You’ve probably seen the screengrabs leaked from Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”: Rudy Giuliani flat on a hotel bed, hands down his pants, while a young reporter hovers over him. Giuliani contends he was tucking his shirt, which became untucked as his microphone used during the interview was removed, and the film is nothing but a Hollywood “hit job” and a “complete fabrication.”
Whatever the former mayor was doing with his hands, his position that this was an ordinary event that Baron Cohen and his filmmaking team took out of context lacks all credibility. I’m a journalist who writes about film and TV sound professionals; I have used similar lavalier mics on interview subjects, in hotel rooms. I can confidently report that everything about that sequence — from Bakalova untucking his shirt and feeling around his midsection to remove the mic, to Giuilani remaining prone on...
Whatever the former mayor was doing with his hands, his position that this was an ordinary event that Baron Cohen and his filmmaking team took out of context lacks all credibility. I’m a journalist who writes about film and TV sound professionals; I have used similar lavalier mics on interview subjects, in hotel rooms. I can confidently report that everything about that sequence — from Bakalova untucking his shirt and feeling around his midsection to remove the mic, to Giuilani remaining prone on...
- 10/22/2020
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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