He was the permanent villain, who also starred in B-movies or Americans shocked. Rutger Hauer was in many movies the villains or the Replicants. Now, the Dutchman died in Friesland.
Steel blue eyes, sharp cut facial features, square jaw, blonde hair look so nasty villains, or noble heroes. The Dutch movie star Rutger Hauer could both embody on the canvas, and the more than 50 years.
Whether Hero or villain – of A was Hauer A 0815-type, the man has already forgotten at the output of the cinemas again. But above all, he is associated with a legendary Film: “Blade Runner” from 1982. In Ridley Scott’s apocalyptic Science-Fiction Thriller in the year 2019 (!) plays, was Hauer of the “Replicant” Roy Batty, a robot similar to the murder machine with deeply human traits – so Hero and villain in one. “Blade Runner” was a cult movie and should mean the breakthrough for Hauer in Hollywood.
As the Replicant Roy Batty to the Hollywood Star
Long Rutger Hauer the United States remained faithful, however, his roots were somewhere else. As a point of rest and “be at home” he saw, as he said once, his farm in Friesland in the North of the Netherlands.
Life in the Truck
Often, however, he was not there. Because he traveled a lot, to a location of a location, in many countries. He appeared only rarely in Public. He wanted to make his work, not his Person. Also at the filming locations of the Star was like off. So he converted an old Truck to a motorhome. Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom. And he was like away from the Film hustle and bustle in nature. With the motorcycle he drove back in the morning for the filming location, and in the evening.
“Film is my life,” he once said in one of his rare Interviews. “But you have to be not of this world dominate.” Hauer used his travel, as he said, to have a look around. And then he was looking for projects he could help with his Foundation for HIV-infected children and mothers.
Restless, he was, by the way, as a 15-Year-old. He dropped out of school, took the duffel bag out and hired. In the parents ‘ house in Amsterdam, the four children were placed mostly on themselves. The parents had shown little interest in their children, recalled Hauer once. He returned after a year at sea, worked and ended up at drama school.
Conveyor Verhoeven
1969 galloped, the previously unknown actor, then as a knight, “Floris” in the Dutch living room. The TV series was a Mega-success, and also marked a turning point in the history of film. It is the beginning of a very successful collaboration of Director Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Elle”), screenwriter Gerard Soeteman and Hauer was.
Director Paul Verhoeven worked for decades with Rutger Hauer
The next success of the trio’s Turkish delight”, 1973 – the most successful Dutch movie ever was “. The passionate love story of the rebellious pair, Olga and Erik, the lifestyle of an entire Generation of met. For the prudish America, however, the very explicit Sex scenes were “still 20 years later shockin”, as he remembered, grinning. But Hollywood was on the tall Dutchman, with the Sex Appeal to the attention of – “Turkish delight” was nominated for an Oscar.
A few years later, the next hero role, followed, again directed by Verhoeven: “The soldier of orange” about a resistance fighter in the Second world war, once again a huge success.
Hollywood called
Now Hauer made the jump to Hollywood. Movies was his life. “It creates a world,” he said once, “there is, however, exactly in this Moment a reality.” He starred in over 100 films, including the remains, also in many B-movies. “I always wanted to show all facets of my skills,” he said. However, particularly in the USA, they wanted to see him often as the Evil – as in the Action-Thriller “night hawks” with Sylvester Stallone or in “Hitcher, the Highway Killer”. To him it was no matter, he once said, whether he should play a villain or a hero. “For me, it’s about the character.”
Rutger Hauer 2015 at the film festival in Venice
Now Hauer died after a short illness on 19. July in his home in the North of the Netherlands, in the Frisian village of Beetsterzwaag. He was 75 years old.
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