Borat gets invite to Kazakhstan

[Initech]

Kazakh invite for Borat creator

A top official from Kazakhstan has invited comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - who pokes fun at the country as his character Borat - to visit the country.

"I'd like to invite Cohen here. He can discover a lot of things," said deputy foreign minister Rakhat Aliyev.

In the film, Cohen's character Borat portrays Kazakhs as a nation of misogynists, racists and anti-Semites.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is released next month.

Mr Aliyev told local news agency Kazakhstan Today that Cohen could learn "women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6066040.stm

Anyone else think that this could get very interesting? :spray:

[asthmaticeog]

1. I smell a setup.

He'll never be heard from again. ;)

[XemaSab]

2. Dude... the food would be reason enough not to go...

You have to drink vodka shots just to wash the mutton fat down.

BOILED mutton fat, no less. :scared:

[Initech]

3. Ewwwwwwwww....

:puke:

[XemaSab]

6. And I am not saying that to be anti-Kazakh... they are a beautiful people

with a rich tradition of eating boiled mutton. :P

And horse. :P :P

http://www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html

[MADem]

9. You can PICTURE Borat reading this recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!

DELICACIES OF HORSE- FLESH

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For making: 5 kg of kazy, 350 g of salt, 10 g of black ground pepper, a garlic.

For serving the table: 100 g of kazy, 0,25 of an onion, 2 table-spoons of green canned peas.

From the carcass of the slaughtered horse the ribs with flesh are cut off and the blood is let trickle down for 5-7 hours. The guts are washed well and kept in salt water for 1-2 hours. The slightly dried up kazy are cut in strips along the ribs: the brand kazy are cut in narrow strips and the narrow ones - in broad strips. The interrib tissue should be cut with a shapp knife removing cartilages and without crumbling the fat. Then the meat is salted and peppered, finely cut garlic is added and the meat is wrapped up in a napkin for 2-3 hours. .....

[Matariki]

13. not unlike the Scots!

[rockymountaindem]

4. I think that for all the silliness "Borat" does

1) Kazakhstan is taking this way too seriously
2) Cohen could just as easily made up some fake country like "Elbonia" and most of the people he pranks wouldn't know the difference.

[XemaSab]

7. I would be pretty pissed

if I was a developing nation and an American movie was making me out to be totally backwards.

If the movie was making fun of Malawi or Uruguay, would it still be ok? :shrug:

[rockymountaindem]

10. I think Uruguay is doing pretty well

From what I understand, they're a fully modernized country. As far as Malawi, who's to say? But, people make fun of the US all the time in foreign media and we don't devote a whole lot of time or resources to getting them to change their minds. I don't think this is going to make or break anybody's opinion of Kazakhstan.

[LTR]

12. Cohen is British

Though the movie takes place in America.

[fujiyama]

17. If you talk to ordinary people there

I'm sure they'd have a sense of humor and laugh it off.

It seems like it's just some idiots in their authoritarian government with a real bug up their ass over this Borat thing.

Hell, half the people out there wouldn't even know Kazahkstan is a real country. A friend of mine was surprised to later hear it was.

[htuttle]

5. "Please. Watch my film."

"If it not success, I be execute."

:rofl:

If I were him, I'd probably go...

[Shakespeare]

16. It's that desperate little smile he gives after he says that...

...that makes that so incredibly funny, ever single time I see it.

[killbotfactory]

8. He's not making fun of Kazakhstan!

Okay, maybe a little, but his focus is on americans and British.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

14. Exactly!

On the surface of course he is making fun of Kazakhstan, but only to expose the ignorance of the Americans he interviews.

Anyone who really believes that Kazakhstan is how Cohen portrays it probably also believes that the US is "liberating" Iraq.

[judaspriestess]

11. Borat is out of control sick twisted hilarious

I loved, loved, loved this movie. D'Ali G


I've never seen anything like this movie

[RevolutionStartsNow]

15. ps) is there a Borat avatar yet?

I could look myself, just lazy and tired.