"engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in."
I dont know....sounds like the Mel Gibson defense to me.
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Glorious Nation of SC ping!
Oh my! dummies for sure!
What idiots... they should have played this thing like they were in on the gag.
Guess these frat boys are afraid that their future careers in the hedge fund industry are going to be harmed by this.
Why is this movie such a big hit? Has anyone seen it? I've heard it's offensive and anti-semitic.
Ok, so when the frat guy puts the video of Pam Anderson in the player and Borat(who of course, thinks she's a virgin) says incredulously "what she doing?" with that hurt look on his face and the frat guy responds "She's blanking a blank dude" I lost it. ROFL
A nice not so PC movie? Time to leave the lady at home and see this one. Maybe bring some liberals so they can squirm?
If you can, find the Ali G interview with Posh Spice and Beckham on YouTube. I cried I was laughing so hard. Posh came off very relaxed about it - Beckham had a deer in the headlights look to him.
I've got about 50 cents of sympathy for the frat boys....the rest of me will say that is what you get when people are giving you free booze: they are out to take advantage of you.
I didn't like that movie. Some parts of it were funny, but a lot of it was just gross and offensive. I'd say the best part of watching it was that it included a great trailer for 'Reno 911: Miami.' Nothing, short of an act of God, will keep me from seeing THAT movie.
Would this, then, be the sort of example you wanted?
I LOVED him in Madagascar.
I like to move it, I like to move it, I like to move it, I like to MOVE IT!
South Carolina Ping
Add me to the list. / Remove me from the list.
What minorities, specifically? 
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The makers of the hit Borat movie by the British comedian, Sacha Baron Cohen, have been sued by two American college students who claim they were duped into taking part in the film. In papers served at a court in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, the two plaintiffs, identified as John Doe I and John Doe II, said that they "have suffered and will continue to suffer humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community" after being shown drinking with Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakhstani television reporter, in a camper van. In the scene, three young men, identified in the film as students from the Chi Psi fraternity of the University of South Carolina, get drunk with Borat, watch a sex video that purports to show Pamela Anderson, the American TV star, and make disparaging remarks about slavery, women and ethnic minorities. Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is top of the box office charts in America, Germany and the UK after being released this month. It has enjoyed the most successful movie release ever in the US for a film showing at fewer than 1,100 cinemas.
But its enormous success and publicity have made unknowing victims of Baron Cohen laughing stocks across America. Several people featured in the film, including Linda Stein, an artist and veteran feminist from New York, a car salesman called Jim Sell and Pat Haggerty, a "humour" coach from Washington, have complained that members of the production team tricked them into thinking that the crew were from Belarus, not Kazakhstan, and that they were hurried into signing confusing consent forms thick with legalese. Ms Stein has written of her experience, saying she was left "confused and sad" after the filming. "Maybe it's his way of gaining power over the childhood sting of religious animosity or the feelings of inferiority from a woman’s beating him at Scrabble," she wrote in a local New York newspaper. Organisers of a rodeo in Virginia, whose producer, Bobby Rowe, is shown in the film making homophobic and anti-Islamic remarks, have joked about teaming up with the Kazakhstani Embassy in Washington to burn an effigy of Borat. In the lawsuit filed by the college students, the plaintiffs said they were paid $200, promised that the film would not be shown in America and that they would not be clearly identified. The suit claims that the three students, one of whom was under the legal drinking age of 21, were plied with drinks and "well under the influence of alcohol before they signed the (consent) Agreement". "Believing the film would not be viewed in the United States and at the encouragement of Defendants, Plaintiffs engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the suit claims, according to copies of the documents posted on the website TMZ. One of the three students -- it is not known whether he was one of the plaintiffs -- has described the experience on the record. David Corcoran told the men's magazine, FHM: "My first thought was, 'What if my mom finds out?'" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2447662,00.html |
I watched the movie. Those idiots deserve whatever they get. They behaved like asses.