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Line 21: * [[Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence]]: The film depicts the genocide as being a consequence of this logic. * [[Guile Hero]]: Paul. * [[Heroic BSOD]]: Paul has one shortly after {{spoiler\|driving on a road covered with hundreds of mutilated corpses.}}. It's the first moment when he's alone after the genocide begins. ** Colonel Oliver has one when he finds out the U.N. soldiers aren't going to protect the refugees or help them get out of the country. * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: It seems like the horrors Paul witnessed motivated him to become the superhero [[Iron Man 2\|War Machine]]. ** [[Leon]] is Paul's boss at head office in Belgium. * [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: Paul's boss in Belgium, Mr. Tillens, who does what he can to help Paul and the refugees. * [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Subverted; Paul finds his wife and family hiding in a shower, wielding a shower hose as a weapon. He even points out, "What were you going to do with this?!" especially since the water was turned off by that point. * [[It Got Worse]]: Most of the movie, up to the ending. * [[Les Collaborateurs]]: One of Paul's hotel employees is a virulent Hutu partisan who {{spoiler\|tells the militia about the location of the Tutsi refugees.}}. * [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: There's lots of bonus material if you buy even the [[Vanilla Edition]], though, including [[DVD Commentary]] by the real Paul Rusesabagina himself. * [[Police Are Useless]]: The United Nations soldiers, but not by choice. Line 36 ⟶ 34: * [[Scary Black Man]] * [[Sword Drag]]: The Hutu militia does this, sliding their machetes against the ground while closing in on the Tutsi refugees. * [[Take a Third Option]]: Given the choice between shooting the Tutsi refugees or being shot himself, Paul instead {{spoiler\|bribes the soldier holding him at gunpoint into releasing them.}}. * [[Take That]]: {{quote\|'''Jack''': ''"I think if people see this footage, they'll say oh my God, that's horrible. And then they'll go on eating their dinners."'' }} * [[Thanatos Gambit]]: It's theorized that the assassinated President Habyarimana did this so it would give his followers an excuse for committing the genocide (which was ~~pre-planned~~preplanned). The movie takes this angle. * [[Wham! Line]]: {{quote\|'''George Rutaganda''': ''"Cut the tall trees. [[It Got Worse\|Cut the tall trees now!]]"'' }} * [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide]]: The UN refused to call it a genocide, despite obvious evidence that the Tutsi population was being massacred. Definitely a cowardly form of [[Loophole Abuse]]. ** The [[Insistent Terminology]] on the part of the US government, the UN, etc., was a lot more cynical than it seems on face. International law on genocide requires all parties to intervene to prevent or punish genocide. If they called it genocide, they'd have to do something about it. {{reflist}} Line 49 ⟶ 47: [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:Hotel Rwanda]] [[Category:Film]]