Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976)

Shaike Levi: Victor Hasson

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Quotes 

• Colonel Bondi : Mr. Hasson, what do you do if the Egyptians come toward the outpost?

  Mr. Hasson : What we did in '56.

  [Victor Hasson refers to the Sinai Operation] 

  Colonel Bondi : What... what did you do in '56?

  Mr. Hasson : What kind of question is that? What we did in '48. Nothing is better than that. Definitely.

  [Victor Hasson refers to the Independence War] 

  Colonel Bondi : And what did you do in '48?

  Mr. Hasson : [laughs]  Thirty years ago... who can remember that?

• Mr. Hasson : Are you Yusipun?

  Yusipun : Me, me.

  Mr. Hasson : I was sent to join you at the kitchen.

  Yusipun : As what?

  Mr. Hasson : In charge of shakshuka, what "as what"?

  [shakshuka = egg & tomato oriental dish] 

  Yusipun : In the meantime take command over the tomato as CSO.

  Mr. Hasson : What's CSO?

  Yusipun : Chief Salad Officer.

  Mr. Hasson : I was CSO while you were IYMB, pal.

  Yusipun : What's IYMB?

  Mr. Hasson : In Your Mom's Belly. Now I am CKOWGOTYACOTT.

  Yusipun : What's that?

  Mr. Hasson : What's that? Chief Kitchen Officer Who Gives Orders To Yossifon And Comes Only To Taste, how's that?

• Mr. Hasson : An hour! An hour that I'm looking for the sea! Couldn't they put a sign - "sea"?

• St. Sgt. Moked : Mr. Hasson, I've come to talk to you about the daughter of your hand.

  Mr. Hasson : The hand is All right. To talk to you about the other parts, I'd have to change into a suit.

  Mr. Hasson : [entering Shifra's room]  Shifra, do you remember when we wrote to the "Default Couple" dating service?

  Shifra Hasson : No.

  Mr. Hasson : Never mind. They sent a soldier groom. He's sitting in the living room waiting for you as we speak.

  Shifra Hasson : But there's no one in the living room, dad.

  Mr. Hasson : It doesn't matter, just get dressed, put something nice on, don't let him see your face, and when you come in, you're as silent as a mute fish.

• St. Sgt. Moked : [correcting Victor who thinks he wants to marry his older daughter, Shifra]  It's just that I was thinking more in Yaeli's direction.

  Mr. Hasson : [feigns laughing, then shoving Jinji rudely out of the house]  Why don't you think more in the door's direction before I slap you in the cheek's direction?

• Mr. Hasson : No bears, and no Diesel. Biesel at most

• Mr. Hasson : This guy, son of his mother, sold me two acres in front of the Herzlia beach.

  Shifra Hasson : What's wrong with two acres in front of the Herzlia beach, daddy?

  Mr. Hasson : Bad! Bad! He sold them to me on the sea side! I sailed for a day in a glass bottom boat to see the place. He swindled me good.

  Shifra Hasson : You can build a young fish's housing project

• Sergio Konstanza : [trying to enter the dining room] 

  Mr. Hasson : Would you please leave the premises?

  Sergio Konstanza : What are you talking about?

  Mr. Hasson : With no jacket, no tie, and no debt - I will ask you to leave!

  Sergio Konstanza : What are you talking about? I'm in the army, no?

  Mr. Hasson : [referring to his first name]  You are in the regional council of Victoria.

  Sergio Konstanza : I don't want to leave! What do you mean? I'm in the army! I want to eat!

  Mr. Hasson : Sergio!

  Sergio Konstanza : Victor!

  Mr. Hasson : Yossifon!

  Sergio Konstanza : Yossifon? Oh! Go to hell!...

• [Bondi hands Sergio a grenade] 

  Colonel Bondi : Throw a grenade. Throw a grenade, you degenerate!

  Sergio Konstanza : On whom?

  Colonel Bondi : On the Egyptians!

  Sergio Konstanza : [prepares to throw the grenade]  Ah... vive Israel, bravo for IDF!

  [Sergio throws the grenade away without pulling the safety-catch first, drops on the ground singing "may our hands be strong", while no explosion occurs. Everyone burst out laughing] 

  Mr. Hasson : [chuckles]  Get up, get up, you fool, watch how to throw grenade...

  [Victor Hasson takes a grenade] 

  Mr. Hasson : Watch carefully, first you pull the safety-catch entirely... with force, you use force, pull out the safety-catch...

  [Victor Hasson pulls the safety-catch. The grenade is triggered with loud click] 

  Mr. Hasson : Now you take... how much to count?

  Colonel Bondi : [in panic]  Three seconds, quickly!

  [Everyone is running away in panic, taking cover] 

  Mr. Hasson : In '48 we counted more... where did everybody disappear?

  [Victor throws the grenade away. The grenade explodes in safe distance. Everyone is covered with sand] 

  Colonel Bondi : [to Jinji, while Jinji helps him brush the sand off himself]  The mess must be stopped!