Joseph Campbell, the scholar of mythology, wrote about the classical story structure he called "The Hero's Journey." Campbell was close friends with filmmaker George Lucas (the old professor died in a home Lucas provided on his ranch). It is no accident that "Star Wars" clearly follows the mythic story structure of "The Hero's Journey."
THE HERO'S JOURNEY
- Ordinary world
- Call to adventure
- Refusal of the call
- Meeting the mentor
- First threshold (first
test)
- Meeting allies, enemies
- More tests (complications, set-backs)
- Approach to the inmost
cave
- Supreme ordeal
- Reward (seizing the boon,
or, in some myths, resurrection)
- The road back home
- Arriving at home with
the boon (the elixir, the wisdom, the renewed person, etc.)
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