Waltz with Bashir - David Polonsky's Visual Companion

David Polonsky:
That is Ariel Sharon. It's funny because my first gig as an illustrator was for the Israeli version of 'Spitting Image'. I used to do all the sculptures and caricatures. I didn't make Sharon's puppet but I did someone very similar, another politician. But I had a chance to draw Ariel Sharon as an editorial illustrator many times. He's kind of chubby and a little bit of a sweet appearance and this again is a contrast between his image at that time as a war hero and his, you might say, criminal disregard for what was going on.
This absurdist little joke about him eating five eggs for breakfast, it comes again from the script. The soundtrack is this guy describing the routine at the beach and we didn't want to illustrate it exactly because it too literal, so we came up with this idea of the visual narrative showing something completely different. The inspiration was these black and white war movies where the general is telephoning the lieutenant and there's this very heroic chain of command and they're taking decisions. We were using this stereotype to convey this absurdity - he's calling him and he's calling the men and in the end they're going to catch some kid in the orchard.
This absurdist little joke about him eating five eggs for breakfast, it comes again from the script. The soundtrack is this guy describing the routine at the beach and we didn't want to illustrate it exactly because it too literal, so we came up with this idea of the visual narrative showing something completely different. The inspiration was these black and white war movies where the general is telephoning the lieutenant and there's this very heroic chain of command and they're taking decisions. We were using this stereotype to convey this absurdity - he's calling him and he's calling the men and in the end they're going to catch some kid in the orchard.
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