Antagonist. Villain is totally the wrong descriptor.
‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Took Exception to His Character Roy Batty Being Labeled a Villain
Submitted 8 months ago by Blaze@discuss.online to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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Chuymatt@kbin.social 8 months ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 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…
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 8 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
1984@lemmy.today 8 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? :)
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 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.
xyzzy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Roy is the protagonist in his own man vs. society story. Society is the real villain in Blade Runner.