The Ant Bully (2006)

Nicolas Cage: Zoc

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Quotes 

• [repeated line] 

  Zoc : Clacktiel!

• Zoc : Don't fire until you see the wax of his ears!

• Lucas Nickle : It's funny. The sky looks exactly the same. Everything else is so different but it's the same sky, the same stars.

  [he yawns] 

  Zoc : Why must you keep doing that? Are you ill?

  Lucas Nickle : What? Oh, you mean yawning. I'm just tired.

  Zoc : Please stop. It's disgusting.

  Lucas Nickle : Ants don't yawn?

  Zoc : Uh, definitely not, thank you.

  Lucas Nickle : [Yawns] 

  Zoc : [Disgusted sighs]  So this city of yours, it's like a nest?

  Lucas Nickle : Well, yeah. Kind of.

  Zoc : And the humans that live there are all brothers working together for the greatness of their colony?

  Lucas Nickle : Well, not exactly. It's a little more like, you know, every man for himself.

  Zoc : But that's so primitive. How does anything get done?

  Lucas Nickle : Some people work together.

  Zoc : Some. Why not all?

  Lucas Nickle : I suppose it's because of their differences.

  Zoc : But it's the differences that make a colony strong. Foragers, scouts, drones, nurses, regurgitators all are different but an essential part of the whole. This is where we ants draw our strength.

  Lucas Nickle : My differences just get me beat up.

  Zoc : And why is that?

  Lucas Nickle : I don't know. Some humans prefer to clobber people they don't understand.

  Zoc : Like you prefer to clobber ants.

  Lucas Nickle : I guess I didn't think about what I was doing. Seems to happen a lot.

  [he yawns] 

  Zoc : Zoc: I suppose sometimes I, too, can act without thinking. Heh. Perhaps in this way, we are alike.

  [he yawns widely as he drifted off to sleep] 

  Zoc : Good night, Lucas.

  Lucas Nickle : Good night, Zoc.

• Zoc : [glares at crystal in hand]  Kraznoks! You... rock. Curse upon your children.

  Hova : Hmm. I don't think rocks have children.

  Zoc : [throws crystal to the ground]  They won't now.

  Hova : Okay. What's the matter?

  Zoc : Hova, the potion is supposed to change color. It's not changing color. It's not changing color.

  [grabs two more rocks] 

  Zoc : I call upon the elements: Wind, rain, et cetera. Transform my potion and clacktiel.

  [beats the crystals together. Nothing happens. He gets frustrated] 

  Zoc : Clackteil, clackteil...

  [beats the crystals violently together] 

• Zoc : But - But who will teach him our ways?

  Hova : I will.

  Zoc : Hova?

  Queen Ant : It is done. Let us continue our work.

  Lucas Nickle : That's it? How long am I gonna be like this? I want to go home! Wait! It's inhuman!

  Head of Council : Yes. It is.

• Head of Council : War with the humans? That's impossible.

  Zoc : A wizard knows no such word.

• Zoc : You know what this is? This is the potion that will make you big again. I just wanted you to take a good, long look at it. Because this is the last time you will ever see it.

  Lucas Nickle : What do you mean?

  Zoc : I mean there is no way I'm ever going to make you big again.

  [chuckles] 

  Zoc : Ever. You are a threat to every ant in this colony. Especially to Hova.

  Lucas Nickle : But I would never do anything to hurt Hova. I just - I - I just wanna go home.

  Zoc : Well, then, if I were you, I'd try to find help somewhere else, because there is nothing for you here. Nothing.

• Hova : [to Lucas]  Hello. We mean you no harm.

  [seconds later] 

  Hova : Please. Go in peace.

  Zoc : Look out!

  [grabs Hova before Lucas was about to crush her with is foot] 

• Zoc : Human. Come with us.

• Hova : Where's Lucas?

  Zoc : Isn't he with you?

  Hova : No.

  Zoc : Lucas? Lucas? Huh. That's weird. Well, he's probably off destroying some other poor, unfortunate colony. You know how they are. Destroyers.

  Hova : Zoc, what have you done?

  Zoc : Me? What did I do?

  Hova : Where is he?

  Zoc : He's gone.

  [Hova worried about Lucas was about to rush out] 

  Zoc : He led you into a trap, Hova.

  Hova : There was no trap. He led us to food. He was trying to protect us from...

  Zoc : From what? What, Hova?

  Hova : From something.

  Zoc : Oh, something!

  [laughs] 

  Zoc : And I was worried it was from nothing. He's blinded you, Hova.

  Hova : No, you are the one who's blind. You are so consumed by your hatred for the humans, you see only what you want to see

  Zoc : Oh, come on.

  Hova : Zoc, I see a young pupa, a human learning our ways becoming part of this colony, becoming an ant.

  Zoc : Impossible.

  Hova : Listen to yourself, Zoc. A wizard knows no such word. So, what are you now? Certainly not the ant I love.

  [walks away] 

  Zoc : Hova! I did it for you, for the colony.

  Hova : You did it for yourself.

  Zoc : Hova, I...

• Queen Ant : Be still, be still. Tonight we have a choice. We could destroy this human and make safe this day. Or we could change the nature of his human and perhaps create a brighter future for all ants. I therefore the human to live and work in the colony to learn our ways. He must become an ant.

  Lucas Nickle , Zoc : What?

  Zoc : No. No, my queen. What if he does not become an ant? Okay, I mean, come on.

  Queen Ant : That would be regrettable.