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Sacha Baron Cohen and the editors of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm reveal newfound inspiration behind editing the sequel in the form of Mike Pence.

The editors ofBorat Subsequent Moviefilmhave a clip of Mike Penceto thank forthe story idea of the film.Sacha Baron Cohen'slatestmovie was released fourteen years after its popular predecessor,Borat,with Cohen reprising his title character Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakhstani reporter who visits America once again to give his daughter away to Pence. The film featured breakout newcomer Maria Bakalova as Borat's daughter Tutar.

The sequel to 2006 mockumentary film was shot in secret from the end of 2019 to throughout 2020 and was set on being released before Election Day.Much like its predecessor, the sequel has had it shares of success and controversies, becomingone of the most streamedfilms oflast yearwhile also having conflicts with its featured subjects, most notably Pence and arevealing scene involving Rudy Giuliani. Due to the major events occurring during filming, theplot of the film kept evolving to fit the relevancy of the story and thepeople involvedhad to stay on their feet witha short amount of time before releasing the finished product.

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Per Deadline, Cohendisclosed that editors Craig Alpert and James Thomas found a moment while editing thatled to the story of the film.That moment comes duringone of the many stunning feats featured in the movie where Borat goes to the CPAC convention disguised as Donald Trumpwith his daughter while the former Vice President is giving a speech regarding the coronavirus cases in the United States. Despitehaving that scene be the original ending of the movie, Cohen and the editors realized that there was more to the story they were trying to tell that examined the issues deeper. During an interview with Crew Call podcast, Cohen explained whythis particular moment changed the course of the whole film:

"CPAC was the culmination of act 3: I rescue Tutar from Giuliani. She trips while Im being chased and Mike Pence is speaking and thats the end of the movie. Weve been shut down due to Covid. Myself and my producer Monica Levinson, we decide to keep the edit going.James (Thomas) says You gotta see this!' Cast your mind back to March and people were treating Covid like it was a tropical storm[We] had this epiphany. This is a movie were releasing before the Election and making to show our protest against Trump and Trumpism and the conspiracies that the government was propagating. We see the Vice President spreading this calamitous lie that were ready for Covid. We knew the numbers would get to the hundreds of thousands in America.

"It was a way to show the incompetence of the Trump government. This was an emotional father-daughter movie, this had questions about the patriarchy, but fundamentally it was a catalog of wrongdoings of Trump and Trumpism in 90 minutes. There was a realization that his greatest, most catastrophic wrongdoing was the willful incompetence on Covid that led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and here he is, the Vice President, on the day hes been put in charge of the Covid task force saying Its alright guys! Weve got it under control! That moment that these editors found transforms the whole movie, and transforms the whole production.

Since the production was shut down due to the pandemic, Thomas and Alpert had to assess the hours of footage alreadyshot to edit everything down to a reasonable length for a movie. And it is usually during the editing process where the basis of the film is put into focus, which putsincredible pressureand responsibility towards the editors. With the former Vice President blatantly spewing dangerous lies about a significant illness thatwould impact millions, it makes sense to shift the narrative of the sequel that involves a worldwide catastrophe to blend in with the borderline humor and controversial jokes.

Despite the popularity of Borat and the courageous stunts he pulls, it is refreshing to see him assert himselfinto the transformative eventsof the current times, howevercomicalthat may be.And the editors have done a wonderful job maintaining thehumorof the filmwhile also telling a much bigger story. While Borat Subsequent Moviefilmis at its very essence a comedy movie, it does shine a light on the serious subjects that shape society as a whole and reveals the tremendous effects it has on individuals; all ofwhich just makes the process and creation of the film all the more impressive.

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Source: Deadline

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