Blade Runner - Final scene, "Tears in Rain" Monologue (HD)
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What it is
The final scene of Blade Runner (Final Cut) in which Roy Batty delivers the Tears in Rain monologue. It is a short film clip.
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What Hacker News said
Cites DonHopkins · 2022-05 · on “Vangelis has died”
"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. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die." [this video]
Critical bigDinosaur · 2022-06 · on “‘Blade Runner’ at 40”
The version with the VO? If so, that literally treats the audience like they're incapable of understanding blatant metaphor. Contrast the theatrical cut: [LINK] (VO at 4:13) with the director's cut: [this video] The theatrical version is punchier because it's beating you over the head. For a film that's so heavily into metaphor (I mean, Rutger Hauer's character releases a dove at the end, maybe he just likes birds, we will never know since the VO doesn't explain it) it's quite boring to just be outright told what you're supposed to think. And even if you like your scenes explained in the most anodyne manner possible, it's well known that Harrison Ford was phoning it in for the overall performance