BORAT!! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Country Kazakhstan
Any body seen this film yet???
It easy to see why it got the Kazakh's backs up!!
It starts off very funny then tales of very badly towards the end...
It's a strange film that makes you laugh out loud in the cinema, partly due to the shock of some of the things you see. However, when you leave the more you think about it the more it disturbs you.
What’s worse it people seem to go along with Borat's sexit, racist and anti Semitic (I know Sacha is a Jew) ways like sheep and say nothing.
The one thing that was unclear. Were all the other people in the film actors or was this done partially for real (All be it with a lot of editing).
It easy to see why it got the Kazakh's backs up!!
It starts off very funny then tales of very badly towards the end...
It's a strange film that makes you laugh out loud in the cinema, partly due to the shock of some of the things you see. However, when you leave the more you think about it the more it disturbs you.
What’s worse it people seem to go along with Borat's sexit, racist and anti Semitic (I know Sacha is a Jew) ways like sheep and say nothing.
The one thing that was unclear. Were all the other people in the film actors or was this done partially for real (All be it with a lot of editing).
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I don't think it reflects at all badly on the real Kazakhstan (or Romania where the village scenes were filmed) as it's far more of a dig at the perceptions of people in the West about these places than anything directly insulting towards them.
They certainly overplayed the Pamela Anderson bit but I thought some of the best bits (the frat boys and the hilariously faked Kazakhstan national anthem) were towards the end so it generally held up well.
I thought they did a good job of blending the genuine material with the script as I wasn't always entirely sure where one stopped and the other started. Some of the most bizarre bits were for real though: The singing at the rodeo, the TV weatherman, the dinner party, and most of the interviews. That said, there was some seriously underhand goings on to fix them and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the multitude of lawsuits stick.
I haven't seen it but when i read in the paper about the woman showing Borat how to flush his poo down the toilet i was crying with laughter :lol:
I would not have liked to have been sacha when he had to do that fight sceene in the hotel. ooooh wifff.... :lol:
But the interviews he does all seemed real, the rodeo guy totally real also. Its quite funny seeing their reactions afterwards specially the rodeo guy who admitted he had been 'had' and tried to make out he wasnt a racist bigot etc.
I think Borats very clever, its quite shocking seeing peoples views. The funniest/worst one was the series where they sung 'throw the jew down the well'.
I find Borat very funny and also very interesting the way he manages to uncover some peoples racist/homophobic views
Heard hes been offered a ton of money to do 'Bruno' but i'm unsure how much of a hit he'll be
What do you mean by that..... am I missing somthing.
You mean interview Frank Bruno?? ??
there's a character on his show called 'bruno'. he appeared years ago on the paramount channel, albeit a little different.
he's the gay Austrian fashion reporter.
i heard too, that he's going to do the movie. which i reckon will be comedy gold.
Big fan of Ali G and Borat, hoping the Bruno film will do well
One of the funniest bits for me is the 'easter egg' on one of the Ali G DVD's. If you select the logo (I think its the Ali G bling bling dvd) and press play theres a one off comedy sketch.
Its a bit like Bruno, he plays a gay reporter and goes to interview a racist homophobic skinhead ska band, very funny when they realise hes gay. But the funniest bit is when he interviews after the concert this homophobic skinhead at the bus stop. Superb
i liked it when he was interviewing the wrestling team, and them were trying to tackle him unsuccesfully. (him being about 2" taller than them)
I love Ali G. Funny as hell seeing some of the oldies being interviewed and falling for him hook line and sinker, even more cringeworthy when some of these coffin dodgers try and act 'young' and say some 'hip' words etc. The vicar on the Xmas special trying to act young by saying 'man' all the time and some other words were funny as anything.
I just love the whole joke about pretending hes from the ghetto when in fact hes a total wimp and lives in Berkshire and is middle class. Get so many chavs who make out theyre from the 'hood' when in actual fact theyre spoilt mummys boys
although some of it did make me laugh out loud.
like when they are driving along and see a cop car. 'oh no, its the LAPD' then give them v's in secret.
" Hey Westwood here, to pimp your ride "
I laughed at a lot of bits in that film. Was funny when they were 'racing' in the high street in their crappy suped up cars and Ali G said something to the other driver in the car about 'what are you doing, are you crazy, its a 30 zone and your doing 32' or something.
Beginning was very funny, Ali G and that dog at his nans house in Staines