The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Tired of living in a Medieval mess... Merlin uses all his magic powers to change a scrawny little boy into a legendary hero!
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
The Sword in the Stone keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, destiny, education, authority, tradition.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Thor (2011)E8/E10 · authority, identity
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E10 · authority, identity
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E10 · authority, identity
The Lion King (1994)E8/E10 · authority, identity
Brave (2012)E8/E10 · authority, identity
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)E8/E10 · authority, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
