Borat Attacked!
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- UndoUndo0
im with blastov - it screams PR
- babaganush0
cupid stunt
- Crouwel0
good point baba..
- Crouwel0
was he dressed up as borat when he got beaten? I'd LOVE to see that haha..
- 2wo0
everyones hating cause they just heard of him. Theyre like "its that guy from talladega nights!"
- moth0
If I started making nigger jokes on here everyday, would it fucking matter how I cut it with "social discourse"?
All these 1000's of people paying to watch his movies were probably the same ones who thought that we needed laws against racial incitement. By rights, (and by law I expect) shouldn't this film be pulled from the UK cinemas?
It reeks of double standards.
- Crouwel0
good point.
legally speaking this movie may be an issue.
i wonder if someone'd sue.
- 2wo0
It's satire.
- Witt0
i never watched him - but i hate him anyway.
- moth0
It's satire.
2wo
(Nov 14 06, 05:37)How very convenient.
- Baskerville0
moth I can't believe how you're overreacting.
It's a satirical comedy, if people go and see it and laugh without realising the irony then that's their fault, it can't be helped.
That's like complaining that if someone doesn't get The Producers 'springtime for hitler' or the Life of Brian then it should be banned because it might be misconstrued as racist.
Surely something like the Passion of the Christ is much more inflammatory.I think it's good that baron-cohen is exposing the real racists. I'm jewish and saw the film in a predominantly jewish area of london and the cinema was roaring with laughter the whole through, especially the 'running of the jew'. Because we all got it.
- mr_snuggles0
I can't believe how much you twats are talking about this rubbish, good god, this wasn't even funny when it first came out...
- formcounterform0
yeah i am a redneck
*looks at nech
olive*looks at skin tan
*looks at last name
non american and non eurooh yeah
im a rednecki agree with whoever said his fan base are obnoxious fucking pricks
- paraselene0
against whom, exactly, is this racism being perpetrated? i haven't seen the film.
the jews or the kazakhs?
- moth0
That's like complaining that if someone doesn't get The Producers 'springtime for hitler' or the Life of Brian then it should be banned
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I'm jewish and saw the film in a predominantly jewish area of london and the cinema was roaring with laughter the whole through, especially the 'running of the jew'. Because we all got it.
Baskerville
(Nov 14 06, 05:55)What I said is nothing like your examples.
Furthermore, I never once expressed a desire to see it banned, and I never said I didn't "get it".
I totally get it, and it's totally not funny.
The only social statement this makes is the HUGE fucking u-turn on account on the general public.
You're a Jew? You laughed? Fantastic. This has nothing to do with my point.
- moth0
sorry snuggles.
my borat gripe has been itching to air itself for several years now.
- babaganush0
' A predominantly jewish area of london and the cinema was roaring with laughter the whole through, especially the 'running of the jew'. Because we all got it.'
Bully for you. I feel for the opressed of Golders green. wouldn't really cite humour or debate about Jewish depression as being cutting edge. In context it's not actually that funny. Baron-Cohen can be excused as the character was developed a long time ago but excuse me if the age old oppression of Jews joke hasn't worn thin...awaits the obvious acusations of anti- semitism of time immemorial.
- Baskerville0
ok then you don't find it funny, fair enough what's the problem?
I found it funniest when it was in short segments on tv. In the same way ali g was funny in short segments on the 11 o'clock show, ditto for daisy donovan and ricky gervais on the same show.
- moth0
i guess to sum up my feelings, if this film was released say 4 years ago, there would have been uproar.
Government bans some "grey" areas of free speech and no one bats an eye lid. (I presume everyone was fine with this except me and rowan atkinson).
Couple of years later, you're all watching a film laden with 'racist' jokes, and everything's cool and the gang.
It's amazing.
- paraselene0
TELL ME A RACIST JOKE!