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red dog 1

(27,875 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:35 PM Jan 2018

What's your favorite scene from the movie Borat?

This is a difficult question for me to answer because there are so many hilarious scenes to choose from....It's like trying to choose your favorite scene from Blazing Saddles.

I loved the scene at the antique store where Borat knocks over a table, breaks everything on it, and then says: "those can be glued back together."

I also loved the scene at the segregationist's house, after using the bathroom, he puts his poop in a plastic bag and tries to give it to the lady of the house.
Later on he calls a black hooker and invites her over, which greatly angers all the segregationists.

I guess my favorite scene was near the beginning of the film, after he arrives in New York City.
He goes on a crowded subway, tries to kiss men on both cheeks as he introduces himself to them, then his chicken gets out of his suitcase and runs around the subway car.

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What's your favorite scene from the movie Borat? (Original Post) red dog 1 Jan 2018 OP
i have to watch this again yes so many to choose from lunasun Jan 2018 #1
Watch the documentary: When Borat Came To Town jberryhill Jan 2018 #4
didnt he go door to door campaigning with some one? seemed to make a mess out of that but it was a lunasun Jan 2018 #7
Sorry, I didn't like it Alice11111 Jan 2018 #2
The part where the lights go on in the theater afterward, and I leave jberryhill Jan 2018 #3
I saw a preview-showing in NYC ExciteBike66 Jan 2018 #5
That's funny! red dog 1 Jan 2018 #9
The part where I hit "Eject." "Door open," if that's what you have. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2018 #6
the camping scene Skittles Jan 2018 #8
Another great little scene is when he takes down his pants & squats down as if he's taking a crap red dog 1 Jan 2018 #10
The scene pressbox69 Jan 2018 #11
The least funny characters always get a movie JonLP24 Jan 2018 #12
Not Borat but pressbox69 Jan 2018 #13
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
4. Watch the documentary: When Borat Came To Town
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jan 2018

To learn the story of the people exploited and humiliated by Cohen.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
7. didnt he go door to door campaigning with some one? seemed to make a mess out of that but it was a
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:45 PM
Jan 2018

repug if i remember ....dude seemed clueless hard to imagine he had the clarity to be humiliated
it was a long long time ago , I'll check out the doc Thanks

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
2. Sorry, I didn't like it
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:37 PM
Jan 2018

Stupid slapstickish. Bad writing.

I know many people did like it and many didn't. One.of those things.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. The part where the lights go on in the theater afterward, and I leave
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jan 2018

That movie is atrocious on many levels, not to mention Cohen's cruel exploitation of an unwitting town in Romania which he humiliated:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1078446/We-hate-Borat-The-poor-Romanian-villagers-humiliated-Sacha-Baron-Cohens-spoof-documentary.html

One local girl, 'cast' as Borat's sister, is described as the 'number-four prostitute in the whole of Kazakhstan'. An elderly lady unwittingly plays the part of Borat's '47-year-old' mother. The village mechanic is cast as the local abortionist. All of them were dumbfounded - their horror captured by a TV crew who returned to Glod to witness the aftermath of the Borat bandwagon for a forthcoming documentary. In Storyville: When Borat Came To Town, they show the fallout among villagers as they confront their humiliation and try to seek legal recompense.


The people in the "this is my town" segment had no idea what he was saying about them. Not only were they unpaid for their use in the film, but they were duped and ridiculed.

The documentary can be found online, and I highly suggest it.

It is more interesting viewing than Borat itself.

ExciteBike66

(2,385 posts)
5. I saw a preview-showing in NYC
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:42 PM
Jan 2018

and everyone died laughing when Borat suggested he should have stayed in New York since there were no Jews there.

red dog 1

(27,875 posts)
9. That's funny!
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jan 2018

When Borat premiered in Tel Aviv, the audiences reportedly gave standing ovations when it ended.

I've heard Sasha Baron Cohen interviewed a few times (twice on "Fresh Air&quot and what's really funny is that his "real" accent is British, which is as different from Borat's accent as you can get

Also, I think he said that the police were called at least 30 times during the filming of Borat and the other film, "Bruno"

red dog 1

(27,875 posts)
10. Another great little scene is when he takes down his pants & squats down as if he's taking a crap
Sat Jan 13, 2018, 09:35 PM
Jan 2018

in the water surrounding a large fountain right off a busy downtown Manhattan street.

(One passerby seeing this drops her jaw open)

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
11. The scene
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 01:47 AM
Jan 2018

where he is reunited with his overweight friend. The friend was making a living in Hollywood by being a street entertainer dressed up as Oliver Hardy. I saw no reason to continue conversation with man dressed up as Adolf Hitler.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
12. The least funny characters always get a movie
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 02:03 AM
Jan 2018

I liked the Da Ali G show but always hated the Borat character. Like Pootie Tang from the Chris Rock Show.

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