Anthony hopkins sky+ advert

[sim667]

what's he saying?

is it from a film or a poem or something?

 

[El Jefe]

it's Rutger Hauer's final speech from Bladerunner

 

[editor]

And that's a mighty fine speech.

Fuck the advert though. Hope I never see it.

 

[badlands]

here it is

http://www.scifilove.net/2009/04/rutger-hauers-blade-runner-tears-in.html

classic.

 

[camouflage]

I really like that speech too, Rutger actually improvised it, wasn't in the script.

 

[butchersapron]

The bit from the story?

 

[editor]

I really like that speech too, Rutger actually improvised it, wasn't in the script.

That site describes it beautifully too:

The best thing about the scene is the now-famous story about Ridley Scott struggling to end it, and Hauer coming up with the dialogue in his trailer in a few minutes.

Is it true? I don't care, and I have no idea what attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion look like, or C-Beams glittering in the dark at the Tannhauser gate, yet coming from Hauer's noble killing machine, they sound epic, dramatic, awe-inspiring.

The last line, about those moments being lost like tears in rain, still makes me shed a few myself every time I watch it. It is poetry - pure and simple.

He has had a fine career outside of Blade Runner - even if he did drop off the radar for a while - but it is for this Rutger Hauer will be remembered and rightly so.

 

[butchersapron]

I take that back then - fair play.