Sacha Baron Cohen is Borat for Your Phone

Borat-isms and Soundtrack Cuts

Sacha Baron Cohen grabbed the immediate attention of irrate feminists and minority groups, as well as entire governments and millions of people for his movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. And the uproar was not just over the movie content, but Cohen had already gotten a lot of press during the shooting.

Who Is Borat?

Borat, played by Cohen, portrays a Kazakh journalist travelling the United States in his ultimate quest to find and marry Pamela Anderson. Along the way he manages to convince unsuspecting “actors” to take part in the film by telling them he is filming a documentary for his home country, Kazakhstan. Instead he comedically captures Americans in unflattering roles. For example he “interviews” the rodeo producer in Virginia who expresses negative feelings about Muslims and homosexuals, never dreaming he and his comments would end up on the big screen.

Interestingly enough, there were only four professional actors in the film, including Cohen and Pamela Anderson, whose marriage to Kid Rock broke up shortly after the film. The rest were unsuspecting participants who signed lengthy release forms, some of whom later filed suit against Cohen and the film’s producers.

Controversial Comedy

Cohen has been called both a genius as well a host of much less glorious names. One most controversial is the indictment that he is Anti-Semitic, a label with which he was quickly slapped for his ethnically derogatory comments in the film, even though he is Jewish. Part of the controversy surrounding the film and Cohen himself seems to be the inability or unwillingness of many to separate the character Borat from the actor Cohen. The confusion lies in the fact that Cohen is so expert at portraying Borat that most Americans have a difficult time distinguishing between the two. In fact, Cohen hosted the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards in the persona of Borat, again challenging audiences to see comedy for comedy.

Still, Borat commands a huge following and loyal fans still enjoy the controversial character’s offbeat humor. Borat-isms have become popular ringtones, t-shirts, bumper stickers, CDs and DVDs.

Famous Borat Quotes:

• Wawaweewa
• I liiike!
• Varry Niiice!
• Very nice, very nice! How much?
• Jagshemash!
• Jagshemash! My name a Borat. I like you. I like sex, it's nice.
• Jagshemash! In US and A, if you want to marry a girl, you cannot just go to her father and swap her for 15 gallons of pesticide. Here you have to do something called dating. High five!
• We say in Kazakhstan, “You find me woman with brain, I find you a horse with...Wings.”

Borat (Soundtrack):

1. Borat’s Theme
2. Super Bairam
3. Born To Be Wild
4. Fanfare Ciocarlia
5. Chaje Shukarije
6. Ederlezi
7. You Be My Wife
8. Grooming-Russian Waltz
9. Magic Mamaligia
10. Money Boney
11. Siki Siki Baba
12. Talijanska
13. The Truck Dies
14. Traveling Theme
15. In My Country There Is A Problem
16. Can’t Touch This
17. Kazakhstan