So which ones were staged?
Maybe I'm just really gullible...but I couldn't tell the difference between the fake and the staged scenes, especially the one with Paula Abdul. Does anyone know which ones were staged completely?
shareIt's hard to tell what was staged and what wasn't. Sacha Baron Cohen has been known to lie about these things. Also, some things may not be staged, but might be editing tricks mixed with lies. I.e. in Borat, the whole village of Glod(?) in Romania was lied to about what the film really was. The "terrorist" that was interviewed in Bruno was just some guy with a political background. His reactions were so tame that they had to do some editing tricks to make that part look shocking. Like, he might do something ridiculous, then film people's reactions and use the reaction footage to make it look like they're reacting to something else. This was certainly the case with the Orthodox Jews who start chasing Bruno without visible provocation in some Israeli city.
Despite all the lies some sequences are just genuine and hilarious because of it. But we have to discern for ourselves what looks real and what looks staged. I think the reality is that people are generally more calm and tolerant of stupid behaviour than we think. Far from overreacting, most people seemed to react to Bruno with awkwardness and not knowing what to do (the hunters, Arab city, gay converter, the psychic).
This was certainly the case with the Orthodox Jews who start chasing Bruno without visible provocation in some Israeli city.
The provocation was the way he was dressed. It took place in the ultra conservative Mea Shearim area of Jerusalem. People wearing shorts there is offensive enough to them, but for someone to enter it with an incredibly camp looking parody of their dress with bare arms and legs is enough to make them want to kill! share