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darouge11
Turntable Terrorist.

Registered: Jul 2006
Location: toronto
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Nov-13-2006 19:13
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Psy-T
Melody Klein

Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Haifa
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Re: Re: Borat is lame.
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
Cohen's satire, regardless of which particular character he is using, is effective because he plays an idiot and/or a foreigner. This forces people to cut the BS and express their beliefs in the simplest terms - kinda similar to the picaresque tradition or Huckleberry Finn. He can just ask a politician whether he thinks the Jews will go to heaven or hell and the guy gives him a straight answer because he assumes he won't understand the BS he usually shrouds it with. |
so according to what you say here, in order for cohen's humor to be effective, the interviewee needs to be under the belief that cohen's character is 'for real', yes?
now lets suppose you do not know of sasha baron cohen, or his character borat, and he comes to interview you... do you believe even for a second that he is who/what he claims he is? if you answer "no" as i expect, you must concede that this technique is only viable against the feeble minded of us. the feeble minded require no further provocation to be portrayed as idoits, racists, et cetera, hence making cohen and his characters redundant.
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Nov-13-2006 21:32
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