He gave perhaps the most moving death scene in film history when replicant, Roy Batty delivered the famous “Tears in rain” soliloquy in 1982’s “Blade Runner.” Watch
Rutger Hauer died at his Dutch home on Friday from what is reported after suffering “a very short illness.” Hauer was 75. Here
RIP Mr Hauer.
I won’t say he was the best actor ever, but you knew what to expect whenever he was in a movie.
Thoughts and prayers to him and his family. He will be missed.
He was one of my favorites. George C. Scott-level quality.
Hobo With A Shotgun. Maybe the best movie title ever.
Worst description of anyone you would ever want to meet.
Maybe Community Organizer With A Clipboard would be worse.
Possibly Kissing Booth Operator With A Cold Sore.
Underrated by many, my favorite of his roles was Martin in Flesh+Blood by director Paul Verhoeven.
Another of my ever diminishing list of recognizable stars gone. I scarcely know any of the newer performers in Hollywood as the behavior from there puts me off so much.
So long Mr Hauer.
RIP
Enjoyed his work.
Never seemed too full of himself – as most actors seem to be.
izlamo delenda est …
I recommend “Escape from Sobibor” (the full movie is in YouTube) and “Fatherland” (also on YouTube) for two other memorable roles.
Weirdly, I was just searching his movies via Prime TV last week. Always a handsome face who frequently played bad guys, which is why his comedic role in -Buffy The Vampire Killer- was so fun. Your on screen self will be greatly missed by myself and the many. RIP Mr. Hauer.
Blade Runner is my favorite film. I saw it at a time where it inspired my imagination for years to come. I’m a big Sci-Fi fan and you can take all the films that soared above it at the box office, even the Star Wars trilogy, and I will take Blade Runner for it’s atmosphere, vision and the subject matter. That scene at the end with Rutger and Harrison is just amazing. RIP Mr. Hauer…….
How’s this for weird coincidence, “Blade Runner” was set in 2019.
Requiescat in Pace Rutger…. I am with Lead Salad on this one. Also my favorite movie of all time. My late wife gave my the director’s cut some years back as a Christmas gift…….. not as good as the original release.
No one else could have played Captain Navarre in Ladyhawke. Rutger was an accomplished horseman and did all his own stunts in that movie. I loved him in that film!! Memories of him will live on and on. R.I.P.
the good ones go too soon …. sadly
RIP Mr. Hauer
He was a good actor, knew his craft and didn’t take himself too seriously. One of his last films was “Hobo with a Shotgun” a pure exploitative film using a lot of the talent from “Trailer Park Boys”. A fun little nothing of a flick but it looks like everyone had fun with Hauer knowing just when to chew the scenery and when to ease off. RIP sir.
MerryMouse, Ladyhawk is one of my favorite movies! I loved him in it – a surly man with a secret. Such a delightful chick flick with enough swordplay for the men! Sniff.
RIP Mr. Hauer.
“The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy.”
BR is a favorite but that was by no means the most moving death scene ever. Good that it was ad-libbed by him, and affecting in its context, but a tearjerk scene? No. Leon’s was short and brutal, Zhora’s drawn out and a little shmaltzy with the slo-mo and music, Pris’ terrifying as she spasmed on the floor…but Roy’s was actually life-affirming, even uplifting. He accepted that his time was up and died with dignity and in peace. More human than human.
PS
Deckard is a skinjob.
“The Hitcher” is one you have to watch.
Don’t let anyone spoil the ending!
@Claudia-
Yup! Exactly. I will be watching it tonight just to remember. And also the black Friesan(Dutch)horse!Both horse and rider were magnificent specimens!
More info: https://screenrant.com/ladyhawke-behind-scenes-details-making-trivia/
Rutger Hauer also made an interesting version of Zatōichi the blind swordsman, in Blind Fury.
Remembering Ruther Hauer (1944 – 2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10690410/?ref_=vi_close .
I think Leon (Brion James), companion skinjob in Blade Runner, passed away Aug. 1999, almost exactly two decades ago. Pris (Daryl Hannah), passed too, by transforming into a nutjob.
It has the corniest villain and ending EVER, but some of the best LINES in moviedom (and I actually paid CASH money to see it in a theater in college) – and best of all, you can watch it for FREE on Screwtube; but check out “Split Second” sometime, as a good way to kill a bucket of popcorn and cuddle your girl. 😉
Great in The Hitcher. Just creepy.
MerryMouse, thanks for that! So interesting. Makes me like him even more, and I can see why the movie touched me so.
Very glad that Matthew Broderick was Gaston instead of Dustin Hoffman and Sean Penn. How horrid would that have been?? 😉