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The Ewok Adventure (1984)
★ 5.9 · 412 ratings on TMDB
You'll live the adventure... You'll love its heroes.
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
DirectorJohn Korty
The emergence reading
In The Ewok Adventure, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “forest moon tribal adventure”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing colonialism, community, survival.
↷ aliensUScolonialismcommunitysurvival
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.
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)E6/E7 · rare rung · community, survival
The War of the Worlds (1953)E13/E14 · rare rung · colonialism, survival
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13/E14 · rare rung · colonialism, survival
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)E6/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, survival
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)E11/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, survival
Occupation: Rainfall (2020)E12/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, survivalAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Prey (2022)consciousness in aliens · frontier hunting with alien predator
Critters 3 (1991)consciousness in aliens · alien infestation
Critters 2 (1988)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion horror
Village of the Damned (1995)consciousness in aliens · alien child outbreak
Outlander (2008)consciousness in aliens · viking alien frontier
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)consciousness in aliens · Vril undergroundSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · community, survival
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)consciousness in animals · community, survival
Sleepwalkers (1992)consciousness in monsters · community, survival
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)consciousness in monsters · colonialism, survival
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community
Scary Movie 4 (2006)consciousness in objects · survival
