Russians have no sense of humour

[laurentius]

Okay so the Russians are a bit less progressive on this

[Saras]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Look Kazakhstan is part of Russia, so why should they put up with insulting their country? Yes, I know that Kazakhstan is "independent", but just like a number of the old ex-soviet republics, that's a mere technicality.

Actually they are pretty independent and do get into nasty fights over oil transit, use of Baikonur etc.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Saras

Actually they are pretty independent and do get into nasty fights over oil transit, use of Baikonur etc.

Exactly. Hence the Russkies score some points with the Kazakhs at absolutely no cost to them whatsoever.

[Saras]

Exactly.

[Dr. A. Cula]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
but the country shown in the borat movies is not like real kazakhstan more of a mishmash of slavic , central asian, caucasian cultures, far far more similar to say romania, or ukraine than Kazakhstan.

Originally posted by Heresson

Slavic? Kazakhstan is nearly halfly Russian, with Poles present there as well... Romania is not Slavic. Romania and Ukraine have little to do with central Asia...

Actually, you both may be right. While Romania has nothing to do with Kazakhztan, I suspect the movie was in fact shot in Romania. I watched carefully the trailer on youtube, and I think this is the explanation. The first clue was that the village looked a lot like an unkept romanian village, and so do the villagers. But then, after watching it the third time, I finally managed to understand some of the villagers' babbling: they were in fact speaking romanian. And the horse driven Dacia that Borat uses to leave the village is not something one would expect to see in Romania, either (and I don't know enough about Kazakhstan ), but some people might still build one for fun.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Elok
Not really. It cost her her job. She then had no money when Katrina hit.

gutted.

a very funny story though.

[Pekka]

It's true though, it's not like this will prevent from Russian seeing this film. Russians are big in software piracy, the movie will be available in there for people to see as fast as in any other country. They'll download the movie as much as we do.

[Nubclear]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15698520/

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Elok
She was not fired immediately after the incident, only put on thin ice (plus they couldn't do any live interviews after that). Since she was thoroughly rattled by the experience, her performance suffered, and she got fired a few weeks later anyway. Which is why technically she can't sue (she wasn't fired as a direct result of the prank). She went to the news recently, but all that happened was that various local radio hosts called her a gold-digging opportunist.

Funny, that's what I was about to call her.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Dr. A. Cula


. And the horse driven Dacia that Borat uses to leave the village is not something one would expect to see in Romania, either (and I don't know enough about Kazakhstan ), but some people might still build one for fun.

I, for one, would expect to find Dacia in Romania. Horse driven or otherwise.

I suspect youre looking for a different word.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Elok
No, thankfully their part wasn't "funny" enough to make the cut. They reacted like I imagine most people react: they agreed to interview a sane foreign journalist and wound up with this loon bouncing around the studio disrupting their newscast. They didn't humor him for long, and tried to end his bit ASAP. My friend (actually my GF's sister) basically had to drag him off the set. He looked like going back for an encore, and she pleaded with him that it would probably mean her job if he did. So of course he went back anyway, giving the meteorologist a hug or some crap like that.

She was not fired immediately after the incident, only put on thin ice (plus they couldn't do any live interviews after that). Since she was thoroughly rattled by the experience, her performance suffered, and she got fired a few weeks later anyway. Which is why technically she can't sue (she wasn't fired as a direct result of the prank). She went to the news recently, but all that happened was that various local radio hosts called her a gold-digging opportunist.

I realize that most people are going to say, "if she gets unsettled that easily, she would have been fired anyway." And I suppose there might be some truth to that, except she was in line for a promotion before this went off. And even if she were doomed to be fired eventually somehow...I just can't see how my GF's sister deserved to lose her job because of a total stranger's bad comedy routine, and to get no compensation or notice for it.

She was and is a good person; she let him interview station talent for the documentary he claimed to be making (because she'd foolishly failed to guess that this foreign journalist was actually a comedian she'd never heard of who was out to sabotage a TV news broadcast in Jackson, Mississippi), and he returned the favor by being a douche. For the record, nobody involved was interested in singing songs about Jews going down wells.

Anyway, Katrina did a number on her stuff; she's now driving around in a car whose roof is all but eaten through with rust from water damage, and which she can't afford to repair. She has a new job in FL, in her hometown; she had been working in MS, but after the studio fired her she couldn't pay her mortgage (though various family members saved her from foreclosure by chipping in from their savings). So now this grown woman is living with her mother. She's doing better now, but all the same, I consider Sacha Baron-Cohen a total phlegmwad.

Sorry she lost her job.

In the movie, Borat does visit a television station in Jackson, Mississipi. He went onto the live weather forecast a bunch of times, and left the weatherman in splits.

[Dr Strangelove]

Isn't Kazakhstan the former Soviet central asian republic currently headed by the certifiable schizophrenic? No, I'm not talking about the former Soviet central asian republic headed by a certifiable psychopath, that's Uzbekhstan, but the president of Kazakhstan IIRC is quite demented. My bet is that he's puppet place there by the KGB..............oops, FSB.......... who because of his mental instability is sometimes a little difficult to control.

Two of the guys who played the frat brothers from South Carolina are also sueing. It seems they weren't fully informed that they were to protray total a**holes, and were shocked upon seeing the film that they came off as total a**holes. You'd think the script would have tipped them off, but no, they completed their parts of the film without a clue of how stupid, thoughtless and bigoted their characters would appear in the final cut. If they win future moviemakers may be forced to prepare "informed consent" forms which will warn actors that their character may be portrayed in an unfavorable light after the final editing.

[LordShiva]

I thought it was the dictator of Turkmenistan (Sepurmurat Turkmenbashi, or something) who's the demented one.

[Elok]

I thought the frat boys were drunk when they signed the release forms, too?

[chequita guevara]

You know her, Elok? Dang. I feel bad for the lady but, frankly, she shoulda googled him. She didn't do her homework and that's the kinda thing you lose your job for in the news.

BTW, you might wanna talk her out of the lawsuit.