Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
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In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
In Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “ape uprising”. The story fights on E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, slavery, revolution, authority.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
DragonHeart (1996)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority
Escape from L.A. (1996)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Valiant (2005)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)E9/E12 · rare rung · prejudice
Antz (1998)E9 · authority, prejudiceSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Osmosis Jones (2001)E6/E8 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Concrete Utopia (2023)E8/E10/E11 · authority, prejudice
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)E8/E10 · authority, prejudice
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)E8/E11 · authority, prejudiceAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdom
47 Ronin (2013)consciousness in animals · mythic feudal Japan
Flushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · sewer metropolis
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)consciousness in animals · jungle micro‑society
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdom
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bird islandSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Warcraft (2016)consciousness in monsters · authority, prejudice
Superman (2025)consciousness in aliens · authority, prejudice
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)consciousness in monsters · prejudice, slavery
Redline (2009)consciousness in aliens · authority, prejudice
The Skeleton Key (2005)consciousness in the dead · prejudice, slavery
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)consciousness in the dead · authority, prejudiceSame people
Shared director or cast.
