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RIP - Hauer had great screen presence.
(I read earlier that he apparently instigated an AIDS-awareness initiative in the 1980s called the Starfish Foundation. Now, far be it for me to be disingenuous about so noble an act, but I'm not sure that that was the most appropriate name to choose...)
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I've never liked Blade Runner. I thoroughly respect it and have watched it several times, but I find it a cold, emotionless film for all the wrong reasons. The visuals clearly take precedence over characters that you can invest in. That is why that final speech is so memorable - it finally builds the character and leaves something to the viewers imagination "C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate". It lets you imagine the universe instead of insisting on showing you every bit of it.Last edited by Snake Plissken; 25-07-2019, 08:26.
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- Mar 2008
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostI never realised that he basically improvised his death scene speech in Blade Runner. It wasn't in Ridley Scott's script.
That's not quite true. He certainly didn't deliver the words in the script but he used quite a lot of them:
I’ve seen things… seen things you little people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium… I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments… they’ll be gone.
The magnificent ending was his though.
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- Mar 2008
- 19064
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
You should see the original draft:
I’ve known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I’ve been Offworld and back… frontiers! I’ve stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching stars fight on the shoulder of Orion… I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I’ve seen it, felt it…!
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I liked him in most of the Verhoeven trash he did, especially Flesh + Blood with Jennifer Jason Leigh. Also The Hitcher.
Found him a bit annoying in the Guinness adverts, and I've never seen Blade Runner. Sci-fi is silly.
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I'm a bit surprised no one's mentioned Soldier of Orange, the first time many of us in the anglosphere saw him I suspect. It's also, arguably, the closest Verhoeven's ever come to directing a genuine epic. One of the best WW2 occupation films I've seen.
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