The fictitious Kazakh journalist camped by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is making his comeback on the screens.
Bad news for deniers, supporters of Donald Trump and even his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
The continuation of the adventures of Borat, soberly titled "Borat 2" in French version but whose original title is "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", ("Delivery of a extraordinary bribe to the American regime for the benefit of the glorious nation of Kazakhstan), will be available from October 23 on Amazon Prime.
The first episode of his crazy adventures across the United States, in 2006, had collected 260 million dollars, an Oscar selection and left cult scenes, like that of the "mankini", a surprising thong with straps loved by Borat.
Like the first film, "Borat 2" was shot as a mock documentary this summer - as containment measures eased in the United States - by Sacha Baron Cohen and his team to better trap political figures and anonymous with his character to report backward and indelicate.
Rudy Giuliani, victim of a fake interview
The plot of the new opus has not yet been unveiled, but the most daring scenes have already started to be talked about: Rudy Giulani admitted in July to having been the victim of a false "interview" organized in a bedroom hotel in the presence of a very enterprising young woman.
In the film, the 76-year-old former mayor of New York seems to end up in a bad way, as he is found with his hand in his pants.
He defended himself on Twitter on Wednesday for any bad intentions, accusing Borat's video of being "fabricated".
"I put my shirt back into my pants after removing the recording equipment," he wrote.
"At no time before, during or after the interview have I behaved inappropriately. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies the contrary, he is shamelessly lying," insists Rudy Giuliani in his tweet.
(1) The Borat video is fully manufactured.
I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment.
At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate.
If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.
- Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 21, 2020
He had previously told the New York Post that he believed he was answering questions about the handling of the pandemic by Donald Trump's administration and that he did not immediately realize "that it must be Sacha. Baron Cohen ".
"I thought of all the people he had fooled before me and I was proud of myself because he didn't get me," he told the newspaper.
Close to Donald Trump, the former mayor of New York is not the only Republican to have been mocked by Borat, sometimes at the latter's risk and peril.
In a column for TIME magazine, Sacha Baron Cohen recently opened up about how he seriously feared for his life when he invited himself, for the purposes of his film, to a gun-friendly rally in the Washington State.
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"Borat 2" imagines that the Kazakh journalist, sentenced to forced labor after the debacle of the first episode, is offered a chance to improve his reputation and that of his country by offering a gift to Vice President Mike Pence.
A viral advertising campaign is underway to promote the film, including via a Twitter account parodying the government of Kazakhstan which string together the most absurd ads written in broken English, for example praising President Trump for "crushing given Covid to him by Democrats ".
A complaint filed
The first film had given rise to certain legal proceedings, such as those initiated by students appearing at length on the screen.
The new episode is already the subject of a complaint filed by the heirs of a Holocaust survivor, who died this summer shortly after being interviewed by Baron Cohen.
Judith Dim Evans is filmed educating Borat about Nazi concentration camps and comes across in a positive light, but her daughter says she did not want to appear in a comedy work about the genocide.
Sacha Baron Cohen, who is himself Jewish, is an ardent slayer of anti-Semitism and revisionism and militates against conspiracy theories which flourish on social networks.
With AFP
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