In fact, that moment of serene space destruction was among the most scientifically accurate renderings of violence in the void ever to appear in a Star Wars film, argues Patrick Johnson, a Georgetown University physicist and author of the recent book The Physics of Star Wars. This is intentionally done by the director for a creative effect.” (The theaters ultimately decided to remove the “very silly” signs, reports Vanity Fair.) While the images continue to play on the screen you will hear nothing. Staffers at two AMC movie houses faced so many fuming patrons that they put out signs, warning filmgoers that “ The Last Jedi contains a sequence approximately 1 hour and 52 minutes into the movie in which ALL sound stops for about 10 seconds. Unaware that the lack of audio was an artistic choice on the part of director Rian Johnson, a number of screening attendees complained about a “glitch” after the conclusion of the film.
Yet in the case of Star Wars, the ramming scene left some confused. What happens next is a sleek, slow-motion tableau of sci-fi carnage reminiscent of the elegant spaceflight scenes that graced Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. For roughly 10 seconds, as the two ships meet, all sound drops out from the film. Holdo’s ship is traveling close to the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) her target is stationary, a sitting duck. In the second half of the film, Laura Dern's Admiral Holdo goes out with a bang, embarking on a hyperdrive-assisted kamikaze strike against Supreme Leader Snoke’s flagship, the Supremacy.
Since watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi, you’ve probably found yourself haunted by one singular question: What exactly is Luke’s relationship with that four-breasted, green-milk-spurting siren thing on the island of Ahch-To? But even if you’ve managed to make your peace with the now-notorious milking sequence, there’s another question some moviegoers have had on their minds: Why does an epic lightspeed attack take place entirely in silence?
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