Blade Runner fans: it's Roy Batty's birthday

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[Perdogg]

It's a boy! It's a Roy! For Blade Runner fans, 8 January 2016 is a date of major significance. It's the "day of activation" for Roy Batty, one of the most charismatic and significant characters in this landmark movie. He's a replicant, or android – and, although he might not be flesh and blood, he certainly makes us think about what it is to be human. He's arguably the heart and soul of the movie, even more than its putative hero, played by Harrison Ford

Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is one of the most influential films of the 1980s, a philosophical science fiction-action work set in the near future that's steeped in a sense of the past, a reflection on memory, identity, emotion, creation and invention that takes place in a dazzling yet downbeat neo-noir urban landscape. Loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, its events begin to unfold in November 2019, in a world in which highly realistic androids, known as replicants, have been built by a company called the Tyrell Corporation.

[Perdogg]

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[Flag_This]

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”

[max americana]

Time to die

[ctdonath2]

“Loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”

Quite. More like about the same until halfway, at which point the book takes a right turn and the movie a left, taking us to very different conclusions.

[Busko]

Fiery the angels fall! Happy Birthday Roy!

[BBell]

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.

Great movie.

[doorgunner69]

Not seen Rutger Hauer in many films, other than Lady Hawk. This was was a stunner, do not know what he thinks of it these days, would be good to find out.

Quite something to have such an iconic image for the ages.

[Big Red Badger]

Rachel is Who I Remember,

yummy!

[2banana]

Hot pleasure robots...

Hmmmmmmmm

[BenLurkin]

[GBA]

"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?"
"That's what it is to be a slave."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zXajYDnprQ

[Billthedrill]

Stunning moment. The line was Hauer’s, by the way, not the scriptwriters’. I wish fervently that they’d shut Ford up on the narration and just left it there. It was at that moment that I gave up a lifelong conviction that nobody in the art of motion pictures really got science fiction. They got it all right.

[BenLurkin]

[Rock Eye Jack]

“You Sure have some nice toys”

Roy Batty to Sebastian

I now know Hitler’s Birthday (April 20)
and Roy Batty’s (Jan 8)

Nice Catch LOL
How long have you been waiting to post this ?

[chris37]

Magnificent!

That is one of the finest death scenes ever, perhaps the finest in science fiction, especially considering that Hauer ad libbed it.

He made that movie so memorable with that line. To me, Hauer was the star of Blade Runner.

[Junk Silver]

“I’ve done questionable things.”

[Squantos]

Yeah but bat crap crazy in real life wasn’t she ?.....:o)

[so_real]

"I've done ... questionable things." :-)

[Flag_This]

“if only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes!”