Borat was most definitely the cultural icon of He was a clueless foreigner traveling around America, exposing xenophobic ignorance and prejudice through interviews and stunts. Borat was not just an excellent comedy, but it was brilliant social commentary as well. On first glance, it would seem that Bruno is trying something similar. The flamboyantly gay Austrian is making a journey around the states, and you would imagine his end game is to reveal the massive amount of homophobia that we all know exists in the country.
It's the paying public that Bruno's really mocking
It's the paying public that Bruno's really mocking | Film | The Guardian
Anne Thompson. While his performance art gives us a bit of distance, in the movie Larry Charles and Baron Cohen push audiences way past their comfort zones. Something in the movie will make you squirm. That, Charles told me, was real. One Universal exec admitted that those squares had to be made bigger to get the R-rating and definitely made the images more, not less, disturbing. If ever a movie has earned an NC rating, this is it.
I'm Terry Gross. So we're really happy to be able to present our second interview with Sacha Baron Cohen as himself. The occasion is today's DVD release of his latest movie, "Bruno," and it has lots of extras, including scenes that didn't make it into the film and a commentary soundtrack by Cohen and the director of "Bruno," Larry Charles, who is with us too.
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