Cohen knows how to sell a fucking movie

  • heqt1c [he/him]
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    Lol "He explained that while I was in gulag, US&A was ruined by an evil man, who stood against all American values... his name? Barack Obama"

    Holy shit, the ballroom dancing scene.

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    he's rich as fuck, and takes all kindsa risks. i think he's a fucking leftist. some of the shit he does he could literally get shot in the head for.

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        Cohen has quoted Marx. He was thrown out of a private school for writing a book report on the communist manifesto.

        He also described tony benn as his hero. I'd say British bennite socialist?

          • AluminiumXmasTrees [he/him]
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            I might have misremembered and attributed it to Baron Cohen in error but he did a roundtable with Armando Ianucci, Stewart Lee, Harry Enfield and a few others for the radio times in the UK and I would have genuinely bet money he was the one who talked about being expelled for writing about the communist manifesto. If I've mixed it up that's entirely on me but it was a genuine mistake.

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          I don't know the truth of any of that. I know that he's friends with Pamela Anderson though, and she's a weirdo left-adjacent sort of person. So my guess is that he's probably similarly weird and sort of left.

    • threshold [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Its themes are a bit more well rounded, and attempts some genuine moments of emotion. The corona twist and coda are fucking amazing as well.

      But it's definitely just a movie-length episode of his show "Who is America"