15 Totally Flawless Movie Monologues

11. Like Tears In The Rain - Blade Runner (1982)

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And since we're on the subject of all-time classics, it's fair to say that Blade Runner features one of cinema's most haunting monologues, courtesy of the replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).

Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece stars Harrison Ford as the titular blade runner, Rick Deckard, who's sent after engineered humanoids called "replicants" to destroy them. One such replicant is Batty, who Deckard finally confronts in the film's last act before nearly falling to his death and being saved at the last minute by his dying foe.

Batty, having let Deckard live, nears the end of his life and gives a tragic death soliloquy about his memories and the things he's seen, and how in death "all those moments will be lost, like tears in the rain."

One of the most famous lines in the movies, Batty's final words are delivered to perfection by the late, great Rutger Hauer, and are more than deserving of their fame.

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