Movie Substrate · Film
Underdog (2007)
★ 5.5 · 755 ratings on TMDB
NO NEED TO FEAR.. UNDERDOG IS HERE!
A lab accident gives a beagle named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
DirectorFrederik Du Chau
The emergence reading
In Underdog, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “dog superhero city”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, identity, responsibility.
↷ animalsUSpoweridentityresponsibility
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 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · ape civilization post‑human collapse
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Jennifer's Body (2009)consciousness in animals · demonic high school
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdom
The Golden Compass (2007)consciousness in animals · soul‑animal worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)consciousness in aliens · identity, power
Man of Steel (2013)consciousness in aliens · identity, power
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, power
Minions (2015)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
Aladdin (2019)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · identity, power
