Posted on 10/01/2006 4:52:53 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX OCT 01, 2006 19:42:01 ET XXXXX
FOX MOVIE: 'BUSH MAY DRINK BLOOD OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD IN IRAQ'
All systems go for controversy, and the release of FOX fuss film 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' -- a film which features a comic announcing to an outraged Virginia rodeo: 'May George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!'
VARIETY calls the film, set for wide release November 3rd, "uproariously funny."
Borat Sagdiyev, Kazakhstan's leading journalist from the State run TV network, travels from his home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences.
"'Borat' should make abundant B.O. benefit for FOX," predicts the trade.
NEWSCORPFOX chairman Rupert Murdoch is said to be 100% supportive of the mockumentary, a top source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
But it is a scene filmed last winter in Virginia, at a rodeo in Roanoke, that is raising spurs.
Comic Sacha Cohen, impersonating a Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat, took to the stage to sing the national anthem at the Salem Civic Center.
Introduced as Borat Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.
"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards!" he told the audience.
An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd, unaware it was a set up.
"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!" he continued.
Then the man took off his hat and sang a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," The ROANOKE TIMES reported.
By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty.
"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," said one witness. "People were booing him, flipping him off."
"It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up."
Last week outside of the White House, Secret Service agents turned away Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening of the upcoming film.
Cohen's "Borat" comedy routine has drawn legal threats from the Kazakh government, which keeps a tight lid on criticism in its news media.
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George Bernard Shaw put it better than I could: "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
So was 9-11 funny too?
Not to be to picky, but he plays a Kazakh which is more Central Asian, (former soviet republic of karakhstan). So it's more East European as opposed to Arabian. Just so everyone knows (i wasn't trying to single you out in particular)
My sister... she died... in a field.
Please don't use 9-11 to make your point here. I have yet to see Sacha Cohen or any comedian for that matter even touch that subject. There are lots of wars globally but only one 9-11.
Its a lot like the old Phil Hendrie show, its cutting satire that is funny because of the natural reaction of those that don't understand that it is a satire.
I can't wait to see the full scene with the feminists...
Some jerk comes here and starts bad mouthing the US, our national anthem and our war effort, and YOU ASK ME NOT TO TAKE IT AT FACE VALUE??????
He is just lucky he isn't anywhere near me right now!
Tell it to the FReepers who quoted George Bernard Shaw to justify this bullsh*t.
Borat goes door to door campaigning with a candidate in the deep south:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfWGv0frC4
I swear, you MUST be Sean Hannity.
9/11? Not funny. Iraq War? Not funny. Two-and-a-Half Men? Not funny.
But some talented and clever people are able to take grim situations and MAKE us laugh.
The Great Dictator. Hogan's Heroes. Dr. Strangelove.
In this case, Cohen confronts us with our own cultural ignorance of anything outside the 50 States. Being an provincial, narrow-minded rube isn't funny. Borat, however, does his best allow us to laugh anyway.
funny....you can tell on this thread who watches HBO and who doesnt. Boart is funny as hell and the movie looks hilarious
I don't get this guy at all.
Honestly, the funniest Borat bit EVER.
It's America-bashing, and you find it hilarious. At least we are clear on that.
Just don't try to pimp it as if it's anything other than that.
Note that it is possible to mock certain Americans without bashing America itself.
You freaked out, and that's exactly what his type of comedy is all about. Like someone said earlier, he says something COMPLETELY INNAPROPRIATE and films his guests or audience reaction. He didn't bad mouth the U.S., national anthem, or war effort - his ignorant, racist, stupid character Borat did - showing that an ignorant stupid character would be the one who would blow the US national anthem and insult our country. I wrote to someone earlier that I won't question you reasons for not finding this funny or insulting, I'm sure you good ones, but by taking it too seriously you behave exactly like the people he parodies.
When he asks the candidate if he thinks all jews go to hell and the candidates says yes...brilliant.
Then the OK city council, 10 minutes of silence for massacre victims.
I don't know how he does it without laughing.
I'm finding your reactions to be pretty funny, keep it up!
Am I in some sort of league with them? I think its completely innapropriate to bash the country and our anthem but the method in which Cohen does his routine gets him off the hook in most peoples' minds (by method i mean, in character).
Like the Americans fighting in Iraq?
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