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Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, “Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” has been unrepentantly marketed as a controversy...
...Class Day speaker at Harvard in 2004) and his backers at Fox have been focusing attention in their promotional materials on the protestations of the Kazakh government, and of Cohen’s hilarious replies. One recent television spot for the film explicitly refers to the news coverage of Borat, urging viewers to see what all the fuss is about...
...film, ostensibly a serious documentary about life in the United States commissioned by the Kazakh government, is nothing of the sort. In a mocking odyssey from his provincial hometown to New York City, and then across America, Borat interviews Americans of all walks of life, with gut-splittingly spectacular results...
...course, every time the country responds seriously to these fabrications, Cohen issues a hysterical counterstatement and rakes in more free publicity. After a recent Kazakh advertising supplement in The New York Times designed to show the world how modern and business-friendly the nation really is, Borat responded with a statement blaming the campaign on neighboring Uzbekistan, and threatening a “catapult war” if it did not stop. Luckily for Fox, and unlike “Da Vinci,” Cohen’s film is worth the three-ring press circus; it?...
Fans of the HBO show—where the Borat segments made their debut—will note a fair number of rehashed themes from the television sketches. Borat again learns formal etiquette and dines with a group of elite Southerners, and again spices up the dinner conversation with explicit talk of bowel movements...