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I enjoyed this clip from the Borat movie on so many levels. Well, two levels.
1. It's freakin' hilarious
2. It has flawless ersatz-retro-Eastern-Bloc graphics at the beginning and the end. They even did the English subtitles in the exactly right crappy fashion.
Also check out the great map graphic between 00:34 and 00:42.
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So I saw the Borat movie this weekend, and it was-- as expected-- hilarious. And as for the graphics I enjoyed so much, they topped themselves with the end credits-- A soviet-style propaganda film accompanying the (fictional and bawdy) Kazakhstan [Read More]
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Yeah, it is entertaining enough to laugh continuously. Seems to me that Sacha Baron Cohen made an absurd Kusturica clip. The other compound of the recipe: build your movie on existing prejudices via pc balances.
Posted by: Attila Csordas | October 26, 2006 at 08:03 AM