"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."One of the most beautiful monologues in cinema history, all made more magical by the fact that Rutger Hauer- the actor portraying Roy Batty- re-wrote and improvised the whole thing.
Rutger Hauer described the original script as having no bearing on the rest of the film and that by re-writing the monologue he could show that Batty wanted to "make his mark on existence... the robot in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of."
I couldn't imagine the scene done any other way, personally. Here is the original:
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 the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion...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 seen it, felt it...!
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