Humiliated frat boys sue 'Borat'

5tp still looking forward to seeing this:

Humiliated frat boys sue 'Borat'

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Two fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against "Borat" over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit says.
"Borat" follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh journalist character in a blend of fiction and improvised comic encounters as he travels across the United States and mocks Americans.
The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities to Cohen's character.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
"They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn't be used," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Olivier Taillieu. "They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker."
After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told "had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV," Taillieu said.
The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the lawsuit said.
It names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants.
Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit "has no merit."
The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop the studio from displaying their image and likeness, along with unspecified monetary damages.
"Borat" debuted as the top movie last weekend with $26.5 million.



AP Photo: British actor Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed in his character 'Borat' poses for the press near...

They are obviously still drunk.

hahahaha. those guys were the biggest tools in the movie. i love it.

Saw this movie last night.

HILARIOUS!

And, yeah, those frat boys made asses of themselves.

If you see this movie, be sure to have no food or drink in your mouth during the hotel scene. You have been warned.

Funny as hell.

I have to ask. Were the people in the movie not in on the joke? Are you telling me this wasn't staged? I assumed everyone were actors playing their part in the movie. Was the good manners lady an unsuspecting real person too?

They all knew they were being filmed, obviously. But they thought they were being filmed for a show in Kazakstan about American life.

I think, anyway.

WVU said:

I have to ask. Were the people in the movie not in on the joke? Are you telling me this wasn't staged?

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Correct, it was not staged. Cohen had them sign a disclaimer. There was an article about this after the movie was being done shot. A few guys were suspicious, but never called him out.

RobFunk said:

Correct, it was not staged. Cohen had them sign a disclaimer. There was an article about this after the movie was being done shot. A few guys were suspicious, but never called him out.

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Some of them knew what was going on
There was an article on Yahoo a few days ago about it...
The producer was talking about how some of the people were "staged" but some of them were not.

He was saying how with a movie like this, it is impossible to get certain exact footage how you need it unless you spill some of the beans.

They tried to stay as covert as possible, but it's not 100% entirely "legit"

ZZZSpeedster said:

Some of them knew what was going on
There was an article on Yahoo a few days ago about it...
The producer was talking about how some of the people were "staged" but some of them were not.

He was saying how with a movie like this, it is impossible to get certain exact footage how you need it unless you spill some of the beans.

They tried to stay as covert as possible, but it's not 100% entirely "legit"

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Good post. I tell you what, it is a far cry from "The Blair witch Project". A lot of people thought that was real for a while.

Those boys are suing the wrong people. They should sue the University for not teaching them anything.

I imagine there is enough footage of these clowns getting prepped and de-briefed to shoot down this lawsuit quick... in the meantime it is free advertising for the movie... maybe even this whole thing was stagged..

oh science, i've got to see this movie.

The movie was hilarious. But everyone in it had to know they were being filmed. The camaras had to be somewhere - even in the naked elevator scene.

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The woman teaching him manners had to be thinking wtf

This suit is black ..............................................................................................NOT!

one of the funniest movies i've ever seen.
since this movie has been getting great reviews from nearly every critic, it might have a chance for an oscar or at least a golden globe..

never mind
not even listed at thegreek.com for best picture

The lawsuit will probably increase the take at the window for the movie.

buddyboy said:

Those boys are suing the wrong people. They should sue the University for not teaching them anything.

I imagine there is enough footage of these clowns getting prepped and de-briefed to shoot down this lawsuit quick... in the meantime it is free advertising for the movie... maybe even this whole thing was stagged..

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They were real actors how can they sue a movie there in? I think the whole thing is a spoof they would not have sued
thier own movie they were in! The problem I had with that movie and I dont want to spoil the ending for everyone was when Borat attacked Pamela anderson his ass would of been thrown in jail so quick for attacking her like that. I would have liked to have seen his ass thrown in jail and then his fatt friend bail him out that would have made a better ending then the one I saw!

These villagers think Borat is an American. Great.

Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors
By BOJAN PANCEVSKI and CARMIOLA IONESCU, Mail on Sunday Last updated at 21:25pm on 11th November 2006



(Top) Borat introduces his sister, a 'prostitute'. (Bottom) One-armed Nicu Tudorache feels ashamed.
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When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat, he found the perfect place in Glod: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running water and where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land.

• Watch the trailer for Borat's movie here

But now the villagers of this tiny, close-knit community have angrily accused the comedian of exploiting them, after discovering his new blockbuster film portrays them as a backward group of rapists, abortionists and prostitutes, who happily engage in casual incest.

They claim film-makers lied to them about the true nature of the project, which they believed would be a documentary about their hardship, rather than a comedy mocking their poverty and isolation.

Villagers say they were paid just £3 each for this humiliation, for a film that took around £27million at the worldwide box office in its first week of release.

Now they are planning to scrape together whatever modest sums they can muster to sue Baron Cohen and fellow film-makers, claiming they never gave their consent to be so cruelly misrepresented.

Disabled Nicu Tudorache said: This is disgusting. They conned us into doing all these things and never told us anything about what was going on. They made us look like primitives, like uncivilised savages. Now they,re making millions but have only paid us 15 lei [around £3].

Cambridge-educated Baron Cohen filmed the opening scenes of the Borat movie in Glod - a village that is actually in Romania, rather than Kazakhstan, and whose name literally translates as 'mud', last summer.

Its 1,000 residents live in dilapidated huts in the shadow of the Carpathian mountains. Toilets are little more than sheltered holes in the ground and horses and donkeys are the only source of transport.

Just four villagers have permanent employment in the nearby towns of Pucioasa or Fieni, while the rest live off what little welfare benefits they get.

So when a Hollywood film crew descended on a nearby run-down motel last September, with their flashy cars and expensive equipment, locals thought their lowly community might finally be getting some of the investment it so desperately needs.

The crew was led by a man villagers describe as 'nice and friendly, if a bit weird and ugly', who they later learned was Baron Cohen. It is thought the producers chose the region because locals more closely resembled his comic creation than genuine Kazakhs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=415871&in_page_id=1770

My relatives and neighbors are jealous of my successes. I get window with glass, they get window with glass. I get step, they get step. I get clock radio....they can not afford!