Is sexiness a bit incongruous in a film about a mission ending in a massacre?
AF: To tell you the truth, the erotic was not something that was intended, it just happened in the making of the film. War is a lot of terrible things. It can be like a really bad acid trip. You think, It can’t go on any longer, and then it does. I wanted to give that feeling in the film. And the vicious dogs at the beginning get you right into that kind of language. iW: Why include that scene from a porno movie? AF: The most common shared memory of people who came back from Lebanon was it was the first time we ever saw porn. We didn’t have VCR’s in Israel in 1982 – not until 1984. The army invaded a different country and in each house there were VCRs and movies on big cassettes. A lot of people told me, yeah, it was the first time for me to see a porn movie, so I thought I should include it. We had a censored version of the porn scene for the U.S. but these guys here [at Sony Classics] decided not to use that version. The censored version is funnier. Remember that Mark Spitz speedo wi
