Movie Substrate · Film
The Bad Guys (2022)
★ 7.5 · 2,530 ratings on TMDB
Good is no fun at all.
When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
DirectorPierre Perifel
The emergence reading
In The Bad Guys, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic animal metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, law.
↷ animalsUSprejudiceidentitylaw
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Porco Rosso (1992)E8/E9/E10 · identity, prejudice
Paddington (2014)E8/E9/E10 · identity, prejudice
Shrek Forever After (2010)E8/E9/E10 · identity, prejudice
Turbo (2013)E8/E9/E10 · identity, prejudice
Open Season 2 (2008)E8/E9/E10 · identity, prejudice
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)E8/E9/E10 · identity, prejudiceSame 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.
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic jungle
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)consciousness in animals · jungle society
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)consciousness in animals · crocodile city
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdom
Ferdinand (2017)consciousness in animals · bullfighting arenaSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · identity, law
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, law
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · identity, law
Alien Nation (1988)consciousness in aliens · identity, law
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, law
Ted 2 (2015)consciousness in objects · identity, law
