'BORAT' TAKES ON THE WORLD
Borat only arrived in Sydney on Saturday and he's already stirring the pot.
"I like very much Australia, I am a huge fanny of your country," he said today.
"Last night I go to a very nice nightclubs in Oxford Street named Manacle. There were 200 men dancing there with no shirt on, very strong and muscular, and only one womans. And who do you think she choose? ... Borat!"He said the woman was taller than him, with hair on her arms and a very deep voice. "[This morning] my anus was hang loose like the mouth of a tired dog." He expressed his fondness for Australian television, particularly Home and Away. His favourite character is Colleen Smart, played by Lyn Collingwood."I would like to make romance inside of her," he said. While he's here, Borat would like to find an Australian wife to take back to Kazakhstan with him, and he's also "very interest to meet a kangaroo". "I would very much like to find Australian wife ... ladies, please send me photograph, preferably erotic," he said. "My preference is for a woman who has more hair on head than back, and teeth that grow only on inside of mouth ... [and] she must be tight like man's anus." But, of course, Borat isn't a real person. He's a character created by actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, whose other characters include a camp Austrian TV reporter, Bruno, and satirical gangster wannabe Ali G. Cohen regularly makes public appearances and speaks to the media in character as Borat, and made the above remarks at a press conference ahead of tonight's Australian premiere of his movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Journalists attending the conference today were ordered to "submit a list of questions for approval" beforehand. A Twentieth Century Fox spokeswoman told smh.com.au that this was "a directive from L.A.", and that it would allow Cohen to "prepare with regard to his character". And prepare he did; most of his responses to journalists' questions today seemed highly scripted, many having been given previously during interviews on US talk shows. Borat's Australian film debut will be held tonight at the Greater Union cinema in George Street, followed by an after-party at high-brow nightspot Zeta bar. Last weekend's US debut of the film was a huge success, opening at No. 1 and raking in $US 26.4 million. The fallout from the US press was highly positive; reviews directory Rotten Tomatoes counted 155 reviews and an average rating of 8.1/10. Conversely, the film's unsuspecting subjects gave a markedly different reaction. Two students have already said they are suing Cohen for allegedly plying them with alcohol and tricking them into appearing in the film, under the false pretense that it would not be shown in the US. Further, residents of the Glod village in Romania, which is portrayed in the film as Borat's hometown in Kazakhstan, have told overseas newspapers that the filmmakers lied to them about the true nature of the project. The villagers allege they were paid just dollars to appear in the film, and were utterly humiliated by Borat's pranks. In one of the scenes, Borat introduces a female villager as his sister, "the number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan". As a result, the people of Glod are reportedly seeking to take legal action against Cohen and Twentieth Century Fox.
"I like very much Australia, I am a huge fanny of your country," he said today.
"Last night I go to a very nice nightclubs in Oxford Street named Manacle. There were 200 men dancing there with no shirt on, very strong and muscular, and only one womans. And who do you think she choose? ... Borat!"He said the woman was taller than him, with hair on her arms and a very deep voice. "[This morning] my anus was hang loose like the mouth of a tired dog." He expressed his fondness for Australian television, particularly Home and Away. His favourite character is Colleen Smart, played by Lyn Collingwood."I would like to make romance inside of her," he said. While he's here, Borat would like to find an Australian wife to take back to Kazakhstan with him, and he's also "very interest to meet a kangaroo". "I would very much like to find Australian wife ... ladies, please send me photograph, preferably erotic," he said. "My preference is for a woman who has more hair on head than back, and teeth that grow only on inside of mouth ... [and] she must be tight like man's anus." But, of course, Borat isn't a real person. He's a character created by actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, whose other characters include a camp Austrian TV reporter, Bruno, and satirical gangster wannabe Ali G. Cohen regularly makes public appearances and speaks to the media in character as Borat, and made the above remarks at a press conference ahead of tonight's Australian premiere of his movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Journalists attending the conference today were ordered to "submit a list of questions for approval" beforehand. A Twentieth Century Fox spokeswoman told smh.com.au that this was "a directive from L.A.", and that it would allow Cohen to "prepare with regard to his character". And prepare he did; most of his responses to journalists' questions today seemed highly scripted, many having been given previously during interviews on US talk shows. Borat's Australian film debut will be held tonight at the Greater Union cinema in George Street, followed by an after-party at high-brow nightspot Zeta bar. Last weekend's US debut of the film was a huge success, opening at No. 1 and raking in $US 26.4 million. The fallout from the US press was highly positive; reviews directory Rotten Tomatoes counted 155 reviews and an average rating of 8.1/10. Conversely, the film's unsuspecting subjects gave a markedly different reaction. Two students have already said they are suing Cohen for allegedly plying them with alcohol and tricking them into appearing in the film, under the false pretense that it would not be shown in the US. Further, residents of the Glod village in Romania, which is portrayed in the film as Borat's hometown in Kazakhstan, have told overseas newspapers that the filmmakers lied to them about the true nature of the project. The villagers allege they were paid just dollars to appear in the film, and were utterly humiliated by Borat's pranks. In one of the scenes, Borat introduces a female villager as his sister, "the number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan". As a result, the people of Glod are reportedly seeking to take legal action against Cohen and Twentieth Century Fox.
"BORAT" SACHA BARON COHEN
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