Borat Movie Shames Villagers
November 18th 2006 18:29
Borat and his "sister"
This is a sad story.
In the opening scenes of the Borat movie, Sacha Baron Cohen visits a town that represents Borat's Kazakh home. I wasn't aware of this, but the villagers are real. The town, which is actually a Romanian slum called Glod, was depicted in a very poor light. One grandfather was paid only 3 pounds to strap a sex toy to his stub of an arm. He says he didn't even know what it was and is ashamed of his participation in the movie.
"When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat, he found the perfect place in Glod: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running water and where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land.
But now the villagers of this tiny, close-knit community have angrily accused the comedian of exploiting them, after discovering his new blockbuster film portrays them as a backward group of rapists, abortionists and prostitutes, who happily engage in casual incest.
They claim film-makers lied to them about the true nature of the project, which they believed would be a documentary about their hardship, rather than a comedy mocking their poverty and isolation.
Villagers say they were paid just £3 each for this humiliation, for a film that took around £27million at the worldwide box office in its first week of release."
This is sad. Just another example of the rich exploiting the poor for their own gains. Shame, shame. I want my $10 back- this movie wasn't even that good.
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And as if the grandfather didn't know he was wearing a dildo on his arm.
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