"Do you have anything else besides Mexican food?"
"The bird will work!"
I suspect that my blog followers (all two of them) have seen the movies The Three Amigos and A Bug's Life. Today while I was flossing and staring at myself in the mirror, I realized that these movies share identical themes.
In both movies, the small town characters (the people of Santa Polco in Amigos and the ants in Bug's Life) are terrorized by bullies (El Guapo in Amigos and Hopper, the grasshopper, in Bug's Life). The bullies demand payment from the town characters. Otherwise, there will be mayhem and destruction.
Along come performers (the silent movie stars in Amigos and the the circus performing insects in Bug's Life) who agree to protect the town characters, unwittingly thinking they are performing, but later realizing that they are actually not performing. It is all real. ("They're real," the Steve Martin character whimpers in Amigos when he realizes the truth after being shot, "The bullets are real.") Instead of trying to escape unscathed, they all decide to remain, using their performing skills and risking their lives to save the townfolk.
These themes are wound around superb acting, and one can't help but rejoice while experiencing the pathos and the redemption embodied in the characters. These elements are highlighted in the climactic scenes of both movies: in Amigos, when Ned Nederlander, played by Martin Short, exclaims "Sew very old woman! Sew like the wind!" and in Bug's Life, when the paripatetic pill bugs point at the attacking bird and hysterically warn, "Tweet tweet! Tweet tweet!"
My life-long friend, Clifford (not the Big Red Dog), was also flossing recently*. As he stared at himself in the mirror, he realized that the plots of Hamlet and Disney's The Lion King are also similar. Imagine that! Or how about Bambi and King Lear?
I have also backpacked with Clifford, and one of our trips shared thematic elements with both The Titanic and Tora Tora Tora. On this trip, among other things which went catastrophically haywire, we ran out of food. For our last dinner we enjoyed the remnant crumbs of six Ritz Crackers.
(*Clifford has all 32 of his teeth. This includes his wisdom teeth! Also, he has never had a cavity or a bad hair day)
(Dusty Bottoms, from The Three Amigos)
"The bird will work!"
(Flick, from A Bug's Life)
I suspect that my blog followers (all two of them) have seen the movies The Three Amigos and A Bug's Life. Today while I was flossing and staring at myself in the mirror, I realized that these movies share identical themes.
In both movies, the small town characters (the people of Santa Polco in Amigos and the ants in Bug's Life) are terrorized by bullies (El Guapo in Amigos and Hopper, the grasshopper, in Bug's Life). The bullies demand payment from the town characters. Otherwise, there will be mayhem and destruction.
Along come performers (the silent movie stars in Amigos and the the circus performing insects in Bug's Life) who agree to protect the town characters, unwittingly thinking they are performing, but later realizing that they are actually not performing. It is all real. ("They're real," the Steve Martin character whimpers in Amigos when he realizes the truth after being shot, "The bullets are real.") Instead of trying to escape unscathed, they all decide to remain, using their performing skills and risking their lives to save the townfolk.
These themes are wound around superb acting, and one can't help but rejoice while experiencing the pathos and the redemption embodied in the characters. These elements are highlighted in the climactic scenes of both movies: in Amigos, when Ned Nederlander, played by Martin Short, exclaims "Sew very old woman! Sew like the wind!" and in Bug's Life, when the paripatetic pill bugs point at the attacking bird and hysterically warn, "Tweet tweet! Tweet tweet!"
My life-long friend, Clifford (not the Big Red Dog), was also flossing recently*. As he stared at himself in the mirror, he realized that the plots of Hamlet and Disney's The Lion King are also similar. Imagine that! Or how about Bambi and King Lear?
I have also backpacked with Clifford, and one of our trips shared thematic elements with both The Titanic and Tora Tora Tora. On this trip, among other things which went catastrophically haywire, we ran out of food. For our last dinner we enjoyed the remnant crumbs of six Ritz Crackers.
(*Clifford has all 32 of his teeth. This includes his wisdom teeth! Also, he has never had a cavity or a bad hair day)
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