

And many of the characters fall into the same groups. The resulting data proves that Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are basically mirror images of themselves. He then tallied that against how many times any given character interacts with one of the other characters. He went onto determine the number of scenes in which various characters make an appearance. He decided to do character comparison data by scraping the scripts of both movies. He just happens to work at the McGill's Network Dynamics Lab, where human behavior is studied. The professor's study is purely scientific. "I came away with the sense that it felt as though it was the same as A New Hope, but I didn't feel disappointed. That paradox got me thinking." But Derek Ruths suspected there was something bigger to the whole thing. When you watch both movies back to back, the similarities almost become overwhelming. They team up with smugglers, join the Rebellion/Resistance, and help destroy a mammoth weapon capable of destroying entire planets. Both sci-fi adventures follow a desert-dwelling, force sensitive individual who is forced to journey away from their home planet for a life-altering mission.
The study points out the most obvious similarities right off the bat.
STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS MOVIE FULL
McGill University computer science professor Derek Ruths has taken a deep dive into both movies exclusively for Wired magazine, and you can read their full report here. Now, a new study shows that the two movies are much more similar than you may have originally thought! Both stories certainly run parallel to each other, and both hit some of the same beats to the minute. And that's the fact that it is way too similar to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.
STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS MOVIE MOVIE
While Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the true definition of a box office phenomenon, one that fans and critics both loved, there is a huge problem people have had with the movie since it arrived in theaters this past December.
