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Now Romanians Say 'Borat' Misled Them (High Five!!!)
Breitbart ^ | 11/14/06 | WILLIAM J. KOLE

Posted on 11/14/2006 7:05:21 AM PST by teddyballgame

"These people are poor and they were tricked by people more intelligent than us," he said. "They took one of our 75-year-old ladies, put huge silicone breasts on her and said she was 47. Another man they filmed to look like the poorest person in the world, and one of our men who is missing an arm had a plastic sex toy taped to his stump."

"We are suing because they were not truthful," added Staicu, who said he saw parts of "Borat" and was disgusted.

"They did not film reality," he said. "We've really had enough of this."

Neither Cohen's agent in London nor 20th Century Fox's offices in Los Angeles immediately returned phone messages Tuesday from The Associated Press.

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To: teddyballgame

The man...err...boy is not funny at all. Just a dumb mf'er if you ask me.


21 posted on 11/14/2006 7:23:46 AM PST by USMMA_83 (Tantra is my fetish ;))
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To: Andy from Beaverton

No...but I would. This is the reason my parents taught me not to get extra drunk!


22 posted on 11/14/2006 7:24:25 AM PST by TNdandelion
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To: Echo Talon

>>>Not really that funny... Exploiting these poor people like this is disgusting. Guess thats what "comedians" and "actors" think is funny. Borat got his arse kicked in NYC now I think thats funny.>>>

I really tend to agree with you. If he told these people he was from their neighboring country and claimed to be making a documentary and it was really a commercial movie... Yeah, I'd be ticked off too and demand my cut. Especially if I lived with 'manure stained streets and no running water'.


23 posted on 11/14/2006 7:26:36 AM PST by Southerngl
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To: inkling

>>>Romanian villagers, I say this with all due respect: grow the hell up.>>>

You say from your nice comfy home with a bathtub and hot water...


24 posted on 11/14/2006 7:27:25 AM PST by Southerngl
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To: mjolnir

'If Michael Moore pulled this kind of thing--- taking people out of context and misrepresenting himself in order to manipulate them in order to make him rich--- which is essentially what Moore does do in "Roger and Me" and his other movies-- then people (at least conservatives) wouldn't be so easy on him."

One is a spoof and a comedy and the other claims to be a documentary. Why not compare night and day? Compare it to a Scary Movie or an Airplane spoof and you'd be spot on. By all accounts a funny movie and I will always err on the side of anything that is not pc.


25 posted on 11/14/2006 7:27:55 AM PST by Bogeygolfer
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To: teddyballgame
The frat boys in the US are suing as well - what's their excuse? They were duped too?

In all fairness to frat boys, after the first few drinks it probably didn't take much to dupe them.

26 posted on 11/14/2006 7:29:11 AM PST by streetpreacher (Santorum 2008)
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To: teddyballgame
Several friends have seen it and say it is quite mean but very funny.I read today that a TV personality in the south lost her job when she allowed 'Borat' to be interviewed. I'm sure some of it is funny but Cohen was not at all upfront with what he was really doing. Yes, these people were duped. I guess I'm just asking....how would you feel it if was you?
27 posted on 11/14/2006 7:29:13 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: teddyballgame
"They took one of our 75-year-old ladies, put huge silicone breasts on her and said she was 47.

Did she not notice that they were putting huge silicon breasts on her?

Sounds like they were happy they got paid what seemed like a generous sum in the local business climate ($13 or something) and now have had some local lawyer tell them they deserve millions because the movie's rolling in the bucks.

Get a job, you stupid Romanians.

28 posted on 11/14/2006 7:31:07 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: teddyballgame

Your enjoy their poverty, and enjoy making fun of them, what else. They are crap, their lives are crap, lets rub their faces in it. What joy! Lets lie to them, pretend to be their friend. It is okay they have no rights we have to respect!


29 posted on 11/14/2006 7:37:25 AM PST by ronnieb
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To: originalbuckeye

....how would you feel it if was you?

I wouldn't be that stupid, nor do I have closet racisim or prejudice feelings that would come out if I thought the movie would be shown only outside of the U.S. I don't feel bad for the frat boys - I do feel for the Romanians, but to be looking for huge payout because the movie is doing well is a bit cynical.


30 posted on 11/14/2006 7:41:49 AM PST by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: teddyballgame

I saw the opening of the movie on youtube and anyone in the terrible circumstances these people were in might take money to do such degrading things. If you liked "bumfights" and thought that exploiting desperate people was funny, I suppose you would love "Borat".


31 posted on 11/14/2006 7:42:08 AM PST by Catphish
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To: ronnieb
It is okay they have no rights we have to respect!

The seventy year old lady had a right to not sign a waiver, get fake boobs put on her, and stand in front of a camera for laughs. She had a right not to take the money they offered her to do it.

Don't be so paternalistic and condescending. They are poor but they are adults. They made a decision to be in the goofy movie and I suspect they were happy with the money they were given at the time.

Now they got a lawyer, call themselves victims, and try to squeeze more bucks out of the production company, which is their right too I guess.

32 posted on 11/14/2006 7:43:33 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ronnieb
Your enjoy their poverty, and enjoy making fun of them, what else. They are crap, their lives are crap, lets rub their faces in it. What joy! Lets lie to them, pretend to be their friend. It is okay they have no rights we have to respect!

Whoa there buddy. Relax. I'm sure they don't think they're lives are crap. They may want what we have, but they still manage to make it. As for their rights, those are not our concern. It is up to them to better their state.

33 posted on 11/14/2006 7:44:30 AM PST by EarthBound (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ronnieb

"Your enjoy their poverty, and enjoy making fun of them, what else."

Yeah, that's exactly what said, I "enjoy" their poverty - why don't you get a life and while you're at it get a sense of humor. I read the article and have seen the trailer and it made me chuckle. Let's not go overboard.


34 posted on 11/14/2006 7:49:29 AM PST by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: Bogeygolfer
One is a spoof and a comedy and the other claims to be a documentary. Why not compare night and day? Compare it to a Scary Movie or an Airplane spoof and you'd be spot on. By all accounts a funny movie and I will always err on the side of anything that is not pc.

You bring up a reasonable point, but I think your distinction doesn't apply here... Comedy spoofs like "Scary Movie" generally either don't use real people, or the real people are in on it, or the real people are fooled but not made to look like jackasses. In fact, "Borat" is trying to make many of the same points as Moore-- rednecks are racists and anti-semites, Americans are idiots, etc. Some of them just happen to be at the expense of people from other countries, so that makes it funny.

When you imply by saying "I will always err on the side of anything that is not pc" that anything that's not PC is to be cheered, well, first of all, "Borat" is ultra PC--- as making fun of the stupidity of Joe Six-Pack is a favored PC past time. That's why the Sundance Film Festival, the NY Times and other leftist forums love it. Can you name one thing not PC about it? Come on! Granted, it makes people FEEL they're anti-PC rebel mavericks for enjoying it, but that's not the same thing as it being anti-PC; in fact, it's the opposite.

Secondly, not everything that's not PC is good or funny; the white nationalist duo Prussian Blue with those two cute but racist girls is not PC, but it isn't good either.
35 posted on 11/14/2006 7:59:09 AM PST by mjolnir ("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
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To: teddyballgame
The frat boys in the US are suing as well - what's their excuse? They were duped too?

Don't know for sure, this guy seems to be a "Michael Moore" style "comedian"

36 posted on 11/14/2006 8:00:00 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: dead
Sounds like they were happy they got paid what seemed like a generous sum in the local business climate ($13 or something) and now have had some local lawyer tell them they deserve millions because the movie's rolling in the bucks.

More like 3 Euros.

37 posted on 11/14/2006 8:03:46 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: teddyballgame

This whole things reminds me of Charlie Rangel "“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?”


38 posted on 11/14/2006 8:06:39 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: mjolnir

"Borat" does in fact expose the dark side of some key members of the Republican "Big Tent", so it isn't surprising some FReepers would hate it. I wouldn't call the movie PC, exactly. The only major PC-like fault I see is the total avoidance of mentioning Islam - a major force in Central Asia. It seems that a real Kazakh TV reporter would have a few choice things to say about Muslims as well as Jews.


39 posted on 11/14/2006 8:06:39 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: teddyballgame
I can't wait until the Bruno movie comes out. I'm sure most on here will hate it but I think he is funnier than Borat.


So Pastor Quinn why is being gay so out this season?
40 posted on 11/14/2006 8:09:51 AM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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