Brüno
Short description
Brüno is a comedy about an Austrian fashion journalist who hosts a flamboyant television show and thrives on provocation. After a stunt at a major fashion event causes a scandal and costs him his program, his professional and personal life unravels. He heads to the United States with his loyal assistant, determined to achieve fame there, whatever it takes.
Sacha Baron Cohen plays the title role and wrote the screenplay with Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer. Larry Charles directs; the film follows his earlier Borat and Religulous, and it is the fourth feature he directed. Gustaf Hammarsten appears as Lutz, alongside Clifford Bañagale, Josh Meyers and others in a credited cast of 55. It is a British-American production from Universal Pictures, MRC, Everyman Pictures and Four by Two Films, and it mixes staged scenes with encounters involving real people.
Released in July 2009, the film runs 83 minutes and cost about 42 million dollars, earning roughly 139 million worldwide, a solid multiple of its budget. On IMDb it holds 5.9/10 from about 158,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.6/10 from a much smaller voter pool. A critics' rating of 6.6/10 from 225 reviews places it above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is banned from screening in Ukraine.
- Cohen was inspired to create the scene with human chairs by the famous Milgram psychological experiment. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, sought to determine how far a person would go in their actions under the influence of authority. Sacha Baron Cohen suggested to singers Paula Abdul and La Toya Jackson that they use Mexicans as chairs, claiming that Johnny Depp had allegedly done the same.
- The scene where Bruno walks the runway in a ridiculous outfit was filmed in September 2008 at an Italian fashion show. Sacha Baron Cohen was detained by the police at that time.
- The final song of the film was performed by Bruno together with world stars such as Bono, Sting, Slash, Elton John, Snoop Dogg, and Chris Martin. Notably, almost all of them (with the exception of Snoop Dogg) are subjects of the United Kingdom.
- During the filming of the movie, Sacha Baron Cohen, as Bruno, went hunting with three residents of rural America who had no idea about his character's sexual preferences, nor that they were on a film set. However, upon seeing Cohen naked and dancing around a campfire, they became enraged, grabbed their weapons, and nearly shot the comedian.
- According to the filmmakers, the police were called 91 times during filming.
- A scene dedicated to Michael Jackson, who died on June 25th, was cut from the film just hours before its premiere. The filmmakers decided that after the pop star's death, it would be unethical to leave jokes about him in the film.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
