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Question: How different is Hotel Rwanda from what really happened!?
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!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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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 H?tel 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 H?tel 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!."Www@QuestionHome@Com