the jedi with 1000 faces: an archetypal study of the hero in mythology based on the movie: star wars

For the last quarter of a century, the world has been entranced by the vision of George Lucas. His famed Star Wars trilogy, arguably the greatest movie series in history, has had an incalculable effect on society. What most people fail to realize is that this story began as the embodiment of Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Lucas and Campbell were very close friends, and apparently, Lucas was a fan of Campbell’s work, particularly his studies on archetypes. In fact, the storyline of Star Wars is seemingly based on an outline paralleling Campbell’s archetype of the hero.
The first part of the hero’s story is the call to adventure. This is typically a circumstance brought on by either a message received, a tragedy suffered, or a threshold reached, be it an age, a responsibility, or the level of some pertinent factor. In Star Wars, the parallel is when Luke Skywalker is introduced to R2-D2 and C-3PO, who, unbeknownst to young Luke, was built by hi...