In this clip from
Bladerunner, Roy (played by Rutger Hauer) is a replicant, a type of robot that is human in every way -- indeed, more than human. He boasts superhuman strength, intelligence, speed: everything except a normal life-span. He is programmed from 'birth' to live only four years before self-destructing. From the point of view of Greek hero cult, we could say that Roy is unseasonable because he has no true season: he was born outside the normal sphere of mortality.
This is an unseasonality that Roy wants desperately to change. Late in the movie, as Roy begins to die (notice the sweat dripping down his face and his generally clammy appearance), Roy manages to trick his way into the apartment of Tyrell, the genius/father who created him -- 'but not to last.' After rejecting claims that Roy could be made 'seasonable' again -- with a human 'termination' date -- Tyrell tells Roy to look at the bright side: the flame that burns half as long burns twice as bright, "and you have burned oh so brightly, Roy. Revel in your time."
In many ways, this encapsulates the archaic conception of kleos, of burning brighter (faster, harder) than anybody else: compare the modern English phrase 'blaze of glory.' The problem is (as Roy bluntly puts it): "Death." Roy is rejecting this world of superhuman kleos: he prefers life, and is desperate to achieve it. During his aristeia--his martial rampage throughout the movie--Roy does amazing, but also 'questionable' things. Superhuman figures are not moral figures: they are extreme, both for good, and for bad, and for the ethically questionable.
Sadly, Roy learns that his quest 'to meet his maker' is futile, and as the movie rushes to its ending, Roy must learn to confront his own too brief mortality, just as Akhilles must confront his impending death.
