24-02-2013, 08:56 PM
P.S. -- Rutger Hauer is acknowledged by Ridley Scott and screenwriter David Peoples to be the author Roy's final speech.
Peoples's original, which Hauer later characterized as "opera talk" and "high tech speech," pales by comparison:
"I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back... frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion...I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it, felt it...!"
Peoples's original, which Hauer later characterized as "opera talk" and "high tech speech," pales by comparison:
"I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back... frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion...I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it, felt it...!"