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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 week ago

You let one ant stand up to us, then 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.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Antz did it better (though not better animated)

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All I remember about Antz is the terrifying termite war scene. I had nightmares about that.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

It was one of my favourite movies as a kid on VHS!

[–] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL these are two different movies

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, they look so similar /j

Obviously it's cause they're similar and came out at the same time. And dealt with similar themes. And features ants as the protagonists. While Antz looks like it was rushed to get a release window beside A Bug's Life, it was actually in development for far longer.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

It's often cited as an example of parallel creation, but in reality there's a good chance Katzenberg started production of Antz deliberately as an attack on Disney/Pixar.

Dreamworks tried to use the threat of releasing Antz at the same time as A Bug's Life as leverage to get Disney to give The Prince of Egypt a clear release window, but Pixar's John Lasseter and Steve Jobs wouldn't budge.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That tracks, all westerns are communist propaganda ronin stories. 7 samurai is a Japanese take on westerns

[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which later inspires another western, The Magnificant 7. Time is a fuckign circle

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The cowboy as an itinerant warrior class of Meiji era Texas