I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium. seen things you little people wouldn't believe. I've seen it, felt it.! Īnd, the original script, before Hauer's rewrite, was: 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 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 stars fight on the shoulder of Orion. One earlier version in Peoples' draft screenplays was: In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain". In the documentary Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples confirm that Hauer significantly modified the "Tears in Rain" speech. 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. Then, recognizing that his limited lifespan is about to terminate, Batty further addresses his shocked nemesis, reflecting on his own experiences and mortality, with dramatic pauses between each statement: Batty turns back, and lectures Deckard briefly about how the tables have turned, but pulls him up to safety at the last instant. In a rooftops chase in heavy rain, Deckard misses a jump and hangs by his fingers, about to fall to his death. The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) has been ordered to track down and kill Roy Batty, a rogue artificial " replicant".