http://www.tetromino.net/blog/2006/11/06/borat/ random links, random thoughts, easier than maintaining a flat text file Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:54:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 http://www.tetromino.net/blog/2006/11/06/borat/#comment-2002 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:53:04 +0000 http://www.tetromino.net/blog/2006/11/06/borat/#comment-2002 [...] When I wrote about my initial impressions of Borat, I was under the impression that most of the scenes were staged. Apparently I was wrong. It seems that Bobby Rowe the Tennessee rodeo manager, Cindy Streit the Southern dining etiquette coach, and even the drunk, sexist and racist frat brothers were all real people, expressing their real views on camera. They all thought, at least initially, that the film was a real documentary that would not be shown outside the former Soviet Union… [...] […] When I wrote about my initial impressions of Borat, I was under the impression that most of the scenes were staged. Apparently I was wrong. It seems that Bobby Rowe the Tennessee rodeo manager, Cindy Streit the Southern dining etiquette coach, and even the drunk, sexist and racist frat brothers were all real people, expressing their real views on camera. They all thought, at least initially, that the film was a real documentary that would not be shown outside the former Soviet Union… […]

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