Sophie Okonedo ... Tatiana Rusesabagina Hotel Rwanda tackles one of the most dreadfully ugly events in recent history. I believe that this conflict in the 90’s marked one of the bloodiest chapters in African History. Based on a true story‚ director Terry George’s war-time drama is set in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigah during 1994 civil genocide. Rwanda erupted with genocidal rage after the country’s Hutu president was assassinated. The Hutus blamed the murder on the hated Tutsi minority and took
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of the movie were Don Cheadle‚ who plays Paul Rusesabagina the hotel manager‚ Sophie Okonedo‚ who plays Tatiana Rusesabagina‚ Paul’s wife‚ and Nick Nolte who plays Colonel Oliver‚ the United Nations peacekeeper. I watched this movie about a week ago on July 27th with a few of my friends who are also taking this course. The movie is not part of a series‚ but it is based on a true story. It is inspired by the novel An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina and Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an
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hatred toward the Tutsi was encouraged and supported through the radio. Fighting‚ killing and opposition had been going on for several years‚ and when a new president signs a peace treaty to put the insane turbulence to an end‚ he is murdered. Paul Rusesabagina is a hotel manager at the nicest and most colorful hotel in their city of Rwanda. When news of the president reaches‚ European guests and staff leave the hotel to not be involved with the weeks that will worsen for the injustice to the Tutsis.
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example from the film is an exchange between Colonel Oliver of the United Nations‚ based on the real-life Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the UNAMIR peace keeping force‚ and Rusesabagina. When Colonel Oliver and his troops are escorting foreign visitors safely from the hotel to the airport and Rusesabagina asks why they will not take Rwandans as well‚ Oliver responds‚ “You’re dirt. We think you’re dirt‚ Paul… The West. All the super powers. Everything you believe in‚ Paul. They think you’re
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bodies that were stacked like potatoes and being eaten by dogs (Raymont 2005). In Hotel Rwanda the atrocities are on full display‚ with scenes like Rusesabagina driving on a road littered with dead bodies and with the Red Cross volunteer detailing the Hutu plan to kill Tutsi children to wipe out the next generation. Another shocking scene was when Rusesabagina met with Rutaganda‚ and Rutaganda earnestly expressed a desire to kill every single Tutsi. When justifying intervention‚ theorist Michael Walzer
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massacre that took place while the world looked away. "Hotel Rwanda" is not the story of that massacre. It is the story of a hotel manager who saved the lives of 1‚200 people by being‚ essentially‚ a very good hotel manager. The man is named Paul Rusesabagina‚ and he is played by Don Cheadle as a man of quiet‚ steady competence in a time of chaos. This is not the kind of man the camera silhouettes against mountaintops‚ but the kind of man who knows how things work in the real world‚ who uses his skills
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the way “Hotel Rwanda” gives a picture of how the incident happened will be looked at as well. Hotel Rwanda is set in Kigali when there was a chaos in 1994 between the two ethnic groups in Rwanda‚ Hutu and Tutsi. The story itself centers on Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle)‚ a manager of an extravagant Des Mille Collines hotel in Kigali. The problem between the two ethnic groups arises when the Hutu extremists set out a plan to eradicate all the Tutsis in Kigali. The Hutu extremists even propagate the
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Hotel Rwanda‚ released in December of 2004‚ is based on the true story on the life of Paul Rusesabagina‚ a hotel manager of Hotel des Mille Collines‚ who saved the lives of 1‚268 people in the face of genocide. This movie is based on the true events of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 that occurred in Kigali‚ the capital and largest city of Rwanda in Africa. It touches upon when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated an act of genocide on thousands of the minority group‚ Tutsis. This movie was directed/written
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CRITICAL REVIEW We have been given a task to write a critical review on the theme Conflict and Resolution based on the movie screened‚ Hotel Rwanda. This film captures the unimaginable violence of genocide by telling the true story of a person‚ Paul Rusesabagina‚ manager of the Hotel Mille Collines in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali who fights impossible odds to save everyone he can and provide a shelter where hope survives. While the rest of the world closed its eyes‚ Paul opened his heart and proved
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result of the Hutu tribe’s prejudice and discrimination of the Tutsi tribe and the world’s lack of intervention. George’s depiction of the event is less about the massacre itself though because of his choice to portray it from the view of Paul Rusesabagina‚ a Hutu hotel manager married to a Tutsi woman. Mass media hasn’t always been the way it is today. Movies are now one of the most popular forms of entertainment and one of the most efficient ways of sending a message. Terry George had that in
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