"WHERE'S MY FUCKING COFFEE."
You don't just help find his cup, you bring the whole damn pot. Plus a light for whatever he was smoking that hour. Credited as being the pop culture figure who convinced me to start bleaching my hair a couple years back -- He looked exactly the same since 1982. There's something to be learned there, and our loss of his Humanity is incalculable, with the key irony that he will always be remembered for playing a robot/android/replicant/whatever they were supposed to be. Artificial life form. All we can do is watch the movies he bothered to appear in and marvel. I wonder how many times he was asked to play a James Bond villain & told them to stuff it. Guy kicked ass. Like Klaus Kinski, only Hauer actually acted. Klaus was just being Klaus, which is why he ruled too.
Picking "Blade Runner" as your favorite Rutger Hauer film is like picking "Sgt. Pepper's" as your favorite Beatles album. Too easy. So I go with "Split Second", the best Burnt-Out Cop Living On the Edge thriller to rip ALIEN (1979) off as well. Some knucklehead probably has it uploaded to YouTube from VHS with gibberish subtitles -- Go watch it; Sublimely perfect in it's awfulness. With Hauer's bleakly hysterical performance + a Kim Cattrall shower scene as the main reasons to bother, though there are others as well
"Split Second" at the IMDB with link to Amazon Prime viewing page. Or just go find the bootleg on YT. He wouldn't have cared.
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