Borat in Hong Kong

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    Look who is in town

    Arken Arystanov, chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulating the Regional Financial Centre of Almaty. or AOTROKFRTRFCOA for short.


    How does the Hong Kong stock exchange stack up against its London counterpart?
    Ask a man with an impossible title - Arken Arystanov, chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulating the Regional Financial Centre of Almaty.
    "In London, you don't receive the service you want. I think HK can provide high quality standards. Also, with HK you have Macau..."
    Mr Arystanov also weighed in on the question of why Russians prefer London as a place to do business. "Because there is Harrods," he said. "Also, they like their children to study there. Some 200,000 Russian families have moved to London."
    from laisee

    This is the same fellow who said there is no such thing as bad advertising when asked about Borat


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    I watched Borat in the US a couple of weeks ago, early afternoon on a Sunday, lots of families and senior citizens in the audience. I was at times more amused by the audience than the movie itself; it clearly offended a number of people and a handfull of people even walked out while loudly voicing their protest in the process. My thought is that people brought up on the principles of political correctness fail to see the humor in such a movie.


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    Holy Sh1t am I the only person in Hong Kong that thought it was halarious?

    The faces on those people in the elevator as Borat and Gimley ran in and were trying to act nonchalant when they were naked? Or the look on the exec's faces as they ran through the conference hall and started wrestling on stage? Oh come on, you must have found that funny. I mean when was the last time that was done?

    You know, you can laugh if there isn't a studio audience laughing with you...


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    I'm not saying it wasn't funny but some people take offence to Jews being portrayed as money-hungry cockroaches, for example. Personally I thought his rodeo speech and rendition of the fake Kazakh national anthem were the best part, in particular the audience reaction: at first they were cheering him on when he advocated that terrorists in Iraq be hung from trees but as he kept piling it on (bomb Iraq so that for the next 1000 years not even a lizard can live there), the applause was getting more subdued although I don't think they realized yet that he was making fun of them. Only when he starting singing 'Kazakhstan number one country in the world, all other countries are run by little girls' to the tune of the American anthem, it seemed to dawn on them that he was taking the piss out of them. Best scene in the whole movie!


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    Quote Originally Posted by texasaxel:
    Personally I thought his rodeo speech and rendition of the fake Kazakh national anthem were the best part, in particular the audience reaction..
    especially the phrase "..We support your war of terror" in that scene. And the audience kept cheering..

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    I read an article that said the cheering was dubbed. Apparently he was being booed, and he was escorted out of the stadium under security because there was a treat of violence.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sylvesterjay:
    I read an article that said the cheering was dubbed. Apparently he was being booed, and he was escorted out of the stadium under security because there was a treat of violence.
    Jay, you're correct that during his rendition of the national anthem he was booed and eventually run out of the stadium. That scene is included in the movie.

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    the Borat movie was aight...wasn't was great as I thought it would be, but that guy was topping the box offices in the states....
    I seen the MySpace Black Carpet screening of it back in Sept. in San Diego


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    Mr P

    The president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will arrive in Hong Kong today for a three-day visit following a trip to Beijing.

    About the only Kazakh not here yet is Borat!


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    He Cometh!

    For some odd reason CitySeen seems to think it odd that the HKJFF is screening Borat.

    If not them,then who?

    Borat an odd film fest choice


    For everyone wondering when the Borat movie is coming to town, the wait will be over soon. Sacha Baron Cohen's docu-comedy poking fun at George W. Bush country, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, will open here on February 1.
    However, we think it's quite funny and ironic that the movie's local premiere will be a benefit for the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival.
    Festival director Howard Elias has lined up the laughter - which some folk, such as the US Anti-Defamation League, consider to be anti-Semitic - at a preview on January 29 at Palace IFC. Will there be howls of laughter among those assembled when Borat leads a group in singing a ditty called Throw the Jew Down the Well, or will there be stoney silence broken by a few gasps of "Oy vay"? Who knows, but as 19th century philosopher August Bebel said, "anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools".

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