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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Genre | Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
Contributor | Anthony Hines, Alan Keyes, Pamela Anderson, Peter Baynham, Larry Charles, Luenell, Todd Phillips, Jean-Pierre Parent, Mitchell Falk, Bob Barr, Ken Davitian, Dan Mazer, Sacha Baron Cohen See more |
Language | English, Hebrew, Armenian, Romanian, Polish |
Runtime | 1 hour and 24 minutes |
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Sacha Baron Cohen brings his Kazakh journalist character Borat Sagdiyev to the big screen for the first time. Leaving his native Kazakhstan, Borat travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
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It takes a certain kind of comic genius to create a character who is, to quote the classic Sondheim lyric, appealing and appalling. But be forewarned: Borat is not "something for everyone." It arrives as advertised as one of the most outrageous, most offensive, and funniest films in years. Kazakhstan journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen reprising the popular character from his Da Ali G Show), leaves his humble village to come to "U.S. and A" to film a documentary. After catching an episode of Baywatch in his New York hotel room, he impulsively scuttles his plans and, accompanied by his fat, hirsute producer (Hardy to his Laurel), proceeds to California to pursue the object of his obsession, Pamela Anderson. Borat is not about how he finds America; it's about how America finds him in a series of increasingly cringe-worthy scenes. Borat, with his '70s mustache, well-worn grey suit, and outrageously backwards attitudes (especially where Jews are concerned) interacts with a cross-section of the populace, catching them, a la Alan Funt on Candid Camera, in the act of being themselves. Early on, an unwitting humor coach advises Borat about various types of jokes. Borat asks if his brother's retardation is a ripe subject for comedy. The coach patiently replies, "That would not be funny in America." NOT! Borat is subversively, bracingly funny. When it comes to exploring uncharted territory of what is and is not appropriate or politically correct, Borat knows no boundaries, as when he brings a fancy dinner with the southern gentry to a halt after returning from the bathroom with a bag of his feces ("The cultural differences are vast," his hostess graciously/patronizingly offers), or turns cheers to boos at a rodeo when he calls for bloodlust against the Iraqis and mangles "The Star Spangled Banner."
Success, John F. Kennedy once said, has a thousand fathers. A paternity test on Borat might reveal traces of Bill Dana's Jose Jimenez, Andy Kaufman, Michael Moore, The Jamie Kennedy Xperiment, and Jackass. Some scenes seem to have been staged (a game Anderson, whom Borat confronts at a book signing, was reportedly in on the setup), but others, as the growing litany of lawsuits attests, were not. All too real is Borat's encounter with loutish Southern frat boys who reveal their sexism and racism, and the disturbing moment when he asks a gun store owner what gun he would recommend to "kill a Jew" (a Glock automatic is the matter-of-fact reply). Comedy is not pretty, and in Borat it can get downright ugly, as when Borat and his producer get jiggly with it during a nude fight that spills out from their hotel room into the hallway, elevator, lobby and finally, a mortgage brokers association banquet. High-five! --Donald Liebenson
On the DVD"Global Visitings" captures Borat-mania in all its hype and glory, as Sacha Baron Cohen, never breaking character, promotes his film around the world. On the itinerary is Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Toronto Film Festival, a now-legendary screening aborted after a projector malfunction. A mixed bag of deleted scenes finds Borat trying to bait more unsuspecting citizens, including an animal-control worker who refuses Borat a dog after he asks, "How do you recommend I cook this?" and a doctor who is nonplussed by Borat's obscene medical history. A supermarket visit offers the most maddening fromage-inspired looniness since Monty Python's "Cheese Shop" sketch. Also good for a few chuckles are a faux soundtrack commercial and a Baywatch parody ("Sexydangerwatch"). --Donald Liebenson
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.63 x 5.44 x 7.61 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Item model number : 2219442
- Director : Larry Charles
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 24 minutes
- Release date : April 5, 2015
- Actors : Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Pamela Anderson, Bob Barr
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified, French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B000MMMT9G
- Writers : Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Phillips
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #32,072 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #4,027 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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Cohen’s sense of comedy is apparent in the opening scene as he walks around his hometown which includes a kindergarten where the kids have AK-47s, where the mechanic also performs abortions, and introduces his sister as the number four prostitute in the country. It gets even better when he arrives in New York City.
Cohen’s style is to play his role and not tell other people he is acting. Thus he gets on a New York City subway, tries to kiss guys on the cheek and then releases two chickens on the train. It’s like a performance artist gone wild.
In the middle of all the jokes Cohen uncovered some of the many flaws in America like the head of a rodeo who said Muslims were all terrorists and that gays should be hung. Another time some drunk college kids said that the Jews and other minorities had all the power in the U.S. and asked if women in Borat’s home country were his slaves because that’s what they wanted out of their women.
It's a one of a kind movie.
But what? Well, the word is about that all of the scenes in Borat (except the one with Pamela Anderson) were spontaneous, that is to say that the people meeting Borat actually thought they were contributing to a documentary about America to be shown on Kazakh TV. I'd say that after watching closely several times that while some people may have been caught off guard, others surely were in on the game. Though New Yorkers' reactions to Borat trying to kiss them is entirely believable, some other scenes were not. I can't imagine the scene at the rodeo where Borat butchered the national anthem, nor can I imagine that Borat could get away with defecating in front of the Trump Towers in full public view without being challenged. The scenes toward the end where Borat and his assistant run nude into a meeting of mortgage brokers taxes its credibility as well. Then there is the scene where Borat sleeps next to a campfire on the steps of a mega-church and hasn't been rousted long before the congregation begins to arrive. Come on!
Then there is something that perhaps the film's producers missed: Borat's appearance on the evening news in Jackson MS long before he and his assistant got anywhere near Jackson. Watch closely, unless you are geographically challenged, you'll see what I am saying.
Beyond all that, there is a lot to laugh at. Sacha Baron Cohen's character causes you to confront some of the crudest and most outlandish stereotypes about others, particularly about Jews. There is the Running of the Jew back home in Kazakhstan where the object is not to let the Jew get the money, there is the idea that Jews can shift shapes and that the new form can be mollified by throwing money at it (must be a peculiarly Eastern European myth, not even the Nazis tried to sell that), then there is the idea that Jews will cunningly kill, eat and rob Christians. The scene where the traveling pair went to a bed and breakfast that turned out to be owned by an elderly Jewish couple is just hilarious. Other stereotypes are confronted as well: about gypsies, about blacks, about gays, about evangelical Christians and even about Southern whites.
Some of the scenes tut-tutted in the press as being horrible I see in retrospect as being just cleverly spun, like the scene where Borat asks the gun-shop owner about which is the best gun with which to defend himself against Jews. The owner told him, but he didn't sell him a gun, did he? Ditto the man in the car lot who told Borat what speed would do the maximum damage to a crowd of gypsies with minimum damage to the Hummer that Borat was trying to buy. If indeed the answer was spontaneous, my view is that the car lot owner considered the question a joke since where would one find a crowd of gypsies to plow into in the US?
What's my favorite scene? It's Borat returning to the dinner table at a fancy dining club trying to find out where to dispose of the turd he is carrying in a baggie and the hostess then having to show him how a toilet is used.
My caveats aside, don't try to read too much social commentary into Borat though its there for those who seek it. While its not clean, its great fun and some of the deleted scenes featured in the bonus section will have you roaring as well. Some of the movie is downright silly, but overall its still one of the funniest I've seen in a while.
The remarkable Sacha Baron Cohen is Borat, a Kazakhstani TV reporter sent to America to report on its greatness. In New York, exposure to a “Baywatch” episode leads to a Pamela Anderson obsession, and a cross-country trek to make the blonde icon his wife. Arguably, the grand aspiration of “Borat” rests in the fact that Baron Cohen's character is one of a few that isn’t a real person: It’s a brilliant commingling with reality programming as Borat engages with unsuspecting Americans on his journey to secure Pamela.
By speaking unspeakable things and revealing their outrageousness, “Borat” sits in mustached greatness in the throne room of film's best satires. - (Was this review of use? If so, let me know by clicking "Helpful." Cheers!) - WATCHED THIS? THEN WATCHLIST: "Blazing Saddles," "Sausage Party," "Stadium Anthems."
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Just like in Michael Moore movies often is the case, Borat knows to put his finger on the right place and manages to show America how it really is. An uptight, patriotic, homophobic, God fearing, anti-social country, in which minorities still have a hard time and not all rights are considered equal to some. It's funny, in the interviews it often is not Borat who says the most offensive things, it are the interviewees who do so, such as the rodeo-guy and the frat boys.
But no, the movie is not all criticism. For most part it's just a fun and often also hilarious people about making fun of ignorant people.
In all honesty it's hard to tell how much of the movie was actually improvised and how much of it was real. Obviously some sequences were scripted such as all the scene's in Kazakhstan and some other sequences will make you really doubt. Some of obviously planned the camera-positions are often too coincidental and also the fact that the movie had an actual professional director attached to it, makes you really wonder. It also is hard to imaging that all those people actually took this silly talking and looking character so seriously as they did in this movie all the time. When a person who wears his underwear above his pants and is talking slang is entering your hotel with a camera-crew following him, wouldn't you crack up, realizing that this just can't be for real? The movie is also edited in such a way that the emotions and reactions get exaggerated. It's also are the reasons why you can't really call this movie a fake documentary or mockumentary.
What I loved about the "Da Ali G Show", in which Borat often made an appearance, was that it was improvised, real, often had no point and was all about the responses of the other person on the Sacha Baron Cohen characters. It was fun to see the peoples reactions and how they did respond to the character and its outrageous and often also offensive questions. This movie is overwritten in my opinion. The movie has a main plot line in in, in which Borat falls for non other than Pamela Anderson and makes it his personal mission to find her and marry her. In my opinion the improvising way of traveling through the USA and meeting and interviewing people would had worked way better, in both terms of criticism and humor. Now some parts in the movie feel planned and acted, which is definitely not Borat's strongest point. It also again raises the question of how much of the movie is actually improvised and how much of it was planned, though I definitely believe that most of the interviews and Borat with other people were for real. Ironic, since it was the screenplay that was actually being nominated for an Academy Award.
But all this criticism aside, this is a very fun and also often hilarious movie to watch. Some of the situations Borat gets himself into are priceless and the reactions from the ignorant persons are even more hilarious. They often don't know how to cope with this odd talking and looking character from the far away and insignificant country of Kazakhstan.
There are a couple of especially memorable sequences, such as when Borat and Azamat wrestle naked in their hotel room, after Azamat's 'hand-feast' and then start running naked through the hotel, elevators and eventually ending up wrestling naked in a convention room with hundreds of people in it. There are a couple of more hilarious and memorable sequences but no one really matches up to that moment, that totally catches you completely off guard.
It's all fast paced, which makes sure that you'll probably laugh your way non-stop trough this movie.
A perfectly fun and amusing movie that also has some striking criticism, that could had used some less story and perhaps should had been more like the show.
Their are so many occassions when you yourself will see just just how different America's culture is, from a man at a rodeo ring claiming all gay people should be locked up in prison, to a group of deliquant students who Borat hitches a ride off. It goes without saying though that the film is funny because of Borats lack of underdstanding for the American culture. A laugh out loud scene see's Cohen meet a group of black 'homies' at night, where he learns to drop his pants down to him bum, and talk street language. So, to test his new look, he goes into a posh hotel, coming out with cheek hurting lines about "whether his group of black as*ses could park the night".
And so, the film is filled with these funny scenes. As probably mentioned time after time, the naked hotel scene is a laugh, but at the same time gross, as Borat fights with his fat friend in his hotel room.
To combine a plot into this type of film has been done well too, as Borat decides he's fallen in love with Pamela Anderson (who'm he tries to kidnap - and almost succeeds!) and is soon left with nothing more than his old clapped out ice cream van as his friend leaves him.
While it does have its funny moments, I don't think it was consistent enough to make it a full blown comedy, because although the canned camera scenes mimmick that of Jackass at times, it's been set out like a documentary, and therefore i'd just consider it entertainment. But theirs no denying you'll laugh out loud at times, because this film can be seriously funny!
where this film works in comparison to say the ali g movie is that it is relatively plot free. whereas the former unwisely tried to pidgeonhole the character, here the premise is flimsy. our hero travels to the us with his manager (who does a mean oliver hardy impression), falls in love with pamela anderson and travels to the west coast to meet and marry her, changeing people's lives as he goes.
where it works too is by exposing this crude, ignorant buffoon to an unsuspecting public and focussing on their reactions of disgust, horror, bemusement, sympathy or agreement (to be fair, the ali g show did something on similar lines). sure its been done before but not to the twin aims of getting laughs and revealng certain people for what they really are. off guard we see an appallingly racist/ homophobic (and seemingly, after the furore/ lawsuits this film has generated, unapologetic) rodeo manager and some drunken fratboys revealed to be, well, idiots basically.
gloriously funny throughout (and i think stopped before the joke wore thin). one scene which has been mentioned by other reviewers had me laughing so hard i thought i was going to throw up (you probably know the scene i'm talking about). other highlights include the rodeo scene (wonder how many people in the audience did a double take on hearing 'war of terror'), which included an incredibly funny faux-kazakhstani national anthem sung to the tune of the star spangled banner ("all other countries are run by little girls" indeed). its a wonder that girl managed to stay on her horse as long as she did. i admit on first viewing i was slightly disappointed he didn't do much to the christians. after watching it again though i realised the truth...they're doing it to themselves.
in short this is a film where you laugh while at the same time being appalled. borat is not here to pander to anyone's sensibilities - he's here to show us who we are. public beware, he's got a mirror
a conundrum for you, I hate sacha baron Cohen acting in anything, but with this movie, his only watchable role, it actually worked, and it was funny while it lasted.
He developed this characters on his tv show, and managed to extend it for a movie release.
Borat, a tv news reporter from the real life Kazikstan ,suited his actual real world professional talents, that of youth tv interviewer , probably taking the piss out of the kids no doubt.
That being the secret of His success, and it is indeed a trick and a conundrum, as
sacha is not able to act anything else convincingly, in fact he is dire , worse than any amatuer .
Yet he believed in Borat so much that he pulled it this one thing off masterfully .
politics drove him , was his motivation, and is the key to his comedy.
He thrives on and relishes making fools of people who have stupid political and are morally judgemental, yet he managed to not only trick the supposed real life cast he confronted with his zany crazy Jew hating boffoon, Borat, he also fooled the cinema going public worldwide into thinking he was not being racist himself, when he chose to label everyone in Kazakstan a antisemite .
Because SAcha really believed in the serious satirical points he was making, and because he wanted his character to be believed by his unsuspecting dumb AMerican victims, he had to place his character of BORAT as coming from a real world , identifiable country.
Much to the outrage of the Kazikstani people and government, originally, but who seem to have learned there is nothing you can do about it, especially when the us army has recently invaded your near neighbours. bUt that is the power of Hollywood, they can sometimes convince you comedy is funny even when politics is not.
Baron Cohen's portrayal of Borat is brilliant and although the film does follow a plotline, the majority of the scenes are mostly improv, with Borat being put alongside unsuspecting people who are entirely convinced he's a real journalist from Kazakhstan. Borat is a loveable character despite the fact he manages to offend almost everybody he meets! Ken Davitian is also fantastic as Azamat Bagatov, Borat's rather rotund producer.
There are plenty of laugh out loud moments, although the film can be cringe-inducing at times (in a good way), especially during the famous 'naked fight' scene. In my opinion, Borat is better than Baron Cohen's more recent films Bruno and The Dictator.
Worth watching!