Roy Batty
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Oct 13, 2026
Darren HorneHOST
Yeah.
Darren HorneHOST
So she's doing that, and Roy's doing the same.
Darren HorneHOST
Like, like, at one point- Well, he starts doing the whole, "Awoo," pretending he's a wolf- Exactly ... and all that.
Darren HorneHOST
And then he looks out the window and he's like, "Where are you going?" Yeah.
Darren HorneHOST
Yeah.
Darren HorneHOST
And then like- He's kind of forced into hunting them down.
Darren HorneHOST
And Roy, you know, played by Rutger Hauer, this is w- I think Rutger Hauer's best.
Darren HorneHOST
I mean, Rutger Hauer makes questionable choices like Hobo with a Shotgun and, uh, is it Blind Fury, where he's like a blind samurai? [laughs] I don't know, but I wanna watch these films.
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And he refuses.
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Roy Batty spends his final moments saving Deckard's life.
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Thirty years later, Kay does the same thing.
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I've been thinking about that symmetry a lot.
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Because if the book is about quietly accepting that the dust will win, the movie is about raging against it, and the physical embodiment of that rage is what cements this film's legacy as the definitive Philip K. Dick adaptation.
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Enter Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, the ringleader of the rogue replicants.
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Now, in the novel, Roy Batty is essentially a footnote.
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He technically exists, but he does and says very little of consequence.
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He's just another listless target waiting to be retired.
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We are at the end of the movie.
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The plot of the novel has been left miles behind.
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Deckard is beaten, he's exhausted, and Roy Batty is standing over him, his body finally expiring.
Silka LuisaGUEST
I think so.
Silka LuisaGUEST
I had so much empathy for Roy Batty and for Rachel.
Silka LuisaGUEST
It was just one of those films that you never forget it and it felt like it opened up my imagination in ways that forever altered it.
AndieHOST
Wonderful.
speaker_6HOST
Right.
speaker_6HOST
And Rutger Hauer, playing the rogue replicant Roy Batty, is standing over him.
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Batty reaches out, grabs Deckard's dangling arm, and right at that exact millisecond of peak tension, the projector dies
speaker_7HOST
A total blackout at the absolute worst moment
speaker_6HOST
It didn't come from a box, it came from a replicant.
speaker_7HOST
Exactly.
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By having Roy Batty, the supposed unfeeling machine, the biological entity deemed completely devoid of a soul, demonstrate the ultimate act of grace on that rain-soaked roof, Ridley Scott achieves the exact same thematic goal that Philip K. Dick aimed for with Mercerism.
speaker_6HOST
That is so brilliant.
speaker_7HOST
It's the ultimate execution of show, don't tell.
AC WilsonHOST
And when Rutger Hauer's character, the android Roy Batty, delivers that famous tears in rain monologue at the end of the film-
speaker_7HOST
Oh, such a brilliant scene
AC WilsonHOST
... which by the way, was not in the book at all.
Jon RichterHOST
and so imagine if you found out that blade runner was based on another book which it obviously was it was based on do android's dream of electric sheep by philip k dick imagine if one day you read that book And it was like a carry-on movie, zany comedy.
Jon RichterHOST
And Deckard was like cracking jokes about Roy Batty's arse.
Jon RichterHOST
it was just a bit like it's a bit like that if that makes any
Matt AdcockHOST
sense so yeah i mean you know we could be putting up a lot of people off it but i do think it's worth a try i think you almost need like a selection pack to find out which is your ghost in the shell so you should give the original movie a go even give the live action a go definitely watch ghost in the shell innocence check it better standalone complex and this one and then draw your conclusions as to like where do i sit on the ghost in the shell spectrum as to which is for me
speaker_3HOST
Exactly.
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It all culminates in Rutger Hauer's famous tears in rain speech as Roy Batty.
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Batty, an artificial machine, ultimately demonstrates more humanity and empathy than the human who is hunting him.
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So they took a complex internal philosophy and externalized it into action and dialogue.
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Harrison Ford played the bounty hunter Rick Deckard not as a standard action hero but with a bone-deep cynical exhaustion.
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But the true masterstroke was Rutger Hauer as the rogue replicant Roy Batty.
speaker_1HOST
The tears in rain speech?
speaker_0HOST
Yes.
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He sits in the pouring rain holding a dove and delivers this beautiful, poetic, partially improvised monologue about all the incredible, terrifying things he has seen off world.
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All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
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And in the book, the androids are essentially just cold, sociopathic machines, but that single perfectly delivered cinematic monologue gave the artificial replicants a profound, tragic soul.
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It completely flips the empathy.
John RochaHOST
Who knows how that's all going to end? And what you...
John RochaHOST
And an incredibly, an incredible, iconic villain in, in, uh, what Rutger Hauer was able to bring to life in Roy Batty, the great Daryl Hannah playing what she played.
John RochaHOST
It was, it's brutal, it's scary, it's incredible, it has twists and turns you don't see coming.
John RochaHOST
It pulls no punches, yet at the end, amidst all the darkness, it ends with the possibility of a better future, of hope in some way, depending on which version you see.
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