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November 6, 2006:
Borat movie looks at sexist, elitist and racist attitudes
in US, huge box office hit
"Is it not a problem that the woman have a smaller brain than
a man? The government scientist Dr Yamuka has proved it is size of
squirrel."
This is a quote from spoof reporter Borat, as he poses the
question whether women should be educated, in an interview with the
Veteran Feminists of America (VFA).
The outrageous Borat has hit the big screens across the US, UK and
rest of the world as the star of the mockumentary phenomenon, 'Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of
Kazakhstan.'
American and British comedy will never be quite the same again after
the controversial Borat movie opened on November 3 in cinemas across
the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Rave reviews from the critics and huge box office takings have greeted
the hilarious movie wherever it has been screened.
One country where it has gone down like a lead balloon is Kazakhstan.
Not surprisingly it provoked a stormy reaction from the Kazakh government,
which threatened legal action and published a four-page supplement
in The New York Times extolling the country's attractions.
The movie's central character Borat Sagdiyev - played by British comedian
creator Sacha Baron Cohen - is a racist, sexist and anti-Jewish Kazakhstan
reporter.
But while some have found Borat offensive, it's not always Borat who
is doing the offending.
The movie looks at the sexist, elitist and racist attitudes still
present in the United States.
Some unsuspecting American victims 'interviewed' by Borat spew forth
racist, sexist, homophobic and bigoted views which don't exactly do
them proud.
He asks a gun shop owner what are the best weapons to kill Jews, and
the gun shop owner says, a nine millimeter or a 45.
Borat's creator Sacha Baron Cohen has been at the centre of a major
bidding war to secure exclusive rights to a new movie based on another
of his characters.
Hollywood film company Universal Pictures reportedly offered $42.5
million for the worldwide rights to the film 'Bruno,' based on the
flamboyant gay Austrian fashion reporter character also created by
Baron Cohen.
A counter-bid is understood to have come in from Twentieth Century
Fox, the company behind the Borat movie.
Universal is understood to have won the rights to the 'Borat' follow-up
'Bruno.'
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