Movie Substrate · Film
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
★ 6.2 · 435 ratings on TMDB
The Loveable Bug's back doin' his thing!
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
DirectorRobert Stevenson
The emergence reading
In Herbie Rides Again, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “sentient-vehicle world”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing greed, development, community.
↷ machinesUSgreeddevelopmentcommunity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · car metropolis
Robots (2005)consciousness in machines · robotic metropolis
Summer Wars (2009)consciousness in machines · virtual network world
Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)consciousness in machines · anthropomorphic car town
The Mangler (1995)consciousness in machines · industrial horror
Prometheus (2012)consciousness in machines · alien origin questSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Over the Hedge (2006)consciousness in animals · community, development
Beethoven's 5th (2003)consciousness in animals · community, greed
Critters 3 (1991)consciousness in aliens · community, greed
Needful Things (1993)consciousness in monsters · community, greed
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · community
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)consciousness in monsters · greedSame people
Shared director or cast.
