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Tears in rain monologue. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) during the scene in the Final Cut of Blade Runner 'Tears in rain' (also known as the 'C-Beams Speech') is a monologue delivered. In the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. I am not going to review the film itself, as we all know its a masterpiece. I already owned Blade Runner on Blu-Ray and was reluctant to pay £25 when this was launched just for 4K resolution, however, being a Blade Runner fan and a drop in price, I couldn't avoid the purchase.
Pages: BackgroundBladeRunner (1982), rising director Ridley Scott's follow-up tohis hit, is one ofthe most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time- and it has become an enduring cult classic favorite. But theenthralling film was originally a box-office financial failure,and it received negative reviews from film critics who called itmuddled and baffling. It also wasn't encouraging that it facedSpielberg's during its opening release.It received only two Academy Award nominations without Oscars:Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Visual Effects. The evocative,inventive, stylistic film has improved with age and warrants repeatedviewings.
The dense, puzzling, detailed plot of the film is backedby a mesmerizing, melancholy musical soundtrack from Greek composerVangelis - undeservedly overlooked for an Oscar nomination.Stylistically, the film was arresting with fantastic,imaginative visual effects of a future Los Angeles conceived by futuristdesign artist Syd Mead, and influenced by the vision of Fritz Lang's and Kubrick's. Mead had also been production designer forthe same year's visually-pioneering TRON (1982), teamed withfamed French futuristic illustrator Jean 'Moebius'Giraud. Another inspiration for the film was the 1974 science fictionbook by novelist Alan E. Nourse titled The Bladerunner, setin the year 2014 about people who sold medical equipment and suppliesto 'outlaw' doctors who were unable to obtain them legally.
Many filmshave attempted to duplicate the dystopic, cyberpunkish look of BladeRunner, including Batman (1989), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), StrangeDays (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Dark City (1998), and I, Robot (2004).The ambitious, enigmatic, visually-complex film isa futuristic film noir detective thriller with all its requisiteparts - an alienated hero of questionable morality, a femme fatale,airborne police vehicles called 'Spinners', dark sets andlocations in a dystopic Los Angeles of 2019, and a downbeat voice-overnarration. The film mixed in some western genre elements as well,and is thematically similar to the story in of a lone marshal facing four western outlaws.The main character in Blade Runner is a weary,former police officer/bounty hunter who is reluctantly dispatchedby the state to search for four android replicants (robotic NEXUSmodels) that have been created with limited life spans (a built-infail-safe mechanism in case they became too human). Dustin Hoffmanand many other actors were considered for the role of the title character,blade-runner Deckard.
The genetically-engineered renegades haveescaped from enslaving conditions on an Off-World outer planet. Drivenby fear, they have come to Earth to locate their creator and forcehim to prolong their short lives.The film's theme, the difficult quest for immortality,is supplemented by an ever-present eye motif - there are variousVK eye tests, an Eye Works factory, and other symbolic referencesto eyes as being the window to the soul. Scott's masterpiece alsoasks the veritable question: what does it mean to be truly human?One of its main posters advertised the tagline: 'MAN HAS MADEHIS MATCH - NOW IT'S HIS PROBLEM.' The film's screenplay (originally titled DangerousDays and Android) by Hampton Fancher, and later supplementedby David Peoples, was based on science-fiction writer Philip K.Dick's 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
FilmNovelTitle: Blade Runner (wordsthat never appeared in the novel)Title: Do AndroidsDream of Electric Sheep?
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