Sacha Baron Cohen
Dear god, please make more people like Sacha Baron Cohen. One of those rare human beings who goes through life with his filter firmly switched to “off.”
He says what he thinks, when he thinks it. It’s off the cuff, astute and very, very funny. The world needs more people like that. Go easy on the lewdness though, because watching two grown men wrestling in the nude is not to everyone’s taste.
Sacha Baron Cohen is the legend of the one-liner. Cast your eye over his advice for leaders, given in full costume upon his arrival at Sydney Airport yesterday, to get a feel for what he does. Explaining it is a bit trickier.
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Is it playing up to stereotypes to put Bruno’s failure at the Australian box office down to the same more-than-lingering homophobia that doomed it in the US?
The numbers would suggest so, with ticket sales in both countries following the depressing downward curve set aside for movies that cop a flat ‘don’t see it’ around the watercooler.
The mockumentary opened here July 9 and is largely concerned with putting its title character, a flamboyantly gay Austrian TV presenter, in play opposite unsuspecting rednecks in order to get audiences laughing and/or squirming at flamboyantly gay behaviour.
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SimonP says:
I’m a GenX gay man. I saw Bruno only because it was at a fundraiser screening - I would not have gone otherwise. I had low expectations, but the movie was WORSE than I expected! It was silly, shallow, tasteless, crass, but worst of all… simply not funny. It is… Read more »
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Janelle Batt says:
This movie treats gay men very unfairly - Bruno’s character is too defined and reliants upon his sexuality. Cohen has been forced into pushing even more barriers of decency and socially-accepted behaviour - to achieve the same shock value as Borat - but he’s pushed it too far. His character… Read more »
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