Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

everything else seemed real enough to me.

http://www.onpointnews.com/

I did think the scene seemed a little over-the-top, not like they weren't real, but like they'd been kind of encouraged to say certain sorts of things before the camera started rolling - the way the one dude asks him right off "SO WHAT ABOUT THE BABES MAN!"

I think it's equally likely that they were just drunk and there was suddenly a camera in the room.

1) If you've already seen lots of Ali G episodes, some of the schtick felt too well-worn. Jagshemash, eetsa nice, etc. - it was like an SNL movie

2) Too much Jackass-level grossout humor (although Jackass is ok when that's what you're in the mood for)

3) Too much straight-up meanness

4) Most of the better scenes, i.e. the rodeo, were spoiled in advance by reviews (not the movie's fault, of course)

5) All of the good parts would have been just fine as bits in the show. The attempts to hold this together as a movie (the 'plot', the producer character, all scenes involing only actors) fell flat.

Yawn.

WAHT? THE HORSE WAS NOT UPSET BY HIS DESECRATION OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM?

Robert Downey Sr's Putney Swope?

The per-screen average falling by 2/3 essentially shows that ppl who thought the studio goofed by opening it in "only" 800 theaters are likely fulla shit.

but no, i saw an interview later - she was in some other movie.

fooled again.

Even more intriguing are hints that scripted elements were used, along with professional camerawork, all in an effort to make sure the scene went off perfectly.

PROFESSIONAL camerwork, you say?!

jeez, we can add these guys to teh douchebags list.

The plot itself is obviously 'not real' - its merely a framework on which to hang the improvised scenes. The prostitute's involvement in the plot wasn't "real" but there was some question as to whether her initial appearance was. As it turned out, she was an actress but I don't think anyone was confused as to her falling in love with Borat being fictional.

Nonetheless the scenes of them 'out on the town' appeared as if they were filmed 'in reality'

I did think the scene seemed a little over-the-top, not like they weren't real, but like they'd been kind of encouraged to say certain sorts of things before the camera started rolling - the way the one dude asks him right off "SO WHAT ABOUT THE BABES MAN!"

You've clearly never known any frat boys.

As Sacha Baron Cohen’s pig and pony show continues to rake in the disposable income of an indiscriminate North American demographic

"When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat, he found the perfect place in Glod: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running water and where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land.

But now the villagers of this tiny, close-knit community have angrily accused the comedian of exploiting them, after discovering his new blockbuster film portrays them as a backward group of rapists, abortionists and prostitutes, who happily engage in casual incest.

They claim film-makers lied to them about the true nature of the project, which they believed would be a documentary about their hardship, rather than a comedy mocking their poverty and isolation.

Villagers say they were paid just £3 each for this humiliation, for a film that took around £27million at the worldwide box office in its first week of release.

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It's a feeling Glod is used to. The village, like others in the Dambovita region of Romania, is populated mainly by gipsies who say they are discriminated against by the rest of the country.

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Luca, who now refers to Baron Cohen as to the 'ugly, tall, moustachioed American man', even though the 35-year-old comedian is British, said: 'They paid my family £30 for four full days. They were nice and friendly, but we could not understand a single word they were saying.

'It was very uncomfortable at the end and there was animal manure all over our home. We endured it because we are poor and badly needed the money, but now we realise we were cheated and taken advantage of in the worst way."

So Sacha jewed the gypsies and american liberals applaud.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23374170-details/Borat%20film%20'tricked'%20poor%20village%20actors/article.do

Haha you can't make this stuff up can you?

I'll Jew you, fuckhead.

Wow, so 'edgy' and 'subversive'

Do we even have to ask?

>Do we even have to ask?

because I'm to only anti-semite on the internet.

-- kingfish prætor (jdsalmo...), November 13th, 2006.

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