An American Hippie in Israel (1972) Movie Script

May I have your
attention please?
In a few moments
we will be landing.
Kindly fasten your seat belts
and refrain from smoking.
Thank you.
It was a nice flight,
thank you.
Thank you.
May I help you?
Thank you.
Ok, thank you.
Heading to town?
Yes.
Thanks.
The name is Mike.
My name is Elizabeth.
Thanks, thanks for stopping.
Where are you from?
I'm from New York,
United States of America.
I hear it's quite a place.
It sure is.
Are you a hippie?
Well, you might say so,
right on!
Why are you a hippie
if I may ask?
Well, I just feel
better this way.
Do you know anyone
in this country?
No, naturally I know you.
Are you going to
stay here for a long time?
Well, that depends if
I find what I'm looking for.
What are you looking for?
Pretty girls.
Watch out!
Look!
I know those two characters.
What the hell do
you want from me?
Didn't you guys have enough
chasing me around the world?
What did I do to you?
Why do you turn up at every
place I go?
Who sent you?
Scum of the earth.
Shitheads.
Next time I see you, I'll
bust your ugly faces open.
Sorry.
About what?
About that ugly scene.
They're after me and
they could've hurt you.
Who are they?
Don't know, everywhere
I go I run into them.
And I don't know why they are
bothering me of all people.
What do they want from you?
I think they want my life.
But why?
That's exactly what
I don't understand.
This is where I live.
Thanks a lot.
Where are you going to go now?
Don't know.
Why don't you
come up to my place.
Have a cup of coffee,
rest a bit.
Then we go out into town.
Yeah, that's far out!
Make yourself at home.
Thanks.
I'll fix a cup of coffee.
Coffee is ready!
Thanks.
That's really nice of you.
Thank you.
You're my guest.
Hmm, the coffee is swell.
Thank you, would you
like something to eat.
No thanks, I just had
some chow on the plane.
Nice pad you got here.
Thank you,
it belongs to my folks.
They're abroad at present.
What do you do with your time?
I'm an actress.
An actress?
Pretty cool.
I used to go to plays
quite a bit in my day.
Well last one I saw must have
been at least five years ago.
I've just been offered
a part in a play I didn't like.
I haven't answered yet.
That's why I'm not working.
Theater any good in these parts?
There are some good actors.
But the general standard
of theater isn't so high.
And that's how you
make your grub?
Oh no, I don't have
to work for a living.
I just love acting.
Hope I get a chance
to see you in action.
If you stick around long enough.
Might be a good chance of that.
What brought you to
this country of all places.
Well, I've been bumming around
Europe for the past two years.
In and out of
almost every place.
In Rome I met this fellow
who has been in these parts.
And he said it was an
interesting country.
So, once I had my fill of Rome,
I hopped a plane and here I am.
So that's how you wander
around every place.
Actually, why do you bum around
the world without any purpose?
Who said I got no purpose?
Ok, let me tell you
something baby.
You must have heard of
the Vietnam war.
Man, I fought hard
for two years.
Two years of living hell.
All I saw was death,
killing and acts of terror.
And things that the sickest
mind couldn't imagine.
And the worst of
it all, the orders.
Can you imagine, taking young
people and telling them,
you have to kill the enemy,
and if you don't do it
the enemy will kill you.
What I couldn't understand was
why, why did I have to come
all the way from the States
to shoot people who I never
knew?
And why should I come all
the way from the States,
to fight and die in a
country that's not mine?
I killed my first one at 19.
I stopped counting after that.
I killed with my bare hands,
I was like an animal.
That's the way I was
taught to behave.
You understand, I was
ordered, I was forced to do
things that I didn't want to do.
They turned me into
a murdering machine!
You understand, me at
19 a murdering machine!
You might not believe this,
but at 19 I was still a virgin.
Yeah, virgin.
Hadn't slept yet with
a woman but I killed,
I killed God knows how many.
Buddies of mine
died right next to me,
gasping their last
breath with: "Why,
"why do we have to die here?"
Now you know why I bum around.
I'm trying to run away,
run away from
this stinking world.
From the society that turns
us into messengers of doom,
into robots!
A push on the button and we're
forced to run to our deaths,
a push on the button
and we shoot people,
a push on the button and we're
turned into wild animals.
You fools, stop pushing buttons.
You fools.
Fools.
Fools.
Stop pushing-
I'm looking for a place.
Far away from everything.
A place where I can live
with a bunch of people
who think like me.
Without anyone
telling us what to do.
A place where we
can do our own thing.
Can I come with you?
Are you sure you
really dig what I mean?
Yes I am.
Alright.
You'll help me
to find the others?
I'll help you.
Let's get dressed, come on.
Let's wait.
Come on, oh!
Come on, stop it!
Heeeeereeeeee we go!
Let me go, let me go!
Noooo!
Hi, hi!
Come on!
Hurry up, come on!
Come on!
Beautiful.
You're beautiful.
You're just beautiful people.
Thank you, thank you all for coming.
Man, I assume that our
outlook in life is the same?
And that's why we lead
the same kind of life.
Because, that's
how we want to live.
All this is good for us.
But we're still living in an
environment that strangles us.
That's why we're not living
the way we really want to live.
And the way we
really could live.
And I mean, an
absolute free life.
In an absolutely isolated
place, far away from this
civilization and
culture of violence.
Therefore, man,
let's get organized.
And find a place in which
we can live as we see fit.
Without clothes, without
governments and without orders.
Got it?
Yeah!!!
Do any of you people
know a place where we can go?
Two days ago,
I was in the south.
About 20 kilometers
south of this town.
There was this
isolated little island,
it's not that far from the
shore and completely desolate.
It's the ideal place for us.
What are we waiting for?
Let's get on down there where
we can live and be free!
Free, free!
Free!
I know these creeps,
they're after me.
Let's get them!
Murderers!
Murderers!
Listen, from now on
we're one family.
And everything that we planned
in a group we're going to do.
We're going to do it exactly
the way we intended to do.
We'll be free.
We'll laugh.
We'll love.
We'll do it in the name of all
those that wanted
to live with us.
But can't.
But don't forget that
Komo doesn't speak English.
Could you translate
it for me please.
Ok.
Ok.
We're going to start
doing our own thing.
Right now.
To appreciate.
To love.
And take advantage of
every minute of freedom.
You're beautiful.
You're really beautiful people.
Yahoo!
You're beautiful.
I love you.
You're beautiful.
Come on!
It's beautiful.
I think I'm going to
flake out for a moment.
Morning!
You're missing
the wonderful view.
Look!
Mike: Komo!
Beautiful.
Truly beautiful.
Far out.
Beautiful, beautiful.
This heat is killing me.
So take off your
clothes darling.
Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
I think I will.
Go on!
Wow wow wow wow
wow wow, what a body.
Yahoooooo!
Beautiful.
Mike, Mike, Mike, habib!
Look!
Here we are!
Man, this is really fantastic,
really out of sight!
It's great.
Beautiful, isn't it.
I'm already in love
with this place.
We're coming, we're
coming, we're coming!
Well, let's not screw around.
Let's cross over the ridge.
Go down to the shore and sail
to the island right away.
Come on.
Yeah, come on!!
Freedom!
Free!
Free!
Freedom!
Free!
Free!
Freedom!
Free, free!
Man.
Finally we are free!
Free!
Man, let's go take a dip
in this beautiful water!
Mike!
Man, how does it feel
to be completely free at last?
Man, I feel really turned on.
I feel like I'm
flying in the air
and laughing at the whole world.
Yeah.
Wonderful feeling.
Yeah, wonderful feeling!
Wonderful feeling!
I want to tell you,
that I love you all.
I've never felt so good
in my whole life.
I love you too, all of you.
And this is the happiest
day of my whole life.
It's beautiful to be free here
in such a spectacular place.
Yeah!
Wonderful feeling,
wonderful feeling!
Man, I think we made it.
I want this place to serve,
as a living symbol
for the whole world!
Yeah!
We'll show the world,
that it's possible
to live without wars.
Without violence.
Without machines and buttons.
The only sounds that are
coming out of this place
will be those of song,
joy and laughter!
Yeah!
Wonderful feeling!
Wonderful feeling!
Cheers.
Let's say something
to the whole world.
World, you're so full of shit.
You're so badly contaminated,
that it's impossible
to find a corner free of smell.
Especially the
stench of dead bodies.
That's why I hate you.
There are millions
that hate you.
Millions that want to
escape to another place.
A place in which they can
breathe air, pure and clean.
But you bind them.
Kill them.
Torture them.
The day of reckoning will come.
You will be doomed.
You will destroy yourself
with your own hands.
You stinking world.
World.
I don't have much to say to you.
But I'll tell you only this.
I love Mike and believe in him.
And if he says you're doomed,
you better watch out.
World.
You're a world of contempt.
You're a meek world.
You're a bad world, bad, bad.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
World.
Wonderful feeling!
Wonderful feeling!
He says the boat is gone.
The boat disappeared.
Tell us, what happened?
He got up, did some exercises,
then suddenly noticed
that the boat is missing.
That's bad man.
The tide at night probably
washed the boat away.
But there's still a possibility
that the boat is on the island.
I know, let's split in groups.
Each group will go to
a different direction
and will meet back
here right away.
Ok?
Ok.
What are we going to do now?
Don't worry baby, everything
is going to be all right.
Let's move it!
See anything?
We didn't see anything.
And you?
No luck.
Just sea and sky.
I'm getting hungry.
I'm hungry too.
Ok, ok, don't sweat it.
Let's get back and
see what we can do.
I have an idea.
Listen, I'll swim
to the other side.
Take the car into town,
buy all supplies we need.
And speed back as
fast as possible, ok?
Ingenious!
Very good, can you swim well?
No sweat darling.
Very good.
Very good!
What happened?
I don't know.
He's swimming really fast.
Sharks, sharks!
Bastards.
That was a bummer.
I'm so hungry.
What's going to happen now?
We got to get to the car.
But how?
Maybe a boat will pass by here.
No chance.
In a desolate place like this.
Maybe we can build a raft.
That's cool.
Trouble is, there ain't no
trees going around baby.
Yeah, we're in pretty bad shape.
Yup, pretty bad.
If it wasn't for those damn sharks,
everything would be ok.
Maybe they'll go by tomorrow.
Then I can swim
to the other side.
I certainly hope so,
otherwise we might end up
dying of hunger and thirst.
If we sit here like a
bunch of lame ducks,
we don't stand a chance
of getting out of here.
We'll have to do something.
You're right.
Come on Komo, let's go and
hunt for some food, ok?
Ok.
You stay here.
Well, that's better than nothing.
Ok, ok.
Blasted creeps.
Get out of here you bastards!
Go to hell!
What?
Sorry, I can't get you.
Listen Komo, we're in a
very serious situation.
All of these bloody
creeps around,
isolated island, no food,
nothing, no water,
the girls will go mad.
I can't get you man.
Listen, I tried to swim,
SWIM, to the other side.
But there are sharks,
you know, SHARKS.
The sharks are there!
I can't swim to the
other side and get the car.
I don't get you.
I really don't get you man.
Listen, the girls, Francoise
and Elizabeth, yes?
Yes.
You don't have to say anything,
any word to them, you know?
About our bad situation.
I can't understand you.
Listen, Elizabeth, yes, you
understand me, Elizabeth.
What are you shouting at me?
For God's sakes.
What are you shouting
at me for God's sakes.
Shut your mouth, yeah.
Cool it baby, cool it.
Listen, we have to solve
our problems, together man.
Komo, I don't speak Hebrew,
I'm sorry.
I can't speak it.
Listen, what you're talking
for me is like Chinese.
I can't understand a
word you are saying man.
I can't get you man.
I'm sorry I can't get you.
To do a thing?
I'm trying to do the whole...
You make me mad.
What?
Listen, let's cool it ok?
And we'll think about trying
to cross to the other side,
to the car.
Listen, to the car.
Komo, Komo to the car.
We'll think it over, yes?
Don't shout at me
for God's sake.
Shut up!
I told you once Komo-
Cool it!
We'll have to do with it
you know,
we'll have to eat it.
We have nothing else to eat man.
Ok
From now on, I'm going to
do it in my own way yeah?
And you will do anything
I'm telling you ok?
I don't understand you sorry.
I don't speak your language man.
I don't speak it, I'm sorry.
You and me?
Yes but the sharks
are there man.
How can we swim?
What did you bring?
Fresh limpets.
I can't stand the smell.
You got no choice baby.
You'll never get me
to eat one of those.
Don't bugger around.
We've got to eat,
what we got to eat.
Under no circumstances
will I eat one of those.
You'll have to,
it's better than nothing.
You saw that I ate one and
nothing happened to me.
It simply disgusts me.
There's always
a first time baby.
I just can't.
The very thought of it
makes me sick.
A while back I ate some snails,
but nothing as bad as this.
Ok, ok.
If nobody digs them
I'll eat them all.
Sharks are still around.
As long as they are down there,
I can't swim to the other side.
Boy, am I thirsty,
I'm so thirsty.
What's going to
happen to us now?
Yeah, what's going
to happen to us now?
Shit.
This is a really bad scene.
I'll tell you what's going
to happen to us now.
We're going to
dry up in the sun.
We're going to rot away.
You sucked us right in
with your smooth talk.
You lied to us.
You got us into this mess,
now get us out of it.
You hear?!
Cool it.
I want to eat and drink.
I don't want to die here
in this stinking place.
And since when were you
appointed leader anyway?
You're going too far baby.
Don't give me any more
of your bullshit.
I'll talk as much as I like.
Big shit.
Shut your ass.
Shove it man.
We've had about as much as
we can take from your lip.
Shut up!
You've got us into this rot.
I hate you, I hate you!
I hate you!!
You bitch.
Bitch, you bitch!
Come on, let's get out.
Let me go, leave me
alone, let go of me!
Let me go!
From now on, this
part of the island is mine!
And if you drag as
much as one foot,
in this part, I'll kill you!
He will murder you!
Let me go, let me go, let me go.
Let go of me!
I'll kill you!
OOF!
Wait, wait, wait.
AAAAAAAAH,
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!