn Awards (nominated): Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Special Effects;
34th Saturn Awards (winner): Best Special Edition DVD.
In addition to his brilliant performances in Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer has also been involved in numerous film and television productions, many of which are impressive.
In 1973, at the age of 29, Hauer was recognized by director Paul Verhoeven and starred in his first Dutch film, Carnival of Turkey, based on a novel by Dutch writer Jan Wolkers, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.
In 1977, he caused a huge sensation in "Under the Banner of the Nazi Army", in which he played a brave countervailing fighter.
Stills from "Under the Banner of the Nazi Army," Hauer left
In 1981, with Nighthawk with Stallone, Hauer managed to break into Hollywood. In the film, he is Stallone's nemesis, playing an outlaw terrorist. That same year, Hauer won the Golden Calf Award for Best Actor.
In order to be able to speak authentic American, Hauer hired an excellent linguist to teach. Later, he became the only European actor at the time, except for some British actors, who could speak American English fluently without a slight accent.
In 1982, he appeared in Blade Runner.
In 1985, Hauer appeared in Warner Bros.'s medieval magic film The Legend of the Eagle Wolf. In the same year he starred in Cold-Blooded Raiders, which won two Dutch film Golden Calf Awards: Best Picture and Best Director.
In 1986, he starred in the film Ghost Terminator, playing a dark-hearted devil hitchhiker.
In 1988, Hauer played the homeless man in The Legend of the Drinker, for which he won the "Best Actor" award at the 1988 Seattle International Film Festival and the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Hauer's character in the film is also considered to be the most complex and well-interpreted role of his career as an actor.
In the late eighties, Hauer was named one of the "50 Most Valuable Actors" by The Hollywood Reporter. In 1992, he was named one of the 50 hottest men by People magazine.
In 1999, Hauer won the Dutch "Best Actor of the Century Award", while "Turkish Carnival" and "Under the Banner of the Nazi Army" were voted the winners and runners-up of "Best Picture of the Century".
In 2004, he starred in the American blockbuster "Batman: The Beginning of the War".
Hauer has participated in more than 100 film and television works in his lifetime, shaping many screen classics. In addition, Hauer is an environmental fighter and has been personally involved in many environmental initiatives and actions.
Rutger Hauer's departure is a loss to the film industry and the world, and finally let us remember this artist together.
Reference Links:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20708804/blade-runner-rutger-hauer-dead-tears-in-rain-replicant-roy-batty
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ tears in the rain monologue
http://i.mtime.com/naughtydolly/blog/706498/