Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
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- Récompensé par 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 victoire et 4 nominations au total
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People may want to read the book "Raven" which is a biography about Rev. Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple; this TV movie can only scratch the surface of the demonic goings-on in the Temple without demanding more censorship than a TV show could allow, at least back then.
Boothe is hypnotic as Jim Jones and you get the sense that he wasn't always whacked out and loony. A particularly good scene is when Jones stands in front of an abandoned synagogue in the black-ghetto part of town. The only white man there, he's soon surrounded by obviously skeptical blacks. "Will you pray with me?" Jones asks, and the bystanders do as Jones gives a heartfelt prayer that God will lift their burdens. The bystanders are impressed and in a short time the Peoples Temple is prospering.
Boothe perfectly recreates the candence and timbre of Jones' preaching and phony faith-healing and his lustful disposition towards the women of his congregation. Jones's sexual exploits don't end there and he later has an affair with drug-addicted Brad Dourif, as well (in fact, Jones had sex with plenty of his male followers). The end of the movie where the cult members all commit suicide is very frightening. All the more so because nearly all of the dialogue is exactly what was spoken---Jones had been tape recording his harangues and the tape ended probably not long before he was killed himself. By the way, Jones never took the cynanide-laced kool-aid, he was shot which led many to believe that Jones had no intention of going off into the hereafter but was planning his escape when one of henchmen decided to have Jones join his "flock".
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- AnecdotesThe song that the choir sings, "Welcome", is a song from an actual recording of the real People's Temple Choir.
- GaffesThe guards' AK assault rifles have blank firing adapters attached to the muzzles.
- Citations
Rev. Jim Jones: ...Father, you were forced to leave New York. Why?
Father Divine: We were becoming too strong. They were frightened.
Rev. Jim Jones: How do you sustain a movement like this one?
Father Divine: How did Moses sustain his flock?
Rev. Jim Jones: What of the cost?
Father Divine: Ask and you shall receive, my son.
Rev. Jim Jones: And as for worldly possessions?
Father Divine: Sustenance of whatever kind our Heavenly Father requires.
Rev. Jim Jones: ...Sometimes, the women in my flock tempt me. What shall I do about that?
Father Divine: It's your duty - your religious obligation - to bring such desires to the surface, so that you can eliminate those desires. Remember, Mary wasn't a virgin either.
Rev. Jim Jones: ...You've given a whole new world to me, Father.
Father Divine: As it should be, so let it be, my son.
Rev. Jim Jones: Do you truly believe that you're God?
Father Divine: I don't have to say that I'm God, and I don't have to say that I'm NOT God. Millions of people CALL me God, and millions more call me the Devil. But I don't say that I'm God, and I don't say that I'm the Devil. But I *produce* God and, in doing so, shake the earth.
Rev. Jim Jones: Thank you for your time, Father.
- Crédits fous"The film you are about to see is a dramatization of the life of Jim Jones. Born - May 13, 1931 Lynn, Indiana - Died - November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana. This is his story."
- ConnexionsAlternate-language version of Guyana : La Secte de l'enfer (1979)
- Bandes originalesWelcome
Performed by the People's Temple Choir
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Détails
- Durée3 heures 12 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1