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People today are always complaining about how bad they have it even though they don’t know how good they do. They say things like “I’m out of work, I lost my house, my wife left me to become a man.” That’s why we’ve compiled a list of real things that happened to other unfortunate souls to remind you that no matter how bad you have it- things could be worse! If you’re feeling blue about your dead dog and your pregnant teenage girlfriend, then read this!
18 Years at The Airport
Mehran Karimi Nasseri is an Iranian man who landed at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France seeking refugee status from Iran in 1988.. and after his briefcase was stolen with his passport and paperwork, he was NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE AIRPORT FOR 18 YEARS. He couldn’t return to Iran and he couldn’t enter any European country. So he had to sit in the airport Terminal in limbo.
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Anyone who’s ever seen the heartbreaking documentary Lost in La Mancha knows that esteeemed filmmaker Terry Gilliam does not have fortune on his side when he’s making films. But what might be less familiar to people is that his bad luck has followed him almost since the beginning of his career. According to film blog Cineleet:
No director in history knows more about compromise than Terry Gilliam. Part and parcel of being a visionary is being constantly told you can’t get the shot. Forces of Darkness conspire to defeat you, often in the form of studio executives, sometimes in the form of Nature herself.
Right now, they have a great post documenting many of the challenges Gilliam has faced, from 1977′s Jabberwocky all the way through next year’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was dramatically affected by the tragic death of Heath Ledger (Ledger was slated to portrayed one of the film’s main characters). I can’t imagine the fortitude it takes for a man like Gilliam, who’s suffered countless setbacks, to keep pressing forward. I’d like to think that the visions he has for his movies prevent him from stopping.
