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Borat thumbs up1/23/2024 ![]() ![]() The scene is edited, and Giuliani has denied that he was doing anything untoward, saying he was merely tucking in his shirt. He puts his hand down his pants, adjusting something in the crotch region for about 10 seconds, and then Baron Cohen, clad in a bodysuit made to look like lingerie, rushes in and declares that Tutar is 15, “too old for you.” He says she should give him her number and address. He says “c’mere, c’mere” several times, moving her closer to him and removing her microphone. ![]() Then he follows her into the bedroom, drink in hand. He calls her darlin’ a lot and seems mostly just flattered by the attention in the interview. In case you were lucky enough to miss the news: There’s a sequence in the movie in which Tutar - who has been rejected by Pence at CPAC, sort of, and has settled on trying to marry Giuliani because he is close to Trump and, unlike several former presidential advisers, isn’t in jail - decides to pose as a journalist to get close to Giuliani.ĭressed in nude stilettos and a mint-green, skin-tight sheath dress, she arranges to “interview” Giuliani in a midtown Manhattan hotel suite, and he agrees. The Giuliani moment is what got the most attention after the reviews started pouring in on Wednesday. And it happens, as you may already know, in a room with Rudy Giuliani. It happens at stores and in public places, at a debutante ball (where a man says $500 would be a “fair price” for her, to the disgust of the man’s daughter), and at a plastic surgeon’s office, where Tutar and Borat are pricing out the cost of giving her huge breasts and maybe evening out her nose a little. In any case, Bakalova’s total commitment to the role is both impressive and necessary, because this movie requires her to get leered at by older men. Although, who knows? If the past four (let alone 14) years have shifted anything, it’s our sense of what people will do on camera, whether to get attention or just because they’re a huge honking racist. They cannot touch their “vagines,” because of the teeth.īut Bakalova plunges into it with aplomb and steals the show from Baron Cohen, who mostly reprises his old shtick, tricking people into saying things they probably wouldn’t want to be seen onscreen saying. They cannot be educated or choose whom to marry or engage in, uh, sexy times. A teenager who has been living in a stable behind her family’s hovel and fed lies all her life about what women can and cannot do: Women cannot drive. The look that ruled Hollywood for decades and perhaps reached its apex in Baywatch star Pamela Anderson (the unlucky object of Borat’s affection in the first movie) has migrated to Fox News, where many have noted the clone-like similarities among on-air female talent.īakalova has a tough job in Subsequent Moviefilm, playing a teenager nearly a decade younger than herself. Long, dyed-blonde hair with barrel curls, bold lipstick and eye makeup, and a form-fitting dress: If Tutar’s makeover looks familiar, it’s because you’ve seen it on TV before. Tutar and Borat in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. And in typical Borat fashion - with unsuspecting hairdressers and dress shop owners and other civilians not quite realizing they’re the object of fun - Tutar is transformed from a ratty-haired gremlin into a woman. To tackle that challenge, though, she’s going to need a makeover. Slovenia’s not all that close to Kazakhstan, but it’s closer than America. That makes him realize something: Maybe she would make a better gift? She is delighted by the idea, lit up by the notion that she might be the next “queen of America,” like Melania Trump - who, after all, is from Slovenia. When he arrives stateside, Borat discovers Tutar has stowed away in the monkey’s crate for the trip and, well, gotten hungry on the way over. But he is summoned to the premier’s office and given the task of offering a gift to America’s leadership to restore Kazakhstan’s standing in the eyes of its new president, “McDonald Trump.” He knows just what to present to Trump’s closest colleague, Michael Pence, vice premier of America: a monkey. Having destroyed the reputation of Kazakhstan with his 2006 film (the first Borat, the one that prompted every dude you know to say “mah waiiife” for a good decade when he wanted to be funny), Borat has been doing hard labor as punishment. Bakalova is actually 24, but in the film, she is 15-year-old Tutar Sagdiyev, the oldest unmarried woman in Kazakstan (according to Borat), playing sidekick to her trickster father on his second trip to America. The true star of Borat 2 - excuse me, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - is Maria Bakalova, who plays the daughter of disgraced Kazakh media personality Borat Sagdiyev (Baron Cohen). Sacha Baron Cohen is not the star of his new movie, and I suspect he knows it.
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