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Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: Kazakhstan needs to lighten up.

i mean, nobody's going to take Borat seriously.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/28/borat.reut/index.html

Big_Bird

Big_Bird · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

'He becomes the character, certainly with Ali G and Borat. He has a mix of Sellers's acting and Rod Hull's bottle'

Sexist, anti-Semitic and homophobic, comic's new character set for stardom

Kirsty Scott
Friday September 29, 2006
The Guardian

It can be little consolation to the Kazakh people that the man who has so outrageously lampooned their nation picked it at random. Sacha Baron Cohen turned to the atlas early on in his career to find a home for Borat Sagdiyev, the bumbling central Asian TV reporter who was one of his first comic incarnations.

"I think we chose Kazakhstan fairly randomly," says Andrew Newman, now head of entertainment at Channel 4, who produced some of Baron Cohen's first comedy shows. "It was somewhere that sounded far away and we thought it would not be that easy to check up about."

Stupendously sexist, rabidly anti-Semitic and breathtakingly homophobic, but achingly funny, Borat is threatening to eclipse even Ali G, until now Baron Cohen's most famous alter ego.

The feature film Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan slayed them at Cannes and Toronto and will open in the UK in November. Kazakh officials have been less than amused, their protests culminating this week in a four-page supplement in the New York Times painting a truer picture of their nation.

For full article click here

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

thanks for the articles. guardian one was a good read.

Big_Bird · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:

I think the whole thing will probably do the Kazakstan tourist industry good in the end. People will be curious. I got close to Kazakstan when I was in Mongolia and China, and dreamed of travelling horseback through part of it. I hoped to go back in the summer of 2004 and do just that as some kind of belated honeymoon with my husband, but I got knocked up instead! Shocked

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

Notice that Kazakhstan has promotional ads on BBC News 24 now.

http://www.kazakhstan.com/

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

i think the big hang up they had with borat was more over the whole anti semetic thing. the man is a genius, the scene from my avatar had me in tears the first time....

also the mtv awards was really funny
is the film coming out in korea??

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

A Jewish guy making fun of an Islamic country.

That'll go over well.

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

Big_Bird · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Wow, I thought Kazakhstan had a higher % of Muslims than that. Learn something new every day.

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

That must be a different CIA factbook. The current one states:

Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kz.html

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

The CIA mixing up their facts??? That's unpossible.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I read somewhere as well about the large Russian population in Kazakistan.. particularly Almaty. In addition, a sizeable Korean community.. plus the locals themselves.

Once I read how many different kinds of people are living there.. made me real curious to visit as well.