It happens every hour.
It happens every day, too. But it also happens every hour.
I truly despise duping someone into caring for another person for entertainment value. No way I could watch that.
I enjoyed the movie, but thought she was an actor. Thatâs a truly douche move by SBC, but Iâve always believed he was a douche. Doesnât limit my enjoyment of this or the other borat movie though.
I thought there was something off with his voice in this one. It didnât sound like borat.
Most of the movie is hilarious because heâs pranking guys like Rudy Giuliani and various MAGA chuds, but there are one or two scenes where heâs pranking people who seem rather nice and I donât know why thatâs supposed to be funny. Just feels like heâs punching down for no reason.
Whatâs the douche move exactly?! Say it in a way where âit was a harmless jokeâ doesnât excuse it or the inevitable hundreds of thousands of dollars donât assuage her pain sufficiently. Altho Trolly thinks âwho cares about the moneyâ lolol.
I read this post 5 times and I have no idea what itâs trying to say.
Articulate the actual harm his supposed douchery has afflicted upon her and then clarify whether her international notoriety as a sweetheart and new Caddy are sufficient compensation. Do you legitimately believe itâll be significantly helped by an insincere apology from a dude that dresses in man-kinis for a living?
The actual harm was her worrying about Tutar for weeks without knowing she wasnât real.
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The most pure thing we can do as adult humans is show empathy for a stranger. I hate to see anyoneâs trust betrayed like that. I havenât watched the clip though so I have no idea how bad it is.
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It made for a couple really heartwarming scenes, but I assumed SBC or the producers or someone made it abundantly clear as soon as they could that this was for a movie (the actual movie, not a documentary) and that Jones had nothing to worry about.
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I mean obviously they were tricking Jones but she wasnât the butt of the joke. The scenes she was in were of her giving encouragement to Tutar and telling her not to listen to idiot men and to love herself for who she is.
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Maybe a sincere apology would help? F this transactional mentality that you can dick with people and ship them a check and itâs okay. Thatâs no way to treat people.
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In theory I agree with you in reality this is nowhere near my personal threshold of fuckery that I would tolerate for a laugh let alone the many dollars and infinite public adoration their editing got her.
I also wouldnât fall for this or sign a contract I didnât read so itâs err, sort of moot. Yes vulnerable old ladies should be protected from insidious hollywood elites but this was hardly a hit job.
GoFundMe for Jeanise Jones nearing 100k.
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Which begs the question, who actually is the butt of the joke here? Fundamentally this is a âtakedownâ of the fictional Borat character? SBC is brilliant when heâs punching up and pointing out problems with American culture and tricking people into revealing their true colors, but this whole sequence was just pointless filler that did some emotional damage to an unemployed 70-something woman.
I guess I meant that Jones isnât being mocked because there isnât really a joke here. It was like the opposite of a typical Borat scene in that it revealed the true colors of a kind and decent person. It didnât feel like pointless filler to me, but I donât really know what else to say about that.
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It was funny.
Canât wait for this hand-wringing to turn to Mortal Kombat fatalities.
With stuff like Borat, Nathan for you etc not every scene is comedic. Thatâs usually the goal, but its unscripted. You get what you get.
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