{"id":7475,"date":"2006-10-25T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2006-10-25T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T06:17:00","slug":"all-our-gory-oxen-are-belong-to-borat-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7475","title":{"rendered":"All Our Gory Oxen Are Belong to Borat [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you looking forward to seeing the Borat movie?  I am, especially after reading Podhoretz’s column<\/a>.  Here’s the part that’s available for public viewing at TWS:\n<\/p>\n

\nThe ‘Borat’ Show
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\nThe man who would be Kazakhstan’s man of the moment.
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\nby John Podhoretz
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\n10\/21\/2006 12:06:00 AM, Volume 012, Issue 07\n<\/p>\n

\nBorat: Cultural Learnings
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\nof America for Make
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\nBenefit Glorious
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\nNation of Kazakhstan
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\nDirected by Larry Charles\n<\/p>\n

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A cheap-looking and extremely strange movie with an even stranger title–Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan<\/i>–is opening in a few weeks, and it will make a sensation. Columnists will write op-eds about it. Talking heads will try to dissect it on chat shows. Already, several months before its release, two rather dissimilar institutions–the government of Kazakhstan and the Anti-Defamation League–have issued statements of concern about Borat’s potential to do harm.\n<\/p>\n

\nHam-handed responses like those just play into the glorious and very tough-minded comic sensibility that animates Borat. This movie is satire in its truest, most courageous, form. Oxen are gored right and left. America is savaged. The Third World is savaged. Feminists are savaged. Evangelical Christian tent shows are savaged. Frat boys are savaged. Political correctness is savaged. The attitude that says political correctness is humorless twaddle is savaged. This is one of the four or five funniest movies ever made.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe movie follows Borat Sagdiyev, a news reporter for Kazakh television, as he journeys from his small village to the United States and travels around making a documentary intended to explain America to his countrymen. Borat isn’t real. He’s a character invented and portrayed by the British comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen. But most of the people in the movie are everyday Americans who have no idea Borat is a fictional character being played by a British comedian. They believe …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAnd to get the rest of it, you’d have to subscribe.
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\nClips and trailers here<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you looking forward to seeing the Borat movie?  I am, especially after reading Podhoretz’s column.  Here’s the part that’s available for public viewing at TWS: The ‘Borat’ Show The man who would be Kazakhstan’s man of the moment. by John Podhoretz 10\/21\/2006 12:06:00 AM, Volume 012, Issue 07 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Directed by Larry Charles A cheap-looking and extremely strange<\/p>\n

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