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cleef
27th October 2008, 14:26
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t_PFy9UwXnA
(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t_PFy9UwXnA)

maybe a kids film but still it holds an underlying message about the exploitation of the working class...
Dr Mindbender
27th October 2008, 14:52
lol too right.

Just imagine the locusts with top hats to complete the effect.
Pirate turtle the 11th
27th October 2008, 17:26
but was there not a princess in it on the ant side?
LOLseph Stalin
27th October 2008, 18:07
Haha! Yea. That's true. The ants(proletariat) are all forced to work for the grasshoppers(bourgeoisie). I just realized this myself when you mentioned it. I haven't watched that movie since before I understood politics.
GPDP
27th October 2008, 21:49
Antz was better, both in message and in content IMO.
Vendetta
27th October 2008, 22:51
Antz was better, both in message and in content IMO.

Never saw that, what was it?
Pawn Power
28th October 2008, 00:58
Never saw that, what was it?

Yes. Much better. Woody fuckin' Allen was the protagonist ant!
Dóchas
28th October 2008, 21:19
shit your right!! i didnt think of it like that!!
cop an Attitude
28th October 2008, 22:03
hu, thats odd that disney would let a topic like that fly, especially to children. I always loved that movie and all the more reason to now. I am going to push to watch it in my j term sociology class :thumbup1:.
ernie
29th October 2008, 16:03
but was there not a princess in it on the ant side?
Yes, there was. Underlying message: benevolent rulers exist.

On some level, this movie must be confusing to kids. On the one hand, you have the whole population of ants revolting against the grasshoppers; on the other, they had to obey the queen.

Not to mention that the ants had four legs! :p
Pogue
29th October 2008, 16:06
Not every film about struggle relates to the class struggle.
GPDP
29th October 2008, 20:57
Yeah, A Bug's Life struggle was more akin to national liberation (i.e. the ants were resisting the imperialist grasshoppers) while Antz did have more class-strugglist elements IIRC.
Pogue
29th October 2008, 21:49
Bee movie was suprisingly leftist too tbh.
Wanted Man
7th November 2008, 00:59
I remember seeing this film as a kid. I think it was just around the time that Disney (well, Pixar) movies were still good. The evil locust leader got eaten by a bird at the end. :cool: At 10 years old, I'm afraid the idea of class struggle went completely over my head.
Sankofa
7th November 2008, 04:25
WTF! There's been so many animated insect films, I'm starting to get them all mixed up...

I never saw A Bug's Life, but come to think of it, Antz was political...oh and The Ant Bully also.