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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: Yes this is Borat |
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Yes, apparently Borat is now playing in Seoul. I stole this photo from a friend (the one in my avatar). She went with an American Korean and reported he was the only one laughing. I caught this in Canada and suspected no one (in Korea) would get any of the jokes.
What I find funny about this picture is to become Borat, the two Koreans only added the wigs and fake mustaches. Those are likely their normal street clothes. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not that hopeful that Koreans will get the joke either.. too bad |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| If anything, most Koreans will probably think it's a real documentary. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I just got back to Korea and missed Borat while in the states can somebody tell me where its playing in Seoul? |
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seoulsista
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreans are enjoying a film portraying Kazaks as being backwards, racist, fools? The irony. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| My wife laughed harder than ever. Some Koreans will get it. |
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tsgarp
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsista wrote: |
| Koreans are enjoying a film portraying Kazaks as being backwards, racist, fools? The irony. |
The irony is in the legions of idiots like you who don't get the movie. Yes, people like you are the target of this film. |
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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| If anything, most Koreans will probably think it's a real documentary. |
Uh... some lines will be lost in translation but come on. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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He often takes too long in making his point.
The running of the Jew was a classic-short,nasty and succint.
69ing his producer?Ok,enough already,I get the point.
Other occasions it was apt to draw it out to draw out the vitriol.When the chick fell off her horse,gold mate,gold. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
He often takes too long in making his point.
The running of the Jew was a classic-short,nasty and succint.
69ing his producer?Ok,enough already,I get the point.
Other occasions it was apt to draw it out to draw out the vitriol.When the chick fell off her horse,gold mate,gold. |
"Crush that Jew egg before it hatches!" |
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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsista wrote: |
| Koreans are enjoying a film portraying Kazaks as being backwards, racist, fools? The irony. |
Lots of troubles actually.
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=380
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=407423&in_page_id=1773
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1931712,00.html
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If I were a Kazak, I wouldn't be very happy about the movie, too. However, if I were from one of the G8 and they were making fun of my country like that, I would just wear that typical "who cares" shirt and laugh along loud.
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tsgarp
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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This movie does not impugn Kazakhstan, to the contrary it glorifies it.
Kazakhstan is the
Greatest country in the world
All the other countries
Are run by little girls... |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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I was surprised they showed 40 Year Old Virgin here and, yes, I was the only one laughing in the theater. But that's to be expected and it doesn't represent some failure on the part of the Korean viewers. Comedy often deals with social faux pas and psychological hangups, so it's very culturally specific. And for some reason, language is crucially important in comedy. Like in Anchorman, when Ron Burgundy is hitting on the anchorwoman and he says "I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany", it's funny because the specific ludicrous words he uses.
At any rate, if Koreans don't find it funny it doesn't really mean anything other than their culture is different from the West, which I think is blindingly obvious to everyone anyways. |
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tsgarp
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
I was surprised they showed 40 Year Old Virgin here and, yes, I was the only one laughing in the theater. But that's to be expected and it doesn't represent some failure on the part of the Korean viewers. Comedy often deals with social faux pas and psychological hangups, so it's very culturally specific. And for some reason, language is crucially important in comedy. Like in Anchorman, when Ron Burgundy is hitting on the anchorwoman and he says "I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany", it's funny because the specific ludicrous words he uses.
At any rate, if Koreans don't find it funny it doesn't really mean anything other than their culture is different from the West, which I think is blindingly obvious to everyone anyways. |
You're right and context also. Issues like anti-Semitism in the West are really moot here as well as the idea of a stuffy Southern aristocracy and their putting on of airs of sophistication. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| doggyji wrote: |
| djsmnc wrote: |
| If anything, most Koreans will probably think it's a real documentary. |
Uh... some lines will be lost in translation but come on. |
And of course I was dead serious... |
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