{"id":100,"date":"2015-06-06T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:26:37","slug":"the-17-stages-of-joseph-campbells-monomyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/the-17-stages-of-joseph-campbells-monomyth\/","title":{"rendered":"The 17 Stages of Joseph Campbell&#8217;s Monomyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MqNMS8j.jpg\" alt=\"The 17 Stages of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you ever wonder what really is fascinating about the whole Star Wars epic &#8211; it is the fact that it was a labor of love for a guy that loved doing exactly that kind of stuff, he was into his work, a perfectionist. Just like any other work of art &#8211; the important part of the epic was not the dollar amounts it brought but its genesis, the genesis of the story is closely aligned with George Lucas&#8217;s sensibility, and his desire to bring archetypal stories to the screen. The same exact themes he explored in his first film THX 1138.<\/p>\n<p>Th major themes of Star Wars have been around for 2.5 thousand years starting with Greek mythology. Joseph Campbell and his work &#8211; The Hero with a thousand faces &#8211; explored these themes and connected the dots between myths and stories from different cultures. George Lucas, in his developing of the Star Wars story, was influenced by Joseph Campbell&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Below &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut on a similar topic.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Someone gets into trouble, gets out of it.<br \/>\nPeople love that kind of story&#8221;:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oP3c1h8v2ZQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&nbsp; If you ever wonder what really is fascinating about the whole Star Wars epic &#8211; it is the fact that it was a labor of love for a guy that loved doing exactly that kind of stuff, he was into his work, a perfectionist. Just like any other work of art &#8211; the important part of the epic was&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/the-17-stages-of-joseph-campbells-monomyth\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,135],"tags":[21,40,41],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-film","category-great-stories","tag-joseph-campbell","tag-monomyth","tag-story","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}