this video is sponsored by surf shark VPN B this is borad probably the most
controversial movie made in the 21st century but at the same time it's also considered one of
the best comedies he's my neighbor he ising my this man mastered the prank far before YouTube
pranks became popular because what makes Borat so unique is that it features real people who
have no idea he is playing a character he goes extreme far with his humor often violating
social boundaries and Tabo over here our to of k
indergarten but his jokes went so far that
it resulted in tons of lawsuits in the movie getting banned in Kazakhstan great success borad
took satire to a whole new level so I'm going to show you why there will never be another movie
like borad this my hor answer please but first we need to get a better understanding of The
Man Behind Borat Sasha Baron Cohen what is the most popular thing in the world music no
tell me ice cream okay Sasha Baron Cohen is a British comedian known for his absur
d satirical
characters he rose to fame with the character of Ali G a British roadman interviewing people such
as David Beckham Kobe Bryant and Donald Trump he later played a whole range of other characters
most famously a flamboyant Austrian fashionista named Bruno the cic journalist Borat and general
aladine in the dictator not to mention his most underappreciated role King Julian in Madagascar
I like to move it move it by the way he was also said to play Freddy Mercury in Bohemian
rap ci
ty Frederick Mercury we like him very much in Kazakhstan here's a ladies man but he
dropped out after disagreements with the band his characters became famous for asking the most
outrageous questions to people who are not aware they have been set up are you allowed to date
other members of the team or do you have to wait till cu the season is over what you want them to
drink you can't drink D while you're driving it's it's against the law what off camera however
Cohen is a very well spoken
man with a degree in history and rarely appears as his real self
often going to talk shows and public Gatherings to pull off pranks have fun this evening this
man literally knows no shame in 2018 he managed to get an actual US state representative to do
this go go go go go USA USA mother [ __ ] Cohen sprangs have often pushed one to many boundaries
and though he has earned a lot of Praise during his career he has also built a track record of
lawsuits and getting into trouble and with Borat
let's just say things became a bit more than
just a prank I mean at the moment I think I have the world record the most sued actor in
history not in the room yet sir hold on this is not my room this is the elevator it takes you
to the floor where your room is whoa whoo woo w King in the castle King in the castle I have a
chair I have a chair boret is a journalist from Kazakhstan who travels to the United States in
order to learn about the culture on the surface he's just acting like a fool
to get reactions
out of Americans by appearing himself as this dumb interviewer and explicitly not American
people are willing to buy that he's just from a different culture that suit is black not this
suit is not black no no he often makes people cringe with his awkward Behavior and the language
barrier creates some genius interactions what do you do I have spent years in construction um I
recently retired you are retired uh yes unlike hidden camera shows borad pranks his characters in
pl
ain sight because people don't realize they're playing in a comedy instead they were told it's
for an official documentary from kazak television making all of the interactions real what type
of dog is this this is a B is this a cat in a hat a central theme in the movie is the cultural
difference between the supposedly underdeveloped Kazakhstan and America us and greatest country
in the world and Borat is simply trying to adapt you look like Michael Jackson Beat It Man can
you teach me how t
o dress how can I be like you what's up with it vanilla face throughout the
movie Borat says the most political Incorrect and racist stuff you can imagine as if it's nothing
and he makes people believe the craziest things often making you wonder how on Earth he got away
with making this movie but just referring to what he does as pranking is a bit reductive because
it goes much deeper than that by being himself outrageous he puts up a mirror because it quickly
shows just how ridiculous of a
country America is sometimes guilty of being and so the goal of borad
was not only to make fun of people but also to be a social commentary a satire to use humor irony
exagger ation or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices particularly in
a context of contemporary politics and other topical issues well at least that was the goal
the movie became a great success turning Borat into an international star and a highly quitable
fixture of Pop Culture precisely because of
its black humor and risky pranks but these jokes
didn't land well with everyone borat's success got Cohen and the producers in tons of legal
trouble and controversies multiple people who appear in the film have filed lawsuits for being
misled and exploited most notably the villagers of borat's fictional Hometown who sued Cohen
for $30 million in Damages these scenes were not shot in Kazakhstan but in a small village
in Romania named glad whose villagers were living in poverty and were being
depicted
as these barbaric people but because they didn't understand English they didn't know what
was being said about them awn mechanic [Music] and the people from The Village felt betrayed and
some were so angry that they wanted to kill Borat but the real Kazakhstan wasn't too happy
about Borat either in 2006 the kazak government banned Borat because the movie depicts Kazakhstan
is this backwards country full of misogynists and anti-semitic when Cohen hosted the MTV Awards as
borad thi
s is what happened I pretended that their prime minister Premier Naf came on and I got on my
knees and I kissed his and they got so angry that their prime minister Premier n actually flew to
Washington to complain to the American president so I thought bug of this I'm going to Washington
I would like to make a comment about my nation of Kazakhstan but why did Cohen choose Kazakhstan
he told the New York Times the Kazakhstan in the film has nothing to do with the real country
I chose Kazakhs
tan because it was a place that almost nobody in the US knew anything about which
allowed us to create a wild comedic fake world and it's exactly this ignorance and Prejudice
about foreigners that Cohen is trying to expose shave that dad gum mustache off so you're not so
conspicuous so you look like maybe an Italian when I think there's a dad gum Muslim wonder what
kind of bomb he's got strapped to him people really let down their guard with Borat because
they're with in a room with somebod
y who seems to have these outrageous opinions they sometimes
feel much more relaxed about letting their own outrageous Politically Incorrect opinions come out
this was also the case with these fraternity boys who tried to sue Cohen and his team for getting
them drunk and tricking them into making racist statements are women are women your slaves in
Russia no do you have a slaves here we wish no slaves wish it is a shame and B B shame in total
toal Borat accounted for at least seven lawsuits
placing it among the most sued movies ever during
production the police was called 92 times and according to Cohen even the FBI was informed
they had so many complaints that there was a middle eastern man driving through America
in an ice cream van that the FBI assigned a team to to us Sasha was not a US citizen at the
time so he had to often hide himself because he didn't want to get sent back to London he was
able to stay undercover for 1 and A2 year in the US it would take about 6 month
s afterwards
for me not to totally freak out whenever I to a policeman but isn't Cohen taking comedy too
far because even though Borat is a satire the biggest criticism is that he went beyond any moral
and ethical standards by portraying kazak people as misogynistic barbarous and anti-semitic and
so the question is where do you draw the line I was blamed for kazakhstan's failure and banned
from ever make reportings again I was publicly humiliated borat's success was both a gift and
a curse
it caused Cohen to be spotted in public no matter what character he played making it
harder and harder to make such a film again he said I realized that if I became famous myself
it would make my work almost impossible I was scared of becoming famous for a few years no one
actually knew what I looked like so basically um I was able to have the success without any of
the can I call it hassle after Borat grossed over 250 million back in 2006 Sasha Baron Cohen
saw a decline in the performance
of every film afterwards the dictator did 180 million Bruno did
140 million but by 2016 Grimsby lost $7 million and critics were stating that Baron Cohen is a
one-trick pony in 2016 Cohen said that Hollywood would be too scared to make Bor today explaining
that the incredibly crude humor which made the movie so successful was better suited to when
the film was first released between 2006 and 2020 he took long breaks from acting and played
characters with heavy makeup in order to be less re
cognizable but after a 14-year Hiatus boret
came back with the movie borat's subsequent movie film delivery of prodigious bribe to make
American great benefit one's glorious nation of Kazakhstan which was purchased by Amazon for a
whopping $80 million people make recognize my face I would need disguises and as if the controversy
wasn't enough this time Cohen decided to go all out we see him return to the US with his daughter
tutar to take on The Rona anti-maskers conspiracy theorists and Tr
ump supporters even going so far
to exposing us politicians who were trying to get an affair with his daughter Asen said you don't
just want to interview some dorant at a hotel you want to interview the incredibly wealthy
guests at a penthouse high ranking politicians or people who are threatening the problem is
it is definitely challenging especially now with Twitter and Facebook it's very very hard
to get away with this meant that everything had to be done in complete secrecy how could I
make another Undercover movie the way to do it was Borat goes in Disguise found that after doing
a lot of tests if I was Ginger people were less likely to realize it was me but it was also for
this movie that Cohen really went too far even putting his own safety in danger at one point
he had the fear for his life at a gun rights rally if it feels like it's going to get violent
then I you can't the the worst thing you can do is crack and then realize that you're playing
a character you go h
ey I just want to mock you and expose your racism then you're really in
trouble by not breaking character he is able to get away with it most of the time but if he
does things can get really dangerous it happens occasionally I mean this was the first movie
where I've had to wear a bulletproof vest your hand what are we going to do with the Ral
left going to chop them up like the [Music] s let go go go we Lo the doors are [Music] locked hold it drive go come come come one of the guys who
sto
rmed the stage uh went for his pistol there was a very brave God who actually grabbed
his hand and said leaned in and said it's not worth it buddy Cohen also famously exposed Donald
Trump's attorney and former New York city mayor Rudy juliani who was being filmed putting his
hands down his pants while alone in a hotel room with borat's daughter naughty naughty juliani sued
Cohen for $95 million but Cohen recently won the lawsuit after years of doing such controversial
stunts Cohen has not l
ost a single lawsuit many of the cases were either won by Cohen or thrown
out such as the one for the village of gla of of course Cohen has his paperworks right and knows
what he is doing but another big reason is that despite his pranks he is being taken seriously
Borat has become a form of cultural activism and because Sasha Baron Cohen is Jewish himself he
is using comedy and satire to expose people's prejudices about these minorities and other
cultures revealing both the worst but also
the best in people for Bor 2 he raised 150,000 us to
help genuine people who have become victim of his pranks and donated another 100,000 to the church
as one entertainment lawyer said the truth is if he's been sued that many times in one that means
someone is getting something right the second Bor at movie was nominated for an Oscar and became
the longest movie name ever to be nominated after being chased nearly rested multiple times followed
by the FBI and sued during his film making proc
ess the question remains is it still worth it Sasha
Baron Cohen stated that he has permanently retired from playing Borat because eventually his luck
will run out yeah I don't know if I'm traumatized but I definitely don't want to go out and shoot
another one of these movies ever again they're too hard as you can see it's worth a word just to say
How brave Coen is because not many comedians are interested in attacking the most painful issues
of our society Borat kind of LED his career into
a downward spiral and Hollywood rarely cast him
anymore because of his immediate association with Borat and I think there are very few comedians
who could play the parts he does with a straight face or without losing their nerve you killed it
man can amazing I love that movie so much I love you I love your approach to uncomfortable people
and subjects you just lay bare the people who are supposed to be in control and aren't and I love it
borat's success has shown that the population is hung
ry for a more liberated and surprisingly more
meaningful humor than offered by the politically correct mainstream media and so with boret Cohen
has proven that comedy can be the most dangerous but also be the purest form of truth it's why fake
News outperforms Real News because studies show that lies spread faster than truth but in the case
of Borat many people are often collateral damages of his jokes and perhaps he is even adding fuel
to the fire sometimes Kazakhstan will inevitably be li
nked to Borat but they recently decided to
embrace this and turn it into something positive Kazakhstan launched a tourism campaign centered
around borat's Fair ni sketch phrase to showcase the beauty of the country by making Borat Sasha
Baron Cohen used caricatures and lies as a vehicle to reveal something that is far more dangerous
and often forgotten about in our society telling the truth when I was in that scene and I stared
down and saw your two wrinkled Golden Globes on my chin I thoug
ht to myself I'd
better win a bloody award for this while some might remain angry about Borat
others might look at it and smile realizing that the satire is aimed at themselves and that
most of us if you want it or not are a bit biased and have our own prejudices that's
why Sasha Baron Cohen is an example that it takes a true genius to play a believable fool but
before we sign off there's one more thing left to do welcome back in my town of kusek since I return
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