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The actor Rutger Hauer has died.

He was most famous for a momentarily evocative scene in the objectionably violent, vapid, vacuous, flash over substance, science fiction film Bladerunner.

In the film's only memorable scene, he and Harrison Ford have been engaged in a fight to the death on a roof top but now Harrison is injured and Rutger is closing in for the kill.

It's pouring rain.

Rutger has a dove cradled in the palm of one hand.

In a one minute speech that's so well declaimed, acted and filmed, that people have become convinced the otherwise thoroughly vacuous two hour long pornographically bloody Bladerunner is a deeply meaningful film, Rutger says:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shores of Orion. Cee beams glittering in the darkness off the Tanheuser Gate. A humourless television series styled Monty Python being hailed for decades as comic genius. There's not a single belly laugh in it. The utterly unwatchable Jonathan Ross being paid 20 million a year to present an utterly unwatchable television programme for the utterly unwatchable ultra leftist BBC. For years... All this will be lost... like tears... in rain... Time... to die."

He lets Harrison live.