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OH that. I remember hearing of that, these guys are just trying to make money, I WANNNNNNA SEE THIS MOVIIIIEEEEEEEE!!1
by aya on Thu Nov 16, 06 7:55am
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I didn't know Herzog was in a frat.
Saw this last night. Absolute classic! must see. Really refreshing film.
I'm not quite sure why there's a focus on the remarks they made about minorities. The comments they were making about women were infinatly worse.
They were completely slaughtered though, and there was a camera on them. They undoubtably felt that they had to show how manly they were in front of the camera.
I'm not gonna lie, this is probably in my worst 2 or 3 movies of all time. If you enjoy 2 hours of toilet humor and senseless hairy nudity, then this is your movie. Me? I thought it was trashcan worthy.
Ahhh that picture on the left - Now that was a classic scene! One of the best.
ThisIsNate - if thats all you saw in it, you cant have got the point. No offence intended. It wasn't 2 hrs of toilet humour.
I thought the movie was funny. I enjoyed it. The nude wrestling in the motel room was totally gross, though.
Granted there were a few shining moments... for me they were all fogged over by his dig for genetalia synonyms, a frontal nude still of a like 16 year old boy, a morbidly obese man masturbating, unending toilet humor (in fact nearly the entire etiquette training scene was him asking where the bathroom was, shitting in a towel, and her teaching him to properly use the toilet), and his once/minute use of muddled vagina words ala "vajin" and "pooshy." I could go on and on. This coupled with the fact that I was sitting next to my mom watching this movie. Mr. Borat, die in a fire.
And the only apparent "point" or agenda of his film was to expose the pliability and general assinine nature of majority American culture. A message I missed and would not have wanted to find anyways.
Well, you tell us. Do you consume a lot of alcohol?
You certainly seem to hate white people, so answer my question and you will have the answer to yours.
It was the alcohol that did it.
Who knows what really happened. Maybe we'll find out more as time goes by.
My first thought was that they're lying and trying to make money.
well entire towns in romania are suing borat and the film makers saying they were duped too. say -- you don't suppose they were drunk too, do you? hmmm, an entire romanian town suing and now these frat boys. hmmm, clearly the whitey frat boys are liars and the wonderful romanians are pure and all tellers of the truth.
well entire towns in romania are suing borat and the film makers saying they were duped too. say -- you don't suppose they were drunk too, do you? hmmm, an entire romanian town suing and now these frat boys. hmmm, clearly the whitey frat boys are liars and the wonderful romanians are pure and all tellers of the truth.
Voted : No, the booze only loosened their racist tongues
And allow me to add, being a graduate of an HBCU, that liquor will turn *anyone* into a raving racist.
Now Romanians Say 'Borat' Misled ThemNov 14 9:08 AM US/Eastern
By WILLIAM J. KOLEAssociated Press Writer
The name of this remote Romanian village means "mud," and that's exactly what angry locals are throwing at comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Cohen used Glod's Gypsies as stand-ins for Kazakhs in his runaway hit movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Now offended villagers are threatening to sue the film's producers for paying them a pittance to put farm animals in their homes and perform other crude antics.
Residents and local officials in the hardscrabble hamlet 85 miles northwest of Bucharest said Tuesday they were horrified and humiliated to learn their abject poverty and simple ways were ridiculed for a movie now raking in millions at box offices worldwide.
"We thought they came here to help us _ not mock us," said Dana Luca, 40, sweeping a manure-stained street lined with shabby homes of crumbling brick and corrugated iron sheeting.
"We haven't got anything here. We haven't got running water. We can't even bathe," she said. "We are poor people, but we are still people."
Nicolae Staicu, leader of the 1,670 Gypsies, or Roma, who eke out a living in one of the most impoverished corners of Romania, said he and other officials would meet with a public ombudsman on Wednesday to map out a legal strategy against Cohen and "Borat" distributor 20th Century Fox.
Staicu accused the producers of paying locals just $3.30-$5.50, misleading the village into thinking the movie would be a documentary, refusing to sign proper filming contracts and enticing easily exploited peasants into performing crass acts.
Only five villagers have jobs at a nearby sanatorium and a stone quarry, Staicu said. The rest weave baskets, grow apples, pears and plums, gather mushrooms in the dense Carpathian Mountain forests rising above the town, or raise a few scrawny chickens.
With no gas heating or indoor plumbing, most keep warm with wood stoves and drink from wells. Horse-drawn carts far outnumber automobiles on unpaved, badly potholed roads, and mangy stray dogs growl and snap at strangers.
Acrid fires smolder in trash piles on the outskirts of the village, and children _ their clothing worn and torn _ play in yards littered with stumps, scrap metal and other bric-a- brac.
"These people are poor and they were tricked by people more intelligent than us," he said. "They took one of our 75-year-old ladies, put huge silicone breasts on her and said she was 47. Another man they filmed to look like the poorest person in the world, and one of our men who is missing an arm had a plastic sex toy taped to his stump."
"We are suing because they were not truthful," added Staicu, who said he saw parts of "Borat" and was disgusted.
"They did not film reality," he said. "We've really had enough of this."
just makes their ignorance more apparent.
alcahol is a disinhibitor. that only means that it makes you more willing to do what you already wanted to do.
Because Cracky is the biggest racist and hater of them all ! The hypocricy of that man is just disgusting ! Cracky, you need help!
LOS ANGELES (AP)
The owner of an etiquette business who was handed a plastic bag supposedly containing feces in the hit movie "Borat" says she was told the filming would be used for a documentary in Belarus.
Cindy Streit said she filed a complaint Thursday with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, requesting an investigation into possible violations of the California Unfair Trade Practices Act.
Streit said that a representative from a Los Angeles-based company called Springland Films contacted her Birmingham, Ala.-based company, Etiquette Training Services, about arranging an etiquette session for an "international guest from Belarus Television."
Attempts to find a contact for Springland were not successful. The company had no phone listing and Streit's lawyers declined to provide copies of the contracts allegedly signed.
The attorney general's office had not received a copy of the complaint, spokesman Nathan Barankin said late Thursday.
Streit said she arranged in Alabama both a sit-down session with Borat, played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and a dinner party with some of her friends. Clips of both appear in the movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
Though awkward at times, the dinner went well until Borat asked to use the bathroom, Streit said.
"I had taught him to excuse himself. He did that correctly and went upstairs," Streit told The Associated Press. "The next thing that happened is that he came down the stairs holding this plastic bag with whatever was in it."
"My horror was that he had brought a bag of feces to my dinner table," she said.
Springland put in writing that the second of two scheduled sessions "will be filmed as part of a documentary for Belarus Television and for those purposes only," said Gloria Allred, Streit's lawyer.
Streit, 59, said she requested an investigation by the attorney general instead of filing a lawsuit in hopes of setting a precedent that will make movie studios think twice before using other ordinary citizens for "reality movies." However, she said she wouldn't rule out a lawsuit.
Streit's demand follows complaints by others shown in the film, including a lawsuit filed by two fraternity members from a South Carolina university who appear in the film drunk.
^ hmmm.
Not everyone is trying to jump on the gravy train.
"Pastor Cary Speaker and his wife, Sally, whom Borat insulted at a dinner in Alabama that had been arranged to teach him Southern etiquette, are not big fans. Borat was expelled from their gathering after a prostitute he invited showed up at the dinner.
"I walked away feeling that we got off lucky and we didn't embarrass ourselves," Speaker said. "I'm not interested in suing him. In some ways, the political satire in the movie points out the prejudices and the bigotries of Americans."(Globe and Mail)
Kev-24 - You've managed to find all the poeple who didn't get the humour. You can see from their comments that they didn't get it. They stuffed animals in to their homes and made their houses look dirty and broken down to panda to the rediculous stereotypical ideolgy that all gypsies live like this. We are laughing at the fact that some people actually think thats what gypsies are like. It is laughable and shocking that people think these things.... thats what we're laughing about in the film. So, anyone who understood that humor will be aware that the gypsies were not being attacked. It was the people who have these rediculous views about them who were being attacked. The person who you quoted obviously does not understand that Sacha was taking the piss out of all of those people who think Gypsies are sub-class-citizens.
Cranky - Glad to hear he said that.
Voted : Yes, alcohol makes people into racists
maybe it's time to make it illegal again? That would create too much social chaos you say?
Like the Roaring Twenties, you say?
But we have just such chaos already,today!
Surely if we add alcohol to the list of Undesirables,
surely we can put up with the social chaos it creates.
We already put up with the social chaos created by illegal MJ, illegal cocaine, illegal everything else,
so why not put up with more? I don't understand why it's still legal - it's not a health product!
maybe it IS a health product, and that's why it remains protected.
And while we're at it, we're banning Tobacco too.
What? The Eastern Seaboard states will feel it?
so?
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