The working title and trailer imply that Pence is heavily involved, and that Sacha Barron Cohen shows up at some kind of Pence event. this would have been big news, and the fact that no one knew about this beforehand means someone somehow tried to cover it up.
Pence is a hateful, oafish dullard— the perfect target for a SBC prank. The movie releases a week before election day, and i think that’s intentional. Pence does something humiliating in the film and it is going to make him and maybe the dang cheetoh look like misogynistic impious assholes
and evangelicals will make excuses for it and it will not affect polling whatsoever
Thoughts?
I just gotta say, it is absolutely INCREDIBLE that Sacha manages to keep slipping into these spaces and duping chuds. Sacha is the biggest chad out there.
I met someone who worked on the first Borat. According to her, he has a nearly magical sense of where the line is with people. And he dances around that line for a while, then right after he crosses, he is ready to flee. In the scene on succession drive, with the three couples. He says "in my country, the men would go crazy for these women...mmm, not so much this one."
When he brought his own poop from the bathroom, it was over, and the whole film crew ran into the vans. They had double sliding doors and engines were running for a quick escape. And as they drove away there were shotguns being fired at them.
There was another scene in a new York bar, which didn't make it into the film, but a fight broke out. SBC was gone when police showed up. And the producer and cameraman spent a few nights at the police station. The movie studio called NYPD numerous times to get them out, with no luck. It just made them want to hold them longer. Fucking epic. It took a year after the film was finished to clear all the paperwork before they could release it.
I wouldn't say they've made any progress. They have always been bigoted assholes with little to no consequences. If anything, there are just more people who are 1) aware that they chuds are bigoted assholes and 2) aware that they have no real power to stop them from being bigoted assholes.
Yeah I agree showing them as bigoted does work, but I thinking embarrassing them still works. Make them a joke, laugh in their face. It makes people a bit embarrassed to admit to liking or siding with them. No one wants to side with a joke loser. Yeah so idk if Borat 2 will accomplish that but I think doing so is still possible
Right. I don't think this will change anyone's mind. Doesn't mean it won't be funny though.
The movie releases a week before election day, and i think that’s intentional.
Won't this mean it will be less effective than normal because people are voting by mail more this time? I was under the impression that a significant amount of people will have voted by then but I'd love to be wrong.
Trump is telling all his supporters to vote in person due to railing against mail in voting so would be Trump voters won't vote until election day. That being said, Trump support is basically a cult and Pence could shoot a baby in Borat 2 and Trump would lose 0 votes.
I mean the only reason Pence is there is to lock up the super evangelical vote that could potentially be turned off by all of Trump's unchristian behaviour if Pence wasn't there. Pence's entire existance in the Trump campaign is a dogwhistle to the Christian nationalists. You're average MAGA chud who's not super evangelical doesn't give a fuck about Pence so yeah.
Idk as a non American I'll
piratewatch it on Amazon Prime for the pure entertainment value and another piece in the puzzle of the collapse of AmerikkkaThe Pence incident was actually reported on at the time, but no one knew it was connected to this.
