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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 https:/
by ausudhz 4y ago
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 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
- tekknik 4y agoNotice how you ignored the work required. While the story is critical, it is not at all the most amount of work in creating a movie. Many people have stories, few have the resources required to film and produce the movie.
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- stjohnswarts 4y agodownvotes I see. Doesn't surprise me at all, y'all are a greedy bunch.
- duxup 4y agoHe didn’t make a movie, just sold his story. A movie costs a lot more.
- pugets 4y agoLesson learned: Always take the royalties deal.
- ekianjo 4y agoif you end up poor after receiving 250k, 1M wont change anything in how you end up
- ispo 4y agoExactly what I was going to write. Path dependency and mental health constrained his choices into an infeasible trajectory, e.g. when the Belgian opportunity.
- ausudhz 4y agoSo lets leave him in the airport right.
- josefx 4y agoHe wasn't stuck at the airport because of money. He refused to accept new travel documents unless they came with a full British citizenship.
- ispo 4y agoI appreciate your point of view and concerns, but this is not about an institution not delivering according to certain human values that everyone deserves, this is about multiple interactions letting someone stuck and with little options for exiting, the lesson here is that in such extreme cases don't expect human values to appear from out of the blue, and grab any option to escape the Trap.
- achow 4y agoWhat you are proposing is royalty payment.. if movie does well payback goes up as well. Have you considered the fact that if he was given a choice of royalty payment (for ex. 10K advance and rest royalty) vs $250K cold hard cash, which one he would have opted for anyway? I know what I would have opted if I was in his situation.
- tomcam 4y agoThe way movies work, you don’t know how much you’ll make in advance. That picture could easily have lost money.
- ausudhz 4y agoYou have a budget, you know that, right? 60 mil budget, they could've increased easily to lets say 61 or 65 and let this guy pocket the difference (1 to 5 mil)
- tomcam 4y agoMovie budgets don’t just magically grow, you know that, right?
- ausudhz 4y agoSo tell me about it, magic internet user. What if the stars that got paid millions would've instead cut their own profit for a small amount (eg. 100k) each, that would've provided the man with a reasonable amount of money, while at the same time they wouldn't even feel the difference. If really there was any budget constraint.