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Thursday, 28 Sep 2006
If it isn't bad enough that the President of Kazakhistan is so irked by the Borat movie that he wants to discuss it with President Bush when he comes to the states, now the State of Khazakhistan is making its own movie. It's called Nomad and it will cost them $40 million dollars, which i am guessing, in Khazakhistani currency, is a shitload of money.
A VAST Central Asian republic has spent $40 million (£21 million) to
create a film warrior — so it can take on a British comedian.Sacha Baron Cohen has upset Kazakhstan with his character Borat Sagdiyev.
The foul-mouthed fictional TV reporter will now face a fierce Kazakh
warrior on a mission of courage and romance. President Nazarbayev hopes
that Nomad, a film about the struggle of Kazakh tribes to expel Mongol
invaders, will improve his nation’s reputation.[...]
Nomad opens and closes with words from President
Nazarbayev. It boasts a budget of $40 million, and is the most
expensive film made in the Central Asian republic.The film will be distributed internationally by Harvey and Bob
Weinstein, the Hollywood moguls who founded Miramax before leaving the
Disney-owned studio last year to form a new company.
Hehehehe. How awesome is this? The freakin President will start and close the 40 million dollars piece of propaganda aimed to improve the image of a country that no one really cares about. And all of that, in order to combat one british comedian who actually made people aware that such a country exists in the first place. You can't make this shit up, I swear!
I love Sacha Baron Cohen.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:15 am
I love President Nazarbayev
September 28th, 2006 at 10:21 am
SM, I have a suggestion…
Why don’t you make a tag for Dandash so that whenever she posts she could tag the post under her name. That way all the posts she writes will be under the category of “dandash”… It’s much easier that way…
September 28th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
How can they justify spending a quarter of the GDP on a movie?
September 28th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Of course now Mongolia will have to make a film that one-ups this Kazakh slander of their country… Let me guess: A film about the famous Kublai Khan and his reign over the troublesome chinese… which in turn will see the chinese making a film to better their image, etc. etc.
It really doesn’t takemuch these days…!
September 28th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
And they will use jews to distribute it!!!
Somehow someone will work a zionist conspiracy theory into it.
September 28th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
My question is why would he come here and talk to an American President about what a Brit is doing?
September 28th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
check this out http://stopborat.com/
September 28th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
I’d heard of Kazakhstan before Borat, as I suppose people with an interest in space travel would have (or at least, they would probably have heard of Baikonur cosmodrome). Still the only place in the world where you can become a space tourist.
BTW according to the CIA world factbook, GDP of Kazakhstan - $47.39 billion (lots of oil). Per capita GDP is more than twice as much as Egypt. I suppose if there really are people who believe that their GDP is only $160 million then you can see why they might be concerned that Borat is the only image of their country most people have, but I can’t see Nazarbayev becoming a big movie star somehow.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
“Thees-a Natalia” “She is my sister. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan! Nice!”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Argh! Damn HTML formatting!
“Thees-a Natalia” (big french kiss) “She is my sister. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan! Nice!”
September 28th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Funny. For the first time, just today, I saw a “Visit Kazakhstan” commercial - twice!
I know a little bit about this smallerstan because I got to know someone who used to live there. She’s a little Russian lady of about 70, who was a former bureaucratic coordinator of the Kazakhstan Symphony Orchestra. She coordinated the visiting musical performers during the heyday of the Soviet Union. She had moved there when she was just out of college and only left because of the country’s independence. She “used to live in a nice apartment with beeeauuutiful furniture but left there with nothing.” She settled in California to be near her daughter and son-in-law.
On the other hand, I know nothing about Borat!
“During the 1950s and 1960s agricultural “Virgin Lands” program, Soviet citizens were encouraged to help cultivate Kazakhstan’s northern pastures. This influx of immigrants (mostly Russians, but also some other deported nationalities) skewed the ethnic mixture and enabled non-Kazakhs to outnumber natives. Independence in 1991 caused many of these newcomers to emigrate.” (Because they would lose their Soviet citizenship if they stayed and they just weren’t sure about how welcome they were…)
September 29th, 2006 at 12:12 am
I hope that President Bush sits the President of Khazakhistan down for a nice showing the the movie, “My Fellow Americans.” That would clear up a lot of things!
September 29th, 2006 at 2:50 am
Nazarbayev is a very effective politician, and I woudn’t be surprised is his IQ comes close to the one of Sasha Baron Cohen. However, making a massive film is a special skill, and I am not aware of Kazakhstan employing any recognised authority in this area - so it may end up like Mr. Burns’ movie in The Sympsons.
BTW, while you are there in Central Asia, have a look and the nearby country of Turkmenistan - a respected member of OIC and the worst place for Muslim on this planet. Those who do not believe that their President is a direct descendant of Allah (!), sent to this planet to correct Mohhamed’s mistakes, promptly leave this world to check for themselves.
According to the country’s official version, Mo’s first mistake was that he took the wrong turn, and ended up with the Arabs, while he was clearly instructed by Allah to go to preach to Turkmens. Or something like that. Anyway, find out more for yourself, I have no intention to learn both teachings and be the judge.
Puts all this claims about persecution of Muslim by Israel, US, etc. into perspective, isn’t it?
September 29th, 2006 at 8:08 am
An unintentional comedy by the Kazach government. I love those! They’re so sincere in their intetion, yet hilerously funny! A must see!
September 29th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Terry, Turkmenbashi is a complete loony even on the Roman Emperor scale.
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
[...] SANDMONKEY: The Khazakhistan government is humorless; Borat Comes to Washington …. (sandmonkey) [...]
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Maybe someone should make a movie portraying Iranians in a negative light so they will have to spend the money from their nuclear program making a propaganda film to combat it, or maybe make one about that whacky Kim Jong-Il in North Korea so he will have to divert money from his missile program. Think about it, we can bankrupt any ass backwards country we want to simply by having a comedian make a film portraying them poorly.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
is nice!