The title just makes you think its silly to begin with, which is good because it is. Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt I worry about the success of this film.
Why? Not because I disagree with the content. Borat was genius. It exposed some naked truth about American culture and we had a laugh doing it. It was brilliant. I LOVED it. So why would I already be worried about Bruno? Because before it comes out we will already know half of the movie.
Already media sites and blogs like this one are reporting on Bruno filming and talking about what is going on.
– Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing
– Corner California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and ask him some questions for his upcoming film Bruno
– Fetish wearing gays share a touching goodbye at a Kansas airport complete with an attention grabbing suggestive dance routine.
– Political analyst and Former Mossad Agent Yossi Alpher gets scammed by Bruno in interview
MitBruno is a website dedicated to Bruno Sightings and his antics.
And that isn’t the half of the movie that I am talking about us knowing about. Trailers spoil more scenes than the media has exposed already. Originally I was worried that people would catch on too soon and recognize the Bruno character and connect the dots. But people are falling for his routines all over the country. This is just a testamony to Cohen’s incredible character portrayals. If it was Borat 2 they might have figured it out. But very few people know Bruno.
The genius of Cohen’s first mock-doc outting Borat is that it was created in virtual silence with dramatic events and outrageous outcomes without ANYONE in the media catching on to what he was up to. Even seeing the trailers, Borat just looked like a gag film – Practical jokes and situation comedy. People showed up in droves to see this movie just to watch Borat in awkward situations. What they got was deep commentary disguises as cheap laughs.
Bruno loses this element of surprise. We are already aware that this character will be doing the same thing while attempting to expose a deeper truth to its audience. And we already know the message.
Repeatedly the sightings are preceded with reports of some documentary maker getting release forms signed to be interviewed on the topic of American culture and world trade.
So am I saying the movie will suck? Not at all. I am sure Cohen’s delivery will be spot on. He will not break character no matter what. He is shameless and will do ANYTHING on film to try and get the reactions he is hoping for and piles more he never anticipated. In that this film is destined to shine.
However, where my anticipation drops is that he has done it already and hoping to do it again. But the environment of the film has changed. The audience expectations have changed. This time I worry, Cohen will face more than a homophobic nation of unsuspecting public.
Do you think this film will have the same impact?
@Dragonslayer. That shithole he calls a home? England. He still lives there. How is this going to stop him from making Hollywood movies?
He was born in the UK and a history major at Cambridge University and was almost going for a PHD before he went into comedy.
You can choose not to like his style of comedy, but to attack the man’s intelligence and heritage because you don’t like him is pretty weak.
Thanks for coming out.
I’m looking forward to it. Yes I know the set up of 4 or 5 of the gags in the film, but it’s going to be the actual delivery that’s going to (hopefully) have audiences rolling in the aisles.
Knowing that he was going to wrestle with a naked fat man is never as funny as actually seeing it….
people who go into gay panic mode when confronted with what is apparently an out and open Gay man should be made the butt of a joke. I can’t wait to see the douche bags collectively humiliated.
If Cohen has any frikin’ brains (which he doesn’t), he would go back to whatever sh*thole he calls his home. Dumbass
@Ryanmag, then you might want to read the rest of the article. My point wasn’t just the spoilers that the media is getting from Bruno Sightings, but the general message that is lost on this stunt.
You cannot claim to be the judge and jury of a film unless you stay for the whole thing. I have never walked out on a film even though I thought about it once or twice.
I cannot give heed to a review of a film from someone who didn’t watch it all.
Bruno is a poor charactor, he’s the crap relation of Borat and the Ali G of the 90’s/early 00’s, I have said before their is no sense in making this film, Bruno reveals no home truths, it dosent shwo the negative underbelly of society, all it does is depict what most hetrosexual males would do if approached by a homosexual wearing rediculas attire and looking for a reaction.
It’s nothing new, the reactions of straight males are to be expected so what is the point in the film?
Borat was genius, reactions to him could have been mutiple and unexpected.
A camp gay dressed like a member of the village people, getting into situations with straight guys has predictable and limited reactions.
So spoilers don even matter for this flick, because anyone with half a brain knows what reactions will be like.
I thought Borat sucked big hair donkey balls, and I’m not expecting this one to be much better. I’m a fan of Cohen’s schtick in small doses, but I actually left the theater for most of Borat–and I got in for free. I did laugh my ass off during the car-salesman scene, though. I totally know salespeople like that.
i read somewhere that some movie blogger made the name up and everyone ran with it…even imdb…im almost positive it is a fake, wish i could find a link to where it states that.
I’m noticing a disturbing trend taking off because of Borat and now this film.
The other day I watched a group of young armienian’s stroll thru a large mall parking lot, it was about 5 of them. Each one would at random choose some person and say “hey Frank how’s it going?” The person wouldn’t know what they were talking about.
The armienian would then say, “ah Frank I can’t believe this man? Why are you treating me this way?”. The person would usually walk away or try to explain that he wasn’t Frank.
All while the others in this group stood by and enjoyed the mind fuck that was happening.
I noticed that more than one of them had a cell-phone camera catching the whole thing. Prob gonna throw it up on Youtube.
I got their license plate and called my friend at BPD. Fricken scumbags.
I would expect this trend to catch on. So be warned.
I wouldn’t have known about half the movie had you not posted all that stuff about it. But I actually stopped reading after the cage fighting thing, so It’s not all ruined.
I’m from New Jersey – guess there are some residual effects left over from my upbringing, lol.
But seriously, he deserved to get his ass kicked for what he did to that family that hosted him for dinner.
Vic
Damn, Vic. You would have loved to see him actually get beaten up? That’s a little rough, no? I think it would be funnier if people who caught on to his shtick just started calling him “Sasha” and ruin his shoot instead. See how he handles that.
I think this movie will be funny no matter what. And I’ll stay away from the spoiler reports.
It’s a fake title. Defamer made it up.
You know… there’s “Candid Camera” and then there’s seriously fucking with people. Sure, his last movie was funny in a sick sort of way, but I would have loved to have seen him get his ass kicked in that NYC subway scene. He certainly would have deserved it.
Maybe for REAL laughs he can invite a group from PETA to a fake dinner and have them witness animal torture instead.
Har de har har.
Vic
See, compared with the millions of people that will go see the movie, there are hardly ANY people that know about these scenes. That’s what happens when you’re in the movie news business. You will find spoilers.
The title isn’t official yet, however it didn’t come from blogger world, it was rumoured as a possible or “working” title.
Has that title ever been used in an official capacity? I’m pretty sure it’s just some corny joke some blogger made that other bloggers took at face value and repeated. I can’t imagine that Cohen would be lame enough to include that description in the title or to repeat the style of the Borat title.