Almost every hugely popular story has elements of the hero’s journey and it, from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter.īut what often gets overlooked is the effect that this academic book has had on the self development space. And thanks to the success of Star Wars, the hero’s journey as it is taught in Campbell’s book, has become the centerpiece of many story structure techniques. That filmmaker was George Lucas, the hero was Luke Skywalker, and the film was Star Wars. The resulting film would not only become one of the highest grossing films of all time, when adjusted for inflation, but for many has come to fully represent Joseph Campbell’s work so completely, that it might have been created by Campbell himself. Several decades ago, a young filmmaker was inspired by this work, the Hero with a Thousand Faces, and set out to create a story that would embody the principles taught in this book.
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