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Bruno was highly amusing. I started laughing during the studio logo that starts the film, and didn't stop for 90 minutes.
But I'm curious about something. The movie mostly hinges on the Sacha Baron Cohen tradition of punking people. I don't know how that worked in this case. In Borat, if memory serves (and that film did not imprint itself on my memory), the character was a sort of media correspondent who was interviewing people - and thus had a pretext for a camera being present. In Bruno, most of the scenes are not "supposed to" be being filmed, and yet they are. How does the presence of the camera interfere with the "punking" process (for lack of a better term)? Clearly these people know they are being filmed. Just as clearly, the movie is funny only to the extent these are unscripted and somewhat honest reactions to the outrageousness of Bruno. I liked the movie way better than Borat. On one hand, I saw this at the cinema, so that gives an advantage to a comedy. But mostly it's because I saw some larger "point" being made about teh gey and all that. I didn't sense anything like that in Borat. I also found Bruno more consistently funny ... but maybe that's just my personal sense of humor. Anyway, I recommend it. But I really want to know about the filming circumstances and how "in on it" some of these subjects were. |
Borat's scenes had varying degrees of "in on it". A good chunk of them were of the variety where people were told one thing was going to happen and be filmed and then while they were expecting that, Borat made his appearance. Not having seen Bruno I can't be sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of, "We're filming a documentary or a tv show or whatever" and then Bruno arrives.
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I'm in the didn't like Bruno camp.
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I think I liked that Bruno was (almost) as stupid, vapid, cruel and clueless as the people he lampoons ... and yet still, for me, retained something sympathetic about his character.
Choice of venue is important. I specifically went out of my way to avoid a theater that I presumed might have a more gay-basher-friendly audience. And the crowd I saw it with was laughing throughout, as was I. Borat did nothing for me. Perhaps because I didn't relate to the character Baron Cohen was spoofing while playing Borat ... but I'm obviously all too familiar with the types of people Bruno's character spoofs. It also might have helped that I saw Bruno before any reaction was "out there." Borat had been hyped so much by the time I saw it, I may have had unduly high expectations or an ingrained prejudice to be less lemming. |
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SFW. Yeah, the film most likely will suck, but I looooove this Prince of Persia photo:
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See, I'm excessively straight. So I see that picture and think:
"It is really amazing how a person can appear to have, but not actually have, a unibrow." And then I'm off wondering if it would have been really that hard to find someone slightly less white (yes, I know he's half Jewish) to play a Persian. |
I love men. I find that photo, however, to be hilarious, and not at all sexy. The hair is ridiculous. The stance is silly. And I just don't find the actor all that hot to begin with.
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