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. 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. Noteworthy references The speech appears as the last track on the film's soundtrack album. Its influence can be noted in references and tributes, including: When David Bowie's half-brother Terry Burns died by suicide in 1985, the note attached to the roses that Bowie (a fan of Blade Runner) sent to his funeral read "You've seen more things than we can imagine, but all these moments will be lost, like tears washed away by the rain. God bless you. —David." The 1998 film Soldier, which was written by Blade Runner co-writer David Peoples and is considered by Peoples to be set in the same universe as Blade Runner, features a subtle reference to the scene when Kurt Russell's character is revealed to have fought at the Battle of Tannhauser's Gate. In Tony Scott's 2005 film Domino, Keira Knightley's character has a tattoo on the back of her neck that reads, "Tears in the Rain". This was an homage to his brother Ridley Scott, who directed Blade Runner. Rutger Hauer titled his 2007 autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners. His family quoted the last two sentences of the monologue in his obituary notice. A cold open to the season six premiere of Community sees recurring character Leonard Rodriguez pensively utter the words 'Like tears in rain', after having relived an old schoolyard memory involving a frisbee which then shatters under his grasp. References Blade Runner (franchise) Fiction about death Film scenes Monologues Works about meaning of life he:בלייד ראנר#שער טנהאוזר