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Crazy story. One man die poor while an Hollywood elite made millions from his own story. Great way to tell how unfair this world is. May he rest in peace.
by ausudhz 4y ago
Crazy story. One man die poor while an Hollywood elite made millions from his own story.
Great way to tell how unfair this world is.
May he rest in peace.
- tnorthcutt 4y agoHe was paid $250,000 for the rights to his story.
- ausudhz 4y agoThat definitely changed his life as you can see from the story With 250k you can't even buy a decent apartment in a decent area in Paris
- PKop 4y agoMaybe he could have lived outside of Paris where the real estate is cheaper, or gone back to Iran. It sounds like he wasted 18 years of his life.
- ausudhz 4y agoJust read the story, he was there in search of his mom. Why would you want to send him back to Iran? Ya he could've gone anyone and live as hermit, but this doesn't make the story less unfair. He has gotten way less compared to what he has generated for the movie industry.
- PKop 4y ago>Why would you want to send him back to Iran? Well I meant that he would willingly want to do so himself instead of living in an airport. But as to why France would want to? Because they don't want this guy living in their airport, and he's Iranian that's his home. He could have a real life there. I think it's fair to be handed a check while other people make the movie, it's a good chunk of money. If he didn't have skills to allow him to earn money to afford a real apartment along with the movie money, yes he should have "been a hermit" in a smaller village or gone back to Iran. It's a ridiculous story to live in an airport for 18 years, he was a hermit there too.
- josefx 4y ago> Just read the story, he was there in search of his mom. You mean in the section following his (short lived) claims that he was actually Swedish?
- bigyikes 4y agoIf I tried to sell my story, I wouldn’t even be able to buy a tent with the proceeds. Maybe 250k isn’t such a bad deal for the rights to his story.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoTo be fair, the story for you, me, and everyone else on this site is just the show "Silicon Valley"
- tekknik 4y agoHardly. Some of us are things like protected wartime veterans. This is one of the more shallow insights I’ve seen on HN recently, and is quite offensive.
- ausudhz 4y agoThe fact that your story is worthless doesn't mean that a multimillion dollar story can be bought at 250k Just saying
- ekianjo 4y agothere is no multimillion dollar story before the movie is actually out.
- ausudhz 4y agoThere's if they're willing to invest 60 mil for the movie...
- Tor3 4y agoThere are lots and lots of movies which invested that and more and lost big time. Some of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bom...
- nnoitra 4y ago
- ekianjo 4y agoWhy do you need to live in Paris?
- ausudhz 4y agoWhy not?
- coffeeblack 4y agoGP already told you why not.
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- josefx 4y agoQuite sure that most people couldn't afford a decent apartment in Paris.
- sofixa 4y ago> With 250k you can't even buy a decent apartment in a decent area in Paris Paris itself no, but in the metropolitan area (where most people actually live), 250k€ gets you a nice appartament in a nice city well connected to Paris. Especially 20 years ago's 250k€.
- ThePadawan 4y agoIn case the first sentence is sarcastic: According to the BBC, he used the 250k to move out of the airport [0]. He moved back to the terminal a few weeks ago before dying there. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017
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- TheHappyOddish 4y agoIn 2003? I'm willing to bet you could have.
- nephanth 4y agoAt 10k a square meter, you get 25m^2. Not huge, but for a single person, I've seen people living in less than half that, and it's still better than an airport
- ausudhz 4y agoTo 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 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.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI mean it's just the way "pure capitalists" think. "It's okay if I fuck over this guy because I gave him -some- money for it". If you make me rich with something I bought off you (patent, book, something you dug up), I'm going to make you rich back. I may not give you half but I'll give you a chonk and not a rounding error, especially if you're destitute.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoHow is this 'fucking him over'? He got paid 250k for basically existing in a certain location.
- eric__cartman 4y agoI agree. It's not like 95% of the work to make a movie like that comes from thinking about a good story to base it on. Once you have a story like that, most of the effort is yet to come until you can see a fully produced movie on cinema screens. And 250k should be a life changing amount of money to someone in that situation if they really wanted to get out of it.
- ausudhz 4y agoYou clearly have no idea what are you talking about. Outside of the popcorn movies, 90% of a proper movie are the stories behind. All bio movie have a powerful story to tell... Not the always available Hollywood plot: world in danger -> bad guy to fight -> Americans to save the world -> we'll live in peace and prosperity
- taylorius 4y agoHello business class lounge!
- ngcc_hk 4y agoLots of movie does not make money. And ask all those actors and actress not making it. It is not that millionaire you should shoot at as arts need to be paid. It could be the 1% or 0.1% should pay back to the society. Not the 10%. The society need innovation and competition and money to drive this.
- ausudhz 4y ago
- fastball 4y agoMost people don't get paid at all when a movie is loosely based on their life, I'd say Spielberg was very fair to him.