‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Took Exception to His Character Roy Batty Being Labeled a Villain
‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Took Exception to His Character Roy Batty Being Labeled a Villain
The iconic Ridley Scott sci-fi film starring Harrison Ford as a former police officer tasked with hunting down synthetic humans turns 40 on Saturday.
Roy is the protagonist in his own man vs. society story. Society is the real villain in Blade Runner.
Yes.
But, Tyrell Corp is pretty villianous.
I think Deckard is the anti-hero in the sense that he serves society and therefore the "bad guys." But he comes around to realize this as the film progresses
Antagonist. Villain is totally the wrong descriptor.
Id say hardly a villain. He was created to take commands and then forced to self destruct right when he worked out enough about the world. In the end didn't he save deckard? More human than human
The very best villains don't see themselves as villains. :)
In Batty's case, he was born into slavery. Sanctioned slavery. Bryant tells us that they hijacked a shuttle to escape and killed the entire crew, but is that even true? Or just another manipulation by Bryant?
Certainly Batty and the others would see killing a shuttle crew to escape slavery as necessary, even if it DID happen...
No one is really the villain. On one side we have a man trying to make it in the world and do his duty and job, while the other is a rogue ai trying to survive in a world that wants him gone.
Like tears in the rain…
Tyrell is definitely a villain.
I thought to myself "how can he take exception now, isnt he dead?"
Yes he is tears in rain now. this quote is from 1982
Kind of a dumb reporter. So ugly people should play villains and good looking people should play heroes. Are we inside a children story? :)
In the real world, good looking people commit the worst crimes and get away with it too, because they have better odds of having important jobs with strong influence.
A lot crunchy film buffs blamed Star Wars for dumbing down Hollywood messaging but I think this just shows it was already a pretty clueless ecosystem.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer did not see his character as a villain, and the actor took some exception to that notion while doing press for the film’s initial release.
The iconic Ridley Scott sci-fi movie, set in 2019 Los Angeles and starring Harrison Ford as a former police officer tasked with hunting down synthetic humans, turns 40 on Saturday.
In Blade Runner, Hauer’s Roy Batty is a bio-engineered humanoid, who — along with fellow Nexus-6 replicants Leon Kowalski (Brion James), Zhora Salome (Joanna Cassidy) and Pris (Daryl Hannah) — is being pursued by Blade Runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford).
Largely misunderstood by the studio when it was made and then by audiences when it was initially released, Blade Runner underperformed at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics.
The film is also notable for having seven different versions, a result of cuts and alterations demanded by the studio when it was released and restored over time for fans.
A sequel, Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve, was released in October 2017.
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