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Fantasia (1940)

★ 7.3 · 3,303 ratings on TMDB

The most sensational sound you'll ever see!

Fantasia poster★ 7.3

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

DirectorBen Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, David Hand
CastDeems Taylor, Julietta Novis, Leopold Stokowski, Walt Disney
GenresAnimation, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Fantasia keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing music, art, myth, nature.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Fantasia 2000 (2000)E9 · art, musicThe Secret of Kells (2009)E9 · art, mythScooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003)E9 · music, mythPokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009)E9 · myth, natureThe Magic Flute (2022)E9 · art, musicCoco (2017)E9 · music

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)E8 · music, myth

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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