Movie Substrate · Film
Space Jam (1996)
★ 6.8 · 6,388 ratings on TMDB
Get ready to jam.
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
DirectorJoe Pytka
The emergence reading
In Space Jam, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “animated sports arena”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing sports, entertainment, competition, teamwork, celebrity.
↷ animalsUSsportsentertainmentcompetitionteamworkcelebrity
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.
Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)consciousness in animals · cartoon race show
Snow Buddies (2008)consciousness in animals · sled dog race
Turbo (2013)consciousness in animals · snail‑racing world
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)consciousness in animals · chipmunk pop industry
An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic canine college
Racing Stripes (2005)consciousness in animals · zebra racetrackSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Pixie Hollow Games (2011)consciousness in monsters · competition, teamwork
Monsters University (2013)consciousness in monsters · competition
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · competition
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)consciousness in machines · competition
Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound (1993)consciousness in aliens · competition
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)consciousness in aliens · competition
