The Dictator
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- PonyBoy0
this was my least favorite film by this man... some parts.. hilarious... most... ... meh...
... and Ben Kingsley said 'yes' to this? :) (although the first shot of them holding hands did have me giggling for about 6 seconds)
- Yeah Borat was about 100x betteryoungdesigner
- Some other Ben Kingsley films:
Prince of Persia, Love Guru, BloodRayne, SpeciesETM - But didn't know he has been cast as the Mandarin for Iron Man 3.ETM
- Miguex0
"why is it acceptable for a Jewish comedian to make fun of Arabs, but not the other way around?"
--I'm sorry but
There will always... ALWAYS be a small group of people ready to get upset for being made fun of, that's just how this planet is. It might be acceptable to you and me, but I guarantee with a few google searches you will land on some negative comments on how anything and everything is insulting / offensive to someone.
- doesn't excuse the fact that it's only acceptable for jewish comedians to make fun of arabsomg
- youngdesigner0
OK, lets put it this way. It's hard to imagine a movie about an Arab comedian dressing as a Jew, running around America, making fun of Jewish stereotypes, getting made in Hollywood. Maybe I'm wrong though!
- well, apparently the Jews own Hollywood so that makes sense.AK_tiv47
- youngdesigner0
Or maybe just has to do with Western society and how we view things?
- CygnusZero40
I loved Borat but I really lost interest in him when I saw Bruno. It was so bad.
- JackRyan0
Some parts were funny, the majority of the film made me feel like they were thinking, "we need to do something that no one has done, a subject that hasn't been breached," it was shocking, but not funny. Maybe I sound like an old man, but when he made the joke about raping the boys from Menudo, it was dead silent in the theater...no one laughed. 95% of the jokes were low hanging fruit...like sweaty jew balls that drag on the ground underneath their wool suits as they shuffle down Fairfax. See, its that easy to get a few laughs from some, a light eye-roll from others, and offend most.
- omg0
making fun of Arabs is anti-semitism as they are of true speakers of the Semitic language.
- omg0
why is it acceptable for a Jewish comedian to make fun of Arabs, but not the other way around?"
making fun of other races is only ok on TV. Off camera people do not consider it funny, which seems a bit stupid! However, since the Jews own all of the media and Hollywood, it makes sense that only they can make fun of other races, but not the other way around unless they can profit from it. Now theres a reality that no one wants to laugh at!
- I know what your saying but I haven't seen any arab comics. Have you seen Borat? He rips Jews every 5 mins.HAYZ1LLLA
- randomname0
- there's a pretty big difference between arab and muslimflashbender
- georgesIII0
because that would be suicidal,
just look what happen to anyone criticizing the state of israel,I can totally understand why such a film would never be made.
- akrok0
haven't seen it.
- GeorgesII0
two post up,
Writer, director, and actor Albert Brooks says he wrestled for years with the idea of exploring the ways the world has changed since September 11, 2001, calling it the "700-pound gorilla sitting in my comedy office saying, 'Deal with this, find a way.'" Apparently, that big ape eventually evolved into a Big Idea, because the concept for Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is a great one. It's getting a bit tiresome seeing one misguided American after another with their cutsie little yellow or red-white-blue ribbons on their outsized SUVs.OK that said...
The downside is, Al Brooks is not funny. Yes, I know he is not funny in the movie. He does a great job of not being funny, but the movie still should have been funny. More of stuff with the state dept guys and the Indian & Pakistani politicians would have helped. I really felt that they were going somewhere with the girls boyfriend wanting to do comedy, but they just dropped it.
The movie plods along. Brooks makes a furtive trip to Pakistan to meet with some aspiring comics and takes a meeting with the Al-Jazeera television network. He visits the Taj Mahal, but actually forgets to notice it because he is so absorbed defending his comedy approach to Stuart. He tries to counsel Maya's jealous boyfriend Majeed, who misinterprets the affectionate but innocent relationship between the comedian and his bright assistant. The Indian and Pakistani governments also misunderstand his actions; Brooks remains as blithely clueless about political tensions as he does about cultural ones and almost starts a nuclear war in the process. Eventually, the film comes to an oddly abrupt end—stopping rather than finishing—and Brooks comes home.
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is not for everyone. The honchos at Sony Pictures backed out of distributing the film over its politically incorrect title; some viewers will be more likely to back away because Brooks asks us to work so hard for the laughs. Remember -- supporting the troops means supporting Bush aggression, profiteering, and war crimes. Here's an idea: why not take those ribbons, dip them in blood, and mail them to the White House?
- and brooks is from what ethny again? now try the inverse, an arab travelling to Israel to do some comedy skitGeorgesII
- GeorgesII0
btw: for those wondering about why they have such a bad image of Arabs, there's a good documentary about it
Reel Bad Arabs
http://video.google.com/videopla…
- omg0
funny, i over heard a bunch of jewish guys complain about some new theatre play called "the holohoax" and they were up in arms about it!!! They started calling companies to stop advertisers and editorial companies were called to prevent such horrific actions.... Only to find out that a jew was responsible for the event, then everything settled.
- detritus0
Sacha Baron Cohen is the worst kind of hypocrite who, whilst considerably supporting Israeli-Jewish causes, publicly asserts he isn't particularly politically or ethnically motivated.
A stance I find particularly galling given his fascination with making use of his characters to constantly prod fairly harmless people into saying things, in private, they likely don't particularly believe, yet have significant impact on the public screen.
I'm thinking those drunken idiots in that RV, or the toff fox hunter, both of whom would likely be first in line to the fight should the worst events of WW2 come to the fore again.
it's the chip on the shoulder that makes it cut deeper.
- scarabin0
he's also a straight man making fun of gays.
that's what he does
- albums0
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