18 Mind-Blowing Facts About Blade Runner

18. Hauer’s Improvised Tears In The Rain Monologue

The moving soliloquy that Roy Batty delivers just prior to his death has gone down as one of cinema’s most iconic moments. Combined with his saving Deckard’s life just moments before and the eloquence and feeling behind his dying words, it’s a defining moment that makes Rutger Hauer’s replicant arguably more human-like than his human counterparts.

It was actually Hauer himself who was largely responsible for the speech. Feeling the original version was overlong, he cut the monologue down and added the line, “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.”

The dove Roy Batty cradles in the scene was also one of Hauer’s improvisations. While filming the scene, the little critter was supposed to fly away but got so soaked in the constant rain that it was only able to hop away. The bird we do see flying away was a random bird Ridley Scott filmed later on the streets of London.