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Borat Sagdiyev (Kazakh and Russian: Борат Сагдиев) is a fictional Kazakhstani journalist portrayed by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. He is the eponymous protagonist of the mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Humour is often derived from Borat's taboo social and cultural viewpoints, deadpan behaviour, repeating phrases, overexaggerated "third-world" status, and physical humour. Borat is very racist and hates all Jews. He also fears the Gypsies. Especially, he says, the ones who suck blood.
Borat is said to have been born on July 30, 1972, in the fictional village of Kuzcek, Kazakhstan, to Asimbala Sagdiyev and Boltok the town Rapist (who is also stated to be his maternal grandfather). He has a 13-year-old son named Hooeylewis and 12-year-old twin boys, named Biram and Bilak, as well as 17 grandchildren. He has an older sister, Natalya (who he says is either the number four or the number two prostitute in Kazakhstan ) and a younger brother, Bilo, who is mentally retarded. It is also revealed that he has two wives as well as a mistress, a girlfriend, and a prostitute with whom he has had affairs on several occasions.
In his fictional, professional life, Borat is a journalist and presenter on Kazakhstani television. According to various in-character interviews given by Sasha Baron-Cohen, Borat attended Astana University, where he studied English, journalism, and plague research. During this time, he created five new plagues which he says "killed over 5 million goats in Uzbekistan." Prior to this he worked as an ice maker, animal sperm retriever, gypsy catcher and the person who removes dead birds from a computer.
Borat is shown in each episode of Da Ali G Show, doing satirical interviews with often-unwitting subjects in the United Kingdom and the United States. The segment was shot in low-quality video to keep a satirical feeling of poor quality television (similar to Chanel 9 segments on The Fast Show). Of Ali G, Borat says on his website, "I appear on Alee G shows — He idiot, but it give me lot of girls & pickles; I like ..."
The Borat segments on Da Ali G Show use the rock-rendition Russian folk tune "Korobeiniki" as their theme song for the UK version.
The film expanded its release on the second weekend to 2,566 screens, where it took in an additional $29 million.
When ostensibly using his native language, Borat speaks neither Kazakh nor Russian (the state and official languages of Kazakhstan), contrary to what would be assumed by the audience and the people with whom he interacts onscreen. Instead, he speaks mainly Hebrew mixed with phrases that bear a similarity to Polish and other Slavic languages, such as "jagshemash" and "chenquieh" ("how are you", and, "thank you", respectively). He also occasionally greets people with "den dobre" ("good day"), which is similar in pronunciation to many greetings in Slavic languages, including the Polish "dzień dobry", Russian and Ukrainian "dobriy den" ("добрый день" in Cyrillic), Bulgarian Dobar Den, Serbo-Croat "dobar dan" and Slovenian "dober dan".
Baron Cohen, who is himself Jewish, has explained his character's racism by stating that the segments are a "dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity, as much as rabid bigotry," rather than a display of racism by Baron Cohen himself. "Borat essentially works a tool. By himself pretending to be anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice," Cohen explains to Rolling Stone. Cohen, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, says he wishes in particular to expose the role of indifference in that genocide:
When I was in university, there was this major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, who said, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.
In response to Mr. Ashykbayev's comments, I'd like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government's decision to sue this Jew. Since the 2003 Tuleyakiv reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized as any other country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats, and age of consent has been raised to eight years old. Please, captain of industry; I invite you to come to Kazakhstan where we have incredible natural resources, hardworking labour, and some of the cleanest prostitutes in whole of Central Asia. Goodbye! Dzienkuje!
The broadcast, including the initial interview, the disrupted weather report, and several behind-the-scenes shots made by Borat's own film crew, is seen in the Borat movie.
In the 2007 film Epic Movie, Danny Jacobs plays Borat at the end of the film, and repeats the "NOT!" joke used in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre has produced a parody of Borat, although in this case, he is from Bunzakhstan (a parody of Kazakhstan). |
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