Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/12/box.office.ap/index.html?eref=yahoo

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 November 2006 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/blogs/shortends_post/7613/the-front-page-whorat

Yawn.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

"Would the Anthem scene work if you knew that... the collapsing horse was merely a happy accident, not the result of Cohen’s performance?"

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

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 13 November 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

white people acting out their favorite black stereotypes

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.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I find it strange that anyone thought the prostitute was real - of course it was a fucking actress. Does anyone actually think a real prostitute would get all starry-eyed for a john that took her home?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

i thought she was real (on first viewing) - no, not for the john, for the chunk of production budget. play your cards right that could add up to a pretty lucrative night's work without having to even get naked.

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

fooled again.

― beeble (beeble), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

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.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

She was way too into Borat to be real.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Its hilarious to me how confused everyone seems to be about the 'real/fake' issue.

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'

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

The horse falling over was obviously a reaction to the crowd's raucous behavior.

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.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

that "whorat" article is fucking idiotic

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

why did i read past

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Good god people are idiots.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, the tone is so grating. A myopic internet word-peddler continues to self-aggrandizingly and inanely berate his straw (as it were) populace due to his own confusion about the veracity of said satire.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

when did "social mores" get corrupted into "social morays"?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

And now the gypsies sue:

"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.

...

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.

...

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

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh ya i'm sure the liberals are loving this!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

did you write the whorat article?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Cambridge-educated Baron Cohen filmed the opening scenes of the Borat movie in Glod - a village that is actually in Romania, rather than Kazakhstan, and whose name literally translates as 'mud', last summer."

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

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

So Sacha jewed the gypsies and american liberals applaud.

I'll Jew you, fuckhead.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

>I'll Jew you, fuckhead.

Wow, so 'edgy' and 'subversive'

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm being pretty direct.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

admit you were trying to be edgy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am seriously wondering if lawsuits are the new marketing tool for this film now that they've milked the Kazakhs are mad at Borat schtick for all it's worth.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Is JEWED the new PWNED?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

did you write the whorat article?

Do we even have to ask?

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, don't even.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

unless you want the liberals to stop applauding.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

>did you write the whorat article?

>Do we even have to ask?

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

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

you're to only?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Those dang liberals. Always with their anti-semitism.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

when did "social mores" get corrupted into "social morays"?

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

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― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

i will die happy now that i have heard my mother say "her vagine hang like sleeve of wizard"

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

weird life goal

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's all i have

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'm this close to bagging work and drinking a 40 behind the rite aid

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

haha maybe i need to build a fire outside of a revival church and let my chicken run free into the wild

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

You just need to find the right celebrity to marry.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

omg nicole i just got your email address

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

It seemed sadly appropriate.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

my husband was trying to say that borat and the pentecosts was like odesseus and the lotus-eaters but then he couldn't come up with another odessey parallel.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm this close to bagging work and drinking a 40 behind the rite aid

-- bo janglin (wt...), November 13th, 2006 10:06 AM. (dubplatestyle) (later) (link)

we should hang out

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

nicole is your email a c0y0t3 p4tr1n ref

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can read numbers

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

And I'm trying to think of a reason we should even still have any beef that extends past mid-2003; I kinda stopped invoking you for rofl-mockery purposes a while back once I figured out it was pointless and oops hey The Blueprint > Roots Manuva after all

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

The Blueprint sucks, though.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

so does good charlotte

http://www.playfuls.com/news_0003273_Borats_Face_Punched_in_NY_by_Joke_Victim.html

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

is your email a c0y0t3 p4tr1n ref

No, it's before your time, sonny.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

OH IT'S GO TIME ON ILX NOW SUCKAS

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

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