It was bound to happen; it was only a question of which group would file the first lawsuit. My money would probably have been on the hostess of “Borat’s” ill-fated dinner party…but as it turns out, it’s the over-privileged fraternity boys who are suing the film’s producers over their portrayal in the movie:
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and “loosen up” before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
The young men “engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in,” the lawsuit says.
Hmmmm…okay. So under any other circumstances, these upstanding fraternity members would not have gotten drunk, and would not have boasted about, for example, how much fun it is to “screw chicks” and then refuse to call them back. In fact, each of the fine young men shown on camera is in actuality a tee totaling virgin who brings flowers on every date and calls the girl afterwards whether she wants him to or not.
Uh-huh. Okay. Sure. Um, having a hard time getting a date on campus, now, are we boys? What a crying shame.
