<P> The Guardian writer Michael Newton noted that "in one of the film's most brilliant sequences, Roy and Deckard pursue each other through a murky apartment, playing a vicious child's game of hide and seek . As they do so, the similarities between them grow stronger--both are hunter and hunted, both are in pain, both struggle with a hurt, claw - like hand . If the film suggests a connection here that Deckard himself might still at this point deny, at the very end doubt falls away . Roy's life closes with an act of pity, one that raises him morally over the commercial institutions that would kill him . If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can . The white dove that implausibly flies up from Roy at the moment of his death perhaps stretches belief with its symbolism; but for me at least the movie has earned that moment, suggesting that in the replicant, as in the replicated technology of film itself, there remains a place for something human ." </P> <P> The place name Tannhäuser Gate (also written "Tannhauser Gate" and "Tanhauser Gate") is not explained in the film . It possibly derives from Richard Wagner's operatic adaptation of the legend of the medieval German knight and poet Tannhäuser . The term has since been reused in other science fiction sub-genres . </P> <P> Joanne Taylor, in an article discussing film noir and its epistemology, remarks on the relation between Wagner's opera and Batty's reference, and suggests that Batty aligns himself with Wagner's Tannhäuser, a character who has fallen from grace with men and with God . Both man and God, as she claims, are characters whose fate is beyond their own control . </P> <P> The monologue's influence can be noted in numerous references and tributes . Tad Williams pays homage to the Batty monologue in River of Blue Fire (the second book of the Otherland series): "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe (...) Attack ships on the fire off the shores of the Nonestic Ocean . I watched magic blunderbusses flash and glitter in the dark near Glinda's palace . All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain ." </P>

I've seen things you wouldn't believe. attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion