2. Why Do The Bandits Keep Attacking The Village When They're Clearly Losing? - The Seven Samurai
The Plot Hole: Akira Kurosawa's
The Seven Samurai is a movie about a group of samurai who are hired by a desperate village to protect them from a relentless gang of bandits. It's basically the plot of
A Bug's Life, before
A Bug's Life ripped it off and did it with ants and grasshoppers. Anyway, there's a point in the movie in which the bandits continue to attack the village, despite the fact that they're clearly losing, and, uh, why do they need to attack the village if they're losing? It just doesn't seem logical at all, and it's never explained why.
The "One Line" That Could've Solved It..."If we don't secure the food from this village, we'll all die anyway." - Any Bandit All we needed for this thing to make more sense is for one of the bandits to openly acknowledge the fact that they're after the food in the village in enough detail as to explain it's their motive, because otherwise their attack on the village doesn't really make sense. Whereas this forms something of a minor plot hole in Kurosawa's movie, the American remake
The Magnificent Seven addressed this point clearly by making sure the audience knew that the bandits would've give up fighting because they needed food. Same with
A Bug's Life, actually.