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Re:No More Movies by colordrops on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:17AM (#27748098)
The article mentions a new Borat couldn't be made now, and the footnote, probably added after the new one came out, excuses the author being wrong by saying Sasha Baron Cohen already has popularity and support so could get away with it.

It's simpler than that though and fits other points made - the new Borat was actually a lot more politically correct and followed the American ideology that has emerged recently, adding a woman character and going after Trump republicans.

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Re:No More Movies by sysadm1n on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:31AM (#27748264)
> the new Borat was actually a lot more politically correct

No it wasn't PC (IMHO). It went out of its way to offend and pushed the envelope. I couldn't watch it to the end because of this. It brought up tired old stereotypes which I thought were long gone.

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Re:No More Movies by jwalgenbach on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:46AM (#27749330)
Or because sequels often add new characters. And the Trump Republicans made themselves ridiculously easy targets...see the Four Seasons Landscaping fiasco, paying off Playboy models and pornstars, suggesting publicly that people inject themselves with bleach or somehow use sunlight internally...

People mock them because they do stupid things. Those are called consequences.

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