Movie Substrate · Film
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
★ 6.6 · 769 ratings on TMDB
Get ready for a lesson about the bird and the bees.
Woody Woodpecker enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.
DirectorAlex Zamm
The emergence reading
In Woody Woodpecker, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic forest”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing conservation, development, family.
↷ animalsCAconservationdevelopmentfamily
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.
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)consciousness in animals · orca rescue
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · pride kingdom
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · highland clan myth
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · underwater community
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in LondonSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Lilo & Stitch (2002)consciousness in aliens · family
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · family
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)consciousness in monsters · family
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · family
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · family
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)consciousness in aliens · family
