Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Heads will roll.
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
In Sleepy Hollow, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “gothic colonial village”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, class, superstition, inheritance, power.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · reanimated monster comedy
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison (2011)consciousness in the dead · ninja prison
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)consciousness in the dead · mythic Chinatown
Freaks of Nature (2015)consciousness in the dead · segregated town
Byzantium (2013)consciousness in the dead · vampire underworld
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)consciousness in the dead · monster high schoolSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · class, power
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, power
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)consciousness in animals · class, power
Jupiter Ascending (2015)consciousness in aliens · class, inheritance
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, power
Captain Marvel (2019)consciousness in aliens · power, prejudice
