How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “holiday town”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing tradition, community, consumerism, belonging, faith.
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 Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · holiday town
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · fairy realm
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)consciousness in monsters · Whoville holiday town
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)consciousness in monsters · vampire flatshare
Beowulf (2007)consciousness in monsters · mythic mead‑hall
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)consciousness in monsters · mythic questSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Zambezia (2012)consciousness in animals · belonging, community
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)consciousness in animals · belonging, community
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · belonging, consumerism
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · belonging, consumerism
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · community, faith
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, tradition
