Hauer was also very active in charitable work, including the AIDS awareness foundation he established, the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association.
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In addition to his breathtaking performance in "Blade Runner," he also portrayed an iconically sadistic slasher villain in the 1986 horror film "The Hitcher," the Soviet Jewish rebel who led a concentration camp uprising in the 1987 television film "Escape from Sobibor," a cannibalistic priest in the 2005 comic noir cult classic "Sin City," a sleazy businessman in the 2005 superhero movie "Batman Begins" and the titular character in the 2011 dark action comedy "Hobo with a Shotgun." No one can look back at Hauer's storied career and argue that his life will be lost in that way. One could even argue that the defining characteristic of being alive is fearing one's death - of knowing that everything one thought, felt, experienced and accomplished will vanish with one's own consciousness, be forgotten by others and be lost forever "like tears in rain." In addition to showing Deckard what it really means to be human, despite not being human himself, Batty's monologue also resonates because it reveals a very human insecurity about mortality. the replicant in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of." While the original script had Hauer deliver a more stage-y line, the actor improvised, because - in his own words - Batty wanted to "make his mark on existence. In the movie's climax he is about to murder Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who had been sent to kill him, but saves the life of his nemesis at the last moment because he realizes his own time is about to end.
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Hauer plays Roy Batty, a type of android known as a replicant who served as the film's supposed villain because he and other replicants wanted to lengthen their lifespans. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. The best science fiction stories tackle life's most consequential and complex issues - what it means to be conscious, what it means to be moral, what it means to die - and in one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, Ridley Scott's 1982 classic "Blade Runner," Hauer improvised the following monologue before his character passed away. Legendary "Blade Runner" actor Rutger Hauer died on Friday in the Netherlands, his native country, at the age of 75, his agent confirmed to the BBC today.
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