the MSN site has a brief look at twelve Best Ever Death Speeches; I can’t help but notice that no less than five of those final great lines for a character they picked were from science fiction and fantasy films: 2001, the Wizard of Oz, Star Wars: a New Hope, King Kong and one I imagine any SF&F fan would expect to see on a Best Ever Death Speech list, Roy Batty’s final lines from the iconic Blade Runner. “I’ve … seen things you people wouldn’t believe...” Strangely enough William Shatner’s final lines as Captain Kirk in Star Trek Generations doesn’t seem to have made the list.
(Rutger Hauer in his tight shorts as Roy Batty, with a soaking wet Harrison Ford as Deckard in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner)
Fri, Sep 26, 2008
Film, TV and radio