Some pointed out that in the play of 'Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan', there are racist and sexist comments on camera, which become a keen comment...
November 11, 2006 (Press Release) --
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Two fraternity boys from a South Carolina university want to make lawsuit against "Borat" over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit says.
"Borat" follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh journalist character as he travels across the United States and mocks Americans.
The film debuted as the No. 1 box-office lure last weekend with $26.5 million.
The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university.
The suit names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants.
Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit "has no merit."
Source: http://www.msn.com
Posted by Meg Kinnard
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit says.
"Borat" follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh journalist character as he travels across the United States and mocks Americans.
The film debuted as the No. 1 box-office lure last weekend with $26.5 million.
The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university.
The suit names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants.
Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit "has no merit."
Source: http://www.msn.com
Posted by Meg Kinnard
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