| | In Pixar/Disney’s A Bug’s Life, the ants hire mercenaries to kick the shit out of the Grasshoppers. The mercenaries turn out to be a circus act desperate for work, so the ants muster the courage to fight the grasshoppers themselves.
Their resolve comes in the most harrowing scene of the movie: The leader of the grasshoppers says to the ants, ‘Ideas are very dangerous things. You shouldn’t think, just work. You losers were put on this earth to shovel dirt and serve us!’ Flik—the hero ant who is always getting in trouble with his brothers for trying to invent machines to increase their productivity, instead of actually ‘working’—says to the leader, ‘You’re wrong. We don’t need you, you need us!’ All the ants rush in for blood and the grasshoppers, previously relying on the ants’ fear, flee for their lives.
It’s really a good movie.
Edit: Forgot the best part: The grasshopper leader dies when Flik employs a deception that results in a bird feeding him to its three chicks.
Jon
(Edited by Jon Letendre
on 9/12, 10:44am)
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