I hope Edward Tufte gets to see this

xkcd is rarely less than good but every few weeks Randall Munroe absolutely excels himself. He's done it again with his movie narrative charts (click for large version):



Lord of the Rings is superb, although as per the title it uses the movie trilogy narrative. Twelve Angry Men is sublime. And Primer massively understates matters...

I think he's been reading Tufte on Minard.