Movie Substrate · Film
Far Far Away Idol (2004)
★ 6.3 · 254 ratings on TMDB
Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots, and the rest of the Far Far Away Kingdom battle it out in a singing competition.
DirectorSimon J. Smith
The emergence reading
In Far Far Away Idol, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “fairy-tale kingdom”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, love, royalty, magic.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSprejudiceidentityloveroyaltymagic
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.
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · fairy‑tale swamp
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · immortal love triangle
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · monster cruise
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · underwater kingdom
Trolls (2016)consciousness in monsters · troll-bergen world
Splash (1984)consciousness in monsters · mermaid citySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · identity, love
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · identity, love
Porco Rosso (1992)consciousness in animals · identity, love
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)consciousness in machines · identity, love
Sleeping Beauty (1959)consciousness carried elsewhere · love, magic
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, love
