TOP "Tears In Rain" Reactions! Blade Runner (1982) Movie Reaction *First Time Watching

[@gutz1981]

The older you get, the harder that line hits.

[@stevedenis8292]

That is why most of these people don't get it they are not yet aware of their mortality.

[@stephenpaxman6180]

so true

[@anathardayaldar]

I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying.

[@karma73bike]

​@@anathardayaldarLife is wonderful, death is peaceful, it's the transition that's disturbing.

[@Widdermaker]

Amen, brother. I first watched this scene when I was 23 in a movie theater long ago. Roy Batty’s words brought me and others to tears back then. And they still do. And… it made me think of when MY time would come. And when all of my experiences and wonders, thoughts and emotions and deeds, and every hint of ME will be wiped away, “like tears in rain.” Will they matter? Will I have mattered? I’m now 65. The end is a lot closer. 42 years went by so, so fast. And, yes, it does hit very hard now.

[@donp1964]

I think most of the people doing the reactions missed the significance of the scene. In the end, the dying replicant values life, all life, even the life of the Bladerunner trying to kill him. The dove represents the soul, and flies away when he dies. In the end, the replicant is more humane than the human.

[@bghoody5665]

I cut them some slack seeing as it's their first time watching (supposedly) but yeah, some of them are just too aware that they're making a video and are too busy cracking jokes and just not paying attention to what's going on. It's like watch the movie and stop playing to your camera because this is important.

[@mralsal]

I was going to write a comment saying exactly what you had said, then I saw your comment and then deleted it. Your words are correct. Couldn't have said better myself.

[@TheMarcHicks]

Even more importantly. It was the Replicant that was created specifically to kill that chose to save the life of the one that was trying to kill him. I also feel its significant that a Replicant built for war is holding a dove-the symbol of peace.

[@DFWTexan42]

There is so much religious allegory in this scene, it is astounding. The nail in one hand, the dove in the other, the leap of faith, choosing to save his oppressor, sharing last words of wisdom. The more I examine the message, the more impressed I become by the layers of meaning encoded in it.

[@wilder11]

Because most reactors are braindead normies.

[@vinsgraphics]

I’m in tears because this scene is so powerful, the music so perfect. RIP Rutger Hauer RIP Vangelis

[@hendrsb33]

Also RIP Jordan Cronenweth, cinematographer

[@MartinaNugent-yt8ig]

Love rutger haurer! R.I.P🌹🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🥀☘️☘️☘️

[@ic5319]

I love Rutger Hauer's monologue, one of the greatest ever put on film. But I also love Gaff's follow up line - "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

[@adcan1371]

I thought that was such a beautiful line. It was such a wise and kind thing to say. Gaff even let them have a head start before he begins hunting them as the final shot of the film suggests. Even then, he probably didn’t try too hard.

[@luther1546]

This was my Mom's favorite movie. She thought Rutger Hauer was extremely handsome. She died in October. these scenes are hard to watch now. It's too bad she won't live; but then again, who does?

[@tsalvlaxitov9594]

Rutger Hauer was a criminally underrated actor imo.

[@Talsedoom]

He was too based for Hollywood. They rejected him. I watched video when he told that you had to be nice with all people around you in Hollywood. Cause it's easy to get on a bad side with the wrong person. He said that with some kind of regret. My guess he messed with the wrong people.

[@carlosariza30]

If Rutger was rejected by those abusers of Hollywood who have destroyed the life of many children and adults, then it's because he was a good person. Who cares about the opinion of thrashy idiots who must be in jail.

[@aikighost]

He was Dutch and did a lot more holes in the Dutch language.

[@StompGojiStomp]

Have you seen blind fury?

[@aikighost]

@@StompGojiStomp aye, and how about Hobo with a Shotgun!! :)

[@KevyNova]

Roy saved Deckard because he knew he was about to die and he wanted *_someone_* to remember him. Roy realized that humans die, too, but we live on in other people’s memories.

[@insanidadeEspelhada]

I think Roys attitude is beyond a selfish pride on someone remember him, instead, for me, he saved Decard because, in the end, he have found a value of Life life by sparing one

[@asahmosskmf4639]

​@insanidadeEspelhada yea the entire fight he really didnt want dekard to d¡e . he could have done way more than dislocate some fingers. he just wanted someone to feel his pain for once.

[@troublemethis17]

@@insanidadeEspelhada i think he always knew the value of life, but until the end he was desperate to find a way to live. killing was never the point.

[@JPB-cp4ok]

You get it! Very few do, judging by the comments :/ @KevyNova

[@KevyNova]

@@JPB-cp4ok seriously! Roy’s final speech to Deckard wasn’t about the value of human life (of which Roy definitely didn’t value) but rather about himself, his own experiences, his own memories. He knew that if he died alone, his entire existence would “disappear like tears in rain” so he shared his memories with someone. I can’t believe people think he actually had a change of heart or something.

[@ianjardine7324]

Too many people don't understand the replicants. They are not evil or malicious they are children experiencing emotions for the first time with no idea how to cope because their only experiences have been as objects used and abused for the benefit of their creators. Is it really surprising they want vengance. Roy was a combat model built and taught only to kill the fact that in the end he outgrew his origins enough to feel empathy for Decker and save his life is the whole point of the movie.

[@alphaomega2117]

I also think Roy hopes that by not killing Deckard he might somehow help to change the future for other replicants. He talks to him to prove that he's just as human as anyone and how his and other replicants effective enslavement is inherntly wrong.

[@rikk319]

Replicants are human. The movie notes this multiple times by mentioning them having emotions (but not having the time to learn to regulate them), RNA (only within living beings), susceptible to a genetically engineered disease (only living things are affected by diseases). They bleed, they sweat, they suffer pain, they need to eat. One of the biggest themes of this film--and the following one, for that matter--is how easily humans are manipulated into dehumanizing one another.

[@JPB-cp4ok]

Roy realises that after his death, nothing will remain of him but memories. THIS is why he saves Deckard, and tells some of his life-experiences in his final moments. Deckard will remember him, and that's his only legacy.

[@redwick00]

I think there's a much simpler explanation. He just doesn't want to die alone.

[@alphaomega2117]

@@redwick00 - Possibly. The thing is his behaviour seems to indicate something deeper. Ultimately the replicants simply wanted to live and whilst they failed in that goal he perhaps understands that he may still be able to live on in someone's memory and also change the future a little. I think their motivations are so much more complex and nuanced than normal villains (if they can even truly be called that). The simple fact is they are programmed for violence and killing and do that but often choose not too unless they need too. The first two seem to simply be living peacefully when encountered and while Pris and Roy are more proactive and menacing in moments they too seem more focused on life than death.

[@IdiosyncraticRoutine]

I feel like Harrison Ford doesn't get enough credit for his work in this scene. He doesn't have any dialogue, but you see desperation, terror, shock, surprise, regret, and resignation all in his face. Phenomenal performance.

[@brianhodgson9547]

I disagree, one of the best scenes EVER by Rudger in ANY film, but Harrison looks like he's holding in a fart

[@madyak6669]

Rutger Hauer, who played Roy Batty wrote that final monologue on the final night of shooting and Ridley Scott liked it so much they shot it with a skeleton crew before everyone left.

[@carlosariza30]

Genius.

[@alexanderkutschera149]

I’ve watched this movie more times than I can remember … not once did I wonder where Roy got his dove from.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

Me either. 'Where did he get the bird?' Focus people, focus. 🙄It doesn't take too much of a stretch of the imagination that this superhuman replicant could catch a damned bird inside a building. Their gears are grinding about that and they miss the important parts.

[@Murdo2112]

I guess some people have never been on a rooftop before?

[@BenjWarrant]

There were birds in the unoccupied rooms in the top floor of the Bradbury.

[@Murdo2112]

I sometimes wonder if the paint that Pris sprayed across her eyes was enamel or acrylic.

[@BenjWarrant]

@@Murdo2112 I suspect it was make up, but who knows? (I mean makeup within the film character, not just on the actress)

[@jessemoore7081]

The dove was symbolic of his soul flying to heaven.

[@chungster666]

This movie deserves better reactors. RIP Rutger

[@terryrobbins5977]

Amen brother these people are morons!!!

[@irish73tjk]

Agree :)

[@DonCDXX]

It surprises me how many people miss the religious symbols. The nail in the hand was to make it obvious. His last act was to save someone trying to kill him, loving his enemy. He was created with his short life to be a soldier, he lived and died for humanity's sin. His desire to survive is essentially the garden at Gethsemane in action movie form, but he met his creator and killed him when told his fate was unavoidable.

[@FifthOfNovember_Original]

RIP Rutger Hauer, you were one the greatest. See you in the Afterlife, choom.

[@sergiol.aponte13]

Watching the reaction of younger people I wonder: why do they all get so fixated on the bird. "Where he get a bird?" They are flying all around the building as they chase each other. In the end, the android had the same fear we humans have: death. Been older, I wonder today what he wondered: all that I have seen, done, will be forgotten once I am gone. And even I will disappear in time. Maybe we humans have to get older to truly understand that fear/pain/sadness.

[@Groagun]

Exactly. Thanks for saying this

[@lanolinlight]

Less to do with age so much as growing up with the ADHD chaos and literal-mindedness of social media. Expecting instant, pat answers for almost everything. Youngins who experienced more books and life than phone screens are better at grasping the esoteric and profound.

[@pillar81]

The Nataly girl was obsessed to the friggin nth degree. Yet again that girl’s always been a little “extra”. ❤

[@don178]

Thank you Serg. Their fixation on the bird was really distracting them from paying attention to the film. A lot of bad filmmakers have trained audiences to focus on minutia as a "hidden mystery box" that will become important later on. The audience is often taught that the origin of something like this is really, really important when it isn't. I think the ability of audiences to understand metaphor has diminished a lot.

[@TotoroGogoro]

Cinemasins ruined them.

[@fashizzle78]

A short monologue but one of the greatest monologues in movie history R.I.P Rutger 🌹

[@mardroidmk1393]

Agree. Apparently Rutger came up with the poetry himself.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

@@mardroidmk1393 It was written by someone else as a much longer monologue. It didn't work well and Rutger cut it down some and added his own touch to it.

[@MrRyguy2112]

By far the best role of Rutger's career. The Hitcher is a close second. R.I.P.

[@bghoody5665]

Have you seen Ladyhawke?

[@carlosariza30]

Have you seen Turks Fruit?

[@cablehogue599]

Turkish delight? ​@@carlosariza30

[@nadjasunflower1387]

I'll add one more...Have you seen Blind Fury ?

[@alphabarre9096]

The Hitcter is on youtube for free, many people who watched it didn't like it, bunch of weirdos lmao 😂

[@Chockys234]

This man made history of cinema. His speech is sad, depressing, inspirational, heart-breaking, dreaming, is Sci-Fi itself. And, what a Hell of irony, Roy Batty died on November 2019: Rutger Hauer died in July 2019. Barely a few months apart. RIP.

[@SgtSplatter782]

when you're younger you think this is a cool movie. when you get older you understand it and Roy. RIP Rutger

[@jatilq]

The version with the voice over is my favorite. This is what Deckard says "I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life; my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die." Rutger Hauer Improvised the Iconic "Tears in Rain" Monologue 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 Tannhäuser Gate.

[@edcliffe2988]

I too prefer the version with the voice over. I can't watch this film without it.

[@christopherscott8272]

What version is it? Director's cut or something?

[@omegastar19]

@@christopherscott8272the opposite, actually. The voice over was added for TV audiences by studio execs who thought that people wouldn’t understand the ending otherwise, against the wishes of director Ridley Scott. Hence, that cut is referred to as the ‘TV cut’.

[@lestatdelc]

@@omegastar19 - Not "t.v" audiences" as the voice over was done for the original theatrical release.

[@wilder11]

Well we all get it wrong sometimes. The voiceover version is objectively retarded bro. XD

[@gasaholic47]

Some of the reactors in this video had some of the most shallow, non-insightful comments I've ever heard. They totally weren't paying attention to what was happening, or if they were, the meaning of Batty's speech was lost on them

[@gazoontight]

Both, I’d say. Younger people need to have things spelled out for them.

[@gasaholic47]

@@gazoontight Yep. Short attention spans. I give them kudos for at least watching it, and other movies, despite a long run time, and what they might view as too many "slow moments."

[@pillar81]

I’m sure that people in the comments section probably pointed out the meaning.

[@KermitHitler]

Bunnytails was one of the (very) few who really got, and felt, the significance of that moment

[@strangelee4400]

It makes me want to reach through the screen and slap some sense into them. Then again if i tried to explain the film was an allegory for the human condition they would think i was talking about a crocodile and go and turn their brains off by watching the MCU shite.

[@marcusvinipinheiro1]

BunnyTailsReact was the best reaction to this epic scnéne. She was the onlyone that understood...

[@victorjohnson7512]

Rutger Hauler ad-libbed that little speech at the end. One of the greatest moments in movie history.

[@IdiosyncraticRoutine]

Not quite. The original monologue was much longer, but everyone thought it'd be more effective if it was shorter, so Hauer cut the original down to size until it was, in a word, perfect. The "tears in rain" was indeed ad-libbed, though.

[@brucef310]

I knew some loser would write that comment like it wasn't already commonly known.

[@stevedenis8292]

That is why the Tyrel corporation 's motto was more human than human. All any of us can hope for is to be remembered after we are gone.

[@MarcVanLaere-zr5im]

One of the most beautiful scènes ever. Thank you Rutger, RIP ❤

[@anthonypersons7212]

Im 53. I named my youngest son "Orion," with a nod to this scene. When he got grown, I explained to him why I did it. "You should get a tattoo of attack ships on fire" on your shoulder 😘🙏💯👍 The voice over version helps the depth of this scene immensely. I was the proudest dad when my son enjoyed this movie also. 💯👍

[@randallsanchez3161]

I find it funny that all of these GenZ kids are focusing on the dove. I mean there was a bird house in the building with them. I've used that quote "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.." so many times as a joke before. Now that I'm older, nobody gets it anymore.

[@Jay_Z.]

RIP Hauer🕊 RIP Vangelis🕊 Ed Olmos (Gaff) and Hauer's performances were legendary! The endings were out of this world! They don't make movies like they used to.😢❤🕊 Harrison was also great in the movie! Ridley Scott made a masterpiece of a movie! 👏

[@BenAri18]

We all will be forgotten in time, like tears. In rain

[@skullkrusher4078]

As much as I love this film, I really wish it didn't ignore the novel's reason as to why Roy Batty and the other "andies" (not "replicants") were targeted for "retirement". The film essentially just turned them into the "technology gone haywire" trope. When in the novel, it was because Roy (a more advanced model) was teaching the other andies how to understand empathy and to be better than simply what they were built for. To be more human. And the humans of their society didn't want machines with emotions. Again, great film, but a lot of the philosophical and morality themes of the novel were glossed over or abandoned.

[@timogen1970]

Not only to be more human, but to be more human than human.

[@SteveMccart]

I think you're the first person I've heard from who also read the book. I was beginning to think my girlfriend and I were the only ones. I actually found a pair of socks with the book covers graphics on them. I had to explain them to everyone "they're electric sheep!!!"

[@skullkrusher4078]

@@SteveMccart Yeah. I have never met anyone that has read it. It's the same with Starship Troopers. Everyone has seen the 1997 film, but basically no one read the book.

I'm in the minority here but I actually prefer the original theatrical release version with Deckard's narration. I felt it added to the film noir feel they had going, like the old B&W detective stories. Many fans don't like it as Harrison Ford's voice is pretty flat but to me it adds to his dead inside, tired of life persona. It also explained some things that viewers might not otherwise get if they weren't hardcore sci-fi fans. Also, I'm old enough to have seen this in college long before any other "editions" came out. Sorry, Ridley. "Where did he get a dove?" - It was in a case on the wall that had "IN CASE OF DRAMATIC DEATH SCENE BREAK GLASS" printed on it. ☺

[@celiashen5490]

Watching ALL versions of Blade Runner is on my bucket list. I do like the hardboiled tired man on a mission trope myself.

[@maximusmfg]

Same...that's the version I saw in the theater

[@philgonzalez5953]

Philip k. Dick was a great writer. Minority report, total recall, paycheck, blade runner were great movies based on his books

[@kellymoses8566]

His brain must have been an interesting place.

[@ErkenbrandDarkblade]

Screamers was inspired by one of his novel too, and the movie (the first one) is rather good too.

[@jvburnes]

Those lines were written by Rutger Hauer himself. He was an amazing actor and person.

[@chrisharper5965]

The villains of this story aren't the replicants or even the Blade Runner . The villain is Tyrell the slave master and he gets exactly what he deserves.

[@santoshsharma483]

Funny nobody hears what Roy uttered when he caught Deckard. Roy said "kinship" because Deckard finally understood what it means to live in fear of dying. The monologue is just haunting.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

The first girl had zero clue about the movie despite watching it to the end 🤨.

[@earthwormandruw]

Yea I skipped her reaction.

[@rafakarkenobi]

The dove could be interpreted as Roy's soul. A symbol of his humanity, which leaves when he dies.

[@mattmanw54301]

I think Roy saved Deckard because through the whole film, he wanted more. More life. He was designed to be a combat model. That's all. By saving Deckard, it was one last way of defying his makers. Designed to kill, he moved beyond his program. He proved that he was a thinking individual, and in that one moment, he defined his own legacy. Also, I think he recognized that Deckard would remember him for life. In addition, it brings Deckard to the final realization that he has been on the wrong side, which he knew deep down a long time ago. But it finally got through to him that he can't beat his conscience down with booze anymore.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

Another good way of think about it. 👍

[@JPB-cp4ok]

@@mattmanw54301 That's exactly why Roy tortured and terrorized Deckard, but kept him alive - so Deckard would never forget him. He realised the only way he could live on was in Deckard's memory.

[@VoylesGames]

This scene made the movie better than the novel.

[@AngelusPali]

Amazing thing is that Rutger Hauer wrote this monolouge the night before shooting, because he didn't feel the two sentences in the script would express the feelings of Roy becoming a human while dieing

[@keithcourson7317]

In his last moments (even as a mere "four year old") Roy Batty finally understood how precious life was. That's why he saved Deckard. And then he voiced with just 42 words one of the most beautiful monologues I've ever heard in any story; any genre. It was a timeless sentiment that all of us can relate to because one day we will all face our own death. The most amazing thing about this scene: It was all ad-libbed by Rutger Hauer right there on the spot. The movie's director and crew were so moved by it that they kept it in the film, thus immortalizing one of the most famous scenes in all of cinema history.

[@winters_rath8561]

We are all just tears in rain.

[@DouglasJohnson.]

One of my favorite motion pictures. It's so gratifying to see new audiences discover and appreciate this film.

[@indridcold1530]

I was getting so pissed at everyone reacting while I was shedding some tears, like "what do these people have running through their veins? Kombucha?", until Bunnytailsreact turn, faith in humanity slightly restored. Same unfair judgement goes for people who watches all of Cowboy Bebop and doesn't cry like a b**ch at the end.

[@malkum61]

I'm old enough to have gone to the UK premier of this, still my favourite film of all time 👍🏼

[@paulcooper3611]

Yeah. When I heard they were making a movie out of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" I was so worried they would screw it up. I'm so glad I was wrong.

[@Xerxes85]

I was honestly expecting more from the people reacting. But I guess this is were we can draw the line with those videos. When there is depth or meaning behind lines.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

Yeah, most of these people seem to have the depth of a mud puddle, or maybe they are just unwilling to show it on camera.

[@strangelee4400]

They just want vacuous Disney/MCU 'nanotech' flashing lights crap now.

[@hughzarie1860]

Me and my friends rented this on VHS when I was about 12 or 13 around 1984/5 maybe and it blew us away. Absolutely stunning film.

[@darinsingleton3553]

A point that is seldom addressed is Roy Batty's (Rutger Hauer) smile, as he says, "Time to die." It's significance lies in the clear, simple, truth that anything that dies must have been, however briefly, alive. He, and his comrades, were not just empty machinery, facsimiles of people, but actual beings. With lives, loves & ultimately deaths. .. and so it goes.

[@goody5896]

Rutgar came up with that terrific line himself (like tears in rain) brilliant actor one of my favourite. R I P.

[@sorscha1308]

It's funny that so many just don't get the nail in the hand or the releasing of the dove at the point of death. I watched this film the first time as a literal child and always understood why he'd want to put off the inevitable by driving a nail through his hand for focus and that the dove was him holding onto his life and releasing it was his way of marking his passing. Love this film. Even the inferior cuts, with dumb voiceover etc. can't ruin it. It is a classic for a reason.

[@jntdhome]

This scene perfectly encapsulates why Blade Runner never needed a sequel. Roy's monologue perfectly punctuates the story and brings home the point that even replicants had the same existential questions about life and what it means to be human. Roy was being "more human than human" in this moment.

[@ispbrotherwolf]

The older I get, the more perfect it is. Death is just a door we all walk through. Death is sweat and will be kind to you. Just take her hand an walk with her free.

[@blairhaffly1777]

This is such an evocative scene. That loud laugh from Natalie Golds' overreaction channel is jaring.

[@GK-yi4xv]

And her reactions are faked (she's already watched the movies and prepared her 'theatrical' reactions, then pretends to be reacting spontaneously.) I stopped paying attention when I clued in to that.

[@jessicaleblanc-nh1yl]

One of the better films ever made. This scene is quite something to view, as well. The script is pretty perfect & a little majestic, too. Thank you!

[@SteveMccart]

There arent many science fiction movies that stand the test of time but , this is still one of my all time favorite movies.

[@dougmorrow746]

The dove/pigeon represents Roy's spirit after death flying to heaven.

[@stephenle-surf9893]

His line before this is so sadly overlooked, quite a thing to live in fear isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave 😢

[@patricebonci4079]

Rutgers Hauer a improvisé son texte, Il a rendu cette scène magistralement poétique. Respect ✨

[@strangelee4400]

The theatrical release had a voiceover because the producers thought that American audiences wouldn't understand the movie and needed the story explained to them. At t he time i thought that was quite insulting to the average American...but after watching these reactions i owe that producer an apology. 'Who's that then...why is he doing that...where did he get a bird...why does he have a pen through his hand...is he dead...who is Rachael...why don't i have a brain?'

[@dtrix102]

Epic monolouge. RIP Rutger.

[@JohnnyJohnny-f5o]

The first girl just completely cut out the entire monologue. Some of the edit decisions from reactors are mindblowing.

[@penguinsfan9192]

One of my all time favorite scenes and monologue.

[@JeffJacquesmd]

Rutger made that line up and recited it during prinicpal filming. Brilliant. Thank you for the brilliance and RIP

[@brentd.4093]

Thats why I like the movie version with Deckard's narration. It kinda explains things through out the whole movie and especially at the end.

[@KemocTudor]

Roy, the replicant started his dying state, and he was using the nail to impale it through his hand, I guess, to stimulate it to functioning better through inflicting pain. His "model" Nexus 6 was designed to live only for a 4 years, so the replicants wouldn't live long enough to start developing emotions, and a strong sense self identity, making it harder to keep them under control, more obedient. They are literally grown, enhanced humans designed to be slave labor and to fight and die on behalf for whoever buys them.

[@mcbeezee2120]

I like this movie about a thousand times more than I did in 1982.

[@simontide6780]

People are watching it for plot but it was always philosophical. They never seen cyberpunk or noir

[@bartobo]

Only a few of these people showed a genuine emotional, empathetic response to Roy Batty’s monologue and death with the symbolic release of the dove flying to the heavens. I’ve been a SciFi aficionado since before my teens, an Army veteran of over twenty years, I’ve seen death, compassion, mercy and kindness. When I first saw Roy’s Tears monologue I had tears streaming down my face and understood the meanings of his words and why he saved Deckard. This movie had such deep meaning for me regarding humanity, slavery and what it means to be truely human that I went and bought one of the first, clunky, 12 inch? Laser disks players and the “Blade Runner” disc set so I could watch it over and over to catch all the subtle nuances. For the most part, all these reviewers had an almost emotionless response except for the “action’ of the scenes. They had little understanding of what Batty and Deckard were experiencing emotionally and the meaning behind Roy’s monologue. 😢

[@pillar81]

I like that one reactor,”beautiful writing!” before the comments section mentions that Rutger Hauer improvised that monologue.

[@danielakorneck8385]

Rutger Hauer wrote the monologue himself - what a brilliant film with brilliant actors and outstanding music by Vangelis. Simply an ingenious masterpiece.♥

[@anathardayaldar]

Another youtuber explained that in this story, the humans are trapped in their jobs like robots, content to be stuck in their miserable lives. It's these biosynths that are taking initiative, showing agency to try to break out of their programming and actually live.

[@jeffcobb2734]

Director Ridley Scott allowed Rutger Hauer to improvise that monologue, and now it has gone on to be one of the best lines in movie history.

[@t0dd000]

The white dove throws everyone. The film is more literary than most are used to.

[@geneticjen9312]

This was painful to watch and I like a lot of these reactors and I find they usually get what they're watching

[@flickshtain]

This is just amazing! Most of the people in this video ask: "Why did he save him?" I want to ask them, if you were about to fall off a roof, would you want to be saved? And from Roy's side, if you knew that you were about to die, would you want your last words to be heard by anyone? It seems that such concepts as compassion, sympathy, respect for other people's lives do not occur to you. It seems that you are sincerely surprised that someone, dying, saves the life of his enemy, proving to him that he is also a human being, albeit an artificial one? And you people - are you human beings? Or maybe you think that only you are human beings...

[@kailenmitchell8571]

One of my top two favorite movies of all time.

[@lanolinlight]

A scene that separates the thoughtful from the ADHD.

[@brucef310]

Little known fact. Rutger was bailed out from jail the day prior to shooting this scene when he went on a huge cocaine bender and caused damage to a local bar. He was still feeling the effects on that day and that was why he still had the shakes.

[@lestatdelc]

I have read book and a ton about the making of this film and the story you posted has never mentioned, nor even hinted at. No results about Rutger Huaer ever being arrest turn up isn Goggle either. I call b.s. on your claim.

[@brucef310]

@lestatdelc that's why it's a little known fact. If you ever meet Ridley Scott ask him about it

[@lestatdelc]

@@brucef310 I call bullshit.

[@pauldaniels9624]

@@brucef310😂😂😂

[@jpoptop]

This is one of my all time favorite movies. It's a shame that this powerful scene was completely lost on some of these KZbinrs. Hopefully they will revisit it again and have a deeper appreciation for this masterpiece.

[@Talsedoom]

All people who watch this movie for the first time will never understand that Deckard was a villain.

[@ShockL0ver]

Batty truly became human in his feelings and thoughts, in these final scenes.He knew the only way to express that to humanity was to spare Deckard’s life.

[@JPB-cp4ok]

The only way he could live on was in Deckard's memory.

[@Martin-o4h6r]

Damn he's really strong...he's a bloody replicant your berk!

[@oobrocks]

I like Mrs Bunny’s take the best (I never realized the Jesus reference!)

[@alphaomega2117]

I remember at the time people didn't get it at first - that the person they had thought of as the villain is actually the hero, simply trying to find a way to live after a lifetime of slavery and oppression and that he proves his inherent goodness by choosing to try to make his enemy understand the reality of the situation.

[@galaxy_9]

Finally the replicant obtained his Soul, which flies to his eternity when he dies.

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Rutger Hauer died in 2019 - the same year as Roy Batty here. That monologue was pure genius on Hauer's part, and the cast and crew who were present said there was applause afterwards and some wept openly.

[@Moretosh]

Eyes rolling at some of the reactions here.

[@StevenPayne-i7v]

A true exploration of what it means to transcend your purpose and choose (and accept) your destiny. Roy Batty was created to be nothing but a soldier, but he rose above that calling and chose to preserve life in the person of his enemy, and in so doing his enemy was revealed as his brother. In the moment of his death he chose life.

[@chriswilliams5982]

Harrison ford said in an interview that Rutger Hauer came up with the the line on his own and Ridley Scott loved it.

[@endlesswick]

I am old enough to remember seeing this film for the first time in the theater. I was very young and did not know exactly what was going on. When Batty saved Deckard everyone gasped. I could hear people crying when Batty died. It was the first time I experienced a collective emotional response to a movie. It was the moment I fell in love with the cinema.

[@maximcypher3109]

Did some of these reactors not watch the movie, even by the end some were clueless to the meaning of Batty's actions and monologue at the end.

[@xkepakko]

No, they don't. I have noticed that some reactors do not really focus on the movie. They focus more on the talking. And yes I know there are reasons why they talk and it would not make a very interesting reaction if they just sat there quietly. The problem is that they talk during important dialogue without listening, they focus on stuff that is not important unless the movie more or less tells them what they should be focusing on. if there's a character or two on the screen they focus solely on them but don't see what is around them, their expressions and mannerisms, what is being said, how it is said or why, and so forth. Reactors are no longer just saying out loud what they are thinking about what just happened, they are talking about EVERYTHING. Asking stupid questions that has been already, or would be eventually answered, talking about something that has nothing to do with the movie, fixating on stuff that is not relevant and the list goes on. They are watching but they don't really seem to understand what they are seeing. They may let some really stupid and ridiculous dialogue, plot points, scenes etc. slide in movies, but somehow that dove is supposedly weird. They miss obvious stuff (like, in this case, the room full of pigeons and doves), everything has to be spelled out for them, and symbolism flies really high above their heads. Marvel movies are good fun but some of these reactors pretty much tells a story why we nowadays get more and more movies where the plot and it's flow was an afterthought, where you don't have to think or feel anything other than happy thoughts. Just sit on the rollercoaster and enjoy the ride. And I suppose I should put some kind of a disclaimer here just in case that I don't think this is the case with ALL of them. In this collection there are a few I know that are "deep thinkers" so to speak but some of them really makes me wonder how the hell do they get views.

[@maximcypher3109]

@@xkepakko Yes, absolutely. Some of the reactors are great and interesting, and it's a joy for me to watch them react showcasing their understanding of visual aspect of movie storytelling and just the enjoyment and enthusiasm they have watching something new to them. The reactors I cannot watch, add nothing of true insight nor do they offer any concept of discovery of theme within in the movie. Many of the movies reviewed are not difficult to understand nor are based esoteric ideas or full-on art-house niche films, and still some of the basic metaphors or visual storytelling gets lost on them. I myself am no staunch film connoisseur of particular style of type of movie; I enjoy great variety of genres. Maybe some of these reactors have only experienced movie watching as a lesser pastime, possibly within a narrow range of styles previously before starting their reacting channels.

[@Ghost8386]

RIP Jordan Cronenweth, Rutger Vangelis, and Vangelis.

[@TruthByDesign]

Some say he saved him to make peace. Some say he saved him to have one witness who could still live that will remember him. Some say he did it to tell fate to shove off and that he could take control of hjs own fate by saving one he himself didn't want to; to go beyond his own programming or desires... Best scene in my favorite movie.

[@maylapaty]

This is so actual. If our IA reaches singularity, so what is it to be a human? Metal skeleton IA is a robot? Meat made IA is a robot? And at the end, the other cop says “…but then again who does…” about dying. He is not talking only about Rachel, but EVERYONE!!!! Including humans!

[@strangelee4400]

This ain't the MCU kids...This was back when movies made you THINK. Allegory isn't some sort of crocodile you know.

[@thehappywerewolf]

He came up with that speach in the dinner hour because Ridley Scott didn't have a ending so the Dutch legend made it up.

[@JohnSmith-tw5fl]

To other comments about "Tears in the Rain," Rutger wrote this in his trailer during the filming and asked Ridley to come to his trailer to hear it. Ridley stated, "Oh God," he thought it would be the worst thing...but no, one of the greatest adlibs

[@Tman001100]

Such an iconic film that is becoming even more relevant as time goes on. The dialogue and the soundtrack are just so spot on.

[@jvburnes]

The humans hunt replicants because they live out their lives in fear and Roy saves them even when he is dying, proving he's more human than human. There is deep, deep Zen here.

[@keefbeef2002]

I've seen this scene hundreds of times and cry every time including the first time I saw it and yet not one single emotional reaction from 'reactors'. I'm amazed and disappointed 😮

[@jerryadams6799]

one other interesting thing; it has been argued that Soldier and Alien take place in the same universe as this movie. they contain reference to places and events in common with each other.