"Dzienkuje" Sacha Baron Cohen!
We were waiting for Godot, but we felt that we needed, and instead sent us Borat! And Borat is, if nothing else is a moveable feast and a gift that keeps on giving. They managed to simultaneously offend Kazakhs, frighten Jewish Anti-Defamation groups, orientalism monitors outrage, off hypocritically thin-skinned Americans, to laugh the Beavis and Butthead, Southpark, and Archie Bunker generations, and last - but certainlynot least - offers great opportunities for Western intellectuals to criticize and discuss the merits of the meaning and interpretation of the masterpiece of celluloid. Finally, thanks to you, we can now confirm that the rumors of the death of Yakov Smirnov have been greatly exaggerated. It turns out that he is fine and well, after having found jobs in major American city called Branson, Missouri ("Hours ... large auditorium, a career and less filling bags but that country ..." ok ... The bad example)! Slamm DunkEmissions are achieved and Hiyya-fiyva Sacha!
Talk about a movie that bombed by theater-goers - even before they checked the movie times - with conflicting signals and statements of cultural elites, trendsetters and colleagues:
1) Go to the movies. Laugh and have fun!
2) If you go to the movies, do not laugh!
3) Watch the movie, laughing, but then feign indignation!
4) Do not go to the movies - partly because you can laugh!
5) If you plan to do, because something is not rightwith you.
6) If you do not, because something is wrong with you.
Borat: Cultural Learnings to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan can not help but feel that we have about a script, using programmed culture.
This article attempts to controversy and some of the wider implications arising from the character of Borat Borat and address! the film (hereinafter: Borat). It does this by using some of the film critics,publishing and Internet messages that the film has generated. The admission or exclusion of the film seems possible in order before you start: are ... I laughed ... I cried ... (But I laughed, not because they are gone).
Is it to make fun of the people of Kazakhstan! ... NO!
Let's start with a question that has consumed so many buttons to start in recent months. In part we are able to do so, because Sacha Baron Cohen is the intent (ie production / supply side) is much easier than theWonder how the film is, or has been interpreted by the public (ie consumption / demand).
Shortly after the American version of Borat! an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen appeared in the November 14, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone. Clear that many people do not know the interview, it did not read, or will not, because the Internet, the debate about who is Baron Cohen's satire in the film further. While it may be, will, and many interpretations havewho gets hurt as a result of Borat! (More on that below), Baron Cohen's comments to delete the interviewer Neil Strauss really a lot of speculation about what Baron Cohen is planning to make the film. Baron Cohen could be too late, that the real value and performance in Keeping Mum about his intentions with Borat is possible if you know that according to Strauss, Baron Cohen was enough in the encounter, which he considered to be a bother back Strauss week after they have made the interview. Discuss
Here's what Baron Cohen said it should - if not likely to want - to make one for all time to dampen speculation about his motives Borat!. Baron Cohen was, by the news that the Kazakh government to sue him and create a full-page ad promoting the country of the New York Times (which eventually the second) react thinking:
I was surprised because I always had confidence in the public realize that this was a fictitious country and the intention simplywas, so people bring their prejudices. And the reason we chose Kazakhstan because it was a land that no one has heard of, so you can essentially play on stereotypes are not on the ex-Soviet arrears. The joke is not in Kazakhstan. I think the joke is on people who believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can be found - that it is a country where homosexuals wear blue hats and women live in cages and believe to be fermentedBeen raised horse urine and the age of consent for nine years.
So at the end of the debate about the intentions of Cohen. These are people Borat interviews - in the film, the Americans - not on Kazakhstan and Kazakhs. The film was designed to be an American.
Certainly it was what Ryan Gilbey of London left New Statesman weekly, has lifted from the movie. An article as' efforts Sacha Baron Cohen crass Americana "and" The Kazakh journalist introduced acereveals uncomfortable truths about the United States, "says the film as follows:
The violence that Borat encounters on the New York subway after trying to greet male strangers with kisses is frighteningly real .... There is an aging cowpoke who requires only the mildest necessary to support the murder of gays and Muslims. To blame others for what they say so, rather than what. A redneck rodeo crowd shows no qualms about cheering Borat enthusiastic speech on Iraq, clearlynot realizing that what he said was: "We support your war of terror!" It is shocking, the tacit acceptance with which Borat ghoulish requests are greeted witness. Groped the ideal car for mowing the Gypsies, or search for the best gun to kill Jews find, meets only respect among American retailers. The customer, it seems, is always correct, even if it is right.
An April 2003 article by Lucy Kelaart in the British newspaper The Guardian, suggests that someKazakhs - at least those with some exposure to the West - to Borat knew even then (according to the British television program visits in the U.S.). Kelaart interview subjects on the streets of Almaty were Unamused, instead of actually offended and thought Borat was just stupid:
Ainur, 25 years, has recently spent a year in the United States. Do you think Borat is Kazakhstan, which have a bad reputation. "Borat, Kazakhstan is not fun to do, he makes fun of Americans," he says. "Youare gullible. None of them said: "No way that can not be true -." The show describes a U.S. stereotype, not a Kazakh. It reveals the American attitude towards foreigners. Strong accents, loud voices, stupidity, male chauvinism "
Of course, as I have said and we shall see, Baron Cohen's intentions were the nuts and bolts of criticism of this article would be much shorter than it is. Especially in the era of post-modern critics, the public and all current or potentialSub-target groups in the foreground.
The "Full" Sacha Baron Cohen: Borat Beyond
Lest Americans to see Borat! think in terms of ethno-centric, we Baron Cohen, the most important goal of his work, it is instructive to the "full" looking Sacha Baron Cohen, or at least a wider range of characters he played on television and in film.
Baron Cohen's other signature roles in Hollywood films in 2006, she played Will Ferrell film Talladega Nights and antagonist in the film:The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Baron Cohen's character, Jean Girard, a French "Formula One" driver who won the NASCAR circuit by storm. He is the embodiment of the foot are some "Freedom Fries", "red (neck) state of" American stereotype of the French might say - an arrogant, effeminate, drinking coffee, opera-listening, reading The Stranger (adding to injury insult all while driving!), Perrier-sponsored homosexual (his long-time partner of the late night Conan O'Brien, Andy has played a friendRichter).
And 'difficult, since this is a role in the Baron Cohen is somehow exploiting the American public, as well as playing a stereotype is to be offensive than it is condescending in order to see the audience and his intelligence. Rather, it seems that his role as Jean Girard typical English (a la Benny Hill), and in this enlightened sense of Borat again, as we know from his interview with Rolling Stone that Baron Cohen grew up idolizing loved Peter Sellers and Sellers'known stereotype of the French Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
Future Baron Cohen was set when he was about eight years by two important events. The first saw a Peter Sellers Pink Panther 'movies ninth birthday of a friend - Off permanent admiration for the work British comedian. The other was seen as his older brothers snuck him in a scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Baron Cohen certainly the most famous - and one whoseThe success of Borat was probably responsible for a chance in the long term - is the fake "gangsta" rapper Ali G.. In fact, it is instructive to that observed in Ali G. 'S first full-length films in 2001, Ali G, rather than an epic, Pamela Anderson, Ali G is in the quest for supermodel Naomi Campbell. Much of the criticism of "Ali G." sounds strangely familiar, in fact, when we see the accusations of insensitivity of Kazakhstan Baron Cohen. In the United Kingdom, Ali G.precipitated as the following comments from Felix Dexter, a comedian in a British television series. Replace "Kazakh" to "black culture street" and was a characterization similar to what we saw in the wake of Borat: it is "But much of black humor, laughter and street culture is celebrated, because it allows the liberal middle classes that culture in a context where you can laugh to keep their sense of political correctness. "
Tell theKazakhs! ... Still, exactly why Kazakhstan?
The founding father and a model for the character Borat is a TV journalist named Moldovan Alexi Krickler Cohen played in the mid-1990 in British television. According to Cohen, that character is based on a doctor he met at a free beach holiday in Astrakhan, southern Russia: "... there was a man who was a doctor, and when I met him, I started to laugh ... He had some elements of Borat, but he had not of racismor the misogyny or anti-Semitism. He was a Jew, actually. "
This is instructive as to the personal point of view wrote his artistic legacy, someone might complain are separated is the essence of stereotypes.
It was like Alexi Krickler that Baron Cohen in what Strauss terms "a small epiphany that would eventually fuel the career of Baron Cohen," hit:
For example, when interviewing someone from the British Lions rugby team, he would returnand forth with the interviewee for 10 minutes, seemingly unable to comprehend that they play no real lions rugby. "I have the patience of some members of the upper class, which appear as strong was kind has been beaten - especially in front of the camera - do not go away," says Baron Cohen.
Of course, there was a difference that may, over the years have run into the sand ... at least in Borat: originally, Baron Cohen is highly concentrated on the really powerful, ifCelebrities or people with money and power, but in Borat! He has clearly slipped to "take the piss" more than average citizens. Perhaps this is where he "crossed the line."
Greetings from "post (card)-Commiestan"
The Borat Borat! was still different incarnations of Alexi Krickler Borat Sagdiyev of today. Alexi Krickler came after a TV reporter called Kristo Albanian. Only later became Baron Cohen's "Borat" Kazakhstan has become: first as BoratKarabzhanov, then as Borat Dutbayev and finally in 2003 as Borat Sagdiyev. This is perhaps important to suggest that even though Sacha Baron Cohen and Kazakhstan are inextricably linked, Borat "Kazakhness" was almost out of place. One is inevitably reminded here of the intention to fake sometimes useful to read in a retrospective analysis: Bram Stoker's Dracula is now inextricably linked with Romania, but apparently in Stoker's Dracula began to fancy himself as "CountWampyr "of Styria (Austria) and later (as Borat) migrated to the east of Transylvania.
However, the Republic of Moldova, Albania and Kazakhstan, a clear common theme - they are all part of the post-communist Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. And you must remember, as said here already in possession of Baron Cohen's comments: "The reason we chose Kazakhstan was because it was a country that no one has heard anything, so we could essentially play on stereotypes thatto have this ex-Soviet provinces. "In other words, a generic post (card)-Commiestan species.
Baron Cohen has not commented in particular on why Krickler had to leave the Republic of Moldova and change its name and because his television reporter is always the post-communist world, but we can speculate. In this way, not much has changed is by Bram Stoker, at the time: the need for a setting that is at once exotic and yet familiar is to find activities that distract rather than support, but the underlyingThe purpose of this art form. One wonders to what extent borate migration from Moldova, Albania, Kazakhstan was dictated directly or indirectly from real-world events - Albania will certainly lose some 'character' unknown ', the key to this plot device is for reports of serious on Kosovo in the late 1990 (perhaps the film Witness Wag the Dog). Makes removal easier, of course, parody (witness the infamous song by Weird Al Yankovic and parody video "Amish Paradise" - Speech of acommunity outcast that was unlikely to get upset), but only up to a point: Go east young ... but not too far east, because they no longer recognize and relate to the public and not the power of satire is lost! !
Molvania, and Romanova Kreplakistan ... Oh My!
This still leaves unanswered an important question: why did Baron Cohen that his fake journalists come from real places ... But theoretically described? If, as it says Baron Cohen, Borat is notKazakhstan real, but by a fictional Kazakh so absurd that "the joke about people who believe that Kazakhstan exist that can describe what I can do is" why you should start a real name and your country? Mirroring the separation, the recovery of independence, and micro-phenomena was seen in the region during the post-communism, in recent years an explosion of "imagined communities really" comes in the form of fiction in post-communist region.
As John Tierneytold The New York Times "I wish Cohen had instead invented a country like Molvania," are coming from Kazakhstan, Borat. Molvania is, of course, the famous fictional country of the Jetlag Travel Guide series [Molvania: a land untouched by modern dentistry]. "Somewhere north of Bulgaria and the wind from Chernobyl", as described (Despite the name of the imaginary country, in named place, and maintain the characteristics, the three Australian authors, it was modeled onMoldova, or Romania, but was inspired by travels in Portugal. ) Among many other things, Molvania is the oldest nuclear reactor in Europe, and reported as one of the authors: "It 'a very beautiful country now that the radiation has dropped to acceptable standards."
Safe nuclear power plants, environmental degradation and genetic mutation are also the point in the Ben Stiller comedy since 2004, Dodge Ball, in which we are introduced to Francisco StalinofskivichdavidovitchskyRomanova: "In their countries of origin Romanova dodgeball national sport and its nuclear team won the championship five consecutive years, making it the deadliest woman in the world with a dodgeball."
Then there is Mike Myers' Austin Powers series created Kreplakistan: Kreplakistan a former Soviet republic is apparently able to protect its nuclear warheads and in a constant state of chaos (like the fake CNN run through each other clips from people around us ) forward. SinceWikipedia is the speculation on that Kreplakistan "probably the real Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the Republic of Karakalpakstan is now based." However compelling the idea that "kreplak" inspired "kreplach, a jew Eastern European dish of meat, dumplings stuffed".
But the country is the invention of a solution to the problems of negative stereotypes and prejudices? If the Internet is any indication: it does not appear. Molvania is sharpCriticism from those who see it as another variation of the (neo-) orientalist theme. There are angry accusations, especially the authors use the photos in the book and on the website Molvania - because they play the role of fiction Molvanians mockworthy, are very real people. Nor was the criticism of Molvania have just sent monitors Orientalism. In comments similar to those of Kazakh officials about Borat, in 2004, former British minister for Europe Keith Vazhas criticized the book because it "reflects some of the prejudices, the root [in Europe] are ... The sad thing is, you may need some people really believe that this country exists." Ironically, it is also the choice of imagery from "all countries" interpreted it as even more offensive because it is the people of an entire region or a group as basically undifferentiated "them" - except, "I can not say 'em all the same ... "
Borat, class and urbanity
The paralleldesigned by John Tierney from Borat! Molvania and is probably of natural origin and therefore that many, especially on the Internet, have. Especially when the stories began to shine, as Borat is funny, village "Kazakh" in the film was shot in a poor Roma (gypsies), a village in Romania - where the inhabitants have received as payment for their work, the festival " a pig "According to Sacha Baron Cohen and while he spent the night in the glamorous refuge in the mountains of Sinaia - the question of the classSpeaking of Borat!. It 'hard not to conclude that the issue of class is fun in the movie, just because it is represented by a "secure environment culturally." This means that poverty is largely entertaining, if it is represented by relatively unknown or culturally vulnerable ... both Kazakh or "trailer trash" in "red (neck) was" America.
The Polish author of the blog "Beatroot" captured well in a post on the Molvania guide titled: "Why is it that the onlyPeople "liberal thinking" okay to laugh these days are the white working class and Central and Eastern Europe? "
Europe "white trash"
... There's something a bit 'strange is happening in the West. If this book was about, for example, people in Africa have been written, and rightly so, there would be uproar and outrage. Words such as "racism" would be used by critics lefty liberals. But it seems that political correctness extends to all groups these days except poorWhites from urban, rural or semi-rural America and in Europe.
I would venture to speculate who the villagers of Borat! state, have been presented as a greater outrage at these Roma or "gypsies" and not as a fictional Kazakh, could, because in the hierarchy of official discrimination that prevails in the political and cultural circles in the West. Presented by the Kazakhs as a relatively unknown, but it is "easier" to laughFree. And did not a British tabloid interest in the village of Glod (meaning "mud"!) It shows clips of the film with the villagers, it is possible that these were fictitious Kazakh was every bit as relative Amish disinherited by Weird Al Yankovic: according to the journalists, "not only a villager we spoke, had never been able to afford a trip to the nearest cinema, 20 miles away!"
Sunny mud, or when things bollixed All Up: The uses ofBorat
The finished products can be inputs or cultural intermediary for the things that their creators would never have dreamed of and perhaps even with the consent to be processed is known. Some years ago I remember a television program in a large U.S. city, where real estate agents is to use the abbreviation "Archie Bunker", customers have been examined to describe "discriminating taste" to think that through the use of this language, were somehow still in theBoundaries of the law on equal opportunities. Similarly, U.S. troops in Iraq, its inclusion in the satirical ballad described jingoistic "America ** ck yeah!" Team America: World Police in their missions. So it was with Borat. This is certainly the charm of the Jewish Anti-Defamation Group: does not matter that Baron Cohen is a Jew and I have tried to highlight anti-Semitic prejudices, if his audience with laughter, however, borate-Semitism.
The LondonThe Sun tabloid, known for its "concern" about immigration and some popular support, helping the racist and xenophobic attitudes, which are sought after for his pitchfork to make hay from Borat! in the context of the emerging debate on immigration with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in the European Union on 1 January 2007 attached. Quoted in document Pascu Gheorghiu, 46 years, with the words "Borat is a son-of-a-bitch, look like savages. This is very pleased to Transylvania, home of Dracula. If everconversely, we will stick a stake in his back and impale him. Then I would cut his b *** s off. "Two weeks later, under a headline blaring" We leave Romania "is a picture of people in horse-drawn carriages called" horse and carriage ... The Romanians are ahead of us, "says the article quoted a villager:" for a better life, slowly, people are easy to get around the restrictions, working in black or self, "and ends with another commitment," Boron should.look out. You can meet some of us in London soon. "
America, the stereotype ... hours in a theater near you:
Torti America first right, wrong, his rights and his right-wrong
Borat! is full, what they call "Occidentalism nesting" or "nesting anti-Americanism": that is, creates and plays on both foreign and domestic hierarchies of Americans, good, bad and ugly. Chris Jones hits the banality and vulgarity of Baron Cohen's journey in the filmas follows:
... Borat begins his U.S. tour in New York, the land of cold and distant, where the connection only by last name. Then head south, the land of the meek and gentle idiot, where the local gothic novels have changed my mind since the days of Scarlett O'Hara. It takes a turn for Texas - a huge amount of nuts to chew on their cowboy hats cuds on every corner. And after a short stay in the ghetto - where every street name "Martin Luther KingBlvd "- lands in southern California, where her breasts surgically more pull in every swimsuit.
In other words, Baron Cohen, the road was so frequently visited theme park, the European American stereotypes (and some would have us believe only Americans see the world as an extension of Disneyland!) "Othering", it turns out, it does not recognize ' class struggle or political correctness.
Baron Cohen certainly does - or at least wants to be - evenseriously. It should therefore surprise no one that Americans are better off in the film is a religious observant Jews elderly couple who run a bed-and-breakfast and an African-American Callgirl (variously claimed on the Internet, an actress):
I think part of the film, the absurdity of keeping any form of racial prejudice if it shows the hatred of African-Americans or Jews ... Borat works essentially as a tool. With himself as anti-Semitic, he lets peopledown their guard and expose their own prejudice, whether it is anti-Semitism and the acceptance of anti-Semitism .... I remember when I was at university I studied history, and this was a great historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his statement was: "The road to Auschwitz was paved with indifference." I know it's not very funny, a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone can be a great anti-Semitism in Germany had. Onlyhad to be apathetic.
But is this really what we take on the ugly Americans Baron Cohen in Borat speak? First, Chris Jones is a good question is: Baron Cohen really "cross the pond" to find such disturbing stereotypes?
Because Cohen is now reportedly the highest paid comic in Britain - and why he refers to himself as a radical - this is the movie that should do it now. We see his Borat make some Cultural Study of its complacent world. Thewould not be difficult for him to chat a racist in a London pub. He could go to any British soccer game and a cacophony of anti-gay insults. Get an Irish immigrant from Eastern Europe on the road chatter, and someone has a foot in them. Borat could spend time with French Gothic of the Dordogne a. It 'been able to integrate the way in Europe (or not) is to teach their Muslim citizens. They do not have prostitutes in Hamburg? Let's see if they are welcome to the better class of GermanParty.
As Andrew Mueller notes on the film. "What is surprising is not every American he meets his ingenuity, but the courtesy, hospitality and the extraordinary degree to which Borat has to inflame situations to provoke a reaction would have tried these antics in many other countries - brings a prostitute dinner, desecrating the national anthem before an audience -. rodeo had led the campaign in traction "
I would say that Baron Cohensometimes misinterpreted the reactions of those who "unmasked". This he did with most of the Americans who captured on tape the same thing that says "... the English bourgeoisie seem as sharp politely for the camera" sees? I do not think so. The reserve, the inactivity of the behavior of Americans Baron Cohen meets consensus, I would say that is a desire not to offend the host, no matter how strange it is, not to speak or ask questions to show, born of ignorance. After allthe biggest faux pas you can make in today's globalized present time, we are told, is to mock or express cultural ignorance of our interlocutors. Do not judge, just play along, get along to go along ...
This is American socio-cultural laissez-faire also known as American self-centeredness - the best and the worst that can reach a world in the privacy of individuals absurd proportions, it is not a neighbor of his salary or the value of their home or disturb theNeighbor, although you can hear sounds at night as an indication of physical abuse or mental issue. In fact, the very American of Borat! can last episode of the comedy series Seinfeld long, where the four main characters in the classroom, because there have yet to meet "Good Samaritan" for the law and helping a person in distress can be seen hauling, have done quite the fun 'with to its weight - a homage, intended or not, the AmericanEgocentrism.
And 'safe? ... And 'safe?
"Is it safe? ... And 'safe?" is no longer something just does not feel the dentist. It 'the thought that crosses people's minds before, during or after they laugh in our post-modern world. Perhaps the lesson here is to not take this too seriously.
Americans should be grateful for a movie: held a mirror and tells us how some see the rest of the world around us. As has often been, Said in the past, many of which the United States had a divided opinion that the foreign policy of the United States unpopular with the American people separate, more and more polls of public opinion abroad that foreigners are not more of this distinction (even it may be, in fact, the perception that the former have a negative impact on the latter). Like it or not, Baron Cohen has used effectively to foreign perceptions of the United States and has found enough Americans to play the uglyStereotyping is expected of them brilliantly.
On the other hand, yes, Virginia, there is sure to laugh at Borat. Andrew Mueller explains why:
The reason is that Borat is a cry liberating understanding Baron-Cohen, that nothing more fun than they actually do not laugh - and early 21 century, the pressure on us, do not laugh, for the backwardness and ignorance foreigners is significant. It is expected to take seriously people who want to takeCartoonist for the design, stone and women for sex - none of which, like ideas, are like the custom DAfter Kazakhstan, described by Borat, mandatory gay to wear blue hats.
We should not cry too much for Kazakhstan (Moscow is not certain). Debate as a poster on a Web site on whether Borat is positive or negative publicity for Kazakhstan. 'Without Borat, Kazakhstan is just another obscure Central Asian republic "Another pointed out that Borat is a" proven innocent, butis not cruel or evil. "Others suggest that the Kazakhs could pull off a coup when they use now on the Borat character in a film-to-market" the real Kazakhstan. "Professor Sean Roberts notes that on Google Trends, Kazakhstan Borat has more than doubled since google usually strikes during the race and the amount of borate film is a public relations campaign.
All that remains then, is the last action for equipment to kill Baron Cohen, Borat, so that nobody has bothered. A modest proposal: How about a"Dallas," as a plot twister with "Who shot Borat?" It was the Americans, the Kazakhs, the villagers of Glod? ... Because Baron Cohen
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