{"id":11107,"date":"2008-03-23T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/23\/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:05:50","slug":"borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/23\/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Borat\"<\/p>\n

I think that Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a> is one of the most talented people in today’s comedy.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve seen and appreciated much of his work.\u00c2\u00a0 If you aren’t too familiar with it, among other things, he is mostly famous for creating three characters which appear on a number of shows and television programs – Borat, Ali G, and\u00c2\u00a0 Bruno.\u00c2\u00a0 Each one of those characters is very different from the others, and all three are very different from Sacha Baron Cohen himself.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite one is Ali G, which I mentioned a few times<\/a> on this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Other ones are funny too, but they don’t get me laughing as hard as Ali G.<\/p>\n

One of these characters was taken as far as a full featured movie – “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 I was trying a bit to avoid watching this film, because, although as funny as the character is, I thought it would be a bit too much.\u00c2\u00a0 After listening to a few friends of mine, who strongly recommended the movie (and referred and quoted it way too often), I decided to finally rent and watch it.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I did.\u00c2\u00a0 It was indeed much more than I expected out of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Borat is a character who does a lot of exploration in cultural differences and stereotypes.\u00c2\u00a0 In this movie there was as much space for those explorations as one could get.\u00c2\u00a0 And he utilized it all.\u00c2\u00a0 It was unbelievable at times.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes Borat goes so far that it is impossible to believe that scenes weren’t done in the studio with hired actors.\u00c2\u00a0 After reading a bit about the movie after watching it, and after seeing a few interviews at YouTube, it seems that those scenes indeed took place as part of Borat’s life and not as staged movie scenes.\u00c2\u00a0 All I can say for that is – WOW!<\/p>\n

I strongly recommend this film, if you aren’t easily upset by all sorts of humor (including toilet jokes, discrimination, sexual themes, slavery and human rights, etc).<\/p>\n

Strong 7 out of 10<\/strong> with extra points for bravery and hard work and sensitive areas.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I think that Sacha Baron Cohen is one of the most talented people in today’s comedy.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve seen and appreciated much of his work.\u00c2\u00a0 If you aren’t too familiar with it, among other things, he is mostly famous for creating three characters which appear on a number of shows and television programs – Borat, Ali … Continue reading Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1707,1,24],"tags":[1432],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-sacha-baron-cohen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t