The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I (2025)
Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes.
In The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “magical oz animal rights”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, discrimination, authority, magic, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)E9/E10 · authority, identity
Fixed (2025)E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)E9 · authority, identity
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)E9 · authority, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ponyo (2008)E7/E8 · rare rung · identity, magic
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Extinction (2018)E8/E14 · rare rung · identity, prejudice
Osmosis Jones (2001)E6/E8 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority, identity
Underworld: Awakening (2012)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, prejudiceAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdom
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdom
47 Ronin (2013)consciousness in animals · mythic feudal Japan
Smallfoot (2018)consciousness in animals · mountain sanctuary
Wicked (2024)consciousness in animals · magical oz
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)consciousness in animals · mutant metropolisSame 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 (2023)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity
Astro Boy (2009)consciousness in machines · authority, identity
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)consciousness carried elsewhere · authority, identity
