RIP Rutger Hauer

check_six

A less well known Hauer movie worth tracking down is Flesh + Blood where Rutger leads a band of medieval mercenaries who shack up in a castle after a successful campaign, with bloody consequences! Really captures an authentic grotty dirt under the fingernails medieval feel, and Rutger is magnetic, as you'd expect.

RIP

Frank Bullitt

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Jurgen The German

check_six wrote: »

A less well known Hauer movie worth tracking down is Flesh + Blood where Rutger leads a band of medieval mercenaries who shack up in a castle after a successful campaign, with bloody consequences! Really captures an authentic grotty dirt under the fingernails medieval feel, and Rutger is magnetic, as you'd expect.

RIP

It got a nice blu ray release last year and I picked it up as a complete blind buy, decent enough but extremely rapey, couldn't see it been made nowadays.

Frank Bullitt

Watched Blade Runner last night, that piece of dialogue at the end seemed ever more impactful. If an actor can be defined by one movie as good as that, they have done well.

Complete masterpiece.

branie2

He was very good in Blade Runner

banie01

Rewatching Blade Runner in a few minutes.

Absolutely mesmerising performance by Hauer in that movie, particularly the death scene.

Some of the casting is brilliant tho, Sean Young in particular.

Waitsian

In the early to mid-90s I had the pleasure (good fortune!) to live right next door to a video rental shop and I was never out of it. I must have watched 3 or 4 films a day. When I think of Rutger Hauer I think of the films from that era - Split Second, Wedlock, Fatherland and the aforementioned Salute of the Jugger.

He was great in the Guinness ads.

unkel

Gintonious wrote: »

Watched Blade Runner last night, that piece of dialogue at the end seemed ever more impactful.

He actually wrote that himself.

Wombatman

RIP.

Was at the Q&A he did after a screening of the director's cut of Bladerunner in the Claddagh Palace cinema, as part of the 1993 Galway Film Fleadh.

Came across a pretty laid back and approachable although I'm fooked if I can remember much of what he said. Definitely laid claim to ad-libbing most of the "Tears in Rain" monologue.

There was a busker played outside the Claddagh Palace while you queued up to go in back in the day. Had the same repertoire of maybe 5 songs. I can hear him singing one of them now, in his raspy world weary voice, while thinking of poor Rutger.....


Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene
I´ll see you in my dreams

Outlaw Pete

Skerries wrote: »

Ironically he died in 2019 in that film as well

'2019' plays another part in his career in that it was the title (partially at least) of the last of three shorts which he co-directed.

It's called 'Requiem 2019' and the co-director (Sil Van Der Woerd) uploaded it on YouTube the year after it's release asking people to share it to bring attention to whaling.

After Rutger's death he posted the following comment on YouTube:

My dear Rutger, may you rest in peace. Hearing of your loss, my heart is broken. The world lost a beautiful soul. It has been such an inexplicable honour to have met you, to have worked with you, and to have co-directed this film with you. I will never forget the moment when we were writing the film, when you were explaining to me what it is like, to come eye to eye with a whale.

You looked at me, like only you can, with your icy bright blue eyes, and your eyes lingered for moment after moment, motionless, silently... and you slowly leaned forward and gave me the intensest slow motion hug. I did came eye to eye with a whale in that moment, or at least with a being that was just as majestic.

Undoubtedly, the whales are welcoming you amongst them now, as you are on your way ascending to heaven. May you rest in peace amongst them. You are our legend and our hero, and you will always be my friend. I'll miss you Rutger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRz_uG-1Cg