Movie Substrate · Film
Project X (1987)
★ 6.3 · 277 ratings on TMDB
When the Air Force assigned Jimmy Garrett to a top secret project, he didn't know what he was in for. Neither did they.
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
DirectorJonathan Kaplan
The emergence reading
In Project X, consciousness is carried by animals. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
↷ animalsUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Zootopia (2016)E9/E10 · same substrate
A Bug's Life (1998)E6/E9 · same substrate
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · same substrate
Bright (2017)E9/E10 · same substrate
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)E9/E10/E13 · same substrate
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)E9/E10 · same substrateAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal galaxy
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)consciousness in animals · prehistoric animal adventure
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · ape civilization post‑human collapse
The BFG (2016)consciousness in animals · giant realm
Doctor Dolittle (1998)consciousness in animals · talking animals
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal spy world
