Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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According to BoxOfficeMojo, production costs were $18 million but you'll probably want to double that in terms of advertising and promo. It's still running a solid profit at this point and DVDs will send it higher.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

$18 million? oh yeah i guess they flew to romania and everything, but still.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Lawyers. Lots of lawyers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

forgot about that part too, i guess.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

KING OF THE CASTLE, I HAVE A CHAIR

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Da prez of Kazakhstan: "The film was created by a comedian so let's laugh at it - that's my attitude."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

xpost

Geez, Borat and The Departed are the only two I've seen in the b.o. Top Seventy.

The writers speak (descrip from Cinematical):

There are juicy tidbits .. about what was really supposed to happen when the Black prostitute showed up at the dinner party (she and Borat were supposed to have loud sex in the bathroom and then get thrown out, but the white folks jumped the gun by freaking out over a Black woman coming in their house and kicked them out early) and who saved the rodeo tapes from a mob of pissed-off rednecks by putting them down his underwear.

http://www.wga.org/writtenby/writtenbysub.aspx?id=2274

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

"(she and Borat were supposed to have loud sex in the bathroom and then get thrown out, but the white folks jumped the gun by freaking out over a Black woman coming in their house and kicked them out early)"

speaks volumes abt the writer's intentions and basic ineptitude.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

by no means did I think they threw them out because the woman was black, gimme a break.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe if they had been on a bus...

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

maybe if she hadn't been dressed like a prostitute...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Don’t treat no girlie well until you’re sure of the scoop

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

lolz

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

SBC on Fresh Air, interviewed out of character.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://media.npr.org/programs/fa/features/2007/jan/sbcohen200.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, he came off as such a dullard in that interview, and Terry Gross was just lapping him up. "Well you see, there's a great historian who once said 'The road to the holocaust was paved with indifference.'"

My 8th grade Hebrew school teacher?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Here's another film I saw this weekend.

Am I right in assuming that everyone was not 'in on it' apart from:

1) Pamela Anderson
2) the 'black prostitute'
3) The 'manager' bloke, and the people in Romania.

?

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think there was some discussion upthread that the convention thing at the hotel was staged, but the people present didn't necessarily know what was going to happen.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've skimmed most of this thread now.

Biggest 'expose..'

Where he gets a lift with dumb kids, they all 'right wing bullshit merchants', and yet they all cuddle him and suddenly become all human when Borat discovers the love of his life isn't a pure virgin, and give him lots of supportive cheer as he leaves.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

SBC kind of looks like jaymc!

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

:o I'm gonna withhold comment til I can verify that one.

How's the deleted stuff?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Proving once again that I can pass as Jewish.

― jaymc, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Gotta win Best Fight among others.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Okay I finally saw this movie last night. I have a sore throat from the shrieking laughter.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, when I saw it, it was about as close as I've seen to people literally rolling in the aisles.

― o. nate, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

How's the deleted stuff?

The deleted stuff ranges from incredibly hysterical to "omg America sux".

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, that footage need to see.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

*I* need to see, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

The funniest is a tossup between him going through a supermarket, getting a massage (!) and attempting to adopt a dog (!!!!). The "omg America sux" involves the amount of hassle they got from the police when they weren't doing anything wrong and the ferocious spin-doctoring of the rodeo event on that town's local news.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

The supermarket and massage bits kill me every single time.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

"And what is this?"

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, when I saw it, it was about as close as I've seen to people literally rolling in the aisles.

I'm with you, I've never seen a cinema full of people have such a raucuos reaction to a comedy. It made it a much better communal experience than going to the pictures normally is.

― chap, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

That wrestling scene is one of the most ungodly, unbelievable things I have ever seen.

Also the reaction to "You mean to tell me that the man who tried to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?????" was priceless.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

It was mentioned upthread, but the fact that the manager didn't require any black censorship bars still amuses me.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I watched it again recently. The wrestling scene is still awesome. The looks on those ladies faces when they get into the elevator naked and holding the rubber fist? Awesome.

― ENBB, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

wrestling thing is the funniest scene in the film. that and running gag with the chicken in the suitcase. the rest = eh.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Shakey you are completely high.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda wish I was but I'm at work

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

All of the interviews/encounters are awesome, particularly the intercutting between the etiquette lesson and the horrifying meal with the Southern society folk and the brief politician interviews. And the speed with which those frat boys pwned themselves on camera!

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

"Did the retard get loose?"

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

And lest we forget, POO IN A BAG.

― chap, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

eh makin fratboys look stupid is shooting fish in a barrel

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

ditto uptight aristocrats

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

wtf @ shakey

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

yard sale bit is great ("i will look upon your things gypsy")

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh also "I follow the hawk" line = funny

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think the point is that the fratboys made themselves look incredibly stupid with pretty much 0 help from Borat. The aristos didn't look stupid, just incredibly uncomfortable and struggling to be understanding and gracious until the prostitute showed up. (Screamingly funny bit: when the pro walks in and the pastor goes, "Okay, it's time for me to go.")

The entire thing with the bear was awesome, too, ESP. the punchline.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dan were you previously unaware that fratboys are stupid or something

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Shakey were you aware that shut the fuck up

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

lolz

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

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