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Roy Batty is probably the best movie Villain role in History

posted 7 years ago by dinn (7)
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Roy Batty is probably the best movie Villain role in History along with Heath Ledger's Joker ...he starts as futuristic Frankenstein he realizes that he is the vanished from Eden Adam, after he has the Knowledge of Death and anxiety of Time he feels injustice and becomes Lucifer/Satan bringing Hell to whomever stands against him and his struggle to beat Nature/Fate and defy his creator but in the End he sees the meaningless nature of Hate/Fight/War and forgives/saves his enemy and he transforms into Jesus Christ sharing his nihilistic "Gospel" in the greatest and most poetic movie monologue of all times...
"...but all those moments will be lost in Time....like Tears in the Rain..

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I thought he showed some real acting chops in the end. I don't know about the 'best movie villain' (I'd probably give that to Darth Vader or Jack Nicholson's Joker) but he definitely delivered a stellar performance.