Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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"a whole new genre of film"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like folks still aren't getting how this works; they have them sign a release form after the fact.

I understand that part.

But I've been around enough association dinners to know that the INSTANT an unexpected camera crew enters the premesis, they will be asked to leave. It's the fact that they had footage of the dinner prior to the interruption and that the camereas were fixed on the very door that the two burst in through BEFORE they did so (mixed with the fact that the hotel/ association have not been in the press unlike the rest of the subjects) that leads me to believe it might have been staged. A shot following the two down a corridor and then into the ballroom (think: the camera angle in every chase on COPS ever) would make much more sense if it were a real dinner that suffered a real interruption.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's to say they weren't filming the dinner under the claim of it being for a documentary film of some sort? "Don't mind us, we're just sitting up some cameras here and there."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

That is a definite possibility. And mixed with my hotel-gave-the-mortgage-brokers-a-free-dinner-in-order-to-put-the-kibosh-on-the-whole-thing theory, its quite possible it could be real.

But there's definatley at LEAST three hundred people in there. Its amazing that no one has been able to get a hold of a single one of them.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

In actuality, it turns out that Borat is a far more damning critique of America than it is of Kazakhstan.

srsly?!?!

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone know how much more there is to that Rolling Stone interview? I was unfamiliar with the author until I read his Wikipedia Entry which makes him sound like King Douche of Douchebaggia. That excerpt makes it sound like he wasted a golden opportunity with the real SBC.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

OH MY GOD, IT'S NEIL STRAUSS???

jesus, glad i didn't click that link yet

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hey guys i know someone who was at the mortgage brokers convention thinking and they were told there was a documentary being filmed on mortgage brokers.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

- thinking

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

that rolling stone interview is terrible and makes SBC sound boring. why did he pick that guy to be himself around?

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Neil Strauss should be beaten with reeds.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard that Neil Strauss is "balding, dickless imp".

― I'm sorry I love that JoJo Dancer thing (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ive changed my mind on him now that i find out he wrote the marilyn manson biography. GENIUS WRITER, NEIL STRAUSS!!!!!!!!

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I have read "The Dirt" and vaguley recall the hoopla surrounding "The Game" but am otherwise unfamiliar.

He seems like a horrible choice for this assignment though, wrt his own history of profiting from deception.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

chaki, were you just making a point or do you seriously know someone who was there? if it was the former, then point taken.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Neil Strauss should be beaten with reeds.

Not pain-inducing enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, does anyone have a hard copy of that rolling stone issue and if so can you advise wether or not it would be worth my time to get over to barnes and noble to read the full story or not?

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

More lawsuit mania!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm guessing she hasn't read her contract (and the subsequent release she signed) real well.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i dont get it, the two women described in this article were two different people in the film. wtf.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes. The reason for this is explained in the Salon piece above.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=borat.htm

This thing's already made like $135 million or so.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I wonder when the last year was I didn't see anything in the box-office top 10.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen three things.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait four.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

has it been published what they spent to make this film? my guess would be that this is proving to be one of the ost profitable films in a while.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

$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 (seventeen years ago) link

Lawyers. Lots of lawyers.

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

forgot about that part too, i guess.

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

KING OF THE CASTLE, I HAVE A CHAIR

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"(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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe if they had been on a bus...

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

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

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

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

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

lolz

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

SBC on Fresh Air, interviewed out of character.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

SBC kind of looks like jaymc!

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

: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 (seventeen years ago) link

Proving once again that I can pass as Jewish.

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

one month passes...

Gotta win Best Fight among others.

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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