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.
Without Hauer it would have been a different movie. He nailed the role. Sean Young was hot and Daryl Hannah played a good part. Come to think of it it had a very good cast.
IIRC, Hauer re-wrote it one night and showed his work to Scott who liked it and let him use it.
Good thing, too, b/c this was the original monologue:
“I have known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I’ve been Offworld and back...frontiers! I’ve stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion. I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I’ve seen it...felt it!”