[thechat] Lucas' inspiration for Star Wars?

[Joe Crawford]

s t e f wrote:

> .... not to mention Sword and sorcery.
>
> The princess is captured by the dragon and saved by her knight and
> husband-to-be and his followers (a dwarf, a furry giant, etc etc)


All these commonalities reinforce the notion that Joseph Campbell may
have been on to something.

Maybe time to re-read "The Hero With a 1000 Faces" :-)

Or maybe just rent "The Power of Myth" mega-series again.

As to the Lucas stuff, I suppose we'd have to get inside Lucas' head in
the 1970's to know if he actually had the myth in his head. :-\

	- joe
p.s.: I'm partial to the Trickster avatars - Coyote, Loki. Good stuff.
Roots of culture, and all that.