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Film Analysis Of The Movie : A Bugs Life

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The movie “A Bugs Life” shares the story of a colony of ants that are trapped in cycle of gathering food for a group of grass hoppers who in return claim to provide protection for them against bigger and more vicious animals. This movie is made by Disney, one of the giants in children’s movie making companies only followed by Pixar. Several of Walt Disney Pictures' have been released or distributed through Pixar, an animation studio that specializes in computer animation and "A Bug's Life", their follow up to the hugely successful "Toy Story" ranks as one of the best and funniest Walt Disney animated films. Very similar to the Toy Story movies the characters in this animation are sentient or alive with emotion, regret, hope and other things that make them personified. These characteristics create a society inside their world that can be thoroughly analyzed and explained by different sociological theories. This film follows the main character Flik who is a working ant and a failed inventor through his adventure in a world of menacing insects and animals. In this world of animals, the animals are given human characteristics like the creation of a society, cities and other human like things making them personified. These insects also have perceptions about another insect’s attitudes based on what they look like just like humans. Due to these things the movie makes a great piece of visual work that can be analyzed sociologically. These ants live on a small island surrounded by water where they prepare food for the arrival of a band of grasshoppers. Of the working ants, one of them that stands out is the inventor Flik. He is constantly inventing new things for the colony to try, but his ideas are often shot down. One day one of his ideas destroys the food that the colony has been collecting. So, when the grass hoppers come to the ant hill to collect their food and see that the food was gone they order the ants to make double the food for them before the start of the rainy season. Flik’s accident put all the ants of the colony in a difficult situation. Now they must pick more food at the risk of not having enough food for themselves ( Lasseter, J., Station, A. & Anderson, D.K., Reher, K., 1998).
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