Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott , original screenplay written by Hampton Fancher, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, rewritten by David Peoples and released in 1982.
Cast
- Harrison Ford - Rick Deckard
- Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty
- Sean Young - Rachael
- Edward James Olmos - Gaff
- M. Emmet Walsh - Bryant
- Daryl Hannah - Pris
- William Sanderson - J.F. Sebastian
- Brion James - Leon
- Joe Turkel - Tyrell
- Joanna Cassidy - Zhora
- James Hong - Hannibal Chew
- Morgan Paull - Holden
- Kevin Thompson - Bear
- John Edward Allen - Kaiser
- Hy Pyke - Taffey Lewis
Police
Bryant: "Come on, don't be an asshole, Deckard. I've got four skin-jobs walking the streets."
Bryant: "He can breath ok as long nobody unplugs him."
Bryant: "Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. You're not cop, you're little people."
Cop: "Have a better one." (Possible first appearance in popular culture.)
Gaff: "You've done a man's job, sir!"
Gaff: "Too bad she won't live ... but then again, who does?"
Tyrell Corporation
Eldon Tyrell: "Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto."
Chew: "I just do eyes. Just - just eyes. Just genetic design. Just eyes."
J. F. Sebastian: "I make friends. They're toys. My friends are toys. I make them. It's a hobby."
J. F. Sebastian: "There's some of me in you."
Eldon Tyrell: "Milk and cookies kept you awake?"
Eldon Tyrell: "The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you have burned so very very brightly, Roy."
Replicants
Rachael: "Have you ever retired a human by mistake?"
Rachael: "Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian?"
Roy Batty: "Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder roared around their shores; burning at the fires of Orc."
Roy Batty: "Chew, if you could see what I've have seen with your eyes!"
Leon: "Painful to live in fear, isn't it?"
Leon: "Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch."
Leon: "Wake Up! Time to die!"
Pris: "Then we're stupid, and we'll die."
Pris: "I think, Sebastian, therefore I am."
Rachael: "I'm not in the business. I am the business."
Roy Batty: "It's not an easy thing to meet your maker."
Roy Batty: "I want more life, fucker."
Roy Batty: "I've done questionable things. ... Nothing the god of bio-mechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for."
Roy Batty: "That's the spirit!"
Roy Batty: "Quite an experience to live in fear, isnt it? That's what it's like to be a slave."
Roy Batty: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die."
Deckard
- "I was quick when I came in here. I'm twice as quick now."
- "Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."
- "I've had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming."
Voiceovers
- These were expunged from the Director's Cut version. It has been said that both Scott and Ford were unhappy with the dialogue, as it was forced by the studio and was written by another scriptwriter (Roland Kibbee) not associated with the project. They can still be found in International editions, and all were spoken unenthusiastically by Deckard.
- "They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer."
- "Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me...cold fish."
- "The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him."
- "Skin jobs. That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men niggers."
- "I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim, and that's exactly what Bryant's threat about little people meant. So I hooked in once more thinking if I couldn't take it I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me back anyway."
- "Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had...a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings...neither were Blade Runners. What the hell was happening to me? Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael...they need memories."
- "The report would be routine retirement of a Replicant. Which didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again...feeling in myself...for her...for Rachael."
- "I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life...anybody's life...my life. All he'd wanted was the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I can do is sit there and watch him die."
- "Gaff had been there and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me she was special, no termination date. I didn't know how long we had together...who does?"
