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Use Force Lightning can Yoda?
In Star Wars Episode II, battling with Count Dooku Yoda was. Force Lightning against Yoda Dooku uses. The lightning from affecting him Yoda stops. Then Force Lightning back at Count Dooku he uses.
Using Force Lightning was Yoda or Count Dooku's…
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Is there a full canon version of Tyrion's jackass/honeycomb joke?
Throughout Game of Thrones Tyrion attempts to tell a joke about walking into a brothel with honeycomb and a jackass but never gets to finish it. I know of a similar joke but wondered if there is a canonical answer/punchline to his joke?
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Why doesn't "Ralph Breaks the Internet" have "wreck" in the title?
The sequel to Wreck-It Ralph is called Ralph Breaks the Internet. In it, Ralph and Venellope travel to the Internet to buy a replacement controller for Sugar Rush.
Why is it called Ralph Breaks the Internet, though? Wouldn't it make more sense to…
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How does the title 'The Imitation Game' justify the story of the movie?
Alan Turing's biopic is entitled as 'The Imitation Game'. In this movie what has actually been imitated?
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How could the Starks convince the other Lords that this character was guilty?
In "The Dragon and the Wolf" (Game of Thrones, S07E07), Littlefinger was in a trial, accused by Sansa and Bran of many crimes that he has committed against the Stark family, and eventually sentenced to death. But they didn't show any evidence or…
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Where and when does the "idea" light bulb appear for the first time?
In many movies and animated cartoons, the light bulb represents an idea that occurs inside a character's mind. But where does this metaphor come from and what is the first movie/cartoon/show that used it?
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Why were mouse holes often represented in cartoons and movies like this?
I was recollecting on some old Tom & Jerry cartoons and began to wonder why mouse holes were often represented like the picture below.
Did it just have to do with the cartoonist trying to personify mice and make it look like they live in houses…
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Jaime's character change in Game of Thrones
In Game Of Thrones Jaime's character is shown to be bad and ruthless in the beginning. He pushes a little kid off a window. Later he's shown to have honor and sympathy and looks after Sansa, tries to get her to safety. What causes his change? He's…
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Why the highlighted outline in animated cartoons?
I've often seen in animated cartoons like Doraemon or any other anime that an object in the background that is about to move or do some movement is highlighted explicitly. Which makes it easy to predict that something is about to happen to the…
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Was Thanos really committed or just a hypocrite?
The title is extremely vague, because this question contains HEAVY spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War, specifically the very last scenes of the movie. I can't reasonably put the entire question in spoiler tags, so consider this your warning.
At the…
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How was this shot in Contact (1997) really made?
There was this tricky mirror scene in Contact
The effect is: the camera is moving backwards, always facing a character running towards something and keeping the same distance from that character (who does turns, goes upstairs, etc) and always…
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What was Chandler Bing's job?
In the series Friends everybody's jobs are well-known except Chandler's. He was very good in math and he did work with some kind of accounting or auditing job, sometimes with the help of a computer or possibly some kind of computer software. Also,…
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What is the longest aired episode of a TV series?
It has been rumored that every episode of Season 8 of Game Of Thrones could be ninety minutes long - making each episode comparable with the running time of full-length feature films. It seems very rare for television episodes to run longer than an…
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Why do mouse cursors never align with actors' hand movements (or always move perfectly straight)?
Most of the time when you see a computer screen in a film the cursor always moves in a perfectly straight line.
Sometimes you can even see actors moving the mouse, but it would in no way align with what's happening on the screen, a cursor moving…
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What makes The Shawshank Redemption so cinematically important?
The Shawshank Redemption is ranked as the "Top Rated" movie according to IMDB's Top 250 List.
What makes it so important and unique in the world of cinema? Does it have to do purely with acting/plot, or have there been some other new things that…
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