Instead of Kazakhstan? I always thought they could have just went with the idea of Borat being a foreign character from a made up country, just so they could avoid offending the people of Kazakhstan.
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How Kazakhstan reacted to the movie was almost as funny as the movie itself. I don't think it would have worked quite so well with a fictitious nation. And I don't believe their reaction was anticipated to such an extent. Master-stroke if it was.
What the good people of Kazakhstan seem to miss in the whole episode is that had they reacted in a more positive fashion to the movie, us in the west would recognise that to their credit.
Instead they have just reinforced their depiction in the movie as backwards people who are more likely to sleep with family members, or get excited about being the only person in their village with a clock radio etc.
It still puts Kazakhstan on the map in my opinion. Of course they don't live like that or it wouldn't have been funny.
People often miss the subtlety of this kind of humour. As it's more of an uncomfortable ability to laugh at the people amongst us, our own western people, who are so narrow minded to think that that's what it's really like in a village in Kazakhstan.
"Master-stroke if it was".
Yeah, a real masterstroke - to broadly offend an entire nation so that even now, six years after the release of the movie, the Kazakhs are burdened with an embarrassing duty to explain every Westerner they meet that their country is really not like "in that movie" and treated to travesties like that award ceremony debacle somewhere in Kuwait or wherever it was.
"It still puts Kazakhstan on the map".
Yeah, and Idi Amin "put Uganda on the map". Musta been great for the people of Uganda.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
[Yeah, a real masterstroke - to broadly offend an entire nation so that even now, six years after the release of the movie, the Kazakhs are burdened with an embarrassing duty to explain every Westerner they meet that their country is really not like "in that movie" and treated to travesties like that award ceremony debacle somewhere in Kuwait or wherever it was.
"It still puts Kazakhstan on the map".
Yeah, and Idi Amin "put Uganda on the map". Musta been great for the people of Uganda.]
THANK YOU. I'm so sick and tired of people who think insulting other groups or countries is funny, especially in a POS movie like "Borat." I really do not like this movie and I do not like SBC, and how people on this board and else where consider it 'comedy gold' and consider him a 'comedic genius' really takes away a lot of faith I have in humanity.
Borat started as a little slot on Da Ali G Show on Channel 4 about ten years ago so if you've seen the earlier sketches it makes, it's a country that the people he's fooling have heard the name of but beyond that...
shareKazakhstan is real?
If Jesus was a Jew, why does he has a Mexican first name?
Because then not enough people would be offended. jewish 'comedy' is nothing more than offending as many people as possible.
shareBecause if it was a fake country then some of the people he met would know there is no such country, did you really need that explaining?
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