TheBoost said:

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.

I agree fully about the text portion of the site. I've always found the borrows from other films to be the most interesting & telling of how Lucas really crafted Star Wars. Actually, crafted is too strong a word. ;-)

In fact, it's been a long time since I actually read the text of the site. I'd forgotten how out there it was. Out there and - I think - just plain wrong. Lucas isn't nearly as deep as the author wants to make him out to be. Star Wars worked because of it's simple story and the fine-tuning by Marcia and Kurtz, not some Campbell-esque depth.

Thanks for the reminder, by the way. I need to remember to put that caveat in whenever I link to it.