Lemon Popsicle

[Rational Jew]

Have anyone ever heard if this "movie" franchise? If yes, don't you think it's one if the most despicable films released in Israel? I mean, how could anyone allow this franchise to have like nine films combined, not to mention that the lead actor is a self-hating Jew who compares the so-called "occupation of West Bank" to Holocaust?

[Zelhar]

It's very famous in Israel I have watched a few of these films. I think Boaz Davidson is a talented director. He directed some of the most famous "bourekas films" and comedies in Israel like "Charlie vechetzi"and "Alex Holeh Ahava".

The popsicle series is too sexist, but still has some good moments.

The Jonathan Sagall ("Momo") is a kapo traitor. That's not uncommon in Israeli media and art world. Yoself Shiloach, who played the persian sgt. Shemesh in some of the movies, was also a vocal kapo. B"H he is dead now. It is very probably most of the cast and the film crew on the set are kapo traitors because most of these artsy types have always been traitorous self hating Jews.

[Yerusha]

Sagall was born in Canada, so he cannot be considered a true Sabra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sagall




The funny fat guy in the series, Tzachi Noy, has done a type of teshuvah

[fibrogirl]

a pet peeve of mine is Israeli films.

Lemon Popsicle is a weird example.
It got really popular all over the world.
It had these universal characters - the sensitive one, the clumsy fat clutz and the shallow womaniser.
It was set in an idylic American 1950's setting. Yet my parents that grew up in in that time remember the 50's as completely different.
There was rationing/austerity, transit camps.
But most of all, society was nothing like that film. Israeli girls did not sleep around like in the film, families stayed together and people went to the synagogue and left their doors unlocked because there were few burglerys.

The thing with all Israeli films is that they try to pretend that Israel is a normal country like any other.
They take out any positive Jewish content, or any meaning in on why Jews are here in Israel.

Lemon Popsical has tons of soft porn, and portrays Israel as being the same as America in the 50's or 80's  with lots of girlfriends and sex.
It might have been better if it had been a bit less explicit and concentrated more on the characters.

I like the later film called "Alex in Love" (Alex holeh ahava) because it was a bit less dirty.

It's amazing how popular Lemon Popsicle got. There was an Israeli documentary saying that it got sold in Japan.
I remember a stormy British night in childhood, in the days before the internet and globalism. We visited an English Jewish couple in an isolated place and saw a single video of Lemon Popsicle in their house. It was the only Israeli film on video available in England at the time...Getting an Israeli film on video was a such big deal in England in the 1980's.

[Binyamin Yisrael]

I remember my cousins in Israel taped it off of regular Israeli TV (Government Channel 1 of Private Channel 2. I forget which one it was.) in the 1990's. It just had a warning on the screen. So basically anyone with a TV in Israel had access to it. It wasn't on some premium cable channel or pay per view.

[Yerusha]

"Not Quite Jerusalem"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_Paradise
was quite a realistic film about volunteers on a kibbutz in the 80s. Unfortunately most of the actors were gentiles, and it glorified intermarriage! At the end, most of the kibbutz gets massacred by Arab terrorists!




The gentile Polish actress Joanna Pacula did a realistic impression of the typical Israeli kibbutz Head B*tch who gradually falls for the visiting American gentile volunteer stud!



There is a sad scene where the beyarmulked frum boy on the kibbutz falls in love with a Japanese shiktza volunteer & his parents faint. More Jewish volunteers in Israel have married out in Israel than any % in Chutz l'Aretz!

[fibrogirl]

Thanks for telling me about that film. I never heard of it before.

 They made some really weird things in the 1980's what with that and Lemon Popsicle.
 Then they got the post Zionist trend of films....then it was films that had to contain homosexuals like "Yossi and Jagger", "The Bubble" and "Walk On Water". 
Now the latest Israeli film I have heard of is called "Big Bad Wolves" and it is said to contain horrible torture scenes. The reviews are terrible and I am keeping away.

At least Lemon Popsicle were watchable, even with the tackyness.

There was one Israeli film called "Lele Sedar" about a family sitting round the Seder table. It wasn't that good, although I only caught half of it. But at least it was about something loosely connected to being Jewish in Israel. I think that and "Ushpizim"  are the only Israeli films with Jewish content that is not negative, made in the last 30 years.
Heck the Israelis who make these films are weird. In Britain they made loads of  British films about Christmas or showing Britain in a positive light to attract tourists - like in "Downton Abbey" or Agatha Christie films.

[muman613]

The only Jewish Israeli film I like is Ushpizin... Watch it each year during Sukkot...