‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Took Exception to His Character Roy Batty Being Labeled a Villain

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• xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Roy is the protagonist in his own man vs. society story. Society is the real villain in Blade Runner.

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• Chuymatt@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Antagonist. Villain is totally the wrong descriptor.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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…

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• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kind of a dumb reporter. So ugly people should play villains and good looking people should play heroes. Are we inside a children story? :)

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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