...NOT!
The first Borat lawsuit. Look fellas, trying the Mel Gibson defense didn’t even work for, well, Mel Gibson. Ya’ thought it when you were sober — ya’ said it when you were drunk. So it would have been ok to show this in other countries while expressing those views? VERY NICE!
UPDATE: In addition to the lawsuit by Pinto and Flounder, HJ sent me a link to a story about basically the entire country of Russia hating the movie. (Now that’s PR.) Although I’m sure pirated DVDs are already making the rounds there. NOT SO NICE.
Tags: advertising, Borat, Mel Gibson
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But, Bill - they suffered "humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community." (snicker)
...and guess what? "VERY NICE" is/will be the new "Stay classy."
add an entire nation to the two pissed off morons...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0611100123nov10,1,2511013.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
It's just really odd that out of all the groups that would be offended, Bluto, Pinto and Flounder are the last ones I'd think of. THey'll be on Larry King 'NOT' talking about the case too.
And NOTHING will ever replace Stay Classy™!
hj - link is cut off and the page is not found. Can you embed it with an (a href) tag? Thnx.
"It's just really odd that out of all the groups that would be offended, Bluto, Pinto and Flounder are the last ones I'd think of...."
Exactly! Borat couldn't have written it better himself...
Hey...wait a sec....
: )
Now this guy's on the sue wagon, claiming Cohen stole the character from his real-life persona.
http://www.ikissyou.org/
Double edged sword being Sasha Baron Cohen right now.
don't mean to beat a dead horse, but borat continues to botch his translations. the sign he's holding in the photo accompanying this post features letters that do not even exist in the russian alphabet. just another reason for the former soviet union to be pissed off at borat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet
I also notice while his accent is heavy, his sentence structure seems almost perfect at times. (Because you know how that’s how non-English speaking people always talk.)
;-p
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