Borat gives these guys the chance to be assholes on the national stage, and they aren’t even grateful.
Published by Kyso Kisaen November 10th, 2006 in Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, Humor, Movies, WankersThis is too delightful: the asshole frat boys from “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” are suing basically every production company involved in the making of the film.
Legal papers said the two men “engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in”….
According to legal documents, a production crew took the pair to a bar to drink and “loosen up” before taking part in a documentary they were told would be shown outside the US.
Bwa-haaa-haa-haaaaaa!
I hope to hell the case gets thrown out. Looking at those guys, I hardly think that drinking themselves stupid and then saying racist and sexist shit is “behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in.”
A quick google search finds a statement from the not-sueing fratboy and indicated, yep, these guys were dumb as all hell:
“I got a call from one of my buddies asking me if I wanted to get paid $200 to get drunk, and I said, ‘Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.’ So I went down and I went though an interview process and I was one of the lucky, I guess — or the unlucky — that I got chosen,” he said.
They interviewed for the chance to make $200 to get drunk? And this did not strike them at all suspicious? Borat was supposed to have one hell of a release form, which I guess they didn’t read.
Let’s set up a hypothetical scenario here. Say one of these guys had met a girl at a bar and bought her round after round until he was finally able to fuck her without too much of a fight. And the next day she sobered up and decided she’d been raped and wanted an investigation and prosecution. How much do you want to bet these frat boys would be among the first to join the “doesn’t matter that the bitch was drunk, she didn’t fight back so obviously she consented” choir? But when the tables are turned and suddenly it’s them being sweet-talked and boozed up until they miss the obvious warning signs and end up hurt and humiliated, oh, now it’s different.
I hate to say it, but given who we’re talking about here, the last paragraph may be a lot less hypothetical than it might seem.
I heard about this, and it made me wonder what these guys hope to gain…? Another 30seconds of their 15minutes of fame? More tang?…
“…a documentary they were told would be shown outside the US.”
This statement does not in any way mean that it wouldn’t also be shown INSIDE the US. Sounds fair to me.
Anyway, any fratboys who STILL had not managed to catch even one episode of “Da Ali G Show” is just too lame for words. Aren’t college students supposed to be all up on current pop culture?
They got punk’d, now they’re whining and suing, what babies.
Not to defend anything the frat boys said, but I wouldn’t put much faith in the waiver if it was signed under the conditions alleged in the complaint. The frat boys say the production crew took them to a bar for drinks, then to an RV for more drinks, and only offered them the waiver after they were drunk, telling them that it was related to “reliability issues about the RV.” Sure, they signed it, but arguing that they were agreeing to what was contained in the contract simply because they have a duty to read what they sign strains against principles of fair dealing. If someone signed over the title of their car under similar conditions, we probably wouldn’t hold that contract as binding, and for good reason.
Of course, getting rid of the waiver just gets them into court. They’ll have a tough time arguing that they were misrepresented or defamed because they were tricked into saying things they wouldn’t normally say. Who could get tricked into saying that crap if they didn’t believe it?
What, doesn’t everyone turn into a blithering racist when drunk? I was so hoping it wasn’t just me.
Maybe it was just me, but that one fratboy kept making me think “someone thinks homosexual thoughts more than he’d admit” every time he opened his mouth.
they are idiots..
however, if i was them, i would say i was an actor, and i was just acting…. to be honest, what they were saying was so absurd i honestly thought it was acting.
are you *actually* comparing this incident to date rape??? wtf?!
I’m comparing the attitude, sabrina. What Borat did to these guys was not the equivalent of rape. However, their reaction to being punked by Borat and humiliated screams of the kind of entitlement that date rapists usually hide behind.
these guys were just drunk assholes…who got caught on camera, its weird how guys want to act all bad and tough but this happens and they want to whine about being jerks, get the fuck over it…