"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
An absolutely essential component that is the science fiction masterpiece classic Blade Runner (1982), this writer and fan is saddened at the loss of the wonderful performer that was Rutger Hauer (1944-2019).
Hauer will be forever immortalized through film especially in his role as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. I just adore his performance in that film. Love him for it. In his book All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (2007) Hauer noted he incorporated many of his own lines especially written for the final scene of that wonderful picture that he memorialized in the falling rain.
As a young person this writer enjoyed many of his films and some of my favorites included: Nighthawks (1981; opposite Sylvester Stallone), Blade Runner (1982; opposite Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah and Edward James Olmos among many), The Osterman Weekend (1983; opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's final film), Ladyhawke (1985; opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick), The Hitcher (1986; opposite C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh), Wanted: Dead Or Alive (1987; opposite Gene Simmons) and Split Second (1992). And there were so many more including Batman Begins (2005) among others. The titles in red are essentials on Blu-Ray for my required Hauer fix.
What a memorable performer that got his start in several Dutch films by Paul Verhoeven including Turkish Delight (1973), which I would still like to see released to this day.
He was one of the greats to me. Sad to see the man go.
Hauer was 75.
(c) Susan Okoro's Blog
An absolutely essential component that is the science fiction masterpiece classic Blade Runner (1982), this writer and fan is saddened at the loss of the wonderful performer that was Rutger Hauer (1944-2019).
Hauer will be forever immortalized through film especially in his role as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. I just adore his performance in that film. Love him for it. In his book All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (2007) Hauer noted he incorporated many of his own lines especially written for the final scene of that wonderful picture that he memorialized in the falling rain.
As a young person this writer enjoyed many of his films and some of my favorites included: Nighthawks (1981; opposite Sylvester Stallone), Blade Runner (1982; opposite Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah and Edward James Olmos among many), The Osterman Weekend (1983; opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's final film), Ladyhawke (1985; opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick), The Hitcher (1986; opposite C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh), Wanted: Dead Or Alive (1987; opposite Gene Simmons) and Split Second (1992). And there were so many more including Batman Begins (2005) among others. The titles in red are essentials on Blu-Ray for my required Hauer fix.
What a memorable performer that got his start in several Dutch films by Paul Verhoeven including Turkish Delight (1973), which I would still like to see released to this day.
He was one of the greats to me. Sad to see the man go.
Hauer was 75.
(c) Susan Okoro's Blog
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