The British Sacha Baron Cohen goes through the most contradictory moment in his career comedian. He is finally enjoying recognition among academics, as indicated by being an Oscar nominee as a screenwriter and having been competing at the Golden Globes as an actor; but at the same time he questions whether his work, sharp and corrosive, entered the political correctness.
Baron Cohen has developed his career creating characters that serve to pass a scalpel to society through a provocative and shocking humor. One is Brüno, a reporter homosexual Austrian who kept doing jokes unsuspecting people and even disrupted a fashion show in Milan, with Paul McCartney in the front row.
Another is Ali G, a rapper rude, uneducated and loutish white man who interviewed British personalities, whom he ended up embarrassing. Some of his victims have been the ex-footballer David Beckham, singer Gaz Coombes and American businessman Donald Trump, to whom in 2003 he wanted to sell the idea of a contraption Absolutely ridiculous for not spilling the cone ice cream. Trump got up and walked out of the interview.
Ali G became a media phenomenon in Great Britain, he has his television series (Baron Cohen has always preferred the small screen, because he looks at Hollywood as boring) and even featured in the music video for Madonna’s 2000 song, Music.
Borat’s character, however, made Baron Cohen a celebrity global. If with Brüno he wanted to expose the homophobia of the West, and if with Ali G he draws a parody of the youth despising his culture to adopt another out of mere snobbery, Borat allowed him to strike a severe blow on the chin at the American way of life and the prejudices social and political.
Baron Cohen designed Borat Sagdiyev as a misogynistic, homophobic and racist journalist from Kazakhstan, traveling to U.S to learn the customs of that country and apply them in yours.
On the way, he disparages and insults especially sensitive groups in the United States and the reactions were reflected in ‘Borat: cultural lessons from the United States for the benefit of the glorious nation of Kazakhstan’, a film in the key of false documentary film which was a resounding success: it grossed $ 262 million at the box office. Baron Cohen was nominated for an Oscar for that script, a great credit for a comedy where some scenes were spontaneous. The award went to William Monahan, por ‘The Departed’, de Martin Scorsese.
Although, for Baron Cohen, the greatest triumph was to have scandalized the Government of Kazakhstan, which even pressured studios and television networks for mockery; to the politicians of the United States and the defenders of the politically correct thing.
The second part of the hilarious and eschatological adventures of Borat, however, has a trouble: if before the character messed with all sides, in ‘Borat later film: Delivery of a bribery prodigious to the American regime to once benefit the glorious nation of Kazakhstan ‘, released on October 22, 2020, the intention was to attack Trump and the republicans.
Of course, all kinds of comedy run the risk of offending. The actor has had many disagreements with Trump since that ice cream incident and in 2012 he dedicated these words: “This third-rate character wishes he had been hit in the face so many times that he was in a hospital.”
In comedy ‘Grimsby‘(2016), Baron Cohen plays a vicious agent who claims that the American tycoon was infected with HIV / AIDS because he was exposed to the blood of Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who played the magician Harry Potter.
Borat’s new film focuses on putting down Republicans and is determined to link the mentality prehistoric of the protagonist with that of the right of the United States, with which Baron Cohen enters the politically correct.
The strange scene with Rudy Giuliani in which this Trump lawyer is alone with Borat’s daughter in a bedroom The hotel has not really to do with the Republican position, but with showing what power is like in private, what people are like who think that the rest are at their disposal. pies all the time, even when cameras are off. That point is the highest point on the tape.
Despite this partisanship, Borat triumphed again. Not in the ticket officeWell, the tape went directly to streaming television due to the pandemic, but it did in Hollywood, where Trump is hated, and among the majority of critics.
Baron Cohen is again nominated as screenwriter and Bulgarian Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat’s daughter, is nominated for best supporting actress. But the best part was that Borat helped push Trump to defeat in the elections of November.
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