There are three things you need to know about hecklerspray: 1) Don't get it wet, 2) Don't feed it after midnight, and 3) Don't let it make love to other gremlins because it can reproduce that way too.
Now here's three things you need to know about Sacha Baron Cohen: 1) He's recently become an A-list movie star, 2) He's recently been pummelled in the face by some guy in a bar, and 3) The entire country of Romania wants to finish what the fist-happy drunk started.
That's right, Romania wants them a piece of Borat's hide, and it'll get it any way it can. Within the Romanian judicial system that is, which we've recently heard is extremely open to said face pummelling. This does not bode well.
When Borat isn't trying to make love to some guy's clothes, he's busy hiding from the mighty Kazakh army. Now another country is said to be sending in their special forces after him. That's right. Romania feels used and abused, and they think an unspecified percentage of Borat's recent huge profits would look mighty good stuffed under their straw-filled mattresses.
And to Romania Cohen did go, to film all his movie-related village scenes. Several of Romania's citizens are now claiming they had no idea what was going on. One woman said:
"We thought they came here to help us, not mock us. We haven't got anything here. We haven't got running water. We can't even bathe. We are poor people, but we are still people."
That Romanian temper is really flaring now. Nicolae Staicu, leader of a butt-load of gypsies, said he plans to meet with an ombudsman to find a legal recourse that can be taken. And he's not just looking to stick it to just Borat – no. He's also looking for 20th Century Fox to put some cash in his dirty little unwashed hand. Staicu says the locals were paid as little as $3.30 for their lousy parts, and that they were all told it was a documentary being filmed instead of a balls-out comedy. He also said:
"These people are poor and they were tricked by people more intelligent than us. They took one of our 75-year-old ladies, put huge silicone breasts on her and said she was 47. Another man they filmed to look like the poorest person in the world, and one of our men who is missing an arm had a plastic sex toy taped to his stump. We are suing because they were not truthful. They did not film reality. We've really had enough of this."
Romania, hecklerspray understands your plight completely. We've been tricked into films too. Granted, our trickers have generally been on the side of West African law enforcement, and the movie we were involuntarily in was eventually called something like Unsavoury Ivory Profiteers: Stop The Murder, but still, we can totally relate.
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Named says
How stupid is that?
Romania vs Borat?
Thats a catchy title ?
ro vs. bo ? - don't think so says
Well, I’m Romanian and I liked the movie.
And the reason Borat chose to film “those scenes” in Romania is
1. Romania has a developed film industry infrastructure (won Palme d’Or with 432).
2. It was easy for Borat to hire a Romanian agency to find a place like that. – There are numerous Romanian movies with scenes like that (poor people, destitute society, bla, bla bla).
Anyway – that is one of the many faces of Romania -not the most common.
And unlike the US where everywhere you go is the same( BudLight, barbecue and Monday night football), in Romania you will find a multitude of places -from highly westernized cities to forgotten gypsy shantytowns.
JIMMMY2EYEZ says
I FINK DIS IZ BARE GD MAN HE SHUDNT OV TRICKED DEM POOR ROMANS OR WAT EVZ :/