“Has a Thousand Faces and The Hero's Journey. And then George Lucas picked up those books and he made Star Wars. So Star Wars is a too long didn't read version of Finnegan's Wake, which is a version of Vico.”
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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
Mentioned 2 times on 2 shows. Most recently heard 28/10/2026.
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“So Joseph Campbell, you've heard of Joseph Campbell? The Hero Has a Thousand Faces? The Hero's Journey, all of those kind of great books that informed Star Wars. But basically, Star Wars is a sort of dumbed-down version of those books. Well, before Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero's Journey, his thesis was on the myths within James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.”
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