Here's mine, from Rutger Hauer as Ray in Bladerunner:
"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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die. "
Ooooh, good call. And this one's all the better as it was improvised. Hauer's made some turkeys in his time, but they don't matter because of this.
I'm going to have to do some thinking on this. Anyone else have any while my tired old slug of a brain chugs away?
Though my intro might seem too much and a simpler one would've sufficed, I thought it crucial to point out how fantastic, here anyway, this scene in Bladerunner is. The darkness yet stretched symmetry of the buildings evident from the glittering rain, glittering because of the searchlight nature of the set.
And most of all the empathy you just have to have for Ray, dying with honour intact; a lesson for humankind as represented in the film.
Like most blokes I see crying by us as near anathema. That scene brought a tear to my eye, mind, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Cheers for replying, Mister Ed.
