"All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears - in rain."
Rutger Hauer ('Roy Batty' in 'Blade Runner')
There is a common story that the Dutch actor himself came up with the celebrated short monologue at the climax of 1982's Blade Runner, just before Roy Batty, the charismatic antagonist of the film that he played, reaches his pre-ordained expriy date on the rain-drenched rooftop. However, I've never found any substantiation of that claim, and I suspect it's just a legend. It certainly seems improbable that such a sophisticated piece of dialogue could have been purely improvised in the moment. We should probably give at least some of the credit to the great screenwriter David Webb Peoples (who also wrote the scripts for Unforgiven, 12 Monkeys, and the criminally underrated Hero; even if it's a relatively short filmography, it's pretty hard to top!).
I get a bit emotonal whenever we near the end of a big football tournament - particularly one as surprisingly exciting and entertaining as this first Club World Cup event has proved to be. We need to savour such moments of joy while we can.
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