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Quantifying How Much the Force Is Used In Star Wars (bloomberg.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the these-are-not-the-charts-you're-looking-for dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Bloomberg has posted a data visualization for a very important subject: how much, how often, and to what effect The Force is used in Star Wars movies. As you may expect, we see the light side of the Force used much more often than the dark side. Luke Skywalker spends about 11 minutes using the Force, but pre-Vader Anakin clocks in at under 3 minutes of Force time — less, even, than Palpatine. It also turns out that Jedi really love Force Leaping, while the dark side has a monopoly on making lightning and choking people. It's kind of silly, but also kind of cool. Bloomberg even posted their methodology: "To arrive at a figure for total on-screen Force time, we decided to measure cumulatively, by scene. That means when multiple people use the Force simultaneously, we counted the time only once. Light-side and dark-side times are the cumulative durations that characters associated with each side are depicted using the Force. When multiple characters associated with the same side at the same time use the Force, that time is also counted only once. When light-side and dark-side characters use the Force at the same time, the durations are scored separately. Each recorded duration is rounded to the nearest second, and no use of the Force was assigned less than one second in duration." (That's just a fraction of it.)

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  1. Re:The Force Awakens?!?! by Fwipp · · Score: 3, Informative

    When Luke enters Jabba's palace in RotJ; I believe he force chokes/throws one of the pig guards. It's been many years since I watched it, so I could be mistaken.

  2. Re:You forgot JarJar! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    In addition to his acrobatics, don't forget all the times that DarthDarth Binks waves his hands around while convincing people to work for him.

  3. Re:Force Leap isn't a thing by Coren22 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

    It isn't? I must be confused than, cause I remember Yoda hopping all over the place in his battle scene, and as that site mentions, Luke used it in his battle with Vader in Cloud City.

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