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I just want to make people silky smooth.
— You Don't Mess with the Zohan ‧ 2008
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Zohan's gentle ambition set against a lifetime of hard-man heroics is the whole joke: the world's most dangerous man wants to give you a blow-dry. The phrase turns salon vocabulary into a mission statement, and the film brings 'silky smooth' back as his catchphrase. It is the line to reach for when someone's modest passion is completely sincere.
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In context
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In You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Israeli commando Zohan Dvir is a national hero who secretly dreams of leaving the army to become a hairstylist in America. At a family table he tells his parents what he wants to do, and when his father mocks him for it, he answers that hair is peaceful and that he just wants to make people silky smooth. The scene sets up his faked death and move to New York, where he works under the name Scrappy Coco. Sandler wrote the film with Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow.
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- Springfield! Springfield! transcript: you dont mess with the zohanScene at the family table where Zohan tells his parents he wants to cut and style hair, is mocked, and says he just wants to make people silky smooth.Reference checked
- Wikipedia: You Don't Mess with the ZohanPlot and ProductionReference checked
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