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Borat!!!

:yahoo: :yahoo: B) :yahoo: :yahoo:

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not only is Sacha Baron Cohen a star of the 5 star rated Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby but he will be seen in Borat: Cultural Learnings from America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan directed by Larry Charles from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

i love curb your enthusiam, have all the series's so funny!

i found this news report funny:

 

Kazakhstan launches anti-Borat effort

Tuesday, September 12 2006, 21:25 BST - by Dave West

 

The Kazakh government has announced a US campaign to counter the effect of the upcoming Borat movie - including a meeting with President George Bush.

 

Officials from Kazakhstan have complained about comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's portrayal of a television presenter from the country previously. Despite its threats, however, the Ali G creator has just premiered his movie at the Toronto Film Festival.

 

In retaliation, the country's government is to fund educational television adverts and print leaflets in America informing people about the "real Kazakhstan". President Nursultan Nazarbayev is also set to discuss the the issue with President George Bush in a meeting at the White House.

 

Borat characterises Kazakhs as sexist, racist and backward. The opening scene of the new film shows him kissing his sister goodbye then leaving for America - where the rest of the movie is set - in a car pulled by a horse.

 

Roman Vassilenko, a spokesman for the Kazak government, confirmed he would be raising the issue with President Bush. "The Government has expressed its displeasure about Borat's representation of our country," he explained. "Our opinion of the character has not changed.

 

"I cannot speak for the president himself, only for the government, but I certainly don't think President Nazarbayev and Mr Bush will share a joke about the film," the spokesman continued. "The bottom line is we want people to know that he does not represent the true people of Kazakhstan

In a way, you can kinda see why the Khazaks are getting upset, but really what Sasha is doing is taking the p*** more out of the people Borat meets, they think that Borat is a 'funny foreigner' and laugh at his strange ways, but it's really Borat/Sasha who is laughing at them....

 

I'll never forget the Borat sketch in the Country and Western bar....

 

"THROW THE JEW DOWN THE WELL" :lol: :lol:

In a way, you can kinda see why the Khazaks are getting upset, but really what Sasha is doing is taking the p*** more out of the people Borat meets, they think that Borat is a 'funny foreigner' and laugh at his strange ways, but it's really Borat/Sasha who is laughing at them....

 

I'll never forget the Borat sketch in the Country and Western bar....

 

"THROW THE JEW DOWN THE WELL" :lol: :lol:

 

that is a classic bit of comedy. and i think the film is gonna do very well indeed, well it made me giggle all the way through Pulse and something else that i saw.

 

 

i liked the comeback from Sasha that was printed in the paper too in regards to this piece.

 

think he might be the best thing in Bobby Ricky too well maybe David Koechner if he's anything like anchorman and "Smoking"

 

In a way, you can kinda see why the Khazaks are getting upset, but really what Sasha is doing is taking the p*** more out of the people Borat meets, they think that Borat is a 'funny foreigner' and laugh at his strange ways, but it's really Borat/Sasha who is laughing at them....

 

 

sasha. mmmmmn? isnt that also the name of avid's wife who is his sister also something like sasha?

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i kiss you

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Jagshemash :lol: ????

The real Borat (in todays guardian!!!)

 

Mahir Cagri's 'I Kiss You' website was one of the internet's first word-of-mouth phenomena and arguably a key influence on Borat. Johnny Dee celebrates an unlikely online hero

 

Saturday October 28, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

The real fake person ... Mahir Cagri.

 

 

 

Several weeks go, as a feeble back-passed ball bobbled tantalisingly over the jelly like right limb of England's goalkeeper Paul Robinson, observant viewers may have noticed an advertising hoarding in the background featuring a familiar insanely grinning moustached man. It looked, rather surreally, as if this giant, cut-out head was mocking the hapless England football team much as he had once done to Lady Chelsea when he announced he had "a good $h!t" after returning from the toilet during a lesson on etiquette. Perhaps watching in some far away bar surrounded by several toothless women and a flatulent donkey was another man known for his insane grin, wild enthusiasm and stallion moustache. Perhaps he pondered as he watched Croatia win why the word that followed the head in the advert was "Borat" rather than his own - Mahir.

 

Borat Sagdiyev is of course the comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen. Mahir Cagri meanwhile is a Turkish gentleman in his 40s who lives in the port of Izmir (population five million). Mahir became a word-of-mouth legend after putting up a homemade web page in 1999 featuring pictures of himself engaged in a game of ping pong and relaxing in some tight red Speedos alongside simple but effective pieces of information such as "I like sex".

Both men bear an uncanny resemblance. Indeed, in the opening titles of Borat's movie he is seen playing table tennis and wearing fetching tight red shorts just like Mahir. Both men are journalists and favour suits quite possibly stolen from the back of Frank Bough during Nationwide in 1975. Both men struggle with the English language and are wildly enthusiastic about the prospect of meeting women and sexing them. Despite claims that a Russian doctor Baron Cohen once met inspired Borat and that a Moldovan version of Borat existed as far back as 1996 the similarities are too strong to be coincidental. Yet, while Borat is set to become famous around the world - well, apart from Kazakhstan, where they are oddly offended by the possibly untrue information that wives are kept in cages there and throwing rocks at gypsies is a national sport - the man who helped inspire him has been largely forgotten. Time perhaps to remind us of the real Borat and his role as the internet's first famous non-famous person.

 

Back in the last century, when offi ce employees would huddle around their co-workerscomputer terminals and marvel in wonderment at an animation of some dancing hamsters, celebrity was a far rarer commodity than it is today. Then, it was unthoughtof that anyone could become famous without appearing on TV, just by being themselves, let alone someone from Turkey. But one look at Mahir's rudimentary exclamation mark packed page with its welcoming words "I kiss you!!!" caused internet users to do several things - laugh and pass the site on. He became a global in-joke.

 

Within weeks Mahir found himself an unlikely online hero. Where others may have been upset by parodies of his rudimentary grasp of web design and the English language, he welcomed the fun and embraced his fame. When people saw him and heard him speak they loved him all the more. He toured the US, appeared on chat shows, starred in TV commercials, recorded a pop single and listened to off ers of turning his life story into a movie.

 

Roseanne Barr, Bill Gates and Kenny G were among his fans and his original wish, that the web page attract available single women, allegedly came true. The Turkish media claimed that he had been besieged by marriage proposals. In a 2000 interview he explained that he was looking for a wife who would stay at home with the children and "keep the house nice for me." He continued that it was also important that "She must be very clean and always wash before and after sex."

 

Then fame dried up and people stopped responding to his page's plea: "Who is want to come TURKEY I can invitate ...... She can stay my home." As success faded he did what any sensible person would do. He wrote a new pop song with a simple message: "Unimportant is colour, race, religion, anything. We are all brothers and sisters. Yes, we must do fun, we must sex, we must dance, but we must teach other people, care of poor kids, animals, environment, we can be same."

 

Despite his noble goal the song, much like his unpublished biography and unfilmed biopic, was never recorded.

 

Today the websites Mahir funded after he became famous no longer exist; instead they will take you to strange search engines with adverts for Viagra and debt consolidation. When the Guide contacted him for his opinions on Borat and his movie we received the enigmatic text reply "I on holiday 35 days." A mirror of his original site is still there though, frozen in time so one can forever marvel at its poetry.

 

"My tall 1.84 cm (6.2 feet) My weight 78 kg. My eyes green .. I live alone !!!!!! I have car."

 

Unfortunately no mention of enjoying drinking fermented horse urine.

 

· Mahir Cagri's original site www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/

 

· Additional research by Matt Weiner

I CANNOT wait to see this, he was so good on Jonathan Ross

I went to see this today and if your easily offended I really would not go to see this. Some of the stuff he says is very racist and some of the stuff in it is just downright disgusting. :puke2:

 

Its the first film thats really made me laugh in ages, but it is extremley racist and Borat really pushes it as far as he can go with all the jokes and everything and all of the stuff he does.

Genius film, best of the year so far, probably the best of the past five years.

 

The naked wrestling scene made me cry with laughter, definately worth a trip to the cinema.

 

The naked wrestling scene made me cry with laughter, definately worth a trip to the cinema.

 

That was probably the funniest bit but it was extremley cringeworthy and I really felt for people that were eating whilst watching it. :(

"THROW THE JEW DOWN THE WELL" :lol: :lol:

"SO MY COUNTRY CAN BE FREE"

 

PMSL! i couldn't stop laughing when i saw that, and the americans were singing along :lol: :lol: :lol:

I saw it yesterday. It was just as uproariously lewd and bizarre as promised. But I must say I was a bit dissapointed because I think the funniest parts are all in the trailer. Also there was a LOT of hype - the papers were giving it four stars and calling it the Monty Python and the Holy Grail of this generation. I think it got pretty slow near the halfway mark and toward the end. Don't get me wrong, I laughed a lot but I wouldn't say it lived up to the hype (not that this is any fault of Cohen's)

By the way, when the distributor made the very public decision to "scale back" North American release and all that - it was just to create even more hype. Most of the major cineplexes in my city sold out of every Borat showing this entire weekend by Friday afternoon (people buy advance online). It's going to be a monster at the NA box office.

I think it lived up to they hype and more. The majority of the funniest bits appear on the trailer and I think the trailer makes bits look funnier than they actually are (like the chicken loose on train for example) but the funniest bits for me don't appear on the trailer.

I saw it yesterday. It was just as uproariously lewd and bizarre as promised. But I must say I was a bit dissapointed because I think the funniest parts are all in the trailer.

 

then again it is quite a short film. esp compared to don which i saw before it and was so long it had to have an intermission half way thru :o

 

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roma from don (Priyanka Chopra...naiiice!)

Genius film, best of the year so far, probably the best of the past five years.

 

The naked wrestling scene made me cry with laughter, definately worth a trip to the cinema.

 

i laughed so much i nearly choked

I've finally seen this today :D

 

Dare I say...It wasn't as funny as I expected it to be...I think I left it too long too see it so I expected it to be so much more.

 

The bit with Pamela Anderson though - I almost choked on my Minstrels - definately the best part of the film - never saw it coming :lol:

The bit with Pamela Anderson though - I almost choked on my Minstrels - definately the best part of the film - never saw it coming :lol:

 

To be honest, I found that and the scene with the Frat boys in the camper van to be the weakest parts of the film (but even then, still of a much higher standard than most of the so-called 'comedies' that have been released this year..), because they are the most obvious cases of staging and rehearsal.. They dont really sit well with the rest of the film because you're really just not sure which of the other parts are staged and which are actually real, which is far more in keeping with the original Borat sketches and C4 programmes, the fact that the people Borat/Sacha targets have no clue what is actually going on... I much prefer the ambiguity of the first hour or so to the last 20 mins, and it is surely the ambiguity of Borat that's the whole point of the exercise...