Insurance companies hate him, hes been taken captive in a freighter, hes been stranded on an island, he crashed a civilan liner in the hudson. am I missing anything?
yeah, but few scenes are strange, because some words in Bulgarian sounds similar to English: for example passport, revolution etc, so any Bulgarian could understand
Fun fact: the story of The Terminal was based on a real Iranian refugee stuck at the Paris airport because his papers were stolen. He lived there for over a decade!
Wow I can't believe this actually happened to someone in real life and it lasted 18 years! That's just beyond absurd, but reading the story he also refused to accept help by making impossible demands for his documents to say he is British when he is Iranian. Surprised he was never deported back to his home country but I guess bureaucracy and liberal hand wringing were particularly high during this time of history.
@@cattysplat they couldn't deport him, because he wasn't Iranian, he was expelled, so technically he was not a citizen of any country. His impossible demands though, yeah, I have no idea what he was thinking.
I’m Bulgarian and it’s pretty good although I can not understand everything. Also in Bulgarian there is no soft “r” which he used a couple of times. Also it’s kinda funny because on some words he just gives up mid-pronounciation and just finishes them with gibberish. But it is still impressive for an westerner.
@@norbert2142 Their first two words were, “I’m Bulgarian,” yet here you are criticizing their intelligence under the assumption they’re American. Whatever country you’re from, you’re an idiot. 😂🤣
I have been in a position similar to his. The authorities would NEVER act like this. They would only speak to you if you would understand them. Meaning that there always would be a translator.
Aug24th it WAS back in 2004 when George W. Was still in office. 9/11 was much more current and hey, I mean let’s face facts, it’s a movie. I saw this in theatres when it came out and at that time especially with the political climate, the film seemed to speak volumes allegorically with the Bush administration’s foreign policy and it’s suspicious yet dismissive outlook on foreigners. It was very tongue and cheek and came across as a friendly dipped in fantasy holiday film.
Andres Porras lol come on dude be nice. I’m sure they mean to give real life examples only in context. Hell maybe I’m wrong...keep riding that sarcasm train. I’m serious, keep doing that
Eh I've worked in a government position (2017) where I had to deal with a lot of spanish speakers and few translators. Some conversations were a mix of mime and bits of english, even full english, and were wrapped up before a translator was available. The language in this film is meant to be really obscure so I don't doubt they wouldn't give it a shot.
Not necessarily a Bulgarian translator. In that time every mature citizen of ex-soviet block countries would have some basic skill of russian language. That would be enough.
Such a good and underrated movie. The love story with him and Katherine Zeta Jones felt a bit tacked on but other than that this move is a widely unknown classic.
Tom hanks has issues travelling.stuck in a airport, stranded on a island, all that crazy shit in Italy. not to mention whenever he fly's a plane or captains a boat bad headlines normally occur.
He sounded like an american who has lived in Bulgaria for lets say 10 years. And thats about it. His bulgarian did not sound as his mother language! Hehe
As someone who travels a lot to USA, this is like the nightmare that keeps me awake even in long flights, I can never sleep in the plane just thinking about the arrival
The director literally has his lunch while informing a man he is pretty much screwed and has no country anymore.. and has the balls to chuck chips at him. Lol
People hate on this movie because they say the plot is "unrealistic", but if you look at the store it is based off of....the original man was stuck in a Paris airport for 18 years.
Seems messed up. If his documents were all good before he git on the flight, then he should be set. It's not right to make someone live in an airport because a coup happened mid-flight.
it's based on a real scenario in France. this actually happened. technically an airport is not the actual country, its international waters. in your country airport past the customs until the end of desired country customs, you are in no country, customs allow you to leave a country and enter a country, but not at once. you leave a country and that's separate to entering one, that's why he is an anomaly. he has no country to return to, and not a country to enter too. he can't do shit. now if the bitches at the airport cared they will get this to the press, and the public will make a high judge just make an exception in some capacity, maybe enter the USA, maybe get refugee, maybe go to another country that allows him to enter. but the bitch there wanted no hassle as he has a promotion coming and he gives zero shits about tom hanks, so he just fallen through the cracks.
go to your nearest forest, build a shelter on your own, gather your food on your own, manage to make medicine on your own, defend your shelter on your own, oh and dont forget die on your own. if you want to you can live without a government quite easily. you just have to accept that you are now basically a caveman.
You can renounce your citizenship but it gets very difficult to do anything. Travel? Nope. Work? Forget about it. Drivers license? In your dreams. Get insurance, a mortgage, credit card, benefits/social security? No chance. It basically means you don't exist, so governments will ignore you. But without official documents life is incredibly hard as you can prove who you are. Anything that needs ID is essentially off limits.
I remember watching this with my ex, half way through the film she says “he speaks good English doesn’t he”. Who, Tom Hanks? Yes my dear Tom Hanks does speak pretty good English
AT&T has offered a service for decades called "Language Line." You call them, they hear the voice and have an interpreter on the phone in minutes. Law enforcement agencies across the nation has used this service for decades... This movie lost me at this point.
15 minutes later he landed a plane in a river and then was taken hostage by some old pirates... Incidentally only 2 weeks later he got big and they finished remodeling his house. While he waited that out he stayed in an apartment dressed as a woman with his friend Bubba.
Something similar happened to me years ago but no where near that level or length of time but it was still really frustrating to be stuck in nowhere feeling like nobody 😢😮
This is a true story from an iranian writer in France airport I met him once His story is such drama He was a super talented lovely guy who stayed 18years in france airport as Britain didnt allow him to enter uk His dad was iranian and his mum scotish He wrote a few books in persian and english in that 18years And they bought his life story for small money and made this movie from his painful story
As someone who worked for Amazon in dispatching drivers.. I understand that there can be language barriers. I dont understand why he talks fluent English with complicated terms when he is fully aware that Mr Navorski doesnt speak English. We had drivers from dozens of countries that couldnt speak maybe 5-10 words German or none at all, and I managed to tell every single one what to do without knowing their language. Just extremely simplfy it and speak slower, its that easy and you will manage to somewhat get your point across. Mr Dixon was pretty dumb in that sense.
My father when he went to work in western europe in late 90s, and didnt spoke any english basically, all questions he got he would answer ,,OK OK" when he saw this movie first time he was laughing his ass off
why do american movies always equalize people who cannot speak english with idiots? :) Hanks character in this movie is a simple man who cannot speak english which is supposed to be normal but then depicted like an idiot. See the first interrogation scene for example
This scene doesn't make Hanks' character look like an idiot, it's meant to make light of the difficulties of language barriers and the absurdity of American bureaucracy. The main character ends up being quite brilliant, actually.
@@Alvin_Vivian yeah probably what happen, krakozhia seem like a distant remote place in eastren Europe so its not unlikely that he was the only one that day coming to jfk.
“Can you speak English?”
“Yes”
“What’s your name”
“Yes”
his name is Mr. Yes
"What's your sexuality?"
"Yes"
Da. Tak.
so this is the origin of the famous Reddit "yes" ?
JustanAmateur when i talk to my crush
lol that point about Chinese tourists with cameras is spot on. I've never seen them without cameras!
I didn´t understand the chinese part, why were they running?
Lau Ra they didnt have the proper documents to come into the country
That is strange, that chinese people don´t have the right documents, but thank you Meandrous Phoenix :)
Lau Ra Yeah, they're trying to illegally come into the country. It happens all the time
Ahhh now I understand, thank you!
So... The moral lesson of this is to NEVER travel with Tom Hanks.
Insurance companies hate him, hes been taken captive in a freighter, hes been stranded on an island, he crashed a civilan liner in the hudson. am I missing anything?
He almost died going to the moon
Lol
On the plus side his shrimp boat was the only one to survive the big storm
he doesnt fly well
Hanks' wife is of Bulgarian descent and he learned the language from her. They both did a really good job.
What if it was.Borat.?
His wife is Greek
@George Fotis Dramesiotis
Her mother is Greek, her father Bulgarian.
yeah, but few scenes are strange, because some words in Bulgarian sounds similar to English: for example passport, revolution etc, so any Bulgarian could understand
@@mihuhih2186 well those aren't originally bulgarian words, we use them anyway
"Staying at the Ramada Inn?"
"Keep the change."
you filthy...oops wrong movie
😂 😂
Tom Hanks was simply superb in this film. One of his all time best performances.
You know Rolling Stone ranked this as his worst movie. Eat chit Rolling Stone.
@@jogman262 They r jealous. This movie is superb
@ Blulicious
Yes it is!
Tom Hanks is a pedophile who went to Epstein Island
i thought Tom Hanks played a character out of a cartoon, not a real life human being.What the hell were they thinking?
Fun fact: the story of The Terminal was based on a real Iranian refugee stuck at the Paris airport because his papers were stolen. He lived there for over a decade!
source or a link would be great.
Wow I can't believe this actually happened to someone in real life and it lasted 18 years! That's just beyond absurd, but reading the story he also refused to accept help by making impossible demands for his documents to say he is British when he is Iranian. Surprised he was never deported back to his home country but I guess bureaucracy and liberal hand wringing were particularly high during this time of history.
thanks
Yeah he was there for 18 years!
@@cattysplat they couldn't deport him, because he wasn't Iranian, he was expelled, so technically he was not a citizen of any country. His impossible demands though, yeah, I have no idea what he was thinking.
5:51 the way he didn’t flinch kills me
Keep the Change.
you filthy....oh sh!t wrong movie
@Grammar Nazi Just wanted to say I like your profile picture. Very clever. Also, I too got the reference.
Cheapskate
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What really amazed me is how Tom Hanks nailed the language. When I watched this as a kid I actually thought he is from some Europe country.
I’m Bulgarian and it’s pretty good although I can not understand everything. Also in Bulgarian there is no soft “r” which he used a couple of times. Also it’s kinda funny because on some words he just gives up mid-pronounciation and just finishes them with gibberish. But it is still impressive for an westerner.
lol
Yeah cuz all the people in Europe speaks with Russian accent. R u American citizen? That explains a lot.
@@norbert2142 Their first two words were, “I’m Bulgarian,” yet here you are criticizing their intelligence under the assumption they’re American. Whatever country you’re from, you’re an idiot. 😂🤣
some "europe country"? really?
"Glory to Arsztotzka!"
oh, wait....
Papers, Please!
"Glory Greatest! Mother Proud!"
@@jreese2474 Krakozhia so great passport not required! Cobrastan greatest country!
"Krakozhia is not a real country, Jorji"
Obristan above all!!
I have been in a position similar to his. The authorities would NEVER act like this. They would only speak to you if you would understand them. Meaning that there always would be a translator.
Aug24th it WAS back in 2004 when George W. Was still in office. 9/11 was much more current and hey, I mean let’s face facts, it’s a movie. I saw this in theatres when it came out and at that time especially with the political climate, the film seemed to speak volumes allegorically with the Bush administration’s foreign policy and it’s suspicious yet dismissive outlook on foreigners. It was very tongue and cheek and came across as a friendly dipped in fantasy holiday film.
Andres Porras lol come on dude be nice. I’m sure they mean to give real life examples only in context. Hell maybe I’m wrong...keep riding that sarcasm train. I’m serious, keep doing that
Eh I've worked in a government position (2017) where I had to deal with a lot of spanish speakers and few translators. Some conversations were a mix of mime and bits of english, even full english, and were wrapped up before a translator was available. The language in this film is meant to be really obscure so I don't doubt they wouldn't give it a shot.
David Roberts except for, “Batteries not Included”...now THAT is an accurate story
@Andres Porras Surely not, wake up!
3:10 -"Keep the change." Best moment of the scene😂 До слëз!
Привет, земляк :)
))
Tom hank's face when he got hit by chips lol
checklistbeach fffff
This was probably improvised lol
"Do you know anybody from New York?"
"Yes"
"Who?"
"Yes"
"هل تعرف اي شخص في نيويورك؟"
"نعم"
"من؟"
"نعم"
@@abu3diie Yes
what a waste of good chips.
Krakozhia chips
apple 's better
Waste of lays chips? There are no chips in lays, only air.
Made me laugh so hard though and I can’t be alone god bless that directorial decision
FBI chips have to have air to avoid crushing them. Sorry if your joking but saying this in case you didn’t know why bags of chips had air.
The first rule of international travel is always wait for the interpreter.
The second rule of international travel is always wait for the interpreter.
the movie where an airport doesnt seem to have translators or bilingual employees. such a great idea. it became a boxoffice success and a classic.
@Alex Alex No but they could definitely find one
Not necessarily a Bulgarian translator. In that time every mature citizen of ex-soviet block countries would have some basic skill of russian language. That would be enough.
It's based on a real case. The movie took certain liberties. But for the most part it was similar. Main difference is the guy never left the airport
@@user-st9vi1wi9t any big international ariport will atleast have a translator service that they can call
And somehow gets peaceful at night, stores closes when we all know an airport is active 24/7 specially NY
Yeah, hollywood. I was detained once by the US Border Agents and pulled into a room. I can assure its nowhere as pleasant and genial like this.
I know right? The worst part is they do speak your language but they don't try to use it.
Muricunts.
@@thegreatgatsby8180 y
Dorito lad69 get out of this country. You don’t belong here.
Good stay out
one of the finest actors ever born.
Satnley Tucci's acting is also superb. Perfect performance as a bureaucrat jerk.
-Who?
-Yes
all we had to do was yes
Wait a minute...
*YOU PICKED THE WRONG COUNTRY FOOL!*
Lol ur profile pic 😂
It's Dr. Who.
Such a good and underrated movie. The love story with him and Katherine Zeta Jones felt a bit tacked on but other than that this move is a widely unknown classic.
Tom hanks has issues travelling.stuck in a airport, stranded on a island, all that crazy shit in Italy. not to mention whenever he fly's a plane or captains a boat bad headlines normally occur.
what happened? are you talking about the movie or the reality?
not to mention his failed mission to moon.
@@gil15100 Not to mention getting spat out of a volcano.
@@Mattiaeragiapreso He is talking about various movies.
@@stephenolan5539 thanks :)
One of most legendary movies EVER!
Yes...Yes...Yes and Yes
Krakozia...krakozia and krakozia
@@doutorJalinrabey Big Apple
Business or pleasure?
*my pleasure is not your business*
"Considering my job is to check for valid papers, yes it is"
@@dorkmax7073 then fuck you
**Deported Immediately**
Considering youre going inside my country, it is my business.
@@RossMac023 . . . you got it wrong bud . . . it's " Aloha Snackbar " and
" Sausage ham and bacon "
Bureaucrats...truly disconnected from any reality.
Rob8729 they always lose sight of the little things instead they follow the book, until it suits then not to
It's a movie Rob. A movie.
@@Maino88 A movie with an accurate representation of bureaucrats
I am Bulgarian and he is saying "My English isn't really good" to the Officer. xD
Oh so he actually DID speak in Bulgarian! Does he sound alright speaking your native language? Or does he sound too much "English-oriented"? 😂
He sounded like an american who has lived in Bulgaria for lets say 10 years. And thats about it. His bulgarian did not sound as his mother language! Hehe
@@ivanaboboycheva5245 Aha. Just as I assumed. Thanks.
But Ton Hanks is AMAZING!! ^_^
His wife is Bulgarian
Security Officer is thinking "God dammit he's gonna do the thing with the chips again."
i forgot how great this film is
Bad MF Say WHAT again!
Frustrating nontheless
What year was this
Forrest Gump
Castaway
The Terminal
@Gen Long Tsang
2004
Mom: “who are you going out with later?”
Me: “yes”
Will Menendez 😂😂😂😂😂👍🏼
*apple breaks open potato chip bag* No more Krakozhia! *guy looks sad*
Weirded, it seems.
I saw this movie when I was 10. Since then it is my favorite movie and Tom Hanks is my favorite actor! :)
-You have no country anymore.
-Where do I buy the Nike shoes?
Great video to prepare students getting ready to visit the US - thanks for posting it.
As someone who travels a lot to USA, this is like the nightmare that keeps me awake even in long flights, I can never sleep in the plane just thinking about the arrival
What's sad is that this really happened to a guy in an airport in Europe. I think it was in France. He literally couldn't leave the airport!
I just watched this movie on Netflix after watching this vid. Didn't know it was directed by Steven Spielberg! Interesting funny movie!
Unacceptable ..hehehehehe ... Tom Hanks is a genius , the best actor ever
This is my FAVORITE movie.
Oh those good old time Spielberg actually made great movies.
where do I buy the Nike shoes. :)
Ali Ibrahim in a Chinese Tourist asshole
That Guy bark bark bark
Tom hanks really nailed that one
Seems like they could have gotten a translator to explain this delicate situation to him a little better.
I guess you didn't bother to watch the clip
Not getting one for like years? I believe you
borat before borat was cool
Borat was never cool.
I read that as 3 borats in a row
Yup.
borats much older than this.
What is?
Amazing that in all that time there were absolutely NO Bulgarian interpreters in ALL of New York.
ya this is one of the dumbest movies of all time
this is a great classic movie but very underrated
I know right? I was born and raised in a different country and I relate to this movie a lot.
Airport: "Business or pleasure?"
Me: "It's a pleasure doing business!"
Airport: "FML"
Is it okay if I steal your comment and use it wherever I feel like? Oh except for the last part, I won't be needing that!
"where do i buy the nike shoes?" classic! Hahaha, and he called the brand correctly too
Lol
This movie made me laugh hard and then just touch my heart with ease
I felt so bad for him when his meal vouchers got thrown away and he was so hungry. Thank goodness for the luggage carts and then Enrique.
The director literally has his lunch while informing a man he is pretty much screwed and has no country anymore.. and has the balls to chuck chips at him. Lol
to be fair, that director *was* the antagonist of the movie
That was not chips. It was Karakhozia.
What I don't understand is..... why they just don't look for a translator.
ODRsorus.
Are you stupid or something? They said in this scene that they couldn't find one.
@@balabanasireti than search harder, it's no excuse.
@@banban8481 they said they were working on it and until they found one he could stay inside the terminal
@@banban8481 Why would they? He was a problem that they could not solve. A problem they wanted no part of.
@@stephenolan5539 that's stupid. it's literally securities job to fkin fix the problem. you ameritards are so typical
5:45 just an awesome moment!!! ^-^
I find it comforting that he's the only one from his country, that had to deal with this issue.
Rip Mehran Karimi Nasseri
This was the original meme of "YES". To whatever question people asked or of how much things you want
you just made this up, didn't you?
Yes
"I am crack"! LOL!
He's already ready to be an American lol
People hate on this movie because they say the plot is "unrealistic", but if you look at the store it is based off of....the original man was stuck in a Paris airport for 18 years.
Seems messed up. If his documents were all good before he git on the flight, then he should be set. It's not right to make someone live in an airport because a coup happened mid-flight.
it's based on a real scenario in France. this actually happened.
technically an airport is not the actual country, its international waters. in your country airport past the customs until the end of desired country customs, you are in no country, customs allow you to leave a country and enter a country, but not at once.
you leave a country and that's separate to entering one, that's why he is an anomaly. he has no country to return to, and not a country to enter too. he can't do shit.
now if the bitches at the airport cared they will get this to the press, and the public will make a high judge just make an exception in some capacity, maybe enter the USA, maybe get refugee, maybe go to another country that allows him to enter. but the bitch there wanted no hassle as he has a promotion coming and he gives zero shits about tom hanks, so he just fallen through the cracks.
Imagine getting on a plane, arriving in another country, and being told that your country doesnt exist anymore.
*Yes*
This man didn't knew that his life is about to get devastated and he is going to be here for next 1.5 decade. 😞 So sad.
Bless him, he said ‘keep the change.’
Me visiting Russia
«Ты говоришь по-русский?»
«Да»
«Как вас зовут?»
«Да»
- руки в верх
- да
ATRIXstudio сэр шаг в сторону
да
Здорово. Ну, давай улицу!
I liked that potato chip bag metaphor.
“This potato chip bag is Krakozhia. This apple is the rebels.”
*POOF!*
“NO MORE KRAKOZHIA!”
Wish Cats would close again.
By dreamworks... i expect nothing less. Excellent movie
God Damn Stanley Tucci is everybodies nightmare HR rep hahaha
The guy's good..lol
This was 6 years before Easy A. Tucci just doesnt age!!
What a stupid beginning. Airports don't just "open". There is always people there.
Because it’s the International Customs entrance
Tom Hanks is one of the top actors of all time!
A non citizen? Completely free of any government? Jeez, where do I sign up!
Somalia, the Sahara desert, Rural parts of Mongolia or International Waters. Move there, destroy your documents and enjoy paradise.
@@guyanon "somalia paradise" if you manage to dodge the bullets in middle air
You can go to any US embassy or consulate and renounce US citizenship. Have fun!
go to your nearest forest, build a shelter on your own, gather your food on your own, manage to make medicine on your own, defend your shelter on your own, oh and dont forget die on your own. if you want to you can live without a government quite easily. you just have to accept that you are now basically a caveman.
You can renounce your citizenship but it gets very difficult to do anything. Travel? Nope. Work? Forget about it. Drivers license? In your dreams. Get insurance, a mortgage, credit card, benefits/social security? No chance.
It basically means you don't exist, so governments will ignore you. But without official documents life is incredibly hard as you can prove who you are. Anything that needs ID is essentially off limits.
I think the apple smashes chips scene symbolizes the apple (american guy Stanley tucci) screw the Krakhozia guy over in the movie
he is such a convincing foreigner
This movie had the coolest opening credits.
May be short, but still balances out with those sweet end credits.
I remember watching this with my ex, half way through the film she says “he speaks good English doesn’t he”. Who, Tom Hanks? Yes my dear Tom Hanks does speak pretty good English
That’s why Google Translate is needed at every airport immigration office.
best part is he learns fluent english in the span of the movie
He’s a master carpenter and fit it man, although his fountain didn’t work.
AT&T has offered a service for decades called "Language Line." You call them, they hear the voice and have an interpreter on the phone in minutes. Law enforcement agencies across the nation has used this service for decades... This movie lost me at this point.
That guy kept eating that fruit
What an asshole
I watched this movie a lot times... 1st time in a flight to malaysia... it's in my playlist...
“I am crack”
Hahah
15 minutes later he landed a plane in a river and then was taken hostage by some old pirates... Incidentally only 2 weeks later he got big and they finished remodeling his house. While he waited that out he stayed in an apartment dressed as a woman with his friend Bubba.
3:00 started laughing so hard
Tom Hanks speaking Bulgarian? I'm buying this movie
Something similar happened to me years ago but no where near that level or length of time but it was still really frustrating to be stuck in nowhere feeling like nobody 😢😮
I’m ashamed to say iv had this on dvd for years and still never watched it
They really couldn’t wait to explain all this with a translator? That was a lot for a foreigner
This is a true story from an iranian writer in France airport
I met him once
His story is such drama
He was a super talented lovely guy who stayed 18years in france airport as Britain didnt allow him to enter uk
His dad was iranian and his mum scotish
He wrote a few books in persian and english in that 18years
And they bought his life story for small money and made this movie from his painful story
Crazy that this is actually a true story
As someone who worked for Amazon in dispatching drivers.. I understand that there can be language barriers. I dont understand why he talks fluent English with complicated terms when he is fully aware that Mr Navorski doesnt speak English. We had drivers from dozens of countries that couldnt speak maybe 5-10 words German or none at all, and I managed to tell every single one what to do without knowing their language. Just extremely simplfy it and speak slower, its that easy and you will manage to somewhat get your point across. Mr Dixon was pretty dumb in that sense.
all because he wanted to see a musician that plays at a hotel
The birth of the
“How many do you want?”
“Yes” meme
Man, that Chinese tourists thing was fuggin RAYCESS
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day now.
I love this movie
My father when he went to work in western europe in late 90s, and didnt spoke any english basically, all questions he got he would answer ,,OK OK" when he saw this movie first time he was laughing his ass off
why do american movies always equalize people who cannot speak english with idiots? :) Hanks character in this movie is a simple man who cannot speak english which is supposed to be normal but then depicted like an idiot. See the first interrogation scene for example
Do you mean equate?
@@Zkkr429 i think so. Sorry for my lack of English. Hope it doesn't make people think I'm an idiot :)
go to any country, especially a fucking european country and speak a foreign language they won't give a fuck how smart you are
This scene doesn't make Hanks' character look like an idiot, it's meant to make light of the difficulties of language barriers and the absurdity of American bureaucracy. The main character ends up being quite brilliant, actually.
He isn't an idiot. He just doesn't speak English
- How much do you know English Mr. Navorski?
- Yes.
He is the pioneer of yes to any questions
But what about other Krakozhian passengers? Was he the only one?
He could have boarded a connecting flight.
@@Alvin_Vivian yeah probably what happen, krakozhia seem like a distant remote place in eastren Europe so its not unlikely that he was the only one that day coming to jfk.
I loved it when he figured out the trays 😅 💰