Well, the point is to make fun of stupid stereotypes, you are right, and it is a "stupid" comedy, but the intellegence behind it is imense and carries a greater purpose. What you are laughing at, and what i was laughing at was our own country and our own surroundings in which what the outside world precieves is not too far from the truth. When they visit here, those are the people they meet. That is there represtation of America, and that should make you think. In no way am I criticizing (sp) you, just pointing out that there is other layers to the "stupid" comedy

There's a great interview with Sacha in Rolling Stone this month. Very insightful and informative. I recommend you read it.

I finally saw it on thanksgiving day before turkey eating.

It was hilirious..."how fast do you have to drive to kill a gypsy?" haha and then that guy said "about 35 or 40" pure brilliance

I think Pamela Anderson was in on it.

Yup, she was. Most of the others weren't though. He even stayed in character to deal with cops.

:D :D I thought so.


Also, not sure if anyone else noticed this...but Borat does a lot of stuff right out of vaudville. The best example of this was the "off-balance" bit he did in the antique shop, I think they were in Texas. hilliarious, i thought.

L.A. judge sides with "Borat" against frat boys
Mon Dec 11, 5:57 PM ET
As the esteemed Kazakh television journalist Borat Sagdiyev might say: "High Five. Sexy Time. You Lose."

Two college fraternity buddies shown guzzling alcohol and making racist remarks in the "Borat" movie have lost their bid for a court order to cut the scene they claim has tarnished their reputations, court papers revealed on Monday.

The students sued the movie's distributor and producers last month, saying filmmakers had duped them into appearing in "Borat" by getting them drunk and falsely promising the film would never be shown in the United States.

At the time the suit was filed, a judge denied the pair's request for a temporary restraining order that would remove footage of them from the film, but the plaintiffs were given a another chance to seek an injunction at a hearing last week.

The South Carolina college students lost again when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Biderman ruled they had failed to show a reasonable probability of success on the merits of their case or that money damages alone would be insufficient to resolve their claims.

Arguments on the latest motion focused mainly on the future DVD release of the hit movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

The faux documentary, distributed by 20th Century Fox, has already grossed more than $120 million at the North American box office after six weeks in theaters.

The lawyer for the students, Olivier Taillieu, said last week that while the film's theatrical run is coming to a close, the perpetuity of the film on DVD posed ongoing problems for his clients, including harm to their ability to seek work.

Last month, Taillieu said the movie had cost one of the students a job at a major corporation and another a prestigious internship. The students were identified in court papers only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. A third student involved in the scene did not take part in the suit.

The film stars British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a fictional Kazakh TV journalist whose boorish sensibilities clash with ordinary Americans. The story line is driven by a series of improvised encounters with people who become Baron Cohen's unsuspecting foils.

The scene at issue in the lawsuit depicts Borat getting drunk with three frat boys in a motor home while they watch a sex tape and make racist remarks about slavery and minorities in the United States.

20th Century Fox is a unit of News Corp.

And:

Official Chi Psi Statement on "Borat".

(Sorry if this was already linked. I looked and didn't see a link, but I may have missed one.)

I finally saw Borat last weekend. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I think both my husband and I could have done without the hotel scene, but other than that, I was cracking up the whole time. The rodeo scene was in the town next to mine. I remember when they were filming about a year and a half ago or so and the news show I was working on ran a story about Sacha Baron Cohen tricking people at the rodeo for his TV show. We didn't know it would be part of the movie :) One of my coworkers knew some of the people in the scene.

:)

I liked the news apperance, we used to get that channel in college

so the boys did not win?

I finally saw it last night. I loved it! I can't wait until it comes out on DVD.