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Borat

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Borat	label	Borat
Borat	page	Borat
Borat	comment	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 black comedy mockumentary film that centers around Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen, in one of his guerrilla commentary-style characters), a humble reporter from Kazakhstan and a racist, antisemitic, misogynistic stranger to American culture, who travels around the United States with his manager Azamat (Ken Davitian) to learn about its culture.Borat's odyssey — which includes stops in such diverse places as New York City, Washington, D.C., a live Morning Show, a Virginia rodeo (where Borat attempts to sing the national anthem with his own lyrics), a confederate antique shop, a Jewish couple's bed and breakfast, and a born-again Christian revival tent service — ends up being framed by his final destination in California, where he plans to find and wed Pamela Anderson, having grown completely enamored with her after catching an episode of Baywatch on TV.It is worth noting that a) the director and both producers — including Baron Cohen — are Jewish, and b) most of the other people featured in the film were completely unaware of their ultimate role in the resulting movie. (In fact, the movie contains only 4 actors: Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell and Pamela Anderson herself.) Controversy followed the film for many of the above-mentioned reasons, including lawsuits brought by many of the subjects of Borat's attention. It has been banned in all Arab countries save Lebanon, and Russia has discouraged cinemas there from showing it.The government of Kazakhstan was none-too-pleased with it, either, due to all the "No, we're not really racist, homophobic Ruritanians" phone calls their foreign relations department had to deal with. Despite this, the film has a cult following in the republic, helped by the First Daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva, who told their government to lighten up and enjoy the joke, and other government officials who appreciated its treatment of a rare subject. Reportedly, it's done wonders for their tourism sectornote But be warned: Kazakhstan does not, in fact, have the world's greatest potassium production.Despite the large number of lawsuits and controversies, Borat, originally expected to flop, was a great success in terms of critical response, financial performance, and cultural impact. It spawned a Creator-Driven Successor in 2009's Brüno, starring another of Baron Cohen's characters. In fall 2020, a sequel was confirmed to have been completed; it was eventually released in late October of that year through Prime Video under the name Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Borat	fetched	2023-09-25T08:30:30Z
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Borat	processingComment	Dropped link to Baywatch: Not a Feature - ITEM
Borat	processingComment	Dropped link to Mockumentary: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Borat / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Borat / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Borat bears an uncanny resemblance to Josef Stalin when he was young◊.
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Borat / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
Borat / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: Spoofed, especially with "The Running of the Jew."
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Borat / int_135c6de7	type	Cannot Tell a Joke
Borat / int_135c6de7	comment	Cannot Tell a Joke: According to Azamat, Kazakhstan ranks 98th for its sense of humor, so Borat meets with a comedy expert to learn the basics of American humor. It takes him the entire movie to get the timing right on "NOT!!" jokes.
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Borat / int_149605c1	type	Ambiguous Innocence
Borat / int_149605c1	comment	Ambiguous Innocence: Borat is an embodiment of this trope. He is a very innocent character, but that results in him doing not-so-innocent things.
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Borat / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Borat / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Before Borat goes to browse the antique shop, Azamat warns him not to spend more than 3 dollars. Borat ends up causing over 400 dollars worth of damages just through his own clumsiness.
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Borat / int_16b658ca	type	Elevator Action Sequence
Borat / int_16b658ca	comment	Elevator Action Sequence: During the naked brawl, and interrupted by a number of baffled witnesses.
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Borat / int_18e2980	type	Poirot Speak
Borat / int_18e2980	comment	Poirot Speak
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Borat / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Borat / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Parodied, upon Borat's discovery that his hosts for the night are Jewish.
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Borat / int_1c571556	type	The Tease
Borat / int_1c571556	comment	The Tease: According to Borat, his sister enjoyed teasing their brother:
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Borat / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
Borat / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: According to the anthem, Kazakhstan has the "cleanest prostitutes in the region, except, of course, for Turkmenistan". Not to mention the famous pool whose filter is a "marvel to behold" in that it removes 80% of human solid waste.
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Borat / int_1ff4f744	type	Inn Security
Borat / int_1ff4f744	comment	Inn Security: Parodied. The old couple who run the bed and breakfast Borat and Azamat stay at seem to be perfectly nice and accommodating, but instill great terror in their guests due to being Jewish.
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Borat / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Borat / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Borat started as a cultural commentary character in a series of sketches on Da Ali G Show.
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Borat / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Borat / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Exaggerated to ridiculous extents. The most off-the-wall example is probably when Borat is invited to sing at a rodeo. He rattles off outrageous jingoistic statements, up to and including a wish for George W. Bush to drink the blood of every Iraqi man, woman and child — and the audience loves it.
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Borat / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
Borat / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Azamat and Borat, respectively.
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Borat / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Borat / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Borat finally catches up with Azamat, they go to his apartment. When Azamat opens his fridge, a bear's head is clearly visible on a plate, implying that Azamat has been eating the bear.
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Borat / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Borat / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: The DVD's top part is printed to look like it was burned onto a Demorex brand recordable disc. It even has a parody of the Memorex slogan — "Is life? No. Demorex."
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Borat / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
Borat / int_38bf28e3	comment	Engineered Public Confession: The college students, who freely ran off at the mouth about their low opinions of women and minorities, sued the makers of Borat over this. And lost.
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Borat / int_39271aee	type	The Backwards Я
Borat / int_39271aee	comment	The Backwards Я: The Cyrillic character Д used in the movie's title is really pronounced similar to "d", not an "a". In fact, reading the title of the film poster in Cyrillic would be "Voyadt", with the R being the wrong way round. The DVD release also had a literal backwards R. (The goal was to make the DVD look like a cheap bootleg.)
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Borat / int_3ba4a520	type	Double-Sided Book
Borat / int_3ba4a520	comment	Double-Sided Book: After the film came out, a double-sided book was released, supposedly written by the titular character. One side was titled "Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A." and the other side was "Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". They were both, of course, riddled with broken English and glaring factual errors, as per the usual for Borat.
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Borat / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Borat / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: "Yes, I'm standing right in the middle of Times Square" - Azamat to the Kazakh minister, from a phone booth in the middle of nowhere.
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Borat / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Borat / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Borat's MySpace page, as well as the original official web site for the movie, which was done as an atrocious personal home page. Also used in-film with the faux-Kazakh Stock Footage. The DVD itself also deliberately looks like a burned copy bootleg, and the poster is printed to look it has crease marks and other damage.
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Borat / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Borat / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: The whole point of the movie.
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Borat / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
Borat / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: As an outsider, Borat is free to put his own mirror up to the silly conventions we take for granted.
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Borat / int_4a852053	type	The Hero's Journey
Borat / int_4a852053	comment	The Hero's Journey
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Borat / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
Borat / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": Borat's reaction when the driving instructor tells him that women in America have the right to choose who they have sex with.
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Borat / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Borat / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: Costume designer Jason Alper is also credited as providing "Mr Baron Cohen's feces".
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Borat / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Borat / int_4c851777	comment	Borat's sister apparently made the mistake of sexually taunting their mentally disabled brother Bilo through the bars of his cage, and paid the price.
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Borat / int_505ff63	type	Bag of Kidnapping
Borat / int_505ff63	comment	Bag of Kidnapping: What a "traditional marriage sack" actually is. It doesn't work quite the way he planned.
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Borat / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Borat / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Borat claims, about the film, that "If it not success, [he] will be execute."
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Borat / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
Borat / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: Really, you could forgive Borat for most of the offensive things he does, since he thinks they're completely normal, due to his very backwards upbringing.
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Borat / int_550f2108	type	Combat Breakdown
Borat / int_550f2108	comment	Combat Breakdown: Borat and Azamat's naked fight gets broken up by security when it enters into a public gathering.
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Borat / int_57de4e72	type	Beauty Inversion
Borat / int_57de4e72	comment	Beauty Inversion: Tall, Dark, and Handsome Sacha Baron Cohen makes himself into the live action cartoon character Borat Sagdiyev through an enormous mustache, frizzy hair, and a cheap suit.
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Borat / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Borat / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Borat's neighbor back in his hometown, Nursultan Tulyakbay, apparently constantly tries to one-up him by buying his own copy of whatever amenities Borat has. He spends all of his screentime glowering at Borat, and the animosity is shown to be mutual on Borat's end.
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Borat / int_5df65fba	type	Super-Stoic Shopkeeper
Borat / int_5df65fba	comment	Super-Stoic Shopkeeper: Charting the lack of reactions to Borat's insane and offensive behavior is just as big a part of the comedy as their befuddlement and outrage. The gun shop owner barely bats an eye before recommending a Desert Eagle to "kill Jews." In his defense, he might have simply been recommending a large purchase to an obviously ignorant customer, or playing a subtle joke by selling an Israeli weapon to an obvious anti-semite. When Borat asks what speed he should drive to kill gypsies, the driving instructor merely tells him to keep it at around 40 mph. In one of the deleted scenes, Borat visits a supermarket and asks the supermarket manager what every single item in the cheese section is...he very patiently replies "That's cheese" to every single one.
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Borat / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Borat / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Borat fancies himself as this. To the audience (as well as his unsuspecting interviewees), he would probably come off as a perverted rapist.
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Borat / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Borat / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Borat and his mother are both children of Boltak the Rapist.
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Borat / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
Borat / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: Unlike Kazakhstan in real-life, which is a central Asian country dominated by the open steppe, the film's version of Kazakhstan is more like an amalgamation of the former Warsaw Pact countries with their backwardness and social problems exaggerated to ghoulish, comedic extremes. In real life, the Kazakhs are a Turkic people who've historically had more in-common with the Mongolic peoples than any Slavic culture. Reinforced by the borderline incomprehensible mix of Polish, Hebrew, Romanian, and Armenian words in the place of any actual Kazakh language.
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Borat / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Borat / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Not in a visual sense, but if you pay close attention to Borat when he's speaking to Pamela Anderson at the film's climax, he mentions that both he and his deceased wife were children of Bogdev the village rapist.
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Borat / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
Borat / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: Borat catches Azamat masturbating over Borat's Pamela Anderson magazine. Hilarity Ensues.
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Borat / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Borat / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Well, if the size of Borat's censor box (which reaches past his knees) during the naked fight is any indication. Inverted by Azamat. Long story short, he never needs a censor box at any point during the fight in question.
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Borat / int_6e86288	type	Developing Nations Lack Cities
Borat / int_6e86288	comment	Developing Nations Lack Cities: The film exaggerates this trope for humor in the most hilariously vulgar ways imaginable. The country of Kazakhstan is portrayed as consisting of a single village that combines all the worst aspects of Ruritania with The Dung Ages: the inhabitants are all inbred and treat Black Comedy Rape and Brother–Sister Incest casually, cattle are kept inside people's houses, glass windows are considered an expensive luxury, people barely live past 43, the village blacksmith doubles as the abortion-provider, the villagers shun Jews with superstitious horror and even hold an annual "Running of The Jew", and where (according to the national anthem) a fairly average modern swimming pool is considered a "marvel to behold". That said, the country is credited as the world's number one exporter of potassium...
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Borat / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Borat / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: The movie is all about this Played for Laughs.
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Borat / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Borat / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Reversed here, as the dealer sells them a vehicle that is exactly as described: a used ice cream truck.
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Borat / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Borat / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Borat, whose wife threatens to snap his dick off if he cheats on her. Fortunately for him, she dies.
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Borat / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Borat / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Borat and Azamat are both extremely racist and misogynistic. This leads to many instances of Cringe Comedy with the real-life people that Borat meets, especially those that are even more racist and misogynistic than he is.
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Borat / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Borat / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs. When Borat is told he has to include a pause in a NOT! joke, he sits in complete silence for nearly ten seconds. The tutor decides to change the subject, only for Borat to suddenly cut him out with a loud “NOT!”.
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Borat / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Borat / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Luenell, a prostitute that Borat hires, is one of the nicest people that he meets in the entire movie, and treats him with patience and kindness whenever they interact. Borat ends up marrying her at the end of the movie after things fall through with Pamela Anderson.
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Borat / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Borat / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Both Borat and his late wife were conceived by his hometown's local rapist. Borat casually makes out with Kazakhstan's fourth best prostitute, before introducing her as his sister. Borat's sister apparently made the mistake of sexually taunting their mentally disabled brother Bilo through the bars of his cage, and paid the price.
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Borat / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Borat / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Borat would not have been written as an intense Anti-Semite if his actor, Sacha Baron Cohen, were not a practicing Jew himself. Baron Cohen's portrayal of Borat is still controversial with the Jewish demographic, however. Parodied when Borat tries to check into a hotel after getting a ghetto makeover. He, a white man, walks into the lobby wearing his pants low, and starts speaking to the (also white) manager in stereotypical Black colloquialisms, even straight up calling the manager the N-Word itself.
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Borat / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
Borat / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: Borat's reception on the streets of New York is less than friendly, with people shouting obscenities in his face just for introducing himself. When he tries to shake hands with and kiss a subway passenger: "Touch me and I will punch you in your fucking balls!"
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Borat / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Borat / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: While Borat's antics tend to elicit annoyance (if not outright hostility) these reactions aren't exactly uncommon. A few examples include: The guy who delivers the telegram about Borat's wife is clearly amused by his reaction. The driving instructor who visibly smirks when Borat tries drinking behind the wheel. The weather reporter who is barely able to speak over his laughter when Borat interrupts his broadcast. While subtle, the antique store owner gets a chuckle out of Borat trying to pay in pubic hair. Borat's quip about nobody liking his neighbor manages to make AN ENTIRE CHURCH lose their shit.
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Borat / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Borat / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Before departing on his journey, Borat acknowledges that Kazakhstan's glory is held back by many issues: economic problems, social problems, and the Jews.
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Borat / int_82410415	type	Scylla and Charybdis
Borat / int_82410415	comment	Scylla and Charybdis: The interviewees in the film often find themselves in this sort of dilemma: Accommodating Borat's culture, with its innocent, but genuine, bigotry is one thing. Making clear that you don't agree is another. Trying to somehow do both is well-nigh impossible.
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Borat / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Borat / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Borat is often vulgar, very offensive towards Jews and commit many violations of social taboos, nobody really likes him, despite being portrayed as very comedic.
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Borat / int_83444ece	type	NOT!
Borat / int_83444ece	comment	NOT!: A "comedy expert" struggles to teach Borat the intricacies of this witticism. It takes him the whole movie to catch on.
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Borat / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Borat / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Technically, Borat is correct when he claims that on average, men have bigger brains than women. Because head size is proportional to body mass and men are usually bigger - although because women have denser collections of neurons, the actual brain capacity is identical. And a woman’s brain is definitely not the size of a squirrel as Borat claims.
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Borat / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Borat / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cheerful, exuberant Borat and cynical worrywart Azamat, respectively.
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Borat / int_85edbbac	type	Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity
Borat / int_85edbbac	comment	Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity: Borat has a crush on Pamela Anderson and goes to America to propose to her. When she turns him down, he tries to abduct her.
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Borat / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Borat / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The bear's head can be seen inside the fridge when Borat and Azamat make up, but the rest of its body? God knows. Azamat is last seen when Borat is arrested for trying to kidnap Pamela. He’s not shown on the coach with Borat on the way back to Luenell, and does not appear in the epilogue.
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Borat / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Borat / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Borat's journey in America is spearheaded by his fantasy of marrying Pamela Anderson, who he idolizes for her virginal purity. However, he is shown her sex-tape with Tommy Lee by the college students, shattering his pre-held belief of her and sending him spiraling into sadness. He does end up completing his journey, if only out of denial.
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Borat / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Borat / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Borat's accent is a whole lot of things, but it is (intentionally) not Kazakh.
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Borat / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Borat / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Borat becomes this to Pamela Anderson.
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Borat / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Borat / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Borat and Azamat secure a black bear as a guard animal to protect their truck. This works out as well as could be expected.
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Borat / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Borat / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Hooker with a Heart of Gold Big Beautiful Woman Luenell is the Betty and celebrity sex symbol Pamela Anderson is the Veronica to Borat's Archie. Played for Laughs as the love triangle only exists in Borat's head.
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Borat / int_961518ca	type	Mid-Battle Tea Break
Borat / int_961518ca	comment	Mid-Battle Tea Break: The elevator interlude during the naked fight. Of course, as soon as the doors open, pandemonium continues.
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Borat / int_9629d473	type	Vulgar Humor
Borat / int_9629d473	comment	Vulgar Humor: After politely asking a group of Southern ladies if he could be excused to use the restroom, Borat comes back with a baggie of his own poop, politely asking where he can place it.
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Borat / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Borat / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Played for Laughs when, in the middle of their brawl, Borat and Azamat run naked and screaming in gibberish into a crowded elevator. They immediately stop screaming and face quietly ahead as the elevator goes up, and then immediately start screaming and fighting again the moment the doors open.
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Borat / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Borat / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: At one point in his naked fight with Azamat, Borat launches the camera directly into him.
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Borat / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Borat / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: Played for Laughs. When Borat is told he has to include a pause in a NOT! joke, he sits in complete silence for nearly ten seconds. The tutor decides to change the subject, only for Borat to suddenly cut him out with a loud “NOT!”. A deleted scene included on the DVD involves Borat asking a grocery store employee what lots and lots and lots of items are. (They're all cheese.)
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Borat / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Borat / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The look on Borat's face when he realizes he spent the evening with two homosexuals tells the whole story.
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Borat / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Borat / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: The naked brawl. Also present in the massage scene on the DVD, though Borat spends a lot of time in that under a towel. When practicing for the dinner, Borat shows a picture of his son Hooeylewis, played by transsexual porn star Brittany Cox Xx (before her transition and during the time she was still a man known as Stonie). The tutor is disturbed when Borat starts showing picutres of his son with no clothes on, especially when one of the pictures shows Borat with his head next to his son's penis.
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Borat / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Borat / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: When a hotel concierge solemnly informs Borat of the death of Borat's wife back home, Borat joyfully hugs the baffled messenger and dances around the room.
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Borat / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
Borat / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: The further into the south he goes, the more Borat is seemingly surrounded by people who are evidently just as if not more bigoted and backwards than he is (with the people in the rodeo and the frat boys being perhaps the worst), and the movie spends over half of its screentime in those states. That said, Baron Cohen has mentioned that over 400 hours of footage were recorded, so it's easy to imagine what got cut. Even so, it's worth noting that the final footage still shows people who are accommodating, if perhaps with Condescending Compassion.
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Borat / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Borat / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Baron Cohen employs a great deal of this in his characterization of Borat.
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Borat / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Borat / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: Kazakhstan.
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Borat / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Borat / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Deconstructed. Borat's attempts at speaking hip-hop slang make him look like a fool to hotel personnel and get him expelled from the lobby for using swear words and calling the receptionist "vanilla face".
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Borat / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Borat / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Played for laughs. In one scene when Borat desires to seek out a woman for sex, he is flabbergasted to learn that in the US, women have the right to say no to sexual advances. The whole movie could be seen as one giant parody to this trope.
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Borat / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Borat / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: The title character is about as casually sexist as you'd expect for a man from the movie's fictionalized version of Kazakhstan. Then again, part of the point of the character is to embolden American interviewees to reveal their own prejudices, thereby illuminating that such attitudes are alive and well closer to home than we might assume.
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Borat / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Borat / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: The Movie. Borat's ignorance of American culture and the reactions of the people around him to it are the backbone of nearly every scene.
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Borat / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Borat / int_b0cd3349	comment	Of course handing him the Desert Eagle is itself Fridge Brilliance because it's an Israeli gun.
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Borat / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Borat / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: Borat feeds cheese made with his wife's breast milk to an unsuspecting person, only telling him this after he's eaten it.
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Borat / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Borat / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: At first, even Borat seems to think that the church people are a little… weird.
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Borat / int_b9a22821	type	Jive Turkey
Borat / int_b9a22821	comment	Jive Turkey: After getting pointers on how to dress and speak from a group of African-American youths, he tests his "knowledge" at a hotel, and it very much falls under this trope.
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Borat / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
Borat / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Unlike Borat, whose member requires a massive censor box to cover, all Azamat needs to cover his are his (admittedly plentiful) rolls of fat.
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Borat / int_bbd2a2c	type	Alter-Ego Acting
Borat / int_bbd2a2c	comment	Alter-Ego Acting
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Borat / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Borat / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Borat catches Azamat masturbating over Borat's Pamela Anderson magazine, and all hell breaks loose for about five abominable - and very uncomfortably naked - minutes.
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Borat / int_bd635007	type	Fauxreigner
Borat / int_bd635007	comment	Fauxreigner: The British Sacha Baron Cohen as Kazakh Borat Sagdiyev
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Borat / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Borat / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: Several of Borat's segments on Da Ali G Show, where the character made his debut, show him visiting America and learning about its culture. The film's plot is presented as Borat's first ever trip to the United States.
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Borat / int_c0e5fc39	type	Celeb Crush
Borat / int_c0e5fc39	comment	Celeb Crush: Borat has an extreme one over Pamela Anderson, to the extent of changing his plans from staying in New York to driving cross-country to California to take her hand in (non-consensual) marriage at a public signing, which goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Borat / int_c2145582	type	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle
Borat / int_c2145582	comment	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: Used for comedy. Also taken to the next level with the soundtrack: Stereophonic Musical Listenings That Have Been Origin in Moving Film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
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Borat / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Borat / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Borat asks for the best weapon to kill Jews. He's briefly given a Desert Eagle.
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Borat / int_c4db0699	type	Intentional Engrish for Funny
Borat / int_c4db0699	comment	Intentional Engrish for Funny: All over the place, starting with the movie's subtitle.
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Borat / int_c5d36037	type	Big Damn Movie
Borat / int_c5d36037	comment	Big Damn Movie: Notably averted, particularly compared to Da Ali G Show's previous movie spinoff, Ali G Indahouse. Though it definitely has a much more focused plot than most of Borat's segments on the show, and it spends more time letting Borat express himself through his monologues, the movie more-or-less plays out like an extended episode of the TV show. Interestingly, it turned out to be much more successful than Indahouse, which was a clear-cut example of a Big Damn Movie.
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Borat / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Borat / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The naked fight between Borat and Azamat. Also the bonus scene of Borat and Azamat's Sexydrownwatch Baywatch idea. It can be found here (NSFW...a lot).
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Borat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Borat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Azamat is dressed as Oliver Hardy when he and Borat reunite, and even tells him that "this is another fine mess [he's] gotten them into." Borat's neighbour, Nursultan Tulyakbay, is named after two real prominent Kazakh politicians, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Zharmakan Tuyakbay.
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Borat / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Borat / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: All the jokes mocking Judaism can be countered by the fact that Sacha Baron Cohen himself is Jewish. Fair enough.
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Borat / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Borat / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Borat offers a politician some cheese that Borat's wife had made. To be polite, said politician eats some — and then Borat informs him that it was made from her breastmilk.
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Borat / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
Borat / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: Borat and Azamat's choice of cross-country conveyance, complete with trained guard animal a black bear named Oksana.
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Borat / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Borat / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Borat's idea of "marrying" Pamela Anderson is shoving her into a bag and trying to run off with her—an instance of marriage by capture. He gets as far as putting the sack over her.
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Borat / int_d83b8507	type	Barely-There Swimwear
Borat / int_d83b8507	comment	Barely-There Swimwear: We see an example at the end, worn by Borat. In one of the deleted scenes, Azamat wears one in a Baywatch parody.
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Borat / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Borat / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Chocolate face and vanilla facenote black person and white person respectively. Hand partynote Masturbation. Romance explosionnote Ejaculation.
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Borat / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Borat / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: Borat sings the national anthem of fictional Kazakhstan to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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Borat / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Borat / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Borat is infatuated with Pamela Anderson and wants to marry her, but he doesn't want to be unfaithful to his wife back in Kazakhstan, because she'll snap his cock off. In the very next scene, he gets a letter from back home: his wife is dead, freeing him to pursue Pam. High five!
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Borat / int_dc67de65	type	Categorism as a Phobia
Borat / int_dc67de65	comment	Categorism as a Phobia: Borat went into an over-the-top panic attack when the B&B he was staying at turned out to be operated by a Jewish couple.
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Borat / int_dd2d3bda	type	Global Ignorance
Borat / int_dd2d3bda	comment	Global Ignorance: Borat's excuse to Azamat for visiting California (he actually intends to wed Pamela Anderson) is that "Pearl Harbor is there. So is Texas."
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Borat / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Borat / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Parodied in which Borat has Azamat walk out of him, he falls into despair over thinking he'll never be a man (despite the reassurances of an RV-full of chauvinists). His tears of despair are laughable.
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Borat / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
Borat / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Quite possibly the most uncomfortable one in cinematic history. To elaborate, both men have been running around naked through a hotel, screaming in foreign-sounding gibberish. One of the men was threatening to beat the other silly with a huge rubber dildo. The prop is brought along for the ride in an already occupied elevator. Both men face forward, stand quietly, and enjoy the elevator ride. DING! Doors open. Running and screaming resume. When Borat and Azamat enter the elevator naked, nearly all of the people on the elevator immediately get off. In fact, at first it looks like they're the only ones standing in the elevator until the camera quickly shifts and reveals a stone-faced man tucked in the corner.
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Borat / int_e01c3d03	type	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty
Borat / int_e01c3d03	comment	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Borat and Azamat break into a hearty laugh once they learn that Pamela Anderson recently attended a protest against the mistreatment of animals. In that same scene, the head of Oksana the bear can be briefly seen in Azamat's refrigerator.
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Borat / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Borat / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: That poor man in the corner of the elevator had this when Borat and Azamat got on, completely naked. Honestly, you can't really blame him.
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Borat / int_e120cb5e	type	MadmanInTheAttic
Borat / int_e120cb5e	comment	Madman in the Attic: Borat apparently has a mentally disabled brother named Bilo whom they keep locked up in a cage. Their sister made the mistake of taunting him through the bars.
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Borat / int_e12670cd	type	Freudian Threat
Borat / int_e12670cd	comment	Freudian Threat: Borat's wife threatens to snap off his cock if he cheats on her.
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Borat / int_e12670cd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Borat / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Borat / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Borat thinks that a "pussy magnet" is an actual device that will forcibly attract women to his automobile, and he begs a car dealer to include a pussy magnet with the vehicle.
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Borat / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Borat / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Borat's and Azamat's "Kazakhstani" speech is mostly Hebrew and Armenian, respectively. The words in the credits are Polish. The "Kazakh village" is a Romani village in Romania. Borat's female family members are referred to by the surname Sagdiyev. As Kazakhs, they would use the feminine form Sagdiyeva.
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Borat / int_e4c95972	type	Innocent Bigot
Borat / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: How Borat is portrayed. He's a generally friendly, well-meaning fellow and his grossly racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic views are a product of his upbringing in Kazakhstan, where such beliefs are apparently considered mainstream and normal.
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Borat / int_e4c95972	featureConfidence	1.0
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Borat / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Borat / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Played for Laughs. Borat has a very unusual and backwards sense of right and wrong. Despite disliking homosexuals, he himself isn't above doing "gay" things with other men (though he doesn't understand they're gay-related), and considers incest to be A-okay, all just to name a few.
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Borat / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Borat / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Borat's mother, the "oldest woman in whole of Kuzcek", looks like a shriveled old woman but is actually only 43.
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Borat / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Borat / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Borat after getting a ghetto makeover.
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Borat / int_ebf89567	type	Man in a Bikini
Borat / int_ebf89567	comment	Man in a Bikini: Borat's "mankini".
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Borat / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Borat / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Borat's description of Pamela Anderson upon seeing her on TV. Borat describes Kazakhstan as having problems such as "economic, social, and Jew."
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Borat / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Borat / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Borat's neighbor, Nursultan Tulyakbay, always attempts to match whatever conveniences Borat purchases for himself by buying one of his own, but struggles to do so due to having less money than him. Played for Laughs in that, due to the film's exaggeration of Kazakhstan's poverty, the "luxuries" they purchase are actually just basic necessities, such as front door steps and glass windows. Borat considers it a “great success” that he has a clock radio while Tulyakbay cannot afford one.
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Borat / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Borat / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: He's well on his way once Azamat leaves him, stealing his bear, money and passport, but it's the sight of Pamela Anderson's sex tape with Tommy Lee that truly crushes him. He reaches his lowest point crying himself to sleep outside a church in front of a makeshift fire, having freed his hen.
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Borat / int_fab3b838	type	Everything Is Racist
Borat / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: Most people shown in the South in the movie. The dinner party guests disperse as soon as they see Luenell (although she is quite conspicuously a streetwalker). The antique store is filled with pro-secession propaganda. The college students who are nice to Borat complain that "minorities run the world." The guy behind the counter of the gun shop doesn't bat an eyelid when Borat asks for the best weapon for which to kill Jews and recommends a 9mm or a .45, even giving Borat a Desert Eagle to sample. Of course handing him the Desert Eagle is itself Fridge Brilliance because it's an Israeli gun.
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Borat / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Borat / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: After abandoning Borat, Azamat goes to Hollywood cosplaying as Oliver Hardy, even quoting the latter’s famous catchphrase when Borat confronts him. Borat decides to forgive him for their earlier falling out, reasoning that he hadn’t travelled all that way to fight a man dressed as Hitler.
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Borat / int_fd715b6d	type	Angry White Man
Borat / int_fd715b6d	comment	Angry White Man: The frat-boys Borat travels with. They have a low opinion of women and minorities and in real life tried to sue the producers for defamation, even though they weren't forced or tricked into saying anything.
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Borat / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Borat / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Early in the film, Borat meets with a professional comedy trainer, who tries to teach him the proper use of the word "NOT!" in a joke and he doesn't seem to get it. Near the end of the movie, he nails it at a particularly inappropriate, but hilarious, time. At the rodeo, Borat attempts to sing the (fictitious) national anthem of Kazakhstan to the tune of the American national anthem. The “original” version of this Kazakh anthem plays in full over the film’s end credits, complete with an onscreen demand for the viewer to stand for it.
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Borat	hasFeature	So Unfunny, It's Funny / int_b9b06d7e
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Borat	hasFeature	That Poor Cat / int_b9b06d7e
Borat	hasFeature	The Backwards Я / int_b9b06d7e
Borat	hasFeature	The Catchphrase Catches On / int_b9b06d7e
Borat	hasFeature	The Plot Reaper / int_b9b06d7e
Borat	hasFeature	Toros y Flamenco / int_b9b06d7e
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Borat	hasFeature	Wrong Song Gag / int_b9b06d7e
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