Friday, June 24, 2016

"Tears in Rain" from "Bladerunner" - Vangelis (video)

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.

- Roy Batty (replicant)

This was a last-minute unauthorized improv by Rutger Hauer and it's said some of the people filming the scene fell to tears after he did it.





Note:  Tannhäuser is a reference to Man's fall from grace and nothing so trivial as the Eden myth but rather the fall from grace in any context.  It's much like Richard Dawkins being paid to preach about how preaching is bad.  It's such a graceless age.

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