"I hope the time is coming when not only the artist, but the common, average man, who always ´has the standard of the arts in his power,´ will have also the courage to apply it, and will reject the ideal grasshopper wherever he finds it, in science, in literature, in art, because it is not ´simple, natural, and honest,´ because it is not like a real grasshopper. But I will own that I think the time is yet far off, and that the people who have been brought up on the ideal grasshopper, the heroic grasshopper, the impassioned grasshopper, the self-devoted, adventureful, good old romantic card-board grasshopper, must die out before the simple, honest, and natural grasshopper can have a fair field."
ellauri468.html on line 86: In the Pixar film, a misfit ant named Flik looks for "tough warriors" to save his ant colony from a protection racket run by a gang of grasshoppers. However, the "warriors" he brings back are a troupe of Circus Bugs. During production, a controversial public feud erupted between Steve Jobs and Lasseter of Pixar and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg due to the parallel production of his similar film Antz, which was released the month prior. The script of Antz was also heavy with adult references, whereas Pixar's film was more accessible to children. Lasseter, who normally did not use profane language, cursed at Katzenberg and hung up the phone. Fuck, the warty warthog Steve Jobs was in Pixar too! Jobs and Katzenberg would not back down and the rivaling ant films provoked a press frenzy. "The bad guys rarely win," Jobs told the Los Angeles Times, probably meaning himself. In response, DreamWorks' head of marketing Terry Press suggested, "Steve Jobs should take a pill." Antz seemed to be more geared towards older audiences, featuring moderate violence, mild sexual innuendoes, insect genitals and profanity, as well as social and political satire. A Bug's Life was more family-friendly and lighthearted in tone and story. Antz played off more realistic aspects of ants and how they relate to other bugs, like termites and wasps, while A Bug's Life offered a more fanciful look at insects to better suit its anthropomorphic story.
ellauri468.html on line 109: Molt is Hopper's younger brother and the self-proclaimed Vice President of the grasshopper gang - although nobody believes that but him. Fat, gullible, a bit stupid, and loud-mouthed, but essentially good-hearted and honest, Molt got his name due to the fact that his chitin armor molts off in flakes. A typical American!
xxx/ellauri228.html on line 422: The tall weeds fumed; the grasshopper danced, Korkeat ruovot sauhusi, heinäsirkka tanssi,
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