Police Academy (1984)
Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris deci
Police Academy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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 bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Divergent (2014)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Incredibles 2 (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
