Humiliated Frat Boys Sue 'Borat'

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http://film.guardian.co.uk/apnews/story/0,,-6206069,00.html

Friday November 10, 2006 3:01 PM


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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Two fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against ``Borat'' over their drunken appearance in the hit 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 young men ``engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in,'' the lawsuit says.

``Borat'' follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh journalist charac After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told ``had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV,'' Taillieu said.

The film ``made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community,'' the lawsuit said.

It names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants.

Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit ``has no merit.''

The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop the studio from displaying their image and likeness, along with unspecified monetary damages.

``Borat'' debuted as the top movie last weekend with $26.5 million.

trappedinmyradio

like they don't act that way every time their dumbasses get drunk anyway! fucking idiots. it's okay to be racist and sexist and ethnocentric around your FRAT BROTHERS...but, no one else can know the true you...piss off, idiots! ha! this further proves my fact that frat boys serve no purpose to society other than feeding the human fires that warm some areas of the country.

hippiemom

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Karma at it's finest

I love it! They been made the objects of ridicule and humiliation by ridiculing and humiliating others. It just doesn't get any better.

norm

It's my understanding that in order for the filmmakers to use your footage you must sign a release and you must be sober.

Why is it in today's society everyone wants to be on tv whether it be waving from the crowd at baseball game or committing crimes on "Cops" and letting the whole world see it forever? Or all these shitty reality shows?

Cree Nations

YOu have to be kidding me? What about the "Girls Gone Wild" Franchise. Im sure there are a lot of drunken girls who didnt want to be on camera.
"Fratboys Gone Stupid"

NCfan

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

hippiemom

Cree Nations wrote:

YOu have to be kidding me? What about the "Girls Gone Wild" Franchise. Im sure there are a lot of drunken girls who didnt want to be on camera.
"Fratboys Gone Stupid"

I wonder how many fratboys would flame me if I said that was redundant ....

Cree Nations

hippiemom wrote:

I wonder how many fratboys would flame me if I said that was redundant ....

I thought about adding some other tag in there but I also thought it would be a little redundant.

sweet adeline

NCfan wrote:

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

yes, these frat fucks got what they deserved.

no one forced them to be idiots, they just happened to agree to be on camera while doing so.

trappedinmyradio

NCfan wrote:

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

if you want to get into the disparity of the frat boy and the member of a fraternity then we can...frat boys are worthless pieces of garbage...these guys went back to "THE HOUSE" and talked about how awesome they are. i have no sympathy for people like that. i have never said something about someone that i didn't tell that person. in this situation, THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO. it isn't a matter of context.

miller8966

NCfan wrote:

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

SO true. I was in a fraternity, some of the most fun i ever had. But i was never racist or sexist in any way, unless you think trying to pick up women is sexist.

sweet adeline

for those of you defending these guys, would you also defend them if they had been filmed raping a girl but were "humiliated" because it was in the borat movie?

i know the example is extreme, but they are blaming alcohol for their stupid behavior and thats a fucking cop out.

soulsinging

NCfan wrote:

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

then they shouldn't have said it to a camera and then signed a release. sure, we all say stupid shit. but if you're so far gone that you do this... tough shit. as someone pointed out, you think every girl who's been in a girls gone wild video should be able to sue that guy?

thankyougrandma

hehe, more publicity please , i'll have to go see this movie...

soulsinging

miller8966 wrote:

SO true. I was in a fraternity, some of the most fun i ever had. But i was never racist or sexist in any way, unless you think trying to pick up women is sexist.

suppose you had sex with a drunk girl at your frat party and she sued you for rape becos even though she said yes at the time, she was drunk. do you deserve to go to jail for that? these guys knew what they were doing and signed releases. they shouldnt get money becos they were acting like idiots when they were drunk. otherwise, id be a millionaire.

hippiemom

NCfan wrote:

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

No, I don't make racist or sexist comments. And if I were going to say something that I didn't want repeated, I'd wait until the movie production team went away! How stupid can you be? How did these fuckwits even get INTO college?

trappedinmyradio

soulsinging wrote:

then they shouldn't have said it to a camera and then signed a release. sure, we all say stupid shit. but if you're so far gone that you do this... tough shit. as someone pointed out, you think every girl who's been in a girls gone wild video should be able to sue that guy?

legally, a contract is not valid if you are drunk (it goes to the capacity element of those things which always have to be present to form a contract), but these guys weren't drunk, i would be on it, they just didn't read the contract...that's their problem, not sacha cohen's. NEVER SIGN SOMETHING WITHOUT READING IT.

The Illinoisemakers

trappedinmyradio wrote:

if you want to get into the disparity of the frat boy and the member of a fraternity then we can...frat boys are worthless pieces of garbage...these guys went back to "THE HOUSE" and talked about how awesome they are. i have no sympathy for people like that. i have never said something about someone that i didn't tell that person. in this situation, THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO. it isn't a matter of context.

Thank you for offending me. I'm a member of a fraternity, graduated from college but still a member. To say frat boys are worthless pieces of garbage would be like me saying all hippie liberal douches smell like shit, which we all no is not true. Not ALL of them smell just some of them.

thankyougrandma

hippiemom wrote:

No, I don't make racist or sexist comments. And if I were going to say something that I didn't want repeated, I'd wait until the movie production team went away! How stupid can you be? How did these fuckwits even get INTO college?

they got in with their parents money... this is a really fun story...

thankyougrandma

Does Frat boys = future Conservatives voters?

Uncle Leo

NCfan wrote:

You guys are rediculous hypocrits. Just becuase these guys are "frat guys" or sterotypically priveledged and unaplogetic - you have no sympathy.

Talk about ye who has not sinned throw the first stone...

I'm sure ya'll have NEVER said something about somebody else that you would not want repeated - much less in an fucking MOVIE!!!!!!

Sure, yeah - these frat fucks got what they deserved huh?????

I am 50/50 with you. To say "I hate frat boys because they are racist, sexist bigots" is frankly as bigoted and generalizing as the racist or the sexist. I was not in a frat, but new people. Most were OK. There were a couple of jerks, but then again, there were some jerks that were not in frats too.

But these guys got what they deserved. Not because they are "frat boys" but because they signed up for it.