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Tears in rain

Posted on 02/05/2017 11:12:01 AM PST by JoeProBono

"Tears in Rain", also referred to as "The C-Beams Speech", is a brief monologue delivered by replicant Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. The final form, altered from the scripted lines and improvised by Hauer on the eve of filming, has entered popular culture as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history" and is an often quoted piece of science fiction writing.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bladerunner; roybatty; rutgerhauer; tearsinrain
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1 posted on 02/05/2017 11:12:01 AM PST by JoeProBono
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Blade Runner - Final scene, “Tears in Rain” Monologue (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU


2 posted on 02/05/2017 11:15:39 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: JoeProBono

Best SciFi scene ever.


3 posted on 02/05/2017 11:17:08 AM PST by EEGator
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To: JoeProBono

Rutger Hauer is great! Playing the Huntsman character, he turned my little daughter’s `The 10th Kingdom’ into Fearnet


4 posted on 02/05/2017 11:17:11 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: JoeProBono

That short-lived hoodlum would’ve failed the Voight-Kampf!


5 posted on 02/05/2017 11:22:21 AM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Continuation of that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83tboDnpE7Y


6 posted on 02/05/2017 11:22:35 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: JoeProBono

Big favorite!


7 posted on 02/05/2017 11:30:50 AM PST by locountry1dr (Political correctness kills)
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To: tumblindice


8 posted on 02/05/2017 11:37:45 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: EEGator

I have always loved that scene. It’s great.


9 posted on 02/05/2017 11:39:42 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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"The entree consists of boiled dog".

10 posted on 02/05/2017 11:40:05 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I thought the movie was overall mediocre except for that scene.


11 posted on 02/05/2017 11:40:45 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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“Horatius at the Gate”

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods.”


12 posted on 02/05/2017 11:46:24 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Telepathic Intruder


13 posted on 02/05/2017 12:04:25 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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That film still haunts me in it’s strange beauty.


14 posted on 02/05/2017 12:07:02 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: JoeProBono

Clearly they’re not too worried about global warming in 2019.


15 posted on 02/05/2017 12:10:25 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

You tube always seems to crap out around the 10 second mark no matter what PC or where i am.


16 posted on 02/05/2017 12:11:40 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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17 posted on 02/05/2017 12:18:14 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Time ... to die.


18 posted on 02/05/2017 12:34:36 PM PST by IronJack
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and yet, they had no smoke NAZI's
19 posted on 02/05/2017 12:37:46 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: JoeProBono

It’s always been my favorite, even before the critics.


20 posted on 02/05/2017 12:41:14 PM PST by DaxtonBrown
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