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...House’s claim in 1994 that the US had “taken a leading role in efforts to protect the Rwandan people” is the worst lie that administration ever told. Rusesabagina says that most Americans fled the country in the opening days of the slaughter. George masterfully crafts a screenplay that highlights the United States’ complicity...
Three years ago, one-time Harvard crew heavyweight Keir Pearson ’90 learned from a journalist friend how Rusesabagina risked his own life to save hundreds of others from near-certain slaughter. The story piqued the interest of Belfast-born filmmaker Terry George, a one-time Oscar nominee best known for the screenplay In the Name of the Father (1993). George searched for a Hollywood studio that would bring Rusesabagina’s story to the silver screen. But several top Hollywood execs refused to put their money behind the film. “They all thought...
George and MGM couldn’t have picked a more opportune moment to release a film about African genocide. Sudan’s systematic elimination of Black Muslims in Darfur evokes memories of the Rwandan slaughter. But George says the timing of the film’s opening is entirely coincidental—“we made it as fast as we could,” he says. And George rightly notes that “Hotel” is not overtly polemical. “What I wanted to do with the film was let the political...
...Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...
...crowning accomplishment is that he forces his American viewers to finally confront the Rwandan reality. He gives his audience a bit of a free pass by choosing to tone down the most jarring imagery. “You couldn’t replicate what took place in this particular slaughter, because most of it was by machete and was brutal, primitive killing,” he says...