Yes Repeat No

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What is this war?

In the heart of nature?

What is this war?

In the heart of nature?

What is this war?

We're not rolling yet, are we?

We're speeding.

In the heart of nature?

-Marker. -

- Thank you. - Thank you.

-Cameras rolling? - Speeding.

Oh, Yeah.

Okay, action for Salome.

Just--

What is this war, in the heart of nature?

I'm sure you have covered this but,

exactly what am I auditioning for,

the Zionist, the captain?

No, I--

Or the

You're not auditioning for one type,

for one character, but for a type,

an Israeli type.

The role will-- The role will be playing will include pieces of each.

So all three, really, you know?

What is this, what is this war?

What is this war in the heart of nature?

What is it?

Ok, cameras are speeding and slated for session.

What is

-this war? - Okay.

Okay.

I'm dead serious--

If you can, uh, call marker.

-Hello. -

You're auditioning for the part of Israeli Juliano.

Israeli Juliano.

Something funny?

What kind of a name is that?

It's a--

It's a conceptual film.

You can be a type for a conceptual film, can't you?

Yeah.

So you're going to be playing a type,

a facet of a character

based on the film roles played by Juliano Mer-Khamis.

Are you familiar with this actor, activist?

I didn't know...

he died, no?

So I'm playing an actor and an activist,

who is himself acting?

What is he acting in?

It's a Zionist settler.

That won't be a problem, will it?

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Thank you for coming.

Oh, thank you.

I'm here for audition--

You're reading for the character type

of Arab Juliano today.

Type, what do you mean, type?

We've put together a few different parts into a type.

Oh, you mean in like in, maybe one character?

No, I mean into a type.

Oh, okay.

So, the lines of dialogue in front of you.

There are different facets of the character type.

Can you play them all?

This one?

That's correct.

That will be a challenge, but who are they?

Okay, the first part you will play

is Ali, a Lebanese Shiite freedom fighter.

Pick up the rifle.

This Juliano, you know, he was not Muslim.

He was raised Palestinian Christian.

So you're familiar with him?

-Yes. - The Arab Juliano?

Yeah, everybody knows Juliano.

You know, he learned about politics

at the end of his father's belt.

What does that mean?

Well for our purposes, he's an Arab and he's an actor.

And that's close enough for us.

It's Palestinian, tomato, tomato.

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Hello, yes, thank you for coming.

- Oh, hi. - Approach

the microphone, please.

One second.

-Hi. -

You will be reading for the part

of public persona of Juliano Mer-Khamis.

Public persona?

Yes, it's his appearances in the public sphere,

excluding his movies.

This conceptual film, we're gonna be using those elements

to give context to Juliano Mer-Khamis.

Okay.

Interior, television studio, night.

Juliano as Juliano appears on an interview

on the Middle Eastern broadcast network

with host Hassan Newash.

Excuse me.

Juliano as Juliano?

The character Juliano played in the world.

Okay.

Performing his public self

in the theater of the real.

Yes?

Yes.

I will continue.

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"Berlin to Jerusalem", directed by Amos Gitai.

"In 1930's Palestine, the Kibbutz is a commune

for settlers from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Juliano as Menachim, the Zionist settler,

sits at a table eating with other members of the commune

as Yachek arrives."

Welcome, come sit with us.

Welcome, how did you get here?

I walked.

All the way from Jaffa?

I hope you stay.

We can do with more workers, hey.

I hope you stay.

Well, that's why I'm here.

I'm here because I dreamt of a future

as a muscular, tanned Kibbutz-nik.

Plowing, plowing!

Plowing the fertile fields of the Israel valley in the day,

singing religiously in the dining hall at night

and fiercely guarding a farm land later,

riding on a noble horse.

A noble vision.

Place your hand on the gun.

In blood and fire, Judea fell.

In blood and fire, Judea fell.

In blood and fire, Judea shall rise.

In blood and fire, Judea shall rise.

In blood and fire, Judea fell,

in blood and fire, Judea shall rise.

You know, the Zionist,

he reminds me of my mother's dream.

She was here before the state,

before the politics at the beginning of the century.

And the softness of that time,

the light, the smell of the earth.

The next part is going to be, the bellicose Israeli captain.

It's a little bit different from the early Zionist settler.

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"Move, the Syrians are coming.

Yalla, turn around, get out!

Cowboys, huh?

Wake up kids, there's a war!

I'm taking you in my unit, your unit has left."