Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

In director Larry Charles' controversial yet strangely popular mockumentary (faux documentary) comedy - it was essentially a road trip film to find the "real America"; the title character Borat Sagdiyev (actor and co-scripter Sacha Baron Cohen), an obtuse, ill-mannered, fictitious, anti-Semitic, sexist, bigoted and racist (fictional) Kazakhstan TV reporter-journalist was selected by his government to film a documentary in the USA as he interacted and reacted with Americans in unscripted situations - often purely staged pranks; he continually admitted his anti-Jewish prejudice: "Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem, too: economic, social, and Jew."

On a budget of $18 million, the film grossed $128.5 million (domestic) and $262.6 million (worldwide). It received one Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Anti-Defamation League brought charges against the controversial film for its anti-Semitism and for its often tasteless, outrageous and bigoted statements that managed to offend nearly everyone - sometimes hilariously funny.

Its single tagline was: "Come to Kazakhstan, It's Nice!" There were numerous quotable one-liners, especially in Borat's butchering of the English language: "I like to make sexy time!"

• in the non-PC film's opening set in his hometown of Kusak in Kazakhstan, Borat Sagdiyev (English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen) introduced himself: ("My name Borat. I like you. I like sex. It's nice"); he also introduced his sister - with a lengthy kiss: ("This is Natalya. She is my sister. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan"); she held up a trophy as proof; he also told a disgusting story about how his brother Bilo ultimately was able to rape his teasing sister:
  • "Sometime my sister, she show her vazhïn to my brother Bilo and say 'You will never get this you will never get it la la la la la la.' He behind his cage. He cries, he cries and everybody laughs. She goes 'You never get this.' But one time he break cage and he 'get this' and then we all laugh. High five!"
• upon his arrival in the US (New York City), Borat described his possessions: "I arrived in America's airport with clothings, US dollars, and a jar of gypsy tears to protect me from AIDS"; his first mishap occurred on the subway to his hotel when his pet chicken escaped from his suitcase, as he assured everyone: "I'll get him! Careful, he bite"; he also insulted a New York businessman on the street by asking: "I kiss you?"; the man snapped back: "Yeah, you kiss me and I'll pop you in the f--king balls, OK?"
• during Borat's meeting with a group of veteran feminists as the only male, he derisively asked them:
  • "Do you think a woman should be educate?...But is it not a problem that a woman have a smaller brain than a man?... But the government scientist, Dr. Yamak, prove it's the size of squirreI."
• the film's recurring theme was Borat's recent obsession with Baywatch's lifeguard character C.J. Parker (Pamela Anderson), with a tight, red one-piece swimsuit who he first viewed on his hotel's TV - "This C.J. was like no Kazakh woman I have ever seen. She had golden hairs, teeth as white as pearls, and the asshole of a seven-year-old. For the first time in my lifes, I was in love"; he decided to travel to Los Angeles to meet her, motivated while dreaming about her: "The only thing keeping me going was my dream of one day holding Pamela in my arms and making romance explosion on her stomach"; he also expressed his unrealistic fantasies of having sex with her: "I will take her vagin for the first time! I will uncork her!"
• Borat was relieved when he learned that his wife Oxanna was reported to have died in an accident; he remembered how she had threatened him if he was unfaithful:
  • "If you cheat on me, I will snap off your cock!"
• after taking driving instruction lessons, the sex-obsessed Borat engaged in a conversation with a car dealership owner-salesman, asking first: "I want to have a car that attract a woman with a shave down below"; when told he should buy a Corvette or a Hummer, he added: "I must buy one with a pussy magnet" - a literal one - and Borat kept asking: "Where do you keep this magnet?"; Borat continued by obscenely comparing his aging wife to the car's warranty: "When I uh, buy my wife, at the start she was uh, cook good, her vazhïn work well, and she strong on plow. But after three years when she was fifteen, then she become weak, her voice become deep: BORAT BORAT, eh, she receive hair on chest, and vazhïn hang like sleeve of wizard"; with only less than $1,000 dollars, Borat was sold an old ice cream truck
• their stops along the way included North and South Carolina, and Washington, DC, where he met with a TV weatherman and a gay-pride supporting politician Alan Keyes (Himself)
• during a rodeo in Salem, SC, Borat told the cheering crowd: "We support your War of Terror," and then announced: "May we show our support to your boys in Iraq?. May U.S. and A kill every single terrorist. May George Bush drink the blood of every single man, woman and child of Iraq. May you destroy their country so that for the next thousand years not even a single lizard will survive in their desert" - and then he followed up by singing his own Kazakhi anthem to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner":
  • "Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world / All other countries are run by little girls / Kazakhstan is number-one exporter of potassium / Other Central Asian countries have inferior potassium / Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world / All other countries is the home of the gays."
• while visiting a gun shop (to buy a gun to kill Jews), Borat handled a gun as he remarked: "I feel like American movie star Dirty Harold"; and then he pointed and aimed the gun and pretended to be "Dirty Harry" as he threatened: "Go ahead, make my day, Jew..."
• in Birmingham, AL in preparation for a formal, high-society dinner party, patient female etiquette coach Kathie B. Martin attempted to help Borat with his table manners in an hour tutorial session after he asked: "Will you please teach me how to dine like gentleman?"; during the actual dinner party at the Magnolia Mansion (on Secession Dr.) with Southern dining society guests, he misinterpreted a 'retired' construction worker as a "retard" and asked: "PhysicaI or mentaI?", he also offered to show pictures of his family (a totally full-frontal photo of his son Huey Lewis, along with detailed commentary about the boy's genital growth: "He grow three centimeter. He now 17 centimeter long")
• Borat made a sexualized comment about the appearance of one of the females: "You have a very gentle face and a very erotic physique," and after visiting the restroom or 's--t-hole' - ("The place to make the s--t...Not to bath. To make dirt from anus"), he returned with a white bag supposedly holding his own human feces; amazingly, one of the guests thought Borat had promise: "I think he's a delightfuI man, and it wouldn't take very much time for him to really become Americanized"; the night was topped off with the arrival of Borat's prostitute-friend Luennell (as Herself) for dessert, and calls to the Sheriff to arrest him
• the film's humorous, lengthy, and nervously-funny precursor to the lengthy naked fight scene in Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (2007) was also an epic naked (ass-to-mouth) wrestling match between Borat and his own overweight and hairy documentary producer-cinematographer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian); in their Houston, TX hotel room, Borat caught Azamat masturbating over a picture of Baywatch's "goddess" Pamela Anderson (he shouted at his partner: "How dare you make hand-party over Pamela?"); they began to wrestle naked in their hotel room

The Epic Naked Wrestling Match in Hotel Room After Azamat Was Caught Masturbating to Magazine

• during their fight, their genitals were continually blocked out by black squares (an insanely-long black bar for Borat's genitals); after they ended up in an embarrassing '69' position (and Azamat threatened to crush his weight into Borat's face: "Eat my asshole!"), their struggle eventually left the hotel room, spilled out into the hallway, elevator (with other shocked guests) and into the lobby and conference hall where a meeting was being conducted; they ended up on the stage of a mortgage brokers' annual banquet-seminar/convention
• after leaving Houston and hitchhiking to Phoenix, AZ, Borat attended a Pentecostal church and found himself joining the church and being baptized; he eventually ended up in Hollywood, where he was reunited and reconciled with Azamat, who reported locating Borat's idol - Pamela Anderson; she was found at a DVD signing at a Virgin Records store in Orange, CA

Borat with Pamela Anderson (Herself) at a California Book-Signing - And His Attempt to Kidnap Her

• after the love-smitten Borat proposed marriage to her, she naturally declined, but he wouldn't accept rejection; he responded: "Agreement not necessary" and attempted to capture her, Kazakhstan-style, by placing a 'wedding sack' over her head to kidnap her; she resisted him and ran off, and he was arrested by security guards