Anchorhead said:

SilverWook said:

Lucas has been known to borrow from things...

He has indeed;

http://moongadget.com/origins/index.html

That said; I've never made any secret of the fact that I doubt nearly every word he speaks and generally think of him as a dishonest person - at least with regard to his Original Vision Bullshit Story. However, I don't think he would blatantly copy something that closely and then claim it as his own.

Anch, not that I disagree that Lucas is a borrower of ideas most freely, but that article is weak-sauce.

Author tries WAY to hard to to fit SW into Campbell's model, but even worse is his attempt to fit Lucas's life into Campbells' model.

OBI-WAN=Joseph Campbell!??!HAN SOLO=Coppolla??!?!

The Lucas/Campbell connection happened well after Lucas's mega-success. It's popularity is just another one of Lucas's myth-spinning stories, right up there with his Original Vision Bullshit Story.