"Bruno” is a no-holds-barred comedy permitting several holds I had not dreamed of. The needle on my internal Laugh Meter went haywire, bouncing among hilarity, appreciation, shock, admiration, disgust, disbelief and appalled incredulity. Here is a film that is 82 minutes long and doesn’t contain 30 boring seconds. There should be a brief segment at the next Spirit Awards with John Waters conferring the Knighthood of Bad Taste to Sacha Baron Cohen. If he decides to tap Cohen on each shoulder with his sword, I want to have my eyes closed. www.130q.com

To describe Cohen’s character Bruno as flamboyantly gay would be an understatement. He makes Bruce Vilanch seem like Mike Ditka. Bruno is disgraced in his native Austria when he wears a Velcro suit to Fashion Week and sticks to backdrops, curtains and models. It’s slapstick worthy of Jerry Lewis. Then he flies to Los Angeles with Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten), his loyal worshipper, vowing to become a celebrity.

As in his 2006 hit "Borat," Cohen places his character into situations involving targets who may not be in on the joke, and have never heard of Bruno or, for that matter, Sacha Baron Cohen. Some of the situations may be set up with actors, but most are manifestly the real thing. I include an interview in which Bruno lures Rep. Ron Paul into a hotel room, his appearance on a Dallas TV morning show, the screening of a TV pilot before a focus group, counseling with two Alabama ministers dedicated to “curing” homouals and a gay wrestling match before a crowd that is dangerously real.

The setups include an interview with Paula Abdul and originally included one with LaToya Jackson, which was cut because of her brother’s death. That accounts for the running time being three minutes shorter that at the movie’s London opening. I also believe those are real parents at interviews trying to get their babies hired for a proposed film — mothers who say their babies are ready to work with pyrotechnics, dress as Nazis or be strapped to a cross. These moms want their babies to be stars.

One incredible scene involves a darling little black boy who Bruno claims to have adopted in Africa. He appears with this child on “The Richard Bey Show” in Dallas, before a manifestly real, outraged and all-black studio audience. The host is indeed Richard Bey, but I suspect he was in on the gag. I learn that the audience wasn’t.

Certainly it takes sheer nerve for Cohen to walk into some of these situations, knowing he’ll only get one take — if he’s lucky. Bruno plays an allegedly gay-hating straight wrestler in a scene promising gay bashing, and then shows the two men in the cage getting turned on as they grapple. There is also an eerie tension in a scene where Bruno, the gay new hunter, sits around a campfire with macho hunters who are very, very silent.

It is no doubt unfair of Cohen to victimize a perfectly nice man like Ron Paul. Watching Paul politely trying to deal with this weirdo made me reflect that as a fringe candidate, he has probably been subjected to a lot of strange questions on strange TV shows and probably is prepared to sit through almost anything for TV exposure. However, he has made a lot of intolerant comments about homouals, so by shouting “queer!” as he stalks out along a hotel corridor, he lost his chance of making amends. Helpful rule: If you find you have been the subject of a TV ambush, the camera is probably still rolling.

The movie is directed by Larry Charles, who in "Borat," Bill Maher’s "Religulous" and his TV series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" has specialized in public embarrassment. Come to think of it, this may explain his outstandingly awful feature film debut, the Bob Dylan vehicle "Masked and Anonymous" (2003). In that one, stars like Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Angela Bassett, John Goodman, Val Kilmer and Luke Wilson appeared as straight men while Dylan as Jack Fate occasionally deigned to utter brief and enigmatic proverbs. Maybe they were told, ha-ha, they were going to appear in a real movie.

Note: The movie’s R rating is very, very hard. 

安东尼·海恩斯 Anthony Hines

剧情简介

还记得那部技惊四座的《波拉特》么？还记得那个滑稽而丑陋的贱男波拉特么？如果你喜欢这种类型的电影，那么《布鲁诺》绝对是不容错过的作品。它讲述了一位“绝代贱男”的无敌“传说”，由萨沙·拜伦·柯恩扮演的恶俗贱男堪称“语不惊人死不休”，他的所作所为会一而再再而三地惹毛你，虽然有人对此厌恶至极，但同是也会有人对这种贱得可爱的风格非常受落！不过如果你的承受能力没有那么强悍，那么还是考虑放弃吧！

幕后制作

　　再接再厉的纪录式恶搞喜剧
　　在《波拉特》的票房大热的召唤之下，在金钱和地位的诱惑之中，萨莎•拜伦•科恩和他的制片人杰伊•罗奇再接再厉，又如法炮制出了一部风格类似的喜剧《布鲁诺》。按照杰伊•罗奇的说法：“我们就是想按照《波拉特》的成功的模式再做一个电影。语不惊人死不休，你不笑也要把你吓一跳。反正你上了我们这条贼船就下不去了”。
　　和《波拉特》一样，虽然《布鲁诺》在形式上是一部纪录片，但是它却实实在在是一部故事片。萨莎•拜伦•科恩没有给影片写一个什么完整的剧本，他和影片的编剧只是给出了一个大致的故事框架，然后按照这个框架随机地在现实中找到采访对象，然后记录下采访对象的真实反应。听起来，这有点像是电视真人秀节目，但是影片里除了萨莎•拜伦•科恩扮演的布鲁诺外，没有一个人知道自己被拍在了胶卷上，也没有人知道他们面前的这个衣着“光鲜”到令人作呕的家伙是谁。简单来说，影片就是把布鲁诺这个虚拟的人物放在了一个真实的世界里拍摄。
　　萨莎•拜伦•科恩曾经表示：“拍摄这样的电影非常过瘾，只要我不犯法，那么就可以做很多我自己平时不敢做的‘出格’的事情。在这里我是个同性恋，可以对同性恋遭受歧视的问题大加鞭笞，可以随便骂政府和总统－－这一切都是布鲁诺做的－－这是部电影，老兄。只要影片一开拍，我就不再是什么萨莎•拜伦•科恩了，我就是布鲁诺。我说布鲁诺才会说的话，我做布鲁诺才会做的事”。萨莎•拜伦•科恩是这么说的，也是这么做的。自从影片开拍以来，人们就再也看不到那个挺正常的，拿过奥斯卡提名的萨莎•拜伦•科恩了，取而代之的是一个恶俗、恶搞、恶心的布鲁诺，甚至是出席MTV的颁奖典礼或者是接受《GQ》杂志的专访，这个看起来很像是真实生活在这个世界的“布鲁诺”也是一本正经地插科打诨。

花絮

•波拉特和布鲁诺都是萨莎•拜伦•科恩在《Ali G个人秀》里创作出来的人物。
•因为影片中含有大量的涉及性的内容，MPAA把影片定为NC－17级。后来萨莎•拜伦•科恩重新剪辑了影片，MPAA网开一面，给了一个R级。
•为了扮演好布鲁诺这个同性恋的角色，萨莎•拜伦•科恩去健身、除毛，并且拉直了自己标志性的卷发。
•环球影业以4250万美元拿下了《布鲁诺》的改编权争夺战，其中萨莎•拜伦•科恩将获得1300万美元的预付报酬，他还将从影片最终的票房里拿走15％的提成。
•影片原定于2009年5月15日上映，但是这个时间和《天使与魔鬼》撞车。为了保证票房收入，制片方更改了影片的上映时间。
•布鲁诺来自奥地利，为此，萨莎•科恩专门学了一口德国口音的英语。在接受GQ杂志采访时，这一口德国英语被编辑们认为是“几乎听不懂”。
•在影片里，布鲁诺想采访已经是州长的阿诺•施瓦辛格，可是阿诺根本没有给他一点面子，他直接让自己的保镖打发了他。
•本•阿弗莱克自称自己接受了一些“相当著名的、开放的同性恋记者”的采访，被问及了相当多的令人懊恼和愤怒的问题，但是要他本人同意，这些采访的片段才能在影片中出现。

精彩对白

Ron Paul: This is ended.
朗•保罗：这一切终于结束了。
Brüno:  How do you defend yourself against a man with a dildo?
布鲁诺：你是怎么用这条淮假阴茎击退那个男人，保护好你自己的？
Brüno: The baby is a man magnet.
布鲁诺：这个身体具有明显的雄性的吸引力。
Brüno: I want to give this child a typical African-American name. Ojay.
African-American Lady: WHAT?
布鲁诺：我准备给这位小朋友一个典型的非美混血儿的名字：奥杰伊（Ojay）
非美混血的女士：什么？

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Bruno Movie Review By Lexi Feinberg  www.130q.com

Sacha Baron Cohen is rapidly becoming the Peter Sellers of our generation. Three years ago, he released the surprise firecracker "Borat," which grossed over $250 million worldwide, and now he's back for no-holds-barred "Bruno," playing a gay wannabe celebrity. Like grapefruit or country music, Cohen is an acquired taste, but many people will find themselves embarrassed by just how hard they are laughing.

"Bruno," simply put, is an exercise in flamboyant foolishness. Determined to become "the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler," he tries his hand at fashion modeling (a disastrous affair in which his Velcro outfit gets caught on the curtain); TV producing (his crotch-flaunting show is deemed "worse than cancer" at a focus group); and making peace in the Middle East (not helped by his confusion between Hamas and the tasty chickpea dip).

Watching Bruno travel the world making a fool of himself and others will appeal to the 7-year-old in all of us -- the same reason people keep forking over money to see "The Hangover." The formula works because Bruno, who is the love child of Tom Green and Zoolander, is never afraid to go too far. Stick his balls in a dustbuster? Of course. Simulate an extended blowjob in front of a psychic? Sure, why not. Equally funny is watching real people buy into his act and come off either incredibly stupid or mortified -- the look of horror on Ron Paul's face after Bruno tries to woo him into making a tape is priceless. 

Director Larry Charles, who shot "Borat" and followed Bill Maher on his quest to mock dogmas in "Religulous," seems to enjoy observing people as they're pushed from their comfort zones. But while "Religulous" tests people's faith and "Borat" reflects the racism of the masses, "Bruno" has less of an agenda. It really doesn't "take on homophobia"; it's more focused on the buffoon behaving badly than making a point. There aren't many straight men who would appreciate a gay guy hopping into their tent naked on a camping trip, so that doesn't exactly suggest ual intolerance.

"Bruno" can fairly be called a one-joke machine, short on substance and ridiculously over the top. It is all of these things, but it's also a blast at times. Besides, where else can you learn how to defend yourself against a man with a dildo?