No it wouldn't.

I could have sworn I've heard of a similar story before in real news.

I bet they send a deathvan taxi to pick him up at the airport.

I hope he doesn't think he's won by China finally allowing him to re-enter the country. He'll be arrested for some minor infraction or other and then he'll be stuck in prison for the foreseeable future.

While it is the premise of a movie, don't you think "great" is pushing it a bit?

This idea...it is horrible. A bad bad movie.

Man spends 3 months living in an airport terminal because he couldn't enter his own country. Hey, this would make a great movie

No, it wouldn't.
No, it didn't.

The only thing great about that movie was Tom Hanks' performance. He knocked that role out of the park.

I'm pretty surprised that he would rather spend the foreseeable future in a Chinese prison than Tokyo airport terminal. I mean, I knew security had gotten more inconvenient, but since I haven't been on an airplane in 3 years now, I had no idea...

derioderio: I hope he doesn't think he's won by China finally allowing him to re-enter the country. He'll be arrested for some minor infraction or other and then he'll be stuck in prison for the foreseeable future.

I see where you're coming from, but that's still a victory. He forced China to pick the lesser of two PR black eyes.

/ He shot.
// He scowwwwwwed!!

This guy deserves the Hero tag.

China is a beautiful country, except for one thing.

H31N0US: This guy deserves the Hero tag.

China is a beautiful country, except for one thing.

the chinese?

He wants to go back to China and China is pissed at him for being critical of the gov't? He'll be dead disappear under mysterious circumstances pretty soon.

That movie was such a tremendous dissapointment. I'm a big fan of both Hanks and Spielburg and couldn't believe they produced such utter garbage.

Barakku: I could have sworn I've heard of a similar story before in real news.

Yes, there was a different case of a guy living in an airport that got some publicity after the crapfest movie came out. I forget where he was. Someplace weird like kazahkstan.

The only difference is Tom Hanks Didn't get shot in the head at the end of The Terminal.

/Only in the Director's cut.

The movie was based on the story of a Middle Eastern fellow who was stuck at De Gaulle airport in Paris for over a decade. Link (new window)

Do you really give Hollywood that kind of credit for creativity? "The Tooth Fairy", people.

The 'different case' everyone's referring to is the iranian guy that was stuck in the paris airport trying to get to UK from 1988 to 2007 (I think those are the right years). He was expelled from Iran, had refugee status in ... Bulgaria, I think?... and that country won't allow re-entry to refugees who have transferred their refugee status to another country (in this case, UK). He had a stop in paris. His bags were stolen there, but he continued on to UK. The UK refused him entry because he didn't have papers, and he was sent back to paris. Paris courts ruled that he had legally entered the airport, so they couldn't kick him out, but they denied him entry to the country otherwise. Real mess. 15 years later he got sick and went to a hospital, and I think he now lives in some shelter in paris.

npt: The movie was based on the story of a Middle Eastern fellow who was stuck at De Gaulle airport in Paris for over a decade. Link (new window)

Do you really give Hollywood that kind of credit for creativity? "The Tooth Fairy", people.

Guess I type too slo :)

xaks: The only thing great about that movie was Tom Hanks' performance. He knocked that role out of the park.

And Katherine Zeta Zones? All she has to do is show up in high heels and it is a great performance. As a matter of fact, I would fap to watch a movie of just her strutting around in high heels.

defiancecp: The 'different case' everyone's referring to is the iranian guy that was stuck in the paris airport trying to get to UK from 1988 to 2007 (I think those are the right years). He was expelled from Iran, had refugee status in ... Bulgaria, I think?... and that country won't allow re-entry to refugees who have transferred their refugee status to another country (in this case, UK). He had a stop in paris. His bags were stolen there, but he continued on to UK. The UK refused him entry because he didn't have papers, and he was sent back to paris. Paris courts ruled that he had legally entered the airport, so they couldn't kick him out, but they denied him entry to the country otherwise. Real mess. 15 years later he got sick and went to a hospital, and I think he now lives in some shelter in paris.

This is why I don't understand the problem with what to do with many of the Gitmo detainees. The Bushies tell us crap like the home country won't accept "so-and-so." Yeah? And the point being? Put their ass on a plane for their home country and off it goes. If it gets to the airport and they don't let him out of it then so be it. Let the former detainee sit in the airport and be the problem there and not here.

Getting into China is not what he should be worried about. Getting out of China is going to be the problem.

he'll end up in Bodies: The Exhibit

LemSkroob: H31N0US: This guy deserves the Hero tag.

China is a beautiful country, except for one thing.

the chinese?

Partial Credit.

Sticky Hands: H31N0US: This guy deserves the Hero tag.

China is a beautiful country, except for one thing.


The half buried garbage everywhere?

As opposed to the US? My first impression of Shanghai was how dirty the subways were in comparison to Hong Kong's. Then I thought about it, and realized they were still much cleaner than NYC's.

Communist China gave him permission to come home.....


guess we won't be hearing from him again.........

spacechicken170am: I bet they send a deathvan taxi to pick him up at the airport.



now THAT is service!

lol

It COULD have made for a great movie.
Unfortunately it made for the worst Tom Hanks movie ever.

/evar!

How the hell can you live in an airport like that? Wouldn't your money run out?

danielscissorhands: It COULD have made for a great movie.
Unfortunately it made for the worst Tom Hanks movie ever.

/evar!

Worse then Castaway?!

I hate it when people camp on Terminal

/enemy AC-130 above

It would make a great movie as long as they didn't throw a stupid pointless love story in the middle of it.

Did he get to nail Catherine Zeta Jones?

ThusSpokeKayvon: I hate it when people camp on Terminal

/enemy AC-130 above

Right in the tail of the plane :P

ThusSpokeKayvon: I hate it when people camp on Terminal

/enemy AC-130 above

Right in the tail of the plane :P

I hate terminal. So I run around with the grenade launcher/scavenger blowing crap up.

Yeah, I'm that guy. :p

This dude's been living on terminal food for 3 months? He's probably so gassy that he could have powered his own plane. That's a horrible way to live. I want to die after just a few hours of that.

He wants to go back with the government knowing he is a dissident? Yeah, we'll be hearing from him again.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz
SFW (new window)

treesloth: This dude's been living on terminal food for 3 months? He's probably so gassy that he could have powered his own plane. That's a horrible way to live. I want to die after just a few hours of that.

FTFA: Staying in a restricted area near immigration control, Feng had no access to vending machines or a food court and survived on food and clothes provided by tourists passing by. He used a sink inside a restroom to wash himself.
"After staying here for more than 90 days, I kind of miss this place," said Feng, wearing a black sweat suit donated by a supporter. But now he is ready to leave, Feng said.

"I want to take a bath," he said. "That's what I want to do as soon as I leave here."

Gawd, could you imagine sitting next to him on the plane to Shanghai? Vomit.

eddyatwork: How the hell can you live in an airport like that? Wouldn't your money run out?

What could he possibly have spent money on? He was denied access to the food court. Just what could he have spent money on other maybe he had to pay to use the bathroom.. All in all, sounds similar to most Greyhound bus terminals..Bums begging for money from passengers.
All the guy had to do was simply clear customs in Japan, but he refused so we get a news media story out of a non event. Perfect Fark material.

Everyone realizes that The Terminal was based on a real story in the first place, right?

A completely depressing one, where the lawyer working pro bono for the guy eventually got him the right to live in Belgium but he was so out of it from years living in the airport that he's just mentally shot?

Wiki.

Nasseri was expelled from Iran in 1977 for protests against the Shah and after a long battle, involving applications in several countries, was awarded refugee status by the United Nations High Commission for refugees in Belgium. This permitted residence in any European country.

Having claimed to have one British parent, although he has produced no evidence to support this, he decided to settle in the UK in 1986, but en route to there in 1988, his briefcase containing his papers was stolen in Paris.[2] Despite this setback, he boarded the plane for London but was promptly returned to France when he failed to present a passport to British immigration. He was initially arrested by the French, but then released as his entry to the airport was legal and he had no country of origin to be returned to; thus began his residency at Terminal 1.

His case was later taken on by French human rights lawyer Christian Bourget. In 1992, French courts ruled that, having entered the country legally, he could not be expelled from the airport, but it could not grant him permission to enter France.

Attempts were then made to have new documents issued from Belgium, but the authorities there would only do so if Naserri presented himself in person. However, under Belgian law a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country that has accepted him cannot return. In 1995, the Belgian authorities granted permission for him to return, but only if he agreed to live there under supervision of a social worker. Naserri refused this on the grounds of wanting to enter the UK as originally intended.[2]

Nasseri's life at the airport ended in July 2006 when he was hospitalized and his sitting place dismantled. Towards the end of January 2007, he left the hospital and was looked after by the airport's branch of the French Red Cross; he was lodged for a few weeks in a hotel close to the airport. On March 6, 2007, he transferred to an Emmaus charity reception centre in Paris's twentieth arrondissement. As of 2008, he continues to live in a Paris shelter.[2]

/sad story there
//one jackass steals your briefcase,,,

H31N0US: As opposed to the US? My first impression of Shanghai was how dirty the subways were in comparison to Hong Kong's. Then I thought about it, and realized they were still much cleaner than NYC's.

Of course, most of the garbage in NYC is walking around.

StreetlightInTheGhetto: /sad story there
//one jackass steals your briefcase,,,

Kinda makes you wonder why that jackass, after so long, never anonymously turned in the briefcase so the guy could get his papers back, ya know?

StreetlightInTheGhetto:
/sad story there
//one jackass steals your briefcase,,,

This is partly the reason you can say what you like about elected officials, but never ever piss off the civil service. They're like cockroaches, eternal and hold long procedural enforced grudges.