When I first saw this movie, I thought Gregoire was going to have a redemption arc. Like after he saw the dead bodies on the road, he would be horrified into becoming a loyal supporter of Paul at the Hotel. I was surprised to find it had the opposite effect.
@TheStapleGunKid I think Gregoire betrayed Paul because of the offer Rutaganda gave Paul about the prostitutes. I think Gregoire was Hoping to get some himself.
Not sure whether this happened to Georges, but it did happen to another genocidal maniac like him, one Gregoire Kayibanda. While the latter was president, he took a military man with only ONE year of schooling and promoted him thru the ranks from private to General within 10 years. As if that wasn’t enough, he also appointed him minister of defense and chief of the secret police. Once comfortably installed, that same general overthrew Gregoire, took his job as president, then locked him up along with his wife and starved both to death. The end.
He forced him back to work as a favor to his friend Rusesabagina. The genocide was launched on the morning of 4/7/94. Rusesabagina showed up for the 1st time at that hotel *more than a week later* on 4/16. By then a big crowd of refugees was already staying there. The Dutch manager who’d been in charge had left all the keys to the receptionist (“Gregoire”) upon being evacuated along with the other Europeans. The first thing Rusesabagina did when he got to the hotel was to demand the keys from the receptionist. At this point he had nothing to show that he had the authority to take over the hotel’s management. For this reason the receptionist was reluctant to hand over the keys. Rusesabagina was deeply wounded in his ego by this initial challenge from the receptionist; he became obsessed with it and unable to forgive it. He decided to take his revenge in the movie by portraying Gregoire as a corrupt, depraved wreck of a human worse than the genocidal interahamwe themselves. In this clip alone he accuses him of consorting with prostitutes, being a good-for-nothing lazy bum, making genocidal threats laced with racist insults, being a dangerously erratic driver, and attempting to actually murder Rusesabagina. The former receptionist categorically denies all of those accusations, which he considers defamatory.
The genocide was launched on the morning of 4/7/94. Rusesabagina showed up for the 1st time at that hotel *more than a week later* on Saturday 4/16. By then a big crowd of refugees was already staying there safely. The Dutch manager who’d been in charge before the genocide had left all the keys to the receptionist (“Gregoire”) upon being evacuated on Monday 4/11 along with the other Europeans. Prior to Rusesabagina’s arrival, none of the refugees at the hotel had been murdered or harmed. Of course the conditions weren’t ideal but they had food and a tanker truck that brought them water to drink, cook and wash as needed. The first thing Rusesabagina did when he got to the hotel was to demand the keys from the receptionist. At this point he had nothing to show that he had the authority to take over the hotel’s management. For this reason the receptionist was reluctant to hand over the keys. Rusesabagina was deeply wounded in his ego by this initial challenge from the receptionist; he became obsessed with it and unable to forgive it. He decided to take his revenge in the movie by portraying Gregoire as a corrupt, depraved wreck of a human worse than most of the genocidal interahamwe. In this clip alone he accuses him of consorting with prostitutes, being a good-for-nothing liquor-guzzling lazy bum, making genocidal threats laced with racist insults, being a dangerously erratic driver, and attempting to actually kill Rusesabagina. The former receptionist categorically denies those accusations, which he considers defamatory. He has pointed out that the woman he had reserved a large room for was not a prostitute, but a heavily pregnant mother who was with her husband. He has explained that he did it because she needed a private area for her impeding delivery. And she did give birth to her baby in that room thereafter. “Gregoire” now runs his own successful business in Rwanda. He has even made several appearances on Rwandan national TV and other news programs elsewhere. He’s never been indicted for, let alone convicted of, being the murderous Interahamwe the movie so boldly insists he was. No one has come forward to accuse him of anything like that, apart from Rusesabagina. To the contrary, the one who’s on trial for murder is Rusesabagina himself. His victims are crying out for justice. All of that is further indication of how dramatically fictional the movie can be. Mainly because of Rusesabagina’s dishonest manipulations meant to serve his own personal purposes.
@@mongoloidkongloid5489 Not only affiliated. He actually founded it and was its president and main funder. He doesn’t even deny it anymore. Quoted from a recent article: A schoolteacher widowed by the terrorist attack for which Paul Rusesabagina and his colleagues now stand trial, penned an open letter to Rusesabagina’s daughter. “I lost my husband, Fidel Munyaneza on 19 June 2018 when a group of armed infiltrators, who we later came to know were FLN, attacked Nyabimata Sector and went on a killing spree…. My husband’s promising life was cut short by gunshots discharged by the FLN of which your father has admitted to forming. It doesn’t matter now how many excuses you make on his behalf, your father has confessed.” (M. Rubin, “What’s At Stake in Rwanda’s Terror Trial?” 19FortyFive, February 2021)
@@mongoloidkongloid5489 Rusesabagina was never a ‘hero’. His fictional story was simply a money-making scheme to cash in on the genocide. That’s how he went from cab driver (after getting terminated from the hotel) to multimillionaire. The overall events are real; but his role in them is imaginary.
He should be glad you asked. And here’s his answer about what he was thinking and doing -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y1e2hXjxNME.html
short answer- everyone who was not part of the Interhambwe or fighting along side it was targeted for murder, including many Hutus who refused to help.
