According to family members, the famous Dutch actor Rutger Hauer died last Friday at the age of 75 in the Dutch town of Betts taziwahe due to illness. Known as the "Dutch Paul Newman", he has been in the film industry for fifty years, and although he often appears as a villain supporting actor, he often impresses audiences, such as Roy, a replicant played in the masterpiece "Blade Runner". Coincidentally, in this classic sci-fi film set in the futuristic world, the death time set by Roy's character is exactly in 2019.
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer was born in 1944 in the Dutch town of Brockren. Both parents are actors, and the two also ran an actor training class in Amsterdam. This also made Little Hauer grow up with a strong interest in movies and performances. However, in high school, he thought about becoming a seafarer, and he dropped out of school for a year to follow an international freighter around the world. Unfortunately, due to his weakness, he eventually had to give up his dream of becoming a captain and returned to holland to attend the Amsterdam Academy of Drama and Dance.
Fifty years ago, in 1969, Hauer was given the first opportunity to act, in the twelve-episode television series Floris by Paul Verhoeven, who would become world-famous. In the play, Hauer plays the medieval knight Floris, who leads his men to the rivers and lakes and robs the rich and the poor. The show was the most expensive in the history of Dutch television production, and eventually it was not fully filmed because it was seriously over budgeted. But Hauer's masculine and handsome image was deeply rooted in people's hearts, and his happy collaboration with Paul Van Hoeven soon followed the pair's back-to-back collaborations in Dutch blockbuster films such as Turkish Delight (1973), Katie Tippel (1975), Soldier of Orange (1977) and Spetters (1980).
With Paul Verhoeven (left) on the set of Floris
In 1981, Hauer finally made it to Hollywood. He played a terrorist in stallone's counterterrorism cop film Nighthawks, but lacked room for both the scenes and the lines. Fortunately, the "Blade Runner" soon after gave him a chance to fully show his acting skills.
Director Ridley Scott, after seeing Haul's previous works directed by Van Hovin, didn't even ask him to audition, and simply called him to play the important role of replicant Roy Barty. And he did not live up to the director's high expectations, not only gave Scott a lot of plot ideas, but even his classic monologue scene near the end, largely due to his own innovation: originally, the script arranged a lengthy monologue scene, but in the eyes of experienced Hauer, it seemed a bit cumbersome. So he drastically cut his lines, leaving only what he thought was important—"What I see is absolutely unbelievable to you humans." I've seen starships burning along the end of Orion. I used to look at the twinkling cesium in the darkness adjacent to the Don Hauser's Star Gate. Then he came up with the last two sentences himself—"However, every moment of that moment will disappear in the long river of time, like tears disappearing in the rain." My time has come to an end. In addition, he proposed to add images of pigeons flying from his hands. Today, this scene, this monologue, has long since become a film history classic along with the entire Blade Runner, and the title of Hauer's autobiography published in 2007, "All those moments", is also based on this.
The idea of the last white pigeon flying from Roy's hands in Blade Runner is proud of himself
The success of Blade Runner gave Hauer more opportunities to work with major international directors, and he subsequently starred in Sam Pezinpa's The Osterman Weekend (1983), Nicholas Roig's Eureka (1983), Emmanuel Ormi's La leggenda del santo bevitore (1988) and Rena Wittemüller's On a Moonlit Night (1989), et al.
In addition to these literary films, Hauer's unique temperament and excellent appearance conditions that distinguish him from most Native American-born Hollywood actors have also allowed him to find his place in many commercial genre films.
The fantasy romance film "The Legend of the Eagle wolf" starring Hauer was introduced to China
World War II-themed Escape from Sobibour won Hauer a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor
In the 1990s, Hall starred in the fantasy romance film Ladyhawke and the World War II film Escape from Sobibor (1987) were introduced to China and broadcast on many television stations. The werewolf samurai and Soviet soldier Sasha, played by him, should have left a deep impression on many post-70s and post-80s. For Escape from Sobibor, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also starred in the horror film Hitcher (1986) and the action film Wedlock (1991). It is said that when American best-selling author Anne Rice first created the "Night Interview with the Vampire" series of novels, when he created the character of the vampire Lester (played by Tom Cruise in the film version), the image that came to mind was Rutger Hauer.
After the 1990s, Hauer faded from mainstream Hollywood commercials and appeared more often in small-budget B-movies, but occasionally played soy sauce in big productions such as Sin City (2005), Batman Begins (2005), and Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
Before Rutger Hauer fell ill this time, he was actually making movies. He can be seen in the upcoming August release of "The Mystery of the Dragon Card" starring Jackie Chan and Schwarzenegger, the finished but not yet released "Tonight at Noon", and the BBC's new mini-series "A Christmas Carol", which will only be broadcast at the end of this year.