Borat: Studio culturale sull'America a beneficio della gloriosa nazione del Kazakistan
Titolo originale: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat, il direttore televisivo kazako, viene inviato negli Stati Uniti per riferire sul più grande paese del mondo. Con una troupe di documentaristi al seguito, Borat diventa più interessato... Leggi tuttoBorat, il direttore televisivo kazako, viene inviato negli Stati Uniti per riferire sul più grande paese del mondo. Con una troupe di documentaristi al seguito, Borat diventa più interessato a localizzare e sposare Pamela Anderson.Borat, il direttore televisivo kazako, viene inviato negli Stati Uniti per riferire sul più grande paese del mondo. Con una troupe di documentaristi al seguito, Borat diventa più interessato a localizzare e sposare Pamela Anderson.
- Candidato a 1 Oscar
- 20 vittorie e 34 candidature totali
Ilham Aliyev
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Pamela Anderson
- Self - Autograph Signing
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Bob Barr
- Self - Former Georgia Congressman
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Joseph Behar
- Self - Bed-and-Breakfast Owner
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Carole De Saram
- Self - Feminist
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Mitchell Falk
- Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Jodi L. Goldfinger
- Kazakh women - '06 Toronto Int'l Film Festival Premiere
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Alan Keyes
- Self - 2-Time Republican Presidential Candidate
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Andre Myers
- Pride Dancer
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Jean-Pierre Parent
- Kazakh Swimmer
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Chip Pickering
- Self - U.S. Congressman
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Bobby Rowe
- Self - General Manager of Imperial Rodeo
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Viva Sex
- Pamela Anderson Fan
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Trama
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- QuizThe police were called on Sacha Baron Cohen ninety-two times during the production of this film.
- BlooperWhen Borat gets out of the RV where he'd been drinking with the frat boys, it is a different RV than the one he originally got into.
- Curiosità sui crediti"KAZAKH BOARD OF FILM CENSORS: This film is unsuitable for children under the age of 3"
- Versioni alternativeFor the film's US television premiere on USA Network in June 2009, the film is presented largely uncut -- including the infamous nude wrestling and chase between Borat and Azamat, which is censored with black bars -- but several of the harshest profanities and sexual terms are silenced and a label reading "CENZURAT" appears over mouths (and, where necessary, subtitles) in order to try and further hide which terms are being used.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: Episodio #11.8 (2006)
- Colonne sonoreChaje Shukarije
Written and Performed by Esma Redzepova
Courtesy of Times Square Records/World Connection Enterprises
Recensione in evidenza
In Kazakhstan one of the leading television personalities is reporter Borat Sagdiyev, who has covered the leading events in his wonderful country. However with many backward ways in their land, the Ministry of Information decide to send Borat to America with producer Azamat and a film crew. Their aim is to learn lessons from the US in order to return to make benefit Kazakhstan. However when Borat sees the television show Baywatch in his hotel room he becomes transfixed with CJ, aka Pamela Anderson and convinces Azamat that the documentary should be a road trip across the US, thus allowing him to get to California and find his love.
Hyped to the point of hysteria, I joined a packed Saturday night cinema to see this film, wondering what all the fuss was about. Before I continue it is important to note that I'm not trying to be part of a backlash or anything here, because I did actually find the film quite funny at times. However, while some professional reviewers have praised this for being a wonderfully intelligent commentary on society and so on, I struggled to see anything going on here past Jackass-style humour and lots of easy targets. To this end the film is at its funniest when we are simply laughing at what an outsider Borat is. Whether it is the imaginative ways that his narrow-minded ways manifest themselves (throwing money at bugs thinking they are shape-shifting Jews for example) or the looks on the faces of those people shocked by his behaviour, viewers not easily offended will find something to laugh about here.
And to me that is where the whole show begins and ends. Viewers keen to find it will claim that Cohen is using Borat to bring out the small-mindedness of others by using Borat as a trap to draw them out. However this only actually happens twice; once is a redneck with homophobic and anti-Muslim views (a redneck, what a surprise) and the other is a group of drunk students neither very difficult targets and neither groups that I would expect much of in this regard. Conversely most people show how civil they are by being polite for as long as they can before eventually decided that they can take it no more the crowd at the rodeo is one example but I could also cite the dinner party, the feminists and so on. With this the case I did wonder what the point was and concluded that there isn't one there is no intelligent commentary to be made here and those seeing it are seeing it perhaps to justify laughing at racist etc humour. Because lets be honest, that what is so funny right? That Borat is so out of touch and shocking in his views and the way he is. I know that was what made me laugh many of the times, not because it was racist etc but mostly because he is imaginative with how he is. Of course this is not to say that the humour is still not racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and so on, because it is and I know that some sections of any audience will be laughing at it because of this. Likewise I know some will be uncomfortable with the humour and not care that it is done in an ironic, knowing sort of way. I fell somewhere in the middle; it was funny but I wish it had been a damn sight cleverer to justify the material.
Overall then this is a funny film but it really has very little beyond the Jackass approach of basically doing pranks (in this case Borat himself is the prank) on "unsuspecting" people. It did draw laughs from me on this level but I was disappointed that it went for such easy targets and really didn't get much from any of them (some contributions are mere seconds). God only knows why it is so highly rated by my fellow users here but then that is why I give little or no credence to the top 250 list!
Hyped to the point of hysteria, I joined a packed Saturday night cinema to see this film, wondering what all the fuss was about. Before I continue it is important to note that I'm not trying to be part of a backlash or anything here, because I did actually find the film quite funny at times. However, while some professional reviewers have praised this for being a wonderfully intelligent commentary on society and so on, I struggled to see anything going on here past Jackass-style humour and lots of easy targets. To this end the film is at its funniest when we are simply laughing at what an outsider Borat is. Whether it is the imaginative ways that his narrow-minded ways manifest themselves (throwing money at bugs thinking they are shape-shifting Jews for example) or the looks on the faces of those people shocked by his behaviour, viewers not easily offended will find something to laugh about here.
And to me that is where the whole show begins and ends. Viewers keen to find it will claim that Cohen is using Borat to bring out the small-mindedness of others by using Borat as a trap to draw them out. However this only actually happens twice; once is a redneck with homophobic and anti-Muslim views (a redneck, what a surprise) and the other is a group of drunk students neither very difficult targets and neither groups that I would expect much of in this regard. Conversely most people show how civil they are by being polite for as long as they can before eventually decided that they can take it no more the crowd at the rodeo is one example but I could also cite the dinner party, the feminists and so on. With this the case I did wonder what the point was and concluded that there isn't one there is no intelligent commentary to be made here and those seeing it are seeing it perhaps to justify laughing at racist etc humour. Because lets be honest, that what is so funny right? That Borat is so out of touch and shocking in his views and the way he is. I know that was what made me laugh many of the times, not because it was racist etc but mostly because he is imaginative with how he is. Of course this is not to say that the humour is still not racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and so on, because it is and I know that some sections of any audience will be laughing at it because of this. Likewise I know some will be uncomfortable with the humour and not care that it is done in an ironic, knowing sort of way. I fell somewhere in the middle; it was funny but I wish it had been a damn sight cleverer to justify the material.
Overall then this is a funny film but it really has very little beyond the Jackass approach of basically doing pranks (in this case Borat himself is the prank) on "unsuspecting" people. It did draw laughs from me on this level but I was disappointed that it went for such easy targets and really didn't get much from any of them (some contributions are mere seconds). God only knows why it is so highly rated by my fellow users here but then that is why I give little or no credence to the top 250 list!
- bob the moo
- 22 nov 2006
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- 18.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 128.505.958 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 26.455.463 USD
- 5 nov 2006
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 262.552.893 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 24 minuti
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- 1.85 : 1
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