On the few occassions when I’m not feel revulsion and disgust at Sacha Baron Cohen’s targets, such as the one’s who happily sang along to “Throw the Jew Down the Well”, I find myself feeling very embarassed for them. It’s just odd to see people not simply make themselves look silly or stupid, but humiliate themselves as ethical beings. But this doesn’t seem to help the matter at all, in the BBC:
Two US students are suing a film studio claiming they were duped into appearing in spoof movie Borat starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a Kazakh journalist.
The unknown plaintiffs are seen making sexist and racist remarks in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Legal papers said the two men “engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in”.
Spokesman for 20th Century Fox Gregg Brilliant said the case “has no merit”.
The men are identified in the film as two fraternity members from a South Carolina university.