US students sue over Borat film

US students sue over Borat film

Sacha Baron Cohen's character has been a hit in US cinemas

Two US students are suing a film studio claiming they were duped into appearing in spoof movie Borat starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a Kazakh journalist.

The unknown plaintiffs are seen making sexist and racist remarks in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Legal papers said the two men "engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in".

Spokesman for 20th Century Fox Gregg Brilliant said the case "has no merit".

The men are identified in the film as two fraternity members from a South Carolina university.
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'Humiliation'

They are not named in the case "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment".

According to legal documents, a production crew took the pair to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before taking part in a documentary they were told would be shown outside the US.

The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the papers stated.

British comedian Cohen appears in the film as an apparently naive reporter whose enthusiastic offensiveness either leaves his US interviewees in shock, or persuades them to reveal a little too much of their own prejudices.

As well as Fox, the two men are also suing three other production companies.

The film is currently at the top of the box office charts in North America and the UK.

Reference:

BBC News: US students sue over Borat film

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Borat: The Video List Enjoy!

Borat does the Cannes thang! Let me preface this particular post with the statement Borat is to me the funniest guy I've seen in a long time.

Borat He is in your face, he has fantastic timing, he's sharp and what I like most is he is very quick on his feet.

He senses an opportunity and seizes it, his funniest segments could never be scripted, they just happen as a master of Improvisation he makes them 'happen'.
So first of all, if you somehow have managed to miss his amazing magic,Here's a smorgous board of examples:

Yes Your at the right Spot .....[Click Read More] ....to see 25 Borat Movies


1. Borat: Dating Service

2. Borat: Country and Western

3.Borat: Hunting

4. Borat: Republican Meeting

5. Borat: In the South

6. Borat: In Amsterdam

7. Borat: Patriot Rally

8. Borat: Interview

9.Borat:Borat Short from Movie

10. Borat: Guide to Acting

11. Borat: Guide to Jobs

12. Borat: Guide to Edinburgh

13. Borat: Guide to Baseball

14. Borat: Guide to Hobbies

15. Borat: MySpace

16. Borat: MTV

17. Borat: Guide to Men

18. Borat: Guide to Politics

19. Borat: Goes to America

20. Borat: Eats Oysters

21. Borat: Locust Audition

22. Borat: Appearance At Comic Con

23.Borat: Movie

24. Borat: New Movie



and for many many more simply search YouTube for Borat…

In any case, the exciting news the Movie
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is now opening.
The movie apparently more of the same - And that can't be too bad.
From all early reports the Borat The Movie is unbelievably funny!

The Movie Traileris worth a look!
Checkout the “official” Borat Website for the trailer link.
Or if you're lazy well here you go.
Borat The Movie - Trailer

Please give credit to this extensive list,
rather than steal it, Please simply link to my page.

Thank You Bagelblogger

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Borat gets invited 'Home'.

Borat: Paris is full of Lovers

A top Kazakh official has an invitation for the British comedian whose depiction of a homophobic, misogynistic, English-mangling Kazakh journalist has outraged the Central Asian nation: come visit.

The Deputy Foreign Minister, Rakhat Aliyev, said in an interview published today that he understands why Kazakhs are unhappy about Sacha Baron Cohen's character, Borat.

"But we must have a sense of humour and respect other people's freedom of creativity," Mr Aliyev was quoted as saying by Kazakhstan Today.

"I'd like to invite Cohen here," he said. "He can discover a lot of things. Women drive cars, wine is made of grapes and Jews are free to go to synagogues."

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Though to some Cohen's antics are potentially more insulting to Americans, Kazakhs have long seethed at his popularity and his maligning of their country. Cohen's Borat character has presented inhabitants of the ex-Soviet republic as addicted to horse urine, fond of shooting dogs, and viewing rape and incest as respectable hobbies.

Kazakh officials have tried to respond to the outrageous descriptions.

The Foreign Ministry recently ran ads on CNN, in The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune citing laudable - though slightly boring - facts and figures on the nation's economic growth, civil liberties and cultural achievements.

Kazakh officials are also wincing at the imminent US premiere of Cohen's full-length feature movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

"It's useless to offend an artist and threaten to sue him," Mr Aliyev was quoted as saying. "It will only further damage the country's reputation and make Borat even more popular."

References:
SMH: Kazakh invites Borat
Borats Official Home Page:Official Borat Homesite
Borats 'Myspace': Borat
Borat Clips:Yahoo
BoratMovie.com

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Now Gypsies want Borat banned

A German group representing Gypsies says it has filed a suit to try to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen showing his latest film in Germany.

"We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against [Gypsies]," said Marko Knudsen, head of the European Centre of Antiziganism Research.

Antiziganism refers to hostility to gypsies.

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The group said it had filed a complaint to prosecutors over the film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, saying it treated violence and discrimination against Gypsy peoples as acceptable behaviour.

State prosecutors in Hamburg will investigate the allegations before deciding whether to take action.

In the satirical film, which is due to open in Germany on November 2, Cohen, creator of the comic character Ali G, plays Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh television journalist who travels to the United States to report back on the American way of life.

The film's comic barbs also target Gypsies, Jews, women and many other groups.

The complaint adds to a series of protests against Cohen's creation, whose comedy character's views are not only racist and anti-Semitic but also misogynist and homophobic.

Some of the most prominent criticism has come from Kazakhstan, Borat's central Asian homeland.

Knudsen's group has asked for an injunction to stop the film from being shown in Germany.

"We called the distributors, but they laughed at us," he said.

References:
SMH: NowGypsieswant Borat Banned [Reuters ]
Borats Official Home Page:Official Borat Homesite
Borats 'Myspace': Borat
Borat Clips:Yahoo
BoratMovie.com

Guess who is coming to Australia soon!

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