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What do you think of what happened in Rwanda? We just got done watching the movie Hotel Rowanda, and it was really sad i can't believe stuff like that is happening around the world today, it's just horrible
This kind of things happen all the time in Africa, it's just that Rwanda was the most horrific of them all. We should try to help Africa as much as we can, but seriously, the Africans have to stop being ignorant and end strife among themselves in order for them to achieve peace and stable development. Outsiders can only do so much.
I just finished watching Hotel Rwanda, and then I did some looking around on the internet, but I can't really find answers to my question.
How different is the movie from what really happened? How much of the movie was Hollywoodized? Did the movie makers change a lot?
Paul's work is dramatized in the 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda in which he is played by Don Cheadle. There are few differences with the actual story.
* Tatiana Rusesabagina was not really angry about Paul putting her and her children on a truck to escape the Hôtel des Mille Collines but was instead sad about the decision - which she nevertheless accepted due to the circumstances. Paul did not make his decision at the last moment, but rather he discussed the matter with Tatiana and the children the night before the attempted evacuation.
* Tatiana was so badly beaten after leaving the hotel 'she lay in bed for two weeks unable to turn herself'.
* Paul and his family did not leave Rwanda immediately after they escaped the Hôtel des Mille Collines.
* "Paul's mother is Tutsi although he and his father are Hutu; the film says he is Hutu with no mention of his mixed background."
* Paul Rusesabagina said in a lecture that the film was "less violent" than the actual genocide, claiming that "you couldn't invite someone to watch the real thing."
I am working on a research paper on the Hotel Rwanda film and I need some ideas and sources.
The movie is based on a true story and real events, but keep in mind the movie is a drama and not a defnite non-fiction documentary. Check out these links for info on accuracy:
HOTEL RWANDA, IM WRITING A REACTION APER
he saw those poor suffering people and being a man he felt responsible.
I watched Hotel Rwanda recently and I thought I had seen one almost exactly like it in one of my Social Studies classes. I know it wasnt the same, though.
There was no Hotel and I remember a scene where they were at a girl's Christian school or something. Same war, too.
i've only seen hotel rwanda so i'm not sure, but it could be one of these two?
sometimes in april
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400063/
shooting dogs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420901/