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The Terminal
2004 · Film · 128 min
Directed by Steven Spielberg
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
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Inception and Tenet both do not follow this (you can try and stretch Cobb's narrative _a bit_ there but "in familiar situation and now not" is definitely not the thing).
Harry Potter is not this.
Despite what you might think, I think most Marvel movies don't really follow this! Sometimes a single character follows this and they end up being the tragic character.
Not a movie but I think we get to Romeo & Julliet and this doesn't work.
Jurassic Park is not this. Terminator is not this. The Terminal is not this.
Avatar _is_ this I think! Kind of.
Im not sure it's comparable. I thought the backstory for living in an airport is something along the lines of the story of the movie:
"The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States and at the same time is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup."[0]
If you were able to come and go, you would just technically be homeless with the unknown benefit to stay in airport for 20 years.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal
Frankly:
> His autobiography has been published as a book and he may have been the basis for the movie The Terminal.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri.html?id=VaasMQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
To put that into perspective the budget for the movie was 60 million and they earned 220 at the box office
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal
Was it to much to give, lets say, even 1 million to this guy? It would've been less unfair at the very least.
> His saga inspired The Terminal starring Tom Hanks, and a French film.
“May your journey inspire a Tom Hanks movie” is a horrible curse.
From his Wikipedia article, I imagine this book provided some income as well:
> In 2004 Nasseri's autobiography, The Terminal Man,[6] was published. It was co-written by Nasseri with British author Andrew Donkin and was reviewed in The Sunday Times as being "profoundly disturbing and brilliant".[9]
Hopefully he also received some money from the 2004 Tom Hanks movie which used an adaptation of his story to earn $219 million on a budget of $60 million.
For context his primary stay in the airport was until 2006, it seems he returned at a later date (recent weeks?)
[9]: https://archive.ph/fYXf0
Wow. Bold take. I don't agree. I think you are conflating choice with quality.
There is more music now. There are more games. There are more TV shows. The reason people cant name a single Kanye song, which I find to be a dubious claim at best, is because their options are not limited to the top 10 artists that the radio plays anymore. They can listen to whatever they want on spotify.
If I'm still listening to The Who and Kanye in 20 years its because I like The Who and Kanye. Not because no new music of quality has been released. Young people love their shitty new music just how I loved my shitty new music that my parents didnt understand.
Pokemon and the yearly EA titles (COD or any sports games) are the closet 1:1's that exist in gaming to the weather channel and cnn. They are just good enough that people will keep paying for them and nothing more.
I watched The Forgotten and The Terminal about 20 times a piece growing up. Why? Because its the two dvds that we owned that were not absolute ass. There are certainly worse movies out there but there are a lot of better ones too. Especially after watching Tom Hanks eat a mustard and cracker sandwich gets old.
Less choices doesnt equal higher quality. More choices doesnt equal higher quality. But it does mean I have more to pick from and of all the choices I have now I'm positive I can find something better than what I grew up with.
Check out Youtube's Free with Ads movies. Seriously. They've got a good selection of great movies (especially comedies) from the 80s and 90s on there.
Naked Gun series, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, Idiocracy, The Terminal, Major League, Top Secret!, Hot Shots!, Beavis and Butthead Do America, The Terminator, Delirious, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Captain Ron (crap, it's not free anymore), original Robocop, Secret of Nimh, Ghost, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Silence of the Lambs, Teen Wolf, to name a few.
It's a smaller selection and they don't seem to stay Free for more than a few months, so you have to keep checking it, but there's some good stuff on there.
> Literature, fiction and cinema are all full of similar tales (not all in mountain scenarios) and so I expect that this "ability" is part of being human.
Cast Away with Tom Hanks is an example of that. Not sure if The Terminal or Into The Wild or Martyrs also had that concept, but it would've fit.
I wonder if (extreme) trauma can cause people to become so-called 'paranormal'.
Sounds familiar [1]:
> The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film... about an Eastern European man who becomes stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal
You're probably right. "The Terminal" is still a wonderful feel-good movie though. "Medicine for goat" :-D
You read these headline grabbing stories, also like the one about the couple stranded in Tahiti during this virus, or the original actual guy behind "The Terminal" movie -- and you usually find out that the story is almost always one of bad judgement combined with somewhat unusual circumstances that they aren't trying to avoid like a normal person would.
Sometimes the news tries to make it seem like they were unwitting victims who slipped through the cracks and are lost in the system. But no, they're actively acting pretty dumb too. Not much life lesson to be learned from these cases, just spectator sport.
This guy is wanted for assault, was in Vietnam, hmm? He'd be lucky if anyone wanted to make a movie out of it.
The movie is The Terminal. Supposedly based on this person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
Interestingly, there's also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_at_airports
There is a movie that loosely related to this, The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks. I'd say it was a pretty good movie, I liked it.
The man this article is about also wrote a book, but I can't thing of the title off the top of my head.
The Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" seems rather relevant here.
You're parting hairs and completely missed Snowden's point: that the US government has slickly put him in limbo. He either turns himself in or ends up like the guy in the Tom Hanks movie, Terminal.
My answer to the Stack Exchange question. (Never 100% sure what discussion to add in a post which points to another discussion site...)
There's a good article to answer your question on the Washington Post website [1]:
All those jokes comparing Snowden’s case to the Tom Hanks film “The Terminal”? They have a distinctly unromantic basis in the life of Iranian Mehran Karimi Nasseri [2], who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years after Iran expelled him.
[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/26/heres-what-happens-to-asylum-seekers-who-stay-in-airport-limbo-indefinitely/?tid=rssfeed
[2]: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0621/p11s02-almo.html
Right, he's in the international transit area, so not officially "in Russia", despite being within Russian territory. (There was that stupid movie The Terminal with Tom Hanks which might be relevant here...)
Why the down-modding? His comment isn't even relevant.
> Not only is this chick completely irresponsible, but this "trip" is a joke.
The 'chick' that spent her last bit of money on plane ticket was someone that the two creators of that site met on a plane trip, not someone who is embarking on this journey. If you're referring to the two creators of that site, then how is this 'experiment' (though I use the term loosely) irresponsible?
> He's going to be living in an airport for a month, all for what? No one cares about people who live in airports, nor do they care about the fascinating lives of airplane passengers.
The popularity of the movie 'The Terminal' (and somewhat similarly 'Catch Me If You Can' -- strangely enough also starring Tom Hanks) indicates otherwise.
> social networking media web 2.0 garbage
What does this site have to do with social networking? They are planning on doing something, then blogging about it, and possibly being popular enough to earn some advertising revenue. The cherry on top would be endorsement money from JetBlue. I fail to see how that is 'social networking' anymore than the rest of the web.
That comment added nothing to the discussion, other than a poorly formed 'get off my lawn' opinion. If all it takes to gain popularity on HN is copping a curmudgeonly attitude, then we're starting to go downhill in my opinion.
"Mr. Gervasi, whose studio writing credits include “The Terminal, directed by Steven Spielberg". Top marks for getting his, or any sort of movie made, but he could hardly be described as an indy filmmaker in the true sense of the word - an outsider creating their work without the backup, and especially the contacts, from within the mainstream industry.
This does show how the movie industry is changing beyond the comprehension of most people working within it. I say this after working in features production for nearly 20 years.
His other other movie, Lord of War, was also pretty good. It does involve entrepreneurship. The Terminal, his other other other movie, was ok, but no hacking. I haven't seen his other other other other movie, S1m0ne.