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Rutger Hauer: Blade Runner actor dies aged 75

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"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner

The only movie besides Fight Club I know almost every word before they say it.

Easily my #1 movie of all time with one of the greatest closing speeches by Rutger (which he allegedly improvised). And I’ve seen nearly every movie on iMDBs top 250 list, although that isn’t as meaningful a list today as it was 10yrs ago as superhero movies keep climbing it.

Sad to hear. Always liked him until I learned he improv’d a number of lines from the Blade Runner rain scene. Then he became a favorite. Brilliant actor.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue

Edited. Missed a critical bit.

until?

I assume that after that "liked" wasn't adequate.

Exactly. Edited.

When I moved to Los Angeles in '88, I was at a Sunset liquor store one Friday evening when I noticed the normal looking tall gent next to me was Rutger Hauer. Bless his heart, he was alone and let me gush in semi-drunken adoration my disbelieve it was him, how much I loved his work and so on. We sat on the curb in front of El Compadre for quite a while chatting and drinking. One of my favorite memories in life.

Prediction: people will quote from Blade Runner, but will forget about Ladyhawke.

Edit: Its like the two sides should be together in SF/Fantasy but for some reason they just cannot ... quite ...meet...

Some people, maybe. I came to the comments to remind people about "Ladyhawke" and "The Hitcher". He was excellent in both.

Last night I was looking for some movie to watch. Ladyhawke came to mind, as part of my list of those I've never seen, but of which I have a fervent desire to enjoy. (mostly pre-1995 movies.) It meets all the requirements: fantasy and adventure movies, beautiful and talented female lead, awesome Rutger.

RIP to the actor my family called "Brother Rutger."

Saw it mentioned that he died in the same year as his character does in Blade Runner.

He was staying in the same hotel as me when I was working in Montreal many years ago. After I saw him a number of days in a row he actually said hi to me before I did to him (probably on account of me being a bit star struck). That seems to me to be sign a pretty good guy. RIP.

Not many Dutch actors were good enough to make it internationally, Hauer deserved every bit of fame he managed to collect. His best films are in Dutch, in spite of his Blade Runner fame.

You just reminded me of an old intention I've had for years to find and rewatch "Spetters." I remember liking it a lot when I saw it in the 80s, but I remember almost nothing about it now, which is rare for me.

Edit: Also, "Soldier of Orange."

I've loved Blade Runner since I was about 12 (h/t Westwood Studios), and never knew until today about Rutger Hauer's Dutch language films or collaborations with Paul Verhoeven.

It's happens so often, I wonder if there's a word for the feeling of discovering art, on the day it goes from the world? The clearest case for me, was discovering the music of Johnny Martyn, the day he died.

RIP Rutger Hauer

I suppose I must turn in my hacker membership card for this, but for me he was always the enigmatic star of Guinness commercials for a long time before I saw Blade Runner.

He has three films marked "Post-production, posthumous release"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_Hauer_filmography

Casting for Blade Runner was uniformly excellent and many of the actors gave their standout performances in it. Hauer brought an amazing gravitas to the role.

His voice acting work in the game The Observer was really good. Going to have to do a re-play through it now.

Revel in your time.

Obligatory Blade Runner final scene: https://www.youtube.com/embed/NoAzpa1x7jU (tears in rain)

So young...

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