The Muppet Movie (1979)
More entertaining than humanly possible!
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
In The Muppet Movie, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “puppet roadtrip”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing showbiz, friendship, ambition, exploitation, dream.
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.
Christopher Robin (2018)consciousness in objects · toy-wood reality
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · puppet noir
The Muppets (2011)consciousness in objects · puppet theater
Ted (2012)consciousness in objects · toy-life
Small Soldiers (1998)consciousness in objects · toy war
Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008)consciousness in objects · toy doll theaterSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Sing 2 (2021)consciousness in animals · ambition, exploitation
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)consciousness in animals · ambition, friendship
Planes (2013)consciousness in machines · ambition, friendship
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)consciousness in aliens · ambition, exploitation
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)consciousness in monsters · ambition, exploitation
Monster Trucks (2016)consciousness in monsters · exploitation, friendship
