Movie Substrate · Film
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
★ 5.4 · 257 ratings on TMDB
Yes, We Have A Bananza!
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
DirectorVincent McEveety
The emergence reading
In Herbie Goes Bananas, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “sentient-car adventure”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing consciousness, competition, friendship.
↷ machinesUSconsciousnesscompetitionfriendship
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.
The Love Bug (1968)consciousness in machines · sentient car
Planes (2013)consciousness in machines · sky racing circuit
Her (2013)consciousness in machines · digital intimacy
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · car metropolis
Ex Machina (2015)consciousness in machines · AI confinement test
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)consciousness in machines · sentient car racingSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (2017)consciousness in monsters · competition, friendship
Snow Buddies (2008)consciousness in animals · competition, friendship
Monsters University (2013)consciousness in monsters · competition
The Golden Compass (2007)consciousness in animals · consciousness
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)consciousness in objects · consciousness
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)consciousness carried elsewhere · friendship
