I had totally forgotten about how Hitchens hated "Borat" because he thought that it made Americans look patient and Sasha Baron Cohen look crass. Just wait until he sees "Bruno" which is a more direct and I think more triumphant assault on certain aspects of American life: the military, PR consultants, hunters, models, fans of wrestling, dumb talk show audiences, focus groups etc.
I was so blown away by "Bruno" that I'm tempted to think that it's the funniest movie of all time...the Velcro scene, all that shit with "OJ", and the Fort McCellan bit, which really topped it all off.
I await Hitch's condemnation of the film. It doesn't show that Americans lack patience or are remarkably homophobic. It just show that Americans are STUPID, which I think is the point. And was the point of "Borat" also.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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