REPORTING FOR DUTY
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Jul
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John Nolte at Big Hollywood takes the opportunity to contrast the reactions from the urban left when comparing Sacha Baron Cohen’s characters from his first film and his recently released Bruno.
As I said in my review, the only thing that mitigates the mean-spiritedness of “Bruno” is that, unlike “Borat,” everyone’s taking satiric fire. But now that the guffaws aren’t so one-sided, some aren’t guffawing so much. Worse, someone who isn’t gay lampooning flamboyantly gay men finds himself tarnished as a kind of “blackface” comedian.
We at Founding Bloggers found Borat hilarious and we hope Bruno will be equally funny, if not more so. What made Borat so effective was that it made a powerful statement on intolerance through unique humor. We would also state that indeed everyone WAS a target including Borat himself. If the ultimate aim of Bruno is to accomplish the same goal of tolerance awareness (in addition to ticket sales), then Cohen’s performance as Bruno should be viewed in a similar vein as his Borat portrayal.
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I saw Borat on video — and couldn’t get past the first 30 minutes. I’m hoping that Bruno is a little funnier when it comes out on video.
I definitely would not want to spend my hard-earned money on a movie I was unsure about… I’ve even seen people demand refunds from the theaters after watching this movie because they were offended. I guess they should have read up about this movie before going, eh?
If you end up liking Borat more than Bruno, then there APPEARS to be a chance he’ll be back… at least based on this ENN video report that mentions two times Borat has appeared since Cohen retired him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsJcw3clj44
Interesting!