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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

Was it to much to give, lets say, even 1 million to this guy? It would've been less unfair at the very least.

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if you end up poor after receiving 250k, 1M wont change anything in how you end up

Exactly what I was going to write. Path dependency and mental health constrained his choices into an infeasible trajectory, e.g. when the Belgian opportunity.

So lets leave him in the airport right.

He wasn't stuck at the airport because of money. He refused to accept new travel documents unless they came with a full British citizenship.

I 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.

He didn’t make a movie, just sold his story.

A movie costs a lot more.

The way movies work, you don’t know how much you’ll make in advance. That picture could easily have lost money.

You 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)

Movie budgets don’t just magically grow, you know that, right?

So 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.

If the stars don't make millions, then I'm guessing the stars would just go shine somewhere else.

Analysis: true

What 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.

Lesson learned: Always take the royalties deal.

I 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.

How is this 'fucking him over'? He got paid 250k for basically existing in a certain location.

I 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.

You 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

Notice 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.

downvotes I see. Doesn't surprise me at all, y'all are a greedy bunch.

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