10 Best Unscripted Movie Endings Ever

6. Tears In The Rain - Blade Runner (1982)

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It might be hard to believe, but the final, dying speech of replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner was actually massively improvised by Hauer himself.

Though some version of the speech appears in David Peoples' initial script, Ridley Scott basically allowed Hauer to play around with the dialogue and make it his own.

Hauer kept some aspects of the speech in - including the references to C-beams and Orion - but he ended up adding the haunting "tears in the rain" line himself.

As Hauer puts it:

"Ridley gave me all the freedom, because he wanted it to be a character-driven story. He said, ‘This is what I want to do – bring me anything you can come up with, and I’ll take it on if I like it.' For the end line I was hoping to come up with one line where Roy, because he understands he has very little time, expresses one bit of the DNA of life that he’s felt."

The results of Hauer's last minute improvisation speak for themselves, with Batty's speech remaining the film's most iconic scene, and an ending that finishes Blade Runner on a particularly wrenching high.

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