2y ago

TIL that during the filming of Borat, Police was called 90+ times

And the FBI was assigned to follow the film team on reports of a "vaguely middle-eastern man with a bear in an ice-crem truck", which has to be the funniest report xD

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In 2012, the parody national anthem from the film's soundtrack, which acclaims Kazakhstan for its high-quality potassium exports and having the second-cleanest prostitutes in the region, was mistakenly played at the medal ceremony of Mariya Dmitriyenko at the Emir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix. The incident apparently resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from the Internet.
- lol this is better than the time I tried to download 007 Die another day and ended up with Disney’s Mulan
  
  Is this a family guy skit?
- Is there video of this?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39cenrIQW0 was the best live one I could find. At 0:19 you can clearly hear the prostitutes line
Sacha Baron Cohen is one classy son of a bitch.
He played Ali G. He risked his life interviewing conservatives. He infuriated the Kazakhstan government.
- Pretty sure Kazakhstan loves Borat, he brought the name Kazakhstan into public consciousness where as before people where like 'wtf is Kazakhstan?'
  
  I actually met a man from Kazakhstan in my store the other day. He gestured to me that he’d like to sleep in the parking lot and pointed, “in truck. In truck. No English.” Imagine my surprise when I said, “what language?” and this very Asian looking fellow said, “Russian. But not me Russian. Me Kazakhstan”.
  I got to use the translate app on my phone for the first time and when I said, “Ah, I’ve heard of Kazakhstan. I seen Borat.” He said, “No no no, uh, he is from London. He is not really from Kazakhstan. We hate him. We’re so tired of him. That is not what we are really like.” I said, “Oh I know that Kazakhstan is a former Soviet country and you guys are nothing like that. Borat is a man from England. He’s a comedian. I know it’s a joke.” “Oh it makes me so happy you know about the real Kazakhstan.” He said.
  Then I ordered him a pizza to be delivered to his truck.
  It was a fun experience meeting him. He was a great guy.
  We talked for hours using the Google translate app.
  There were a couple of gaffs. I realized after he left when I said “nice to meet you.” It heard, “it was nice to me too.” But otherwise it worked pretty well. It amazes me that we can do that nowadays.
  
  When Borat was fresh, I was in a new hire class for a major telecom you’ve heard of if you’re in the US.
  Somehow, the chatter came around to Borat, and someone challenged me on the existence of Kazakhstan.
  I’m not always great with people , so I did a double take - they were serious. I shipped them a GMaps link via chat…
  …and they proceeded to argue with me that said country couldn’t possibly actually exist.
  Once in a while, I wonder where that person ended up - no Ill will towards the misinformed, but I’m certainly curious.
  
  Sort of an inverse Streisand effect.
  
  I've heard differing things about Kazakhstan's reaction. Wasn't there a time where Sacha Baron Cohen would have been a dead man if he entered Kazakh borders?
  Also, Kazakhstan actually has a really nice national anthem that 100% does not deserve to be overshadowed by a satirical one that mocks their country.
  
  where as before people where like 'wtf is Kazakhstan?'
  Maybe US Americans
- Kazakhstan tourism slogan "Very Nice"
- Idk the zionism kinda ruins him for me.
  
  links for the uninitiated
- More recently though, he has spent his time complaining about the rise of antisemitism when he himself has done a fair amount of work contributing to it while in the character of Borat.
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/sacha-baron-cohen-tells-tiktok-its-creating-biggest-antisemitic-movement-since-nazis/
- ~~Then he made some really dumb statements about cancel culture.~~ That was Rowan Atkinson, my bad.
  
  Is this what you're talking about? Because it seems pretty damn reasonable to me. https://youtu.be/73rwD8cvmUQ
  
  Oh really? Got any links, please?
- No no, they mean the band. That's why it's capitalized
  
  Who?
  
  Only after people already told Borat not to to stand so close to them. Every breath he takes is rough, Anne!
- Idk, maybe at the location of filming
- You can edit post titles on Lemmy, too.
  Granted, that's a bad idea overall, but correcting simple, obvious grammatical errors and typos is one of the benefits of it.
Was.................
- It was one guy named Police.
  
  It took Borat to get Sting and the band back together.
  
  Yeah, Gordon Summer's artist name I believe
  /S
- i have a BA in english and I used to teach esl.... i wasn't even thinking that could've been wrong. it felt correct to me. well...i'm gonna leave the title as is, since i appreciate the jokes about it here ^^
  
  "Police was called 90 times"
  Were you working in the hood?
  
  it's good i like it don't listen to the haters
Police were let down when they found out he was not a genuine chocolate face.
Very nice
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