The Terrorgram documents, which include viable instructions for making bombs, tactical and camouflage guides, and instructions on how to disable critical infrastructure such as electrical substations, water treatment plants, and dams, have become radicalized at least one so-called “saint”“, or mass shooter, and are believed to have been linked to a series of attacks on the power grid in North Carolina as well as several active federal prosecutions.
“William Pierce doesn’t make bombs,” Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center told Rolling Stone a quarter-century ago. “He builds bombers.” In many ways, the Terrorgram Collective now fulfills the same role and its publications have become the modern version of Turner's Journals. Broadcast worldwide through the unmoderated wilderness of Telegram, the group's message of hatred and violence now circulates independent of any organized group or ideology for disaffected and unhinged “lone wolves” to cling to as justification for future atrocities .
While The Order remains firmly rooted in the past, except for a passing reference to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in a title card, during production there was no escaping the drumbeat of resurgent far-right activism in the United States. Kurzel, the director, remembers watching news reports about the Jan. 6 insurrection and noticing the gallows erected outside the Capitol building, a drawing of which appears in the book and the exposition scene with the law. “Turner's journals started to become more visible in the current context, in a way that shocked me a bit,” he says, speaking to WIRED from his home in Tasmania. Indeed, after January 6, Amazon removed Turner's journals from its online inventory.
Hoult's courageous portrayal of an icy, controlled but menacing Mathews through the Order's campaign of armed robbery, forgery, murder and armed standoff with the FBI is one of the dual anchors of the film. Besides bearing a striking physical resemblance to the founder of the Silent Brotherhood, Hoult studied his subject closely, imitating Mathews' mannerisms and movements from old documentary footage, studying texts that radicalized his subject, lifting weights and removing weight. alcohol from his diet.
“Mathews was someone who thought and planned so far in advance what his ultimate goal was, I think he always kept it in sight. It's something that Justin and I talked about, that he never “In his mind, he had already, in a way, planned his destiny,” Hoult told WIRED.
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