What's it about?>a displaced foreigner is stuck in a NYC airport>he's white, but not too white; from a war-torn baltic state in the aftermath of the fall of the USSR >he must pull himself up by his bootstraps and make himself in a microcosm of the land of opportunity with the help of a colorful (diverse) cast of characters>his opponent is a viciously competent head of TSA security whose only fault is following the letter of the law too exactly What is the lesson?>US airports are incredible. amazing. so wonderful you could live there>they're so great in fact anything could happen. you could start a life, find a job, find friendship, and love. there is a nonzero chance you might lick catherine zeta-jones pussy if you chance through JFK's terminals >US airports only flaw in the wake of 9/11 is how insanely competent they are with security. TSA is a mighty fortress an evil doer will have to risk their life to cross. TSA is savvy, intelligent, perhaps cruel with their authority.>the USA is a wonderful land of opportunity where any immigrant can make it, and diversity is our strength, without which we will not flourish And most crucially:>our policies regarding the entrance of immigrants to our country are far too strict. it requires coordinated and unlawful rebellion to alleviate this issueIs there anything I'm missing? Yes–this is just a fun silly light-hearted romantic movie. And it's pretty good too, I enjoyed it even if it was a bit schmaltzy or heavy handed. It's got all the makings of a Spielberg classic. But isn't that what propaganda is about? Messages are delivered most successfully and with subtlety through sure, talented hands. That's what we got in The Terminal.
>>214650467tldr, btw, Catherine Zeta Jones was hot.
>>214650467Its Burger King propaganda
>>214650467>And it's pretty good tooWas with you until there
>>214650580I was foolish to editorialize,
Man, this movie is so old, who cares lol
>>214650577I do remember watching it and wanting to get a whopper after that scene
>>214650577someone post the webm
>>214650684You're going to die someday, and for what?
Yeah, bull.
>>214650467no it's not about that schizo pol bs you made it about. the real reason it's retarded is that the foreigner wants to come back to his shithole and only came for the signatures. complete fucking non-sense
>>214650577Will BK ever make it? The one by me closed, so I'm concerned.
>>214650467I was pretty disappointed with this flick, I expected some oscarbait drama but instead it was a silly comedy.
>>214650467The real story its based on is pretty dumb and boring, and the movie goes out of its way to create an antagonist and conflict.
>>214651915They'll always be around but the quality of your local BK depends entirely on the surrounding income bracket + demographics
>>214651829>no it's not about that schizo pol bs you made it about.How the fuck do you figure that when I only described the events in the movie as they happened?
>>214650814for some chicken and rice and getting swole
>>214652540litty
>>214650467saving private ryan is full of propaganda, robert ager did some videos on it. and indiana jones has some as well. he's a jew, he can't help it, and he's probably funded by (((them)))
>>214653068Well, yes, but that is pretty basic "nazis bad".What I'm suggesting is that Spielberg, as one of our greatest filmmakers, was tasked with directing this film to rehabilitate the image of airports, safety and security etc to the american public and the world after 9/11, while also throwing in the points mentioned in the OP.Why was this frothy romance given to the most popular american filmmaker, the most popular A list actors etc?
>>214650467>Is there anything I'm missing? Yes–this is just a fun silly light-hearted romantic movie>Is there anything I'm missing? Yes–>Yes–>–How do you type em-dashes on your keyboard?
>>214654434alt -
>>214654473Doesn't work.I'm using Windows 10 with Brave browser. What are you using?
>>214650467You let the culture war destroy your brain and now you can't even watch a Tom Hanks flick without trying to twist it to fit into your obsession.There's no going back, you've been permanently mindraped
>>214654491I'm on a mac. It's gotta be one of those buttons plus dash. Good luck brother.
>>214654526The culture war has been going on for centuries.It didn't start with Trump, zoomie.
>>214654526But what I described is literally what happens in the film. What if I told you I support its message?
>>214654526>you can't even watch a Tom Hanks flickYou mean one of the most successful and popular actors of all time? Why are you treating him like he's Jim Varney?
>>214654554Shitlibs screech about media literacy, and then start calling you a schizo for practicing media literacy.You never had a winning move here, kiddo.
>>214650467>>US airports are incredible. amazing. so wonderful you could live there>>they're so great in fact anything could happen. you could start a life, find a job, find friendship, and love. there is a nonzero chance you might lick catherine zeta-jones pussy if you chance through JFK's terminalsI am just thinking recently about how nice everything used to be, public places in America, how everything worked and people upheld good standards of cleanliness and conduct. When we had a functional society. I miss that. Now everything is Bolivia tier, shoddy and ramshackle because the money is getting stolen every step of the way and no one cares to work or uphold the public good. I miss streets being clean and public buildings having this atmosphere of importance and authority instead of being more like homeless shelters.
>>214654801Ah, so the propaganda worked on you.No, these places were not all that much nicer back then. In fact, where they filmed the movie wasn't an airport at all, it was filmed in a mall or something. They needed something to make airports feel romantic again. The government bailed them out straight up, the least the propaganda wing could do was paint a nice picture.
>>214654855I was born in 1989 Raj I remember it. Things went really downhill after covid but that was just a continuation of the downward slide. Shittiness and decay used to be an amusing novelty, not the standard.
>>214652227Yep. When I lived in Atlanta most of the Burger Kings were owned by Magic Johnson. They were terrible. When we'd road trip and stop at a BK, it was amazing how much better run they were.
>>214654938I think it really depends on where you live.I was lucky enough to see the splendor of new projects, but the city I grew up in was absolutely disgusting when I was a kid. It's still shit, but to say it was anything but before is foolish, Achmed.
>>214654986Yeah I get that you're some beaner from East LA which has always been shitty but I'm talking about nice white areas and decent airports and malls. They were clean and functional and full of normal decent looking people. Now everything looks like some Mexican street market crossed with a tent city.
>>214650684Old movies are the only ones that matter anymore
>>214650467Hanks entire career was spent filling roles propagandizing to boomers. Only half-way decent Hanks flick is Cast Away.
>>214655084Close, no I lived and live in the nice parts of LA. Avoided downtown like the plague; it was in many ways worse than it is now. I don't think anyone would contend NYC was nicer back when we were kids. Chicago probably was though.
>>214655151Yeah Cast Away is awesome. It's like Kaczynski
>>214650467end of the movieTH gets in a taxi>where do you want to go?>home :)me and my brother burst out laughing
>>214655152>I don't think anyone would contend NYC was nicer back when we were kids."Nicer" maybe not, "better" yes, normal people lived there, it wasn't just an outrageous playground for rich people and foreign investment. Apparently it has gotten much less "nice" since covid, which doesn't mean it's affordable it just means it's more San Francisco/ Third World - ultra rich mixed with slums. Did you seriously not go to malls and airports in LA as a kid and notice compared to now how different it was? How it used to be full of normal people, who were halfway friendly, there was a communal vibe, normal people out and about? Whereas now it's just groups of foreigners or street detritus?
>>214655267>Did you seriously not go to malls and airports in LA as a kid and notice compared to now how different it was?What malls, lol.I still go to the Fox Hills mall which is very nice.. but I do agree the people have changed. The quality of things has deteriorated in some ways, things are cheaply and poorly built, but these differences to pale in comparison to societal rot. You are correct, anon.
But why?
holy polrot batman
>>214654950I'd argue a well-made Whopper is better than anything at MD or Wendy's
>>214656259I didn't even offer an opinion, I only detailed what precisely happened in the film. I'm trans, btw, don't know if that matters.
Every spielberg movie is propaganda. Schindler list is Jewish propaganda.AI is a robot propaganda. Jurrasic Park is anti-dinosaur propaganda.
>>214650467medicine for goat
>>214650467you know it was a real dude rightit was a french airport and an iranian guyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
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>>214657142No, it wasn't.Yes—there was a guy who was stuck in a terminal. He had virtually nothing in common with the Tom Hanks character aside from that.Iirc he stayed in the airport for many years after the film was released. How perfect is that? Use a true story as a vehicle for your propaganda; do nothing for the real person on which it was based.
>>214657972>there was a guy who was stuck in a terminal. He had virtually nothing in common with the Tom Hanks character aside from thatwhat did you want them to have in common besides the broad interesting conceit of a guy living in an airport terminal, did you want the feel-good popcorn movie to go "this wasn't a krakohazian, it's an iranian who claimed scottish heritage and was mentally ill and refused permanent residency in france unless they intentionally misspelled his name">do nothing for the real person on which it was based>The Guardian indicated that Spielberg's DreamWorks production company paid US$250,000 to Nasseri for rights to his story
>>214654526He's right thougheverbeit
>>214657884Holy shit that framing of the burger king sign is shameless.I would say it's still done it's job of making me get a burger when I get off the train in a few minutes but I was probably gonna do that anyway
>>214657884That amount of quarters would get you a small fry today
>>214658182A person should have the absolute right to be called anything they want, I include trannies in this, I won't call a man a woman but if he wants to use a woman's name I will respect that.
>>214658182>"this wasn't a krakohazian, it's an iranian who claimed scottish heritage and was mentally ill and refused permanent residency in france unless they intentionally misspelled his name"that sounds 100x more kino than what we got
>>214650467>While the airport set featured real-looking retail and fast food outlets, nearly 40 chains allowed replica stalls to be built for the film. These were part of the set design to enhance realism—not paid product placements or ad-driven financing
>>214658297>that framing of the burger king sign is shamelessI like to imagine the Christopher Nolan BWAAAAAAAAAMMMMM playing during that shot
>>214650467Jewish Esoteric Moralization.The racial 'outsider' and those who assist him are righteous and those who oppose him are unrighteous.
>>214658297I had my burger from hungry jacks (that's what we call Burger King in Australia) I would have posted a picture but my phone struggles to take photos small enough for 4chan and downsizing is a pain) it was a double cheeseburger with meat, cheese and ketchup, no mustard no pickles)It was delicious, I live rural so I always take the rare opportunity to get fast food when I go to the city
>>214658182I didn't want something different. I assumed the person suggesting "he was a real guy" was attempting to discredit the idea of the film being propaganda.
>>214652488because you imposed intention behind the events, rather than simply describing events.
>>214659204Do you have an argument against the described intent? Can you argue that what I'd described was not the case? Or will you just say "POL SCHIZO" until the thread is gone?
>>214658978>I didn't want something differentyou think it was intentionally and subtly made as propaganda, which you would presumably prefer to not havewhat would a nonprogandistic telling of the story (simplified for a mass audience, with american cultural mores) look like? no shit spielberg goes "america's incredible" and amps up the airport security to comical levels to manufacture an antagonist for someone stuck in an airport 24/7, especially post-9/11 when that change was a noveltyit's like watching catch me if you can and going "am I missing something? this schmaltzy spielberg classic seems to be covert subversive material, convincing the youth that all criminals are actually good people deep down who got in over their heads and had a rough upbringing, and just need to be set in the right direction by the right guy. and they're cool and crime is cool"
