

You're my only hope," we know that the ripples of the galactic war have found their way to Luke's ordinary world.

After Leia famously says, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke's call to adventure comes when he finds a message stored in R2-D2. These sections are all about exposition, telling us what we need to know about this odd universe and the galactic war.
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Note: The hero's journey really kicks off when we meet Luke, but there is a lot of movie before that. We learn that Luke is still a child when he whines about those power converters, but we also see that he yearns for a life of adventure and not the safe, uneventful one his Uncle Owen has planned. Luke begins his adventure in the Ordinary World of moisture farming on the desert planet Tatooine-which is normal for him, at least. Want more? We have an entire Online Course devoted to the hero's journey.) Ordinary World We're working with those 12 stages, so take a look. He wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined the 17 stages of a mythological hero's journey.Ībout half a century later, Christopher Vogler condensed those stages down to 12 in an attempt to show Hollywood how every story ever written should-and, uh, does-follow Campbell's pattern. Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or her swag? Yeah, scholar Joseph Campbell noticed first-in 1949.
