Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper (2004)
Singing in her first movie musical!
In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Based on the story by Mark Twain.
In Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “toy kingdom”. The story fights on E8/E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, identity, corruption, royalty, music.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Black Panther (2018)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · identity
Gulliver's Travels (2010)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · identity
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · class
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · identity
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)E8/E9 · class, identity
Us (2019)E8/E9 · class, identitySame 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.
Barbie: Princess Charm School (2011)consciousness in objects · toy-royal academy
Toy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · toy shelf world
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Toy Story 4 (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Barbie (2023)consciousness in objects · doll societySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · class, identity
Aladdin (2019)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, identity
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, identity
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · class, identitySame people
Shared director or cast.
