Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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foreigners are funny.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

12 for 12 is nice & all, but it'd be a better barometer of its widespread acceptance w/ more Variety-type raves and less JoBlo.com and CliffYablonski.edu raves.

Yeah, It's kinda hard to take the web, um, critic seriously when their quote reads:

"There are a lot of blue state folks who are offended by Cohen's portrayal of Kazakhstan as a backwards country of idiots. Hopefully, Cohen will find a way to make fun of these fun-hating cretins in his next picture"

Liberals hate comedy. These emo-terrorists want nothing more than to destroy our laughter. Never forget.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

That quote is so wrong I don't even know where to begin.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno if I'm offended so much as I just don't laugh at it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

THE RED STATES WELCOME OUR NEW COMEDY JEWBOY OVERLORD

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/borat/sacha_baron_cohen/borat13.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

official site up:

http://www.boratmovie.com/

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys i saw this. it was OKAY!

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised that so few of you have any sympathy for the Kazachs concern about how their unknown country is being portrayed by Cohen. Say what you will but you KNOW that waaaay too many people will get a distorted view of Kazachstan and sorta believe it.

Despite that, I love Borat and I can't wait to see the film.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

preview screening tonight!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys i saw this. it was OKAY!

Nothing more than that? :-/

I'm surprised that so few of you have any sympathy for the Kazachs concern

The concern seems for the most part to be coming from the government, who are a bunch of tools to start with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

You feel that if the populace saw it, they'd take it to their hearts?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Are the people who'd get the wrong idea about Kazakhstan (from a comedy) a group that would otherwise engage in Kazakh tourism?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- This seems to be the theory with the other country being made fun of, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

That says something about the American heart that a) I'd rather not believe and b) I'd rather not believe about Kazakhs anyway.

xpost - It seems a decent idea to have non-poisonous views even on nations that don't depend on tourist Dollars (Iraq springs to mind :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, viciously racist stereotypes are bad enough, but defending them because previously people wouldn't have had any views on that country as if that didn't make it worse is just completely WTF.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

would Borat concept not work as well if he was from an imaginary 'Stan?

― ;_; (blueski), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I AM LOOKING FOR MY COZEN LARRY! + Andy Kaufman = Borat (also = me asleep)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

So, are you all ready for "Throw the Jew down the well" or whatever to become the new "I'm Rick James, bitch"?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, viciously racist stereotypes are bad enough, but defending them because previously people wouldn't have had any views on that country as if that didn't make it worse is just completely WTF.

How does that make it worse? If a small group of people who didn't know or care that Kazakhstan existed before now have an incorrect view of it - who was harmed? They never would have patronized Kazakhstan and its industry, nor are they in a position to guide policy toward Kazakhstan. For all intents and purposes, Kazakhstan is as real to them as Hobbitland.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

wtf milo

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's THE SHIRE!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

except that the jew song was out two years ago, and kinda already forwarded around by everybody back then.

but i am waiting for "All your base are belong to us" or "Wazzzzup" or "I wuz fuckin' mah momma!" whatever to become the new "I'm Rick James, bitch".

xpost

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

＇へ＇凸 xpost

― Allyzay (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Still, I don't know what you all are on about. the Kazakh penchant for rape & archery makes it far more likely i'll spend my tourist dollars there.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I would totally be excited to see the Kazakh steppe and especially the Baikonur Cosmodrome

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Chico Marx vs Cozen Larry vs Borat vs Yakof Zmirnoff

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the catchphrase being out-of-date is totally going to keep fratboys from yelling it out of cars.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/borat/sacha_baron_cohen/borat13.jpg vs http://www.bransonarrangements.com/images/client/showID_230_yakovhorse.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Borat is based on a Russian Doctor Sasha Baron Cohen once met. He said the Doctor was completely hilarious, but it was unintentional.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Tho i would be genuinely entertained by Borat's attempt at a Branson show

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey Mo + internet connection = broken record

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

holeeee shitttttt

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

i have a low tolerance for embarrassment humor so big stretches were super uncomfortable for me, but jesus christ there are a million moments that are just not on film in any other way anywhere

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

the film was very funny, but disappointing. not as consistent as an episode of Baron Cohen's old show, but when he hit, he hit it out of the park.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

"I'd like to invite Cohen here. He can discover a lot of things," said deputy foreign minister Rakhat Aliyev.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I bet they throw him down a well.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

now THAT would be funny

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Watch the "Antique Shop" bit.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

when i saw an advance showing of the film i couldn't help but die laughing. sure, it was totally offensive and hardcore uncomfortable but for some reason, it didn't matter.

maybe it's cause it was so ridiculous that you know that his attitudes were exaggerated and untrue and maybe because at some point, you realize that many of the americans he meets are keeping pace with his character's fucked up attitudes... and kind of half wondering, "are these people for real or are they actors?" and even if they are actors, you know the attitudes they're expressing are completely real... unlike the exaggeration cohen's playing.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 23 October 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Some unintentional co-stars speak.

One person who is likely to regret the day he met Borat is Tennessee rodeo manager Bobby Rowe, who is cajoled by the comedian into making disparaging remarks about Muslims and homosexuals.

A phone call to Mr Rowe and an enquiry about whether he is the person in the movie elicits a slow, painful reply: "Yeah, I'm the same one."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

But he says he has been stung by his experiences. "I got into this mess by someone calling me and telling me who they was and they weren't," he says.

"And so I don't do any interviews over the dadgum phone any more. This phone rings 10-12 phones a day.

Cohen must have struggled to make this guy look stupid.

― ONIMO's lips can't feel! (GerryNemo), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

to compare what cohen does w/borat to what yakov smirnoff does is pretty ridiculous.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

in soviet russia foreigner satirizes you

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to see Borat's World Trade Center mural. Yakov's I find lacking in many respects.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

shakey, i'm trying to figure out if you've never watched borat or never watched yakov smirnoff (or both)

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am guessing both.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

$5 says that Shakey Mo Collier is Cohen's newest character.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

If that's the case, the sequel is going to be boring.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

schakey baron cohllier

― cocksure triumphalism at its most vacant (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

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