The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
London's crime-fighting ace on his most baffling case!
When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.
In The Great Mouse Detective, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “mouse metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, authority, crime.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)E8/E10 · authority, class
Oliver & Company (1988)E8 · class, crime
Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)E8 · authority, class
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)E10 · authority, class
Animal Farm (1954)E10 · authority, class
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)E8 · authority, classSame 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.
Flushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · sewer metropolis
Robin Hood (1973)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic medieval England
Planet of the Apes (1968)consciousness in animals · ape-ruled Earth
Antz (1998)consciousness in animals · anthill metropolis
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic feudal Japan
Ernest & Celestine (2012)consciousness in animals · animal societySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · authority, class
Nanny McPhee (2005)consciousness in monsters · authority, class
The Turning (2020)consciousness in the dead · authority, class
Metropolis (2001)consciousness in machines · authority, class
Doctor Strange (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · authoritySame people
Shared director or cast.
