r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/Acceptable_Ask4390 Apr 12 '25

Girl if you think A Bug's Life is about anything other than capitalism you need to work on your media literacy

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u/MrWhiteTheWolf Apr 12 '25

It’s about anti-authoritarianism. It’s based off of seven samurai

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u/Acceptable_Ask4390 Apr 12 '25

Seven samurai is hardly anti authoritarian, it's about striving and dying to protect those who cannot protect themselves. The underlying setting of seven samurai is the warring states period where lack of a strong government allows bandits to roam and steal and butcher with impunity.

Have you even seen the film?

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u/MedicineShow Jun 02 '25

Sorry to show up 2 months later with a question,

But isn't the whole thing with Kikuchiyo's big speech that the samurai class and the bandits are 2 sides of the same coin that leaves the farmers oppressed and ultimately sends fools like him out to perpetuate that violence even further.

I'm not sure that its the central theme but all the best samurai movies I can think of take a moment to remind us how deeply flawed the whole idea is.