> Just compare with who was the laughing stock at the original one - feminists, blacks, gays, jews.
If you think the first Borat movie was laughing at any of those groups then you have seriously misunderstood the movie.
Re:No More Movies
by postsantum on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:18AM
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No, I understand that the movie was about common americans as the name suggests. But now, even using these groups as props for jokes will get you bombarded with thousands of angry tweets starting with the word "Normalizing"
It's been shown time and time again that a lot of cult movies are popular less for their satirical bent and more for the shock value and edgy premises in which the satire plays out.
That's why there are innumerable comments of the "They wouldn't be allowed to make this today" variety. Shock first, nuance second (if at all).
So the acceptable targets have just changed. I don't think the complaint was that you can't make fun of jews (or whoever) specifically but about whether comedies of that general type are being made.
Sacha Baron Cohen has changed targets 6+ times in his carrer so there's nothing new there.
Who is ridiculed in the subsequent moviefilm? Orange man, anti-abortion activists, libertarians, holocaust deniers - they are all safe to laught at. Just compare with who was the laughing stock at the original one - feminists, blacks, gays, jews. That wouldn't fly today