The true story of "Waco" is still controversial.

Twenty-five years ago this spring, the sky 13 miles northeast of Waco, Texas, was full of siege anger. When the smoke cleared, more than 70 people died.

After the accusation and counterclaim, from the congressional hearing to the court case. There are also some TV movies about David Kores, the leader of a religious organization called "David Tribe" and the besieger of ATF and FBI.

Perhaps the most detailed movie version is the mini series that premiered on Paragraph Network last week. Spike TV did not appear until recently.

Waco has an impressive cast, including Taylor's cliche "Friday night lights" sports pilot frame and mullet Kores. In contrast, two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon is Gary Northner, head of the crisis negotiation department of the FBI. Other actors include "Super Girl" Melissa benoit, who is one of collis's wives, and Kamlin Mannheim of The Book of Practice is the mother of a pod member.

The premiere attracted11/million viewers, which was the success of a small cable TV network in the first week of its new name. In the demo of Target 18-49, it links the episode of the more widely known "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: An American Crime Story" on the same night.

Early comments on this mini-play exaggerated its historical accuracy-almost a mistake. The Guardian called it "reenactment rather than dramatization, presenting these characters and images without exceeding their actual views." A writer of Forbes said, "The ultimate pain feels more like a history lesson than a drama." "* * *" said it was a "subtle summary of events" and painted a large, some people say too much, sympathetic portrait of Kores and his followers.

Filmmakers adapted this series of siege from the inside out based on two books-2065438+00 Procrastination in NoEsna: My Life as a Hostage Negotiator of the FBI and 1999 A Place called Waco: The Story of the Survivor of David Tibeto, one of the nine branches of David Tibeto. In Ll Cool King's series of works, Thibaudeau is depicted.

These books, as well as other interviews in the preparation process, are aimed at showing more about people living in the pound area and the tragic quarrel between ATF and the FBI.

"People talk about' David collis has done all these terrible things, and David collis feels this way about him,'" said John Eric Dauder, who wrote the mini-play with his brother Drew Dauder. (It is believed that Kores has repeatedly admitted child abuse and law enforcement in the pound, not to mention the illegal arsenal that ostensibly surrounds the pound. "But we never thought,' So, what about other innocent people there? Who is a good person who tries to live an active and correct life? ""

The Dauder brothers have made big-screen thrillers such as Nowhere to Run and The Devil before, starting with the behind-the-scenes story of Kores. There's a lot to say,

Born in Vernon Howell, Kores is a single mother aged 14. She was severely abused as a child, had learning disabilities and was bullied at school. Before Kores was born, his father abandoned his family for another teenage girl. His mother began to live with an alcoholic.

Howell became a born-again Christian and joined his mother's Seventh Day Adventist Church. Before he was fired for wanting to marry the priest's little daughter,

He eventually joined a branch of the Davidian Sect, a Waco separatist cult developed by the Seventh-day Adventists of the Davidian Sect, and finally took over the organization after a series of violent incidents. He changed his name to David Coles in 1990, which means not only King David, but also Coles is a name in the Bible. Well, I finally called them. For some reason, it keeps pressing me.

In the early morning of that Sunday, 78 automatic transmission oil (ATF) agents and a convoy of 80 cars arrived at the shelter. The raid was not cancelled. At that time, people thought it was obvious that David's detachment received a tip-off from a news car and asked them for directions. The cult is preparing for a raid.

The question of who fired the first shot has been debated. Some ATF agents said they heard gunshots within a pound. Another thought that the agent's gun accidentally went off. But the plot of the mini-play is like this: the first shot was shot by the agent at the pet dog.

It starts at 9:45 am and ends at 165438+ 0:30 am. Four ATF agents were killed and 16 people were injured. The fifth place was killed later that day. Five members of the Edgeworth Beresford David detachment were killed. This is the longest gunfight in American law enforcement history. Cease fire only because federal agents are out of ammunition.

The siege consumed most of the content of the third episode of the mini-play. The tense confrontation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which took over the business of * * * *, lasted for 5 1 day, which finally led to the tear gas attack in April of 19 and the doomsday fire in which 76 people, including Kores, were killed.

The internal investigation of the Ministry of Justice concluded in 2000 that the fire started from the inside; Other explanations, including Alex Jones, a little-known conspirator at that time, said in the film The American Awakening in 2000 that this was caused by * * *.

It remains to be seen how to deal with the aftermath of the fire, who started the fire and whether it was set by cultists, as part of the ending of violence and biblical inspiration-only three episodes were provided to the media in advance. However, according to the original data, Thibaudeau insisted that the Davis branch did not spontaneously ignite, as stated in the report of the Ministry of Justice in 2000. NoEsna left Waco three weeks before the air raid, and after saving 35 people (mainly children) from the pound, the argument was speechless.

Many of Waco's main roles are based on real people, including Korean captain Steve Schneider (paul sparks), local radio celebrity Ron Engeman (eric lange) and British lawyer Wayne Martin (Demo Barnes). But the role played by John Lekizamo-an ATF agent who moved next door to a shelter-is called Jacob Vazquez, not robert rodriguez. He's an ATF undercover agent.

Regarding whether this tragedy can be avoided, Sibudu said that he thought collis "may have a reason".

"In the whole process of knowing him, he" has always been a reasonable person, "Tibbodo said of Kores. I think what happened was that ATF screwed up on the first day. Then the FBI came, and there was a deep misunderstanding. Both sides felt cheated. In this 5 1 day, there are press conferences every day, and people call us cults and demonize us every day.

Sibudu said that controlling the information outside means that "the people inside are forgotten, they are just crazy cult leaders, and they deserve it." This is really too bad.

As a negotiator, NoEsna hopes that Kores will break some of his promises, which is a normal part of the negotiation process. But "in Waco, our field and tactical commanders treat these behaviors in a very negative way," he said. "Then they will take action, which will be the only thing for David. So this is a very complicated tragedy.

To put it bluntly, describing Koresh "to tell the truth, it was a difficult learning experience." I have never played such a game, and I have never played such a close game.

But even though he did so much research, he studied tapes, recruitment materials and literary works, kitsch said. "I'll never have an answer to some things, and I don't think any of us will."

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