Borat's Origin Story
from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern
Borat recounts his fall from grace following the global success of his first documentary, which inadvertently turned Kazakhstan into a laughing stock. He describes the economic collapse of his country and his subsequent life sentence of hard labor as he seeks a path toward redemption.
BORAT: Jagshemash. My name a Borat. My life not nice. But how did I end up like this? Fourteen years ago, I release a moviefilm, which was great success in US&A... But Kazakhstan become a laughing stock around the world. Our exports of potassium and pubis plummet. Many brokers leapt from our tallest
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