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115. Roy's Soliloquy

Fri Jul 13, 2012, 12:57 PM

Jul 2012

Roy's Soliloquy sums up that movie for me:

Man realises his time is limited. Man gets angry with his maker. Man kills his maker (or stops believing in God). Man expresses sadness over the loss of what seems so significant to him. Man accepts his fate. Man dies...

When that movie first came out, I was blown away by it. I was the only one in my circle of friends to like it. I didn't even know if I'd seen a good film, but it haunted me. Vangelis score was undoubtedly part of that, but I saw it every day (for a dollar) until it stopped running. It still blows me away...

As an aside, I lived in the Netherlands in the late 70's, and I always wondered if Rutger Hauer was inspired in his soliloquy by a song by Barry and Eileen (?) called "Bad Times", which contains the line: "I don't mind the rain.... It covers up the tears..."

I'd love to ask him if I ever met him...

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