He tells the circus bugs they “might as well squish me,” because he can’t afford to mess up this badly one more time. It also does a tremendous job of emphasizing Flik’s personal stakes. Not only does it turn the plot with a major revelation for all the main characters, it also deftly emphasizes what will happen to the ants if the grasshoppers aren’t defeated (this is done both subtextually and through some delightful symbolism, via the children’s enactment of the battle-in which everyone dies). They tell Flik the truth and beat a fast track off Ant Island. This definitive action on Flik’s part closes the First Act and engages all the characters in the main conflict.įirst Pinch Point: At the celebration welcoming the warrior bugs, the circus bugs learn they are expected to fight (and perhaps die) in a battle against the grasshoppers. The First Plot Point doesn’t close out the First Act until the moment when Flik mistakenly identifies the circus bugs as “warriors” and convinces them (because they mistakenly believe he wants to hire actors) to come back to the island with him. This scene ends when they, in turn, are kicked out of their Normal World when their boss PT Flea accidentally gets fried in the failed Flaming Death stunt and subsequently fires (ha!) all of them. The next thing we see is a comparatively lengthy scene introducing all the circus bugs. Why? Because the First Act still has to finish introducing its key characters. However, the space between this Key Event and closing the First Act is wide. We see Flik leaving his Normal World very shortly after the Inciting Event when he goes on his penance trip to the town on the presumably doomed mission to find warrior bugs to fight the grasshoppers. He tripped into it accidentally there’s no deliberate choice whatsoever about what happens here.įirst Plot Point: This an interesting First Plot Point. But it’s obviously and completely a conflict he does not want to engage in. What we see here isn’t really a rejection of the Call to Adventure by the protagonist Flik. As a result, the grasshopper leader Hopper demands double the amount of food from the ants. Inciting Event: Just as the grasshopper gang is arriving to take their annual tribute of food from the ants, Flik accidentally knocks the entire offering into the water.
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