The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
In The Muppet Christmas Carol, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “Muppet Victorian London”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing inequality, family, tradition, greed, charity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Tarzan II (2005)E8/E9 · family, tradition
Tangled Ever After (2012)E8/E9 · family, tradition
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)E8/E9 · family, tradition
Bambi II (2006)E8/E9 · family, tradition
DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)E8/E9 · family, greed
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)E8/E9 · family, traditionSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · pride kingdom
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · highland clan myth
Brother Bear 2 (2006)consciousness in animals · spirit-bear realm
Peter Rabbit (2018)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic countryside
Hop (2011)consciousness in animals · bunny Easter kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · family, tradition
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)consciousness in monsters · family, tradition
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)consciousness in monsters · family, greed
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · family, tradition
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)consciousness in aliens · family, tradition
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · family, tradition
