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Could I fake death to stop being Force-choked?
In a word, no.
Your boss will almost certainly use his Force-powers to crush your windpipe. You won't be able to pretend to be dying because you'll be too busy actually dying.
His mouth moves slowly....
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Why did Luke use his left hand to shoot?
Luke is pretty consistently shown to be ambidextrous (having the ability to use both hands without favouring one) throughout the original trilogy film series.
In A New Hope he totes a gun and shoots ...
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Could I fake death to stop being Force-choked?
I'm going to go against the stream here and say possibly.
Although your boss has the ability to sense life, it is not at all certain how sensitive it is to individuals - especially employees that do ...
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Is there a story behind the misquote, "Luke, I am your father"?
Contextualization matters more than words
In common speech, the quote is fairly vague, and likely only those who have seen the movie would understand the reference (at least, right away, to the ...
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Why did Lando give up his role as Administrator of Cloud City just to side with Leia, Chewie and the Rebellion?
You have to consider the timeline, the way the deal is changed through the course of the film, and his reasons why.
When the Imperials first arrive at Bespin, he is trying to protect his interests ...
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Why did Captain Needa apologize to Darth Vader?
There are a few probable reasons:
He wanted to save his soldiers from punishment
If Vader had found out this information before Needa had come to him, he might have blamed not only Needa for the ...
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How was Luke's prosthetic hand in Episode V filmed?
You can see the original prop here. Note that the metal collar has slipped down slightly.
The actor would sit under the table and reach up through a hole, then place their hand flat onto the table. ...
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What was the deal Lando made with Darth Vader?
Han and Lando have a conversation about it for starters
HAN: Aren't you afraid the Empire's going to find out about this little operation and shut you down?
LANDO: That's always been a danger ...
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How did Darth Vader know the rebel base was on Hoth?
Anomalous life readings
“I think we’ve got something, sir,” Piett informed him. “The report is
only a fragment from a probe droid in the Hoth system, but it’s the
best lead we’ve had.”
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What did Yoda do on Dagobah?
Aside from the needs of survival, spent his time studying the Force he did.
From Wookieepedia:
Using an E3-standard starship lifeboat, Yoda returned to Dagobah to begin his own exile. The lifeboat ...
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Why did Luke use his left hand to shoot?
During the Detention Centre shootout, Luke is taking cover on the right-hand side of the corridor (from his perspective) and the alcove he's using for cover would make it harder to fire his blaster ...
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Why does Luke draw his blaster instead of his lightsaber to deal with an apparent threat?
As originally scripted, Luke did pull out his lightsaber.
Nervously, he looks around at the foreboding jungle.
Luke: Still... there's something familiar about this place. I feel like... I don't know.....
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Is it important for the plot that Leia is Luke's sister?
The reason Luke and Leia's siblinghood was important to the plot was because A New Hope set Luke, Leia, and Han up as a Love Triangle. This caused Luke and Han to be rivals for Leia's affection.
One ...
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Is it important for the plot that Leia is Luke's sister?
The first thing that comes to mind as to why this was important was the end of ROTJ.
VADER
You cannot hide forever, Luke.
LUKE
I will not fight you.
VADER
Give yourself to the dark side. It is the ...
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Why didn't Vader execute Piett?
It was probably not Piett's fault, and Vader recognized that. Vader had been in personal command of the imperial forces on Bespin, while Piett remained aboard the Executor, out in orbit. There is no ...
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How was Luke's prosthetic hand in Episode V filmed?
If you look closely at the slope of the back of Mark Hamill's hand, you can see that it seems to turn a bit more toward the vertical as it approaches the metal clamp on his wrist. In fact, Hamill is ...
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Did Captain Needa die in The Empire Strikes Back?
He's dead, Jim.
The script confirms his death.
Clutching desperately at his throat, Captain Needa slumps down, then
falls over on his back, at the feet of Darth Vader. Two stormtroopers
pick up the ...
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What are Luke and Yoda eating in Yoda's hut in Episode V?
There's mention in the film and film script that he's cooking something called rootleaf.
CREATURE: Not far. Yoda not far. Patience. Soon you will be with him. (tasting food from the pot) Rootleaf,...
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Why did Lando give up his role as Administrator of Cloud City just to side with Leia, Chewie and the Rebellion?
One of the things that Vader was threatening was to to station a garrison, effectively turning the residents of the station into slaves and the administrators (including Lando) into puppets:
VADER: ...
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Did Luke have a plan when he jumped into the chasm in Empire Strikes Back?
Luke's plan was suicide.
From the new canon "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: So you want to be a Jedi?" novelisation of the film
You want to be with your father. More than anything in ...
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Why does Luke ignore Yoda's advice?
This is another example of Luke's lack of belief in himself and in the power of the Force and the potential for him to fall to the Dark Side. When faced with evil, he seeks to confront that evil with ...
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What happened to the Rebel soldiers on Hoth?
The film's canon novelisation indicates that Luke heard sounds of battle after the final transport (and the X-Wings carrying the remaining pilots) left the planet.
Given that Luke's ship was the ...
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Why didn't the Imperial fleet detect the Millennium Falcon on the back of the star destroyer?
There appears to be six elements to Han's plan that prevent the detection of the Falcon by the fleet.
The ship is shut down and not emitting any electromagnetic radiation that might give them away.
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Why did Captain Needa apologize to Darth Vader?
Needa was well aware he was going to his death. You can see that on his face.
He went and accepted responsibility to protect his crew from Vader's reprisals. Ozzel was killed because his personal ...
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Would the Millennium Falcon have been carried along on the hyperspace jump if it stayed attached to the Star Destroyer?
In episode 2, Obiwan throws a tracking device onto Slave 1 (as shown in this clip on youtube), enabling him to follow it to another system. So we have a Canon example of something that is small ...
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Why does Luke draw his blaster instead of his lightsaber to deal with an apparent threat?
During Empire, Luke simply seems to be more comfortable with a blaster than with his lightsaber. He also draws it earlier on Dagobah when R2 has been pulled underwater and later when sneaking around ...
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How did Darth Vader know the rebel base was on Hoth?
Vader sensed it (with the Force). He also noted the presence of another powerful Force user; Luke Skywalker.
“It is they,” he intones. “The rebels are there.”
“Lord Vader,” objects Admiral Ozzel, ...
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What does 'E chu ta' mean?
We don't know, but it's very (very) rude.
“E chu ta!” replies the droid.
C-3PO stops, stunned. “How rude!”
(“E chu ta,” is, of course, Huttese. It is absolutely not appropriate to translate. ...
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Where did the torture rack in Cloud City come from?
According to the Star Wars Fact File (#34), the device is a scan grid, used in the assaying process on Cloud City.
The scan grid was normally used in the analysis of metals. A version
of the system ...
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