{"id":881491,"date":"2022-11-13T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmatilda.com\/?p=132140"},"modified":"2022-11-13T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T08:28:51","slug":"thanks-to-tom-hanks-and-hollywood-homeless-refugee-dies-a-loveable-inspiring-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/13\/thanks-to-tom-hanks-and-hollywood-homeless-refugee-dies-a-loveable-inspiring-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks To Tom Hanks And Hollywood, Homeless Refugee Dies A Loveable, Inspiring Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"
News has broken overnight of the death of Iranian asylum seeker Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the real-life inspiration for Steven Spielberg\u2019s 2004 comedy-drama The Terminal<\/em>, starring Tom Hanks who plays a gentle but determined stateless refugee.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n But the true story of Nasseri’s life is wildly different from that depicted on the big screen, with the homeless, stateless refugee living in limbo for almost two decades, as opposed to the nine months depicted in the film.<\/p>\n Associated Press reported overnight: \u201cMehran Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport\u2019s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Hollywood version The Terminal<\/em>, which returned $220 million at the box office, Hanks plays the character of Viktor Navorski, a hapless domestic traveller from Eastern Europe who arrives at New York’s JFK International Airport only to find that an overnight coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in his home country has rendered his passport invalid, and left him stateless.<\/p>\n \u2018Viktor\u2019 becomes stuck in the JFK terminal, where he lives on a bench in an obscure corner of the airport. In the course of his \u2018adventure\u2019, Viktor falls in love and secures a well-paid job as a painter\/builder, so he has money on which to live.<\/p>\n Finally, after nine months, Viktor is allowed a brief visit into New York City to honour his late father\u2019s memory (the original purpose of his trip), before flying home.<\/p>\n