Comments on: Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ is angering gay community

By: gossip_ho

gossip_ho — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:02:27 +0000

LMAO…that’s one hell of a funny outfit…way to go Bruno… people need to chill…it’s all just an act.

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By: Best of British

Best of British — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:16:47 +0000

Cletus, great post and totally agree.

How nice to have some decent posts to read for a change!!!

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By: angee

angee — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:22:05 +0000

MOST people occasionally mock the attention-craving of the world - whether they are gay OR straight. SNL makes big $ from it. In addition, any man that allows his voice and mannerisms to sound like a teen girl (or a woman who wipes out all traces of her femaleness as to sound and look like a young man) is taking risks in public. Just the way it is.

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By: orion70

orion70 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:18:44 +0000

so Neelyo, by your insightful post, I can conclude that anyone who doesn’t find SBC funny is both an idiot, and a homophobe…nice.

Also, you’re telling everyone to take a step back and consider whether they should be telling anyone gay what they should or shouldn’t take seriously. Why then are you ok with SBC doing that very thing?

I wanted to like Borat, so many people found him and the film so funny. I didn’t, and i’ve got one helluva sick sense of humour. Same goes for this one, the idiotic costumes alone.

Hate to tell you, but i’m neither an idiot, or a homophobe, simply because I don’t keel over with laughter over this guy.

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By: Codzilla

Codzilla — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:01:51 +0000

Cletus: Exactly, thank you.

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By: Ria

Ria — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:31:41 +0000

But didn’t all kinds of people jump out about RDJ doing blackface last year? I’m not saying gay characters should only be played by gays, but I believe there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed with humor. Then again, I don’t find a lot of today’s films funny.

But, you know, I read “Sex with the Queen” by Eleanor Herman this weekend, and people have always taken to this kind of humor. There are reference back to the medieval times of coarseness.

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By: Zoe (The Other One)

Zoe (The Other One) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:15:56 +0000

Cletus - great post.

There will always be bigots and ignorant people who are afraid of anything or anyone who differs from the so-called ‘norm’. Be that religious bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia etc etc. A film isn’t going to make these loons more prolific or even educate them out of their stupidity. They just are, and there is nothing any of us sane folk can do about it.

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By: Cletus

Cletus — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:28:49 +0000

Well…. I hate Larry The Cable Guy because he’s the epitome of everything I dislike about the South- where I live. And when my accent and I go up North, there are some assholes who sum me up as a back-woods, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging cousin-fucker because the word “y’all” flows so trippingly from my tongue, and at some point they WILL say Git-r-Done to me. So.. how does that make me feel? Irritated. Am I prepared to say that Larry The Cable Guy should not be allowed into mainstream media? No. Because I’m willing to bet that those assholes were assholes before Larry ever came along, all he did was give them a new way in which to engage in their asshattery.

My point is that if a person is going to beat up on gay folks, that person isn’t going to need a movie to encourage him/her. It’s going to happen anyway. Just like if you’re a racist, you’re a racist and movies and books explaining why you shouldn’t be a racist aren’t going to make you not be a racist anymore. Also- Borat had its moments. The thing about the cockroach Jews was hilarious- and I’m a Heeb, so I know from funny.

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By: teehee

teehee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:22:20 +0000

Very good points. It will only reinforce whatever original ideas anyone holds, befre they go into watch the film (I will NOT) because that speaks of their level of thinking. I doubt anything that makes mockery a ‘positive’ thing can aptly teach anyone differntly, if ther mindset is that being a separatist (ie that any us is better than any them) is a good thing.
Im all for social commentary, but I prefer it tasteful and not bound to backfire– this just appears gross, childish, and ineffective. Its real ‘point’ sounds like it is hidden among stereotyping! What good can that be? We have enough of that in EVERY movie, sitcom, magazine, etc already…

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:44:07 +0000

“Now, I understand Baron Cohen’s focus with Bruno is less to ridicularize gay people and more to expose the underlying American homophobia just like Borat dealt with the reactions of xenophobes to the title character’s crazy antics in between slapstick comedy bits. Still I can’t help being concerned about the way it’s (reportedly) done, especially with the over-the-top representations designed to produce a few cheap laps in order to carry the movie - or do you think anyone is going to watch Bruno for the social commentary only? Let’s see how it pans out.”

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Very well said “quid_iuris” …. as a gay man, I’m bit worried as to how people are going to walk away from this movie and if it’s going to cause some backlash towards gays. I understand what he’s trying to do with this movie, but I’m still somewhat “nervous.” Anyways, I can’t wait to see it and get the full perspective on it.

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