A Bug's Life

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A Bug's Life is a computer animated film, released by Pixar to theatres in 1998. It concerns an oddball ant named Flik, who recruits circus bugs to defend his colony from grasshoppers. The story is an interpretation of the classic Kurosawa film, The Seven Samurai.

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[edit] Flik

  • You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year, they somehow manage to pick enough food for themselves and you. So-so who's the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who need us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are. And you know it, don't you?
  • [after Heimlich suggests that he tell the truth] They can't know the truth! The truth you see is bad! I will be granted with this mistake for the rest of my life! My childrens' children will walk down the street, and people will point and say "Look! There goes the spawn of Flik the Loser!"
  • Hello, Princess! My, aren't you looking lovely this morning? Not of course that you'd need a telescope to see that...
  • I know it's a rock!!!!! Don't you think I know a rock when I see a rock?! I've spent a lot of time around rocks!
  • For the Colony, and for oppressed ants everywhere!
  • [from outtakes; gets ready to fly] TO INFINITY, AND BEYOND! ...I'm sorry, but... can you blame me?

[edit] Hopper

  • So where is it? WHERE'S MY FOOD?!?!?!?!?!?!
  • First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. It's a bug-eat-bug world out there, Princess. One of those "circle of life" kind of things. Now let me tell you how things are supposed to work out: the sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food...
  • Here's the deal. I want all of you ants to bring us as many food as you can get for us,... (produces a leaf) by the time the last leaf of the tree falls on winter. (drops the leaf, steps to the sunlight and sets to leave) You ants have a nice summer. (to his troops) LET'S RIDE!!!!!!!
  • I swear, if I hadn't promised Mother on her deathbed that I wouldn't kill you, I would kill you!!
  • You let one ant stand up to us, and they all might stand up! Those "puny little ants" outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out...THERE GOES OUR WAY OF LIFE! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line. THAT'S WHY WE'RE GOING BACK! Does anyone else wanna stay?!
  • You little termites! I give you a second chance, and THIS IS ALL I GET!?
  • You piece of dirt. No, I'm wrong. You're lower than dirt. You're an ant! Let this be a lesson to all you ants: ideas are very dangerous things. You are mindless, soil-shoving losers put on this earth to serve us!
  • WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?!?

[edit] Queen

  • That's our lot in life. It's not a lot, but it's our life! Ah-ha-ha-ha!
  • Why didn't I think of that? Oh, because it's suicide!

From outtakes"

  • [after her pet aphid, Aphie has urinated in her lap] Uh-oh! Towel! I need a towel over here!

[edit] Francis

  • So, bein' a ladybug automatically makes me a girl! Is that it, fly boy?! Huh?!
  • Judgin' by your breath, you must have been buzzin' around a dung heap all day!
  • [Slim calls him a lady] I heard that, you twig!
  • [Flik has found out the true identity of the warrior bugs]Whoa hey, hey, hey! You said nothing about killing grasshoppers, pal. You lied to us!
  • Face it. We stink.
  • Shoo, Fly. Don't bother me.
  • When your grasshopper friends get here, we are gonna KNOCK... THEM... DEAD!
  • Hey, turn your butt off!

[edit] Slim

  • What's the point of going out there? They'll only laugh at me...
  • P.T. Flea: THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A CLOWN!
  • No...it's because I'm a PROP! You always cast me as the broom, the pole, the stick! A splinter!
  • I'm the only stick with eyeballs!
  • Fired by a flea! How humiliating!
  • Francis let me handle this! That's no way to speak to a lady.
  • Tra-la-la-la. Spring's in the air, and I'm a flower...with nothing intresting to say!

[edit] Heimlich

  • Francis, leave them alone. They are poo-poo heads!
  • Someday, I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better.
  • I think I'm going to wet myself.
  • But I am flying! And from way up here, you all look like little ants!
  • I hate performing on an empty stomach!
  • It was all a part of the plan!
  • I'm finished! Finally I'm a beautiful butterfly.
  • Slow down, you flowers - Oooh, candy corn! Here, let me help you to finish it!

[edit] Others

  • A fly in the bar Flik visits: "Waiter, I'm in my soup!"
  • Hornet bouncer: [holding a fly by the wings] I'll show ya who's TOUGH! [literally kicks the fly out of the bar] AND STAY OUT!
  • Mosquito in same bar: "Hey, bartender! Bloody Mary, O-positive."
  • Waitress: "Hey, who ordered the poo-poo platter?!" [a bunch of flies land on the platter]
  • PT Flea: These guys are the lousiest circus-bugs you've ever seen! AND THEY'RE GONNA MAKE ME RICH!
  • PT Flea: [Thinking the fake bird is real, he lights a match] FLAMING DEATH!
  • Slim: No, PT!
  • PT Flea: [Jumps high and lands hard on a bottle of oil which squirts oil toward the fake bird. He mixes the oil with the fire from the match and sets the fake bird on fire] YEAH! HA! HA! HA!

[edit] Cast

[edit] See also

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