[applfanboysbgon]

If that wasn't clear, the quote is from the movie, as cited by the news article. The movie is depicting him as an unequivocally evil person. It is essentially a political propaganda piece rewriting a folk hero to condemn him.

[readthenotes1]

Subverting the stories that a culture promotes to encourage "this is who we are" is a time honored way to attack the culture.

Both are, of course, propaganda