Movie Substrate · Film
Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale (2017)
★ 6.6 · 250 ratings on TMDB
After tumbling into a magic storybook, Puss in Boots must fight, dance and romance his way through wild adventures as he searches for an escape.
The emergence reading
In Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic fantasy town”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing heroism, community, magic.
↷ animalsUSheroismcommunitymagic
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.
Balto (1995)consciousness in animals · animal frontier
Zambezia (2012)consciousness in animals · bird metropolis
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)consciousness in animals · dinosaur valley
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic dog city
Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947)consciousness in animals · animal fairy-tale
Chicken Run (2000)consciousness in animals · poultry prisonSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · community, heroism
The Smurfs (2011)consciousness in monsters · community, magic
The Smurfs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · community, magic
Krull (1983)consciousness in aliens · heroism, magic
Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)consciousness in aliens · community, heroism
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · communitySame people
Shared director or cast.
