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March 31, 2009
Not Even Remotely Surprising
So, I'm just catching up with this whole non-issue of an initial NC-17 smackdown for Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno; sorry, but this is A) not news and B) not even remotely surprising to anyone who saw Borat, and certainly not to those of us who saw the 22-minute preview clips at SXSW recently. What we saw there was shocking and subversive and completely brilliant, and I have no idea how Cohen has managed to avoid being killed by some pissed-off redneck yet. He's pushing the envelope far harder with Bruno (at least based on what we saw in the clips -- I have no idea what he's up to in the rest of the film we haven't seen yet) than he did even with Borat, and I can't wait to cringe through the entire thing.
Also, the studio folks are probably not completely stupid, and they know it's going to have to be trimmed down to get it to an R. I want to see the uncut version eventually though, to see what gets excised out make way for the politics of the R rating.
Posted by kvoynar at March 31, 2009 11:41 AM
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