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 an international laughing stock. He describes his public humiliation and life sentence to a gulag with his signature blend of obliviousness and offensive cultural observations.
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.
I was sentence for life to hard lab
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