Here is a hetereosexual male playing a homosexual male exposing all of the homophobic foibles of heterosexual men and women in America. What could possibly go wrong? Let’s ask Ron Paul.
And how in the world could…would…should one react to it without pissing at least some folks off?
Bottom line: Ask yourself: Is this funnier than it is inanely stupid? And can this possibly be known for sure?
It’s especially funny if you like to see folks being made complete fools of. Sure, it sounds cruel but you almost always think that these folks are complete fools – so that makes it okay. Well, if your politics are liberal and progressive.
On the other hand, sometimes he goes too far and things get downright…crude. Repulsive even. If only from a particular point of view. Even mine from time to time.
It is alleged that, aside from the skit with Harrison Ford, all of these encounters are supposed to actually be nonscripted. Maybe. But I don’t believe it. Paula Abdul sitting on the Mexican? The focus group? The interview with Ayman Abu Aita? The Dallas talk show? The extreme fighting bit?
On the other hand, the “interview” with Ron Paul seemed utterly genuine. The Libertarian bigot? Let’s ask his son, Rand.
IMDb
[b]According to Sacha Baron Cohen, Harrison Ford is in the only scene that was scripted, and was the only actor that was in on the joke.
In October 2006, entertainment blog website Defamer.com jokingly reported the title would be “Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt”. Numerous websites around the world - including IMDb - reported this to be the actual working title
The sequence where Bruno enrolled at the Alabama National Guard, filmed at the Alabama Military Academy in Fort McClellan, Anniston, went undetected until a young cadet who recognized him from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), notified elder officers who were unfamiliar with the actor. [/b]
Nope. Doesn’t ring true at all to me.
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCno
trailer: youtu.be/hfSu9zqRZH0
BRUNO [2009]
Directed by Larry Charles
[b]Bruno: Modelling, a lot of people think it’s easy. But it’s the hardest job in the world, isn’t it?
Heather Hahn [supermodel]: It’s very hard. Standing in heels all day, and everyone’s watching you, so you have to make sure your walk is good.
Bruno: Yeah, it’s really hard, 'cause you’ve gotta remember, like, to put your right leg forward and then put your left leg forward and then, like, which one now? Right leg again, and then, like, the left one. And then sometimes you even have to turn.
Heather: Yeah. And especially the turn. It’s so scary.
…
Bruno: In September 2008, I left for Milan Fashion Week to shoot a new season of Funkyzeit. Brüno had backstage access for the hottest show of the week, de la Prada. So I wore the jewel of mein wardrobe, a suit made entirely out of Velcro.[/b]
So, which is more hilarious: Bruno in the Velcro suit or the fashion show itself:
[b]Bruno [voiceover]:I realized that night that the fashion world was superficial and vacuous. So, I decided instead to go to Los Angeles to become a celebrity. I was going to be the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler.
…
[at the Pink Cheeks anal bleaching salon]
Bruno: You were actually my second choice. I was going to go to the salon that maintains Salma Hayek’s inner thighs, but the team that do it were booked up for the next four days because she’s got the Elle Style Awards. And they said they’re, like, really, really exhausted after they do her.
Lady: They’re exhausted after they wax Salma Hayek? She must have a lot of hair.
Bruno: They say that after a waxing, there’s enough to stuff a mattress.
…
Bruno [pointing to a photograph of Mel Gibson]: The Fuhrer?
…
Focus group advisor [after the focus group views Bruno’s video for a TV show]: So if you could describe this show in one sentence…Can anybody give me one sentence? Go ahead.
Focus gourp member: The worst piece of crap I have ever seen.
Focus gourp member: What sick human being came up with something like this?
Focus gourp member: I wanted to poke my eyes out with hot needles.
Focus gourp member: You’d have to bnorrow the needles from me.
Focus gourp member: No logical person would consider a show like this unless they had some sort of a mental or moral defect.
Focus gourp member: It was worse than cancer.
Focus gourp member: The only way this guy will ever be famous is in a sex tape.
…
Ron Paul [after Bruno strips to his underwear]: All right! Get out of here! This has ended.
Bruno: What’s going on?
Ron Paul [to his aide]: That guy is queerer than the blazes. He took his clothes off. Let’s get going.
Aide: What happened?
Ron Paul: He’s queer. He’s crazy. He put a hit on me. He took his clothes off!!
…
[At Nicole and Suzanne Defosset’s Charity PR office]
Nicole: Global warming’s only getting worse. So…Now, I think that would be… That’s something to get involved now, so, we can just help ease the… Like, after us, in order to help for our future. In order for everyone…It’s just a beneficial thing to be involved with now.
Bruno: I’m really into doing something maybe for Africa. Is that still cool or…
Suzanne: Saving some kind of extinct animal? What’s going extinct right now?
Bruno: I don’t know, like elephants or something?
…
Bruno: What’s the coolest type of charity to get into at the moment?
Nicole: Save Darfur.
Bruno: Save what?
Suzanne: Save Darfur. Angelina Jolie.
Bruno: Is that in, like, Iraqi or something like that?
Nicole: Yeah, that’s in the… It’s in… Yeah. Yeah.
Bruno: Is there anywhere in the world that no celebrity has tried to fix? Darfur is the big one now. What’s the new one? What’s Dar-five?
…
Brüno [voiceover]: I was going to become famous by solving a world problem! But which one? Clooney’s got Darfur, Sting’s got the Amazon, and Bono’s got AIDS! Luckily, there was still one shithole left to fix: the Middle Earth.[/b]
He means the Middle East of course.
[b]Bruno: I’ll be honest with you. I want to be famous. And I want the best guys in the business to kidnap me. Al-Qaeda is so 2001.
Ayman Abu Aita: I don’t like.
…
Bruno: Can I give you guys a word of advice? Lose the beards, because your King Osama looks like a kind of dirty wizard or a homeless Santa.
Ayman Abu Aita: What did he say?
[the translator translates and Ayman Abu Aita reacts]
Translator [to Bruno]: Get out! Get out now!
Bruno [voiceover]: I was encouraged to leave the Middle Earth.
…
Bruno [at the airport lifting a black infant out of a cardboard box on the luggage carousel]: Madonna has one. Brangalina has one. And now Bruno has one.
…
[Bruno interviews parents who want their children in the movies]
Bruno: Would you be ready for your baby to be strung up on a crucifix next to mine?
Parent: Fine. Yeah, I don’t mind her being up on a crucifix. Sure.
…
Bruno: Is your baby comfortable with bees, wasps and hornets?
Parent: George is comfortable with everything. He’s fine.
…
Bruno: Is he comfortable with dead or dying animals?
Parent: Yes.
Bruno: Great.
…
Bruno: Amateur science.
Parent: What do you mean by that?
Bruno: You know, some untrained people conducting scientific experiments.
Parent: Should be fine.
Bruno: You know, her mixing the pots of acid and that type…
Parent: Okay.
Bruno: And so it’s a yes.
Parent: Yes.
…
Bruno: Is your baby fine with antiquated heavy machinery?
Parent: Yeah, she’s fine. She’s been around that.
Bruno: Would she be fine to operate them?
Parent: Yes.
…
Bruno: Is your baby fine with lit phosphorus?
Parent: Yes.
Bruno: Excellent. Does he like it?
Parent: Loves it.
…
Bruno: A little sensitive subject here. How much does she weigh?
Parent: She’s about 30 pounds.
Bruno: Thirty pounds. Can she lose 10 pounds in the next week?
Parent: In the next week, seven days. I’d have to do whatever I could.
Bruno: If there’s a problem losing the weight, would you be ready to have her undergo liposuction?
Parent: If that was a last resort and she didn’t lose the few pounds, then, yeah, we’d have to do that.
Bruno: Great. Fantastic news. We have chosen your baby to be dressed as a Nazi officer pushing a wheelbarrow with another baby as a Jew in it into an oven.
Parent: Into an oven?
Bruno: Congratulations. How do you feel?
Parent: Great, if she got the job.
…
Brüno [on talk show]: There’s a lot of African Americans in Africa!
African-American Lady: No! There’s a lot of Africans in Africa!
Brüno: That’s racist!
…
TV Host Bey: All right, but wait a second. You are the baby’s father now. And you chose to dress that baby up in a T-shirt that says what?
Bruno: Gayby.
Bey: That’s not the baby’s name, is it?
Brüno: No, I gave him a traditional African name.
Bey: So what’s that?
Bruno: O.J.
…
Bruno: Things have got to change. I want to become straight.
Pastor Jody Trautwein: Awesome.
Bruno: Once I’m straight, can I still play the clarinet?
Pastor Jody Trautwein: If it doesn’t remind you about some of the behaviour that you engaged in when you put your lips around it. If it doesn’t remind you of that, then I say go for it and play the clarinet with everything inside of you. If it does remind you of that, then I say put it down, give it away, let a friend hold it until you know in your mind you’re ready to pick it up again and it wouldn’t remind you of that.
…
Brüno: So you were never gay?
Pastor Jody Trautwein: [shakes head] Mh-mh.
Brüno: It’s ironic that you should have amazing blowjob lips.
Pastor Jody Trautwein: These…these lips were made to praise Jesus.
…
Drill Sergeant: Your finger’s in my alley.
Brüno: Not yet.
…
Brüno: Look at the four of us; we are so like the Sex in the City girls!
Donny [the hunter]: Oh no, we aren’t either!
Brüno: Which one are you, Donny?
Donny: I ain’t any one of them, I’m Donny.
Brüno: That is such a Samantha thing to say!
…
Brüno [to the hunters]: I wouldn’t want to wake up in the morning and find that I’m torn in my arschenholer.
…
Brüno: Look me in the eye.
Angry Swinger: This is a fuckin’ swingers’ party. OK? If you don’t want pussy, if you don’t want fuckin’… then quit fuckin’ touching me and quit looking at me. I definitely ain’t lookin’ at you in the eye. OK? I didn’t come here for no fuckin’ queer shit, OK? I know what you’re doin’.[/b]