Sunday, November 12, 2006

Borat: Fantasy vs. reality

Saw "Borat" yesterday afternoon and am still getting the hiccups every time I think of the naked wrestling scene, but here's an open question for those who have seen it: which scenes do you think were staged and which do you think were "real"? (As real as anything where Sacha Baron Cohen is playing Borat can be.) A few spoiler-y thoughts after the jump...

Well, we have pretty good evidence that the frat guys weren't in on the joke, judging by their lawsuit, and I can't imagine a circumstance where Pamela Anderson wasn't aware of what was happening (especially one that wouldn't result in a savage on-camera beating for Cohen). And the hooker was an actress. But wouldn't Cohen and the guy playing Azamat be arrested for running around the hotel in the nude, let alone disrupting that awards dinner? And the kids reacting to the bear definitely seemed like they had been coached.

What say you? Disagreements? Any other obviously staged scenes I'm leaving out?

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