William Blake in popular culture all cited Blake as one of their major inspirations. Comic designer William Blake Everett claims to be descended from Blake. In his film "Mean Streets" (1973), Martin Scorsese refers to Blake's poem "The Tyger" when a young pet tiger makes Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro take refuge atop a couch, paralleling the grit and innocence of life in the city. A variation on a verse from Blake's "America a Prophecy" appears in Ridley Scott's science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982), spoken by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer). This has been interpreted as a way of linking Batty to Blake's mythic
Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon LA, because she has never been there in the first place. Iris is confused, and Deckard points upwards, remarking that "Those aren't the stars you see from Earth." Iris, Deckard, and Rachael depart in Deckard's spinner. Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon is a science fiction novel by American writer K. W. Jeter, published in 2000 by Gollancz. It is the fourth book to continue the storyline of the film "Blade Runner". The book begins with an "out-take" section, written as a movie script, which describes the scene from the original movie in which