#A bugs life 1998

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A Bugs Life McDonald's Happy Meal promotional toys 1998

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A Bugs Life 1998 Made with Hobby Lobby Markers. My style fan art.

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A Bug’s Life (1998) 🐛 🐞 🐜

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physically i’m here mentally i’m at candy corn acres

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A Bug's Life (1998)

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1998 a bug’s life mcdonald’s toy

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Many essays could probably be written about the various "formulas" in family films of different eras.

For example, the Disney Renaissance heroine who "wants more," the "adorkable" Disney heroine of the 2010s-20s, the twist villains of the 2010s, or the "bittersweet parting of ways" endings that swamped the family movies of 2019.

Another one that I've noticed is from 1997 and 1998. Those two years seemed to have an unusually strong concentration of family movies that used the "liar revealed" trope to temporarily break up the protagonist and their love interest.

One of the lead characters, either the protagonist or their love interest, is hiding something important. Their identity, their motives, someone else's identity, etc. Then, at the 11th hour, the truth is dramatically revealed, and the character's love interest (and sometimes their entire community too, but first and foremost their love interest) rejects them for it. But of course they reconcile in the end, either because the liar redeems themself or because the love interest realizes their rejection was wrong.

Of course that trope had been used before 1997 and '98, and it would be used after, but it was used in no less than five of the biggest family movies of those two years!

In 1997, we had it in Hercules with the reveal that Meg has been working for Hades, and in Anastasia with Anya's discovery that Dimitri is a con man who was just using her. Then in 1998, we had it in Mulan with the reveal of Mulan's gender, in Ever After with the reveal of Danielle's true identity, and in A Bug's Life with the reveal that Flik's "warriors" are really circus bugs.

Even I, as a little girl at the time, noticed the pattern. And did it have an effect on a little autistic girl with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria? You bet it did! I think it was this slew of movies, more than anything else, that made me believe I should never, ever tell a lie, or else my loved ones would reject me.

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A Bug's Life: A Night At The Circus

Disney Adventures, December 1998

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A Bug's Life, 1998

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Vintage A Bugs Life Koosh

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A Bug's Life commercial 1998

A 1998 commercial for A Bug’s Life

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A Bug's Life (1998, John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton)

09/06/2024

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A Bug's Life (1998) 🐜

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Title: A Bug's Life

Rating: G

Director: John Lasseter

Cast: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind, David Hyde Pierce, Joe Ranft, Denis Leary, Jonathan Harris, Madeline Kahn, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McShane, John Ratzenberger, Brad Garrett, Roddy McDowall

Release year: 1998

Genres: adventure, comedy

Blurb: On behalf of oppressed bugs everywhere, an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper...except these "warrior bugs" are actually circus performers.